Month March 2020
To my dear brothers and sisters, Unfortunately, I did not take this mageifa as seriously as I thought I did. I only realized the severity when my brother-in-law was rushed to the hospital with difficulty breathing. That is when it… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) – Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, took a personal tact on Wednesday as she made her latest plea to the American public to practice social distancing. Birx noted that her grandmother… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman (a joint VINNEWS and 5TJT.com project) Many of us are painfully missing the fact that we should not be davening with a minyan anymore. So here is, perhaps, an innovative way of doing it Rav Aharon… Continue Reading →
As millions of Americans looked on impatiently, their lawmakers on Capitol Hill worked — and bickered — around the clock for five days over the economic rescue package in the… Read more » The post Congress Produces a Mountain appeared… Continue Reading →
Many people are worried that social distancing and state lockdowns will “kill the economy.” That’s the wrong analogy. Now that the massive $2 trillion stimulus bill is set to become… Read more » The post We’re Not Killing the Economy… Continue Reading →
Stocks scored their first back-to-back gains Wednesday since a brutal sell-off began five weeks ago, but much of an early rally faded late in the day as a last-minute dispute… Read more » The post Stocks Have First Back-to-Back Gains… Continue Reading →
China Lifting Last Controls in Province at Outbreak’s Center BEIJING (AP) — Trains carrying factory employees back to work after two months in locked-down cities rolled out of Hubei province,… Read more » The post Business Briefs – March 25,… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — How did the coronavirus outbreak get so bad in New York? It’s likely a combination of its size, how crowded it is, its international popularity and other factors. New York accounted for roughly half the U.S…. Continue Reading →
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BELTON, Missouri – The FBI says one of their agents fatally shot a domestic terror suspect Tuesday in 100th block of Wilbur Parish Circle in Belton. Officials say the suspect, 36-year-old Timothy Wilson, was angry with the government’s social distancing… Continue Reading →
Governor Phil Murphy today signed an executive order directing all child care centers in New Jersey to close by Wednesday, April 1, unless they serve only as emergency child care… Read more » The post Governor Murphy Signs Executive Order… Continue Reading →
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Days after Argentine police raided a mikvah in Buenos Aires for disobeying coronavirus shutdown orders, local Orthodox rabbis and government authorities agreed on a system that will allow the ritual baths to stay open. During… Continue Reading →
By the time Patricia Núñez’s cough started, she was already familiar with the dreaded dry hacking sound tormenting patients who had for weeks been filling the Madrid emergency ward where she works. “We were fed up of hearing it at… Continue Reading →
Sitting in Hamodia headquarters in this time of great confusion, many questions, thoughts and complaints are coming in through phone calls, emails, texts and even letters. Let me share with… Read more » The post Shattered Plans, Shattered Hearts appeared… Continue Reading →
The U.S. government has concluded that retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished more than a decade ago, has died while in the custody of Iran, his family said Wednesday.… Read more » The post Family: U.S. Believes ex-FBI Agent… Continue Reading →
“Number one …” presidential hopeful Joe Biden Jr. said at his March 15 debate with equally hopeful (though less entitled to be so) Senator Bernie Sanders, “if I’m elected president… Read more » The post Different Hopes for Different Folks… Continue Reading →
New York state measures to control the coronavirus appear to working as the rate of hospitalizations has slowed in recent days, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday. Even… Read more » The post New York Density Control Measures… Continue Reading →
The Torah community of Paris was plunged into mourning with the death of Hagaon HaRav Massoud Ben Chamu, 72, the Rav of the Kehillas Mekor Chaim in Paris and the posek of the Chareidi community, from the coronavirus, B’Chadrei Chareidim… Continue Reading →
The State Department has advised against all international travel because of the coronavirus, but that didn’t stop Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from flying to Afghanistan this week. Gyms across the nation’s capital are shuttered, but Sen. Rand Paul, an… Continue Reading →
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been walking a tightrope for weeks during the coronavirus crisis, trying to protect both residents vulnerable to the virus and the cratering economy in a state of 21 million people…. Continue Reading →