Month March 2020
MIAMI (AP) — Two ships carrying passengers and crew from an ill-fated South American cruise are pleading with Florida officials to let them carry off the sick and dead, but Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida’s health care resources are already… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com Feel free to print this out as a review for your family as a shabbos hagadol drasha. THIRTY DAYS BEFORE Rav Chaim Kanievsky writes (Shoneh Halachos 695:12) that before we start the Purim Seudah,… Continue Reading →
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the emergency use of Bodysphere Inc.’s test that can detect the coronavirus in nearly two minutes, the privately held company said on… Read more » The post FDA Authorizes Use of New… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] The global Jewish community has watched on with despair, as the names of those whose lives have been taken by COVID-19 circulate. In the face of death, however, Jews continue to do what they have always done in times… Continue Reading →
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Some Instacart and Amazon warehouse workers walked off the job Monday, demanding greater safeguards against the coronavirus, even as both companies are speed-hiring hundreds of thousands of new workers to… Read more » The post Some Instacart, Amazon Workers Strike… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) – Billionaire casino magnate and philanthropist Sheldon Adelson has donated about 2 million face masks to hospitals and first responders in New York and Nevada. The Jewish Insider website first reported the donation, citing an unnamed source… Continue Reading →
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Dig. Plant. Breathe. As spring’s arrival in the Northern Hemisphere coincides with government stay-at-home orders, the itch to get outside has turned backyard gardens into a getaway for the mind in chaotic times. Gardeners who already… Continue Reading →
New York City reported its first coronavirus death of a person under 18 years old as the number of fatalities in the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak continued to rise rapidly, and as the brother of the state’s governor tested… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) – Marriott says guests’ names, loyalty account information and other personal details may have been accessed in the second major data breach to hit the company in less than two years. Marriott said Tuesday approximately 5.2 million… Continue Reading →
The Trump administration is prepared to lift sanctions on Venezuela in support of a new proposal to form a transitional government representing allies of both Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader… Read more » The post U.S. Outlines Plan for Venezuela… Continue Reading →
Testing carried out in Bnei Brak show that for every three residents tested, one is positive for the coronavirus. Bnei Brak has a 34% rate of infection compared to 6% in Tel Aviv and 10% in Jerusalem. In Jerusalem, the… Continue Reading →
MOSCOW – The chief doctor of Moscow’s top hospital for coronavirus patients says he’s tested positive, a statement that comes a week after his encounter with President Vladimir Putin. Putin visited the Kommunarka hospital a week ago and met with… Continue Reading →
There are 4,831 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Israel as of Tuesday morning, of which 83 are in serious condition, the Health Ministry announced. Israel recorded its 18th death when a 90-year-old woman who was hospitalized at Kaplan Medical… Continue Reading →
Due to a potential surge in monetary issues relating to COVID-19, Bais Din Maysharim and Bais HaVaad of Lakewood have cooperated with dayanim in America and Eretz Yisroel to assist those seeking guidance on these matters. Due to the complexity… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Western Wall stones were cleaned and sanitized ahead of Passover. Every year, the prayer notes tucked between the stones in the wall are removed at Passover and before the High Holidays, and buried with other sacred… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] The Plutchok mishpacha appreciates the overwhelming outpouring of emotion and heartfelt messages regarding the Rosh Yeshiva זצ”ל.The Rebbetzin expressed that there was nothing more important to the Rosh Yeshiva than החזקת התורה. He put in tremendous כוחות to fundraise… Continue Reading →
Oil traders are offering cargoes far in advance as rapidly vanishing demand drives physical crude prices to multidecade lows, with some U.S. oil valued at just $10 a barrel. The… Read more » The post Traders Scramble to Sell Cheap… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) – New York City’s Health Department recorded the city’s first death of a person under 18 years old, though details about the person’s exact age were not disclosed. There have been 914 coronavirus deaths in New York… Continue Reading →
The cure for coronavirus must not be worse than the disease itself, Defense Minister Naftali Bennett. Relating to an incident earlier in which a coronavirus patient jumped out of the… Read more » The post Bennett: We’ll Begin Reopening Economy… Continue Reading →