Month April 2020
With far fewer people flying because of travel restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic, airport security screeners are naturally finding fewer guns in carry-on baggage. But the ratio of guns to passengers seeking to board airplanes has jumped sharply. The Transportation… Continue Reading →
The Likud and Blue and White have replied to the High Court that petitions against the formation of a new government under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu should be rejected out… Read more » The post Likud, Blue and White Ask… Continue Reading →
Four Israelis succumbed to the coronavirus late Monday and early Tuesday, bringing the nation’s death toll to 208, the Health Ministry reported, as the country prepared for a partial re-opening… Read more » The post Israel: Virus Death Toll Rises… Continue Reading →
The U.S. Census Bureau’s return to field operations for the 2020 national head count will take place in phases based on a region’s lockdown orders and the availability of protective gear against the new coronavirus, bureau officials told lawmakers late… Continue Reading →
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus outbreak could exceed 74,000 by August, according to the University of Washington’s predictive model, often cited by White House officials and state public… Read more » The post U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Projected at… Continue Reading →
Claims that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan have no basis in fact, the head of the lab told Reuters, adding that there… Read more » The post China Lab Rejects COVID-19 Conspiracy… Continue Reading →
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We regret to inform you of the Petirah of Saralah Gross A”H, (Sarah Yocheved) who was Niftar this evening. She was 14. Saralah A”H is the daughter of R’ Mayer and Chanalah Gross of Westgate. The Levaya is scheduled to… Continue Reading →
CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County Jail in Chicago must do more to ensure social distancing among its 4,000 inmates to stem the spread of the coronavirus that’s already killed six detainees and one guard at the facility, a federal judge… Continue Reading →
MIAMI (AP) — The NBA has pushed back the possible reopening date of some team practice facilities for at least a week until May 8 at the earliest, saying Monday the extra time was needed in part to make sure… Continue Reading →
Hagaon Rosh Yeshivah Harav Gershon Edelstein, delivered a speech as the yeshivah summer zeman began in Israel on Sunday night by telephone. The Rosh Yeshivah said: “There’s a mishnah in Pirkei Avos: ‘Marbeh Torah, marbeh chaim, marbeh yeshivah, marbeh chachmah.’… Continue Reading →
The Torah community of Paris was plunged into mourning on Sunday with the bitter news of the petira of HaGaon HaRav Gavriel Iflach, z’tl, one of the greatest talmidim of Rav Gershon Liebman, zt’l, the founder of the network of… Continue Reading →
As the Yom HaZikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day) siren sounded in Israel, a large group of Charedim, many belonging to the extremist Sikrikim group, danced and sang in the streets of Meah Shearim in what would seem like a celebration at… Continue Reading →
CHICAGO (AP) — Boeing’s CEO said Monday that it will take years for the aircraft-building business to return to levels seen before the coronavirus pandemic, which has slowed air travel to a trickle and led airlines to park 2,800 jets…. Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Readers around the world were moved last week by the story of Rebbetzin Baila Porush, a 52-year-old mother of 6 who was killed by COVID-19. She was a beloved and spiritual individual, who accepted her many challenges with a… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JNS) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to present a legal argument that the United States is still a “participant state” of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which the Trump administration withdrew from in May 2018… Continue Reading →
Eliyahu Biton, the father of the 11-year-old who is critically ill with the coronavirus and hospitalized in the ICU in Ramban Hospital in Haifa, sedated and on a ventilator, was interviewed outside the hospital on Monday. Biton said he’s simply… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is projecting that coronavirus deaths in the United States could reach 70,000, but says original projections were much higher as he explained why voters should consider re-electing him in November. Trump has at times this… Continue Reading →
Harav Eliyahu Kohanim, zt’l, a talmid chacham, ish chessed and ba’al tzedaka, was niftar from the coronavirus on Monday at the age of 82 in Ma’ayanei Hayeshua Hospital, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. In his youth, Rav Kohanim learned Torah b’hasmadah, becoming… Continue Reading →
TORONTO (JTA) — The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 is shaking the world in disturbing ways. As someone who is no longer young, I find one aspect of the crisis to be particularly unnerving: the attitude toward the elderly. The media… Continue Reading →
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence has an appointment Tuesday at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic to learn about a new coronavirus testing “moonshot” that has the famed clinic partnering with the state and its flagship university to quickly boost the… Continue Reading →