Month March 2020
Israel entered a new phase of restrictions due to the pandemic on Monday, as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced that only travel for food, medicine, work and other activities… Read more » The post Israel Announces Next Phase of… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scam artists are preying on older people’s fears by peddling fake tests for the coronavirus to Medicare recipients, a federal law enforcement agency warned on Monday. The Health and Human Services inspector general’s office said it’s seeing… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is revising history as to how he described the dangers of the coronavirus as it swept across China and showed early signs in the U.S. “I’ve felt it was a pandemic long before it… Continue Reading →
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The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has grown by 602 to 6,078, the head of the Civil Protection Agency said on Monday, an 11% increase but… Read more » The post 6,078 People Dead in Italy;… Continue Reading →
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel’s building industry has found temporary housing for many of its nearly 70,000 Palestinian laborers, staving off a construction shutdown after the coronavirus crisis prompted… Read more » The post Palestinian Workers Find Temporary Israeli… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The two Orthodox lists surged in the U.S. portion of the World Zionist Congress elections amid a record turnout since the balloting began for the entire American Jewish community 30 years ago. Mizrachi and Eretz Hakodesh together… Continue Reading →
Ohio’s “stay-at-home” order takes effect at midnight, cases top 350, and lawmakers prepare for a mid-week session to address everything from school testing to elections. A look at coronavirus-related developments… Read more » The post Ohio Stay-at-Home Order to Take… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — 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 and Family Network in Brooklyn has… Continue Reading →
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(Dr Bennett is a Board Certified Emergency Room Physician, NY Hospital of Queens, and also private practice in Queens) This is your neighborhood Doctor, Ellie Bennett, with a sobering update. When I emailed you all five days ago, there were… Continue Reading →
The supply chain for Kosher for Pesach food has not been disrupted due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Orthodox Union (OU) Kosher, the world’s largest kosher certification agency, said Monday. For… Read more » The post OU Says Kosher for Pesach… Continue Reading →
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Rabbi Avraham “Romi” Cohn, noted mohel, Holocaust survivor, and author, is critically ill with the new coronavirus. Rabbi Cohen was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929. During the Holocaust, he joined… Read more » The post Rabbi Avraham ‘Romi’ Cohn Critically… Continue Reading →
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced Monday that her husband, John Besser, has tested positive for the coronavirus. The former Democratic presidential candidate said in a statement that Besser began feeling sick when she was in Minnesota and… Continue Reading →
Leaders Call for Full Adherence to “Social Distancing” Guidelines Lakewood area Rabbanim, civic leaders, and medical professionals emphasized the importance of residents taking whatever steps they could to minimize contact… Read more » The post Lakewood Briefs appeared first on… Continue Reading →
In this time of world wide crisis, Shapell’s/Darche Noam in Yerushlayaim continues to do all that it can to spread Torah- not just to its own talmidim and alumni, but world wide! On Monday 27 Adar/ March 23, the yeshiva… Continue Reading →
Community message from Ocean Dental Expressions. Due to the national emergency, many dental offices have closed or are unable to provide care for their patients. We remain available to provide emergency dental treatment for anyone. I am so proud of… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of a spate of cases of coronavirus in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, the head of the Eda Charedis’s Beis Din and a resident of the neighborhood, issued directives regarding… Continue Reading →