Month March 2020
The post Kiryas Joel Office of Emergency Management Calls for Cessation of Minyanim appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: Fires Displace Dozens in Kiryas Joel Kiryas Joel Boy Found After Intense Manhunt Three Arrested for Pellet Gun Shootings in… Continue Reading →
The number of cases of COVID-19 in NYC have increased to 12,339. That includes 3,621 cases in Queens 2,572 in Manhattan, 3,494 in Brooklyn 1,829 in the Bronx, and 817 in Staten Island. White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, Dr. Deborah… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – A prominent rosh yeshiva minced no words in a worldwide teleconference on the coronavirus outbreak, slamming the Jewish community for its misplaced priorities in both the financial and spiritual realms. Both Rabbi Aryeh Malkiel Kotler,… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – A prominent rosh yeshiva minced no words in a worldwide teleconference on the coronavirus outbreak, slamming the Jewish community for its misplaced priorities in both the financial and spiritual realms. Both Rabbi Aryeh Malkiel Kotler,… Continue Reading →
The Trump administration is slashing assistance to Afghanistan and threatening further reductions in all forms of cooperation after the country’s rival leaders failed to agree on forming a new government. The announcement came from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former staffer for Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign filed a class-action lawsuit Monday alleging the billionaire broke a promise to pay his thousands of campaign workers through November, regardless of whether his 2020 bid was successful. The… Continue Reading →
The hunt for masks, ventilators and other medical supplies consumed the U.S. and Europe, as more than 1.5 billion people — one-fifth of the world’s population — were asked or ordered to stay home on Monday to try to blunt… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) — The 3,000 Israelis who had traveled to India to take a temporary break from the whirlwind of life found themselves dealing very much with the reality of it as the coronavirus spread around the world and countries… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — As cases of coronavirus continue to rise, President Donald Trump said Monday that he wants to reopen the country for business in weeks, not months, as he claimed, without evidence, that continued closures could result in more… Continue Reading →
Last week, YWN reported that Israel’s Health Ministry, in cooperation with Chabad rabbanim in Crown Heights and Israel, made a decision to transfer Chabad bochurim returning to Israel from 770 in Crown Heights directly to a “coronavirus hotel.” Since there… Continue Reading →
The post Message From Assemblyman Eichenstein Concerning Garbage Pickups appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: Assemblyman Eichenstein Appointed To Taxation, Cities Committees Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein Receives Bracha From HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Simcha Eichenstein Sworn in as Freshman Assemblyman… Continue Reading →
Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, who is leading the “coronavirus hotel” initiative for patients with light symptoms, has decided to designate a special hotel for the Chareidi community, following a request from community leaders. The Prima Palace Hotel in central Jerusalem… Continue Reading →
Brooklyn caterer Israel Frischman is continuing to prepare dozens of meals for elderly Holocaust survivors even though the Jewish community center that provides them owes him money. The Nachas Health… Read more » The post Vital Meals Help Holocaust Survivors… Continue Reading →
בשורה טובה ומשמחת! _____________ There is a phone line that has been set up for בחורים and בני תורהto call and hear שיעורים about עניני חג המצות and the סוגיות of ערבי פסחים As well as דברי חיזוק about the… Continue Reading →
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday he is issuing an executive order mandating that anyone arriving on a flight from New York City and the surrounding area submit to self-quarantine for two weeks as he tries… Continue Reading →
Excitement about treating the new coronavirus with malaria drugs is raising hopes, including with President Donald Trump. But the evidence that they may help is thin, and a run on… Read more » The post Malaria Drugs’ Promise for Coronavirus… Continue Reading →
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