Month April 2020
Deutsche Bank has declined a request by prominent U.S. senators to provide information about the German lender’s recent business dealings with U.S. President Donald Trump and his family, according to… Read more » The post Deutsche Bank Refuses to Give… Continue Reading →
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be back at work on Monday, a Downing Street spokeswoman confirmed on Saturday, after having recovered from a case of coronavirus that sent him… Read more » The post British PM Johnson Will Be… Continue Reading →
Lakewood High School student Chapelle “Deuce” Russell (pictured left) has been drafted to the NFL. The 2015 graduate is believed to be the first Lakewood student ever to make it to the big league. Russell was the 241st pick in… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] As the world continues to grapple with the ongoing pandemic, thousands are all-the-more relying on R’ Shayale’s intervention and appeal to Hashem. Rav Lehoshia, led by the einiklech of R’ Shaya’le, is now giving you a chance to continue the Tzaddik’s legacy by feeding thousands of starving infants… Continue Reading →
ATLANTA (AP) — As the global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 200,000 on Saturday, countries took cautious steps toward easing lockdowns imposed amid the pandemic, but fears of a surge in infections made even some outbreak-wounded businesses reluctant to… Continue Reading →
Rav Yisroel Reisman, in whose Shul Rav Nachum delivered a popular Daf Yomi Shiur every night for many years, said that Rav Nachum “was one of the few true tzaddikim I was fortunate to know in my life. He was… Continue Reading →
A Navy hospital ship is offloading patients as it gets ready to set sail from New York City, the state is starting to test health care workers and first responders… Read more » The post Hospital Ship Offloads Few Remaining… Continue Reading →
The Department of Agriculture announced that it has increased Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits by $2 billion per month in all US states and territories as part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, signed into law by President… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says his press briefings are “not worth the time & effort” as his administration prepares to adjust his public presence amid the coronavirus pandemic toward addressing the nation’s economic woes. Tweeting on Saturday, one of… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) – He’d retreat to his basement, surrounded by thousands of books on the Holocaust. He’d return from Europe with photos of cemeteries. The lessons of relatives who were killed and parents who lived were so striking, he’d… Continue Reading →
The World Health Organization is warning that people who have had Covid-19 are not necessarily immune by the presence of antibodies from getting the virus again. “There is no evidence yet that people who have had Covid-19 will not get… Continue Reading →
A car lost control and slammed into a Lakewood home, setting the home on fire, officials say. The accident occurred approximately 2:00 AM this morning on County Line Road. After crashing their vehicle, the occupants reportedly fled the scene. The… Continue Reading →
Rabbi Binyomin Wolff, the Shliach in Hanover, Germany, passed away on Friday night, 1 Iyyar, 5780. He was 43 and was infected with coronavirus. Rabbi Wolff was a devoted Shliach and father of 8 young children.
Nearly two months after an embarrassing end to his presidential campaign, Mike Bloomberg is again deploying his massive personal fortune – this time to combat the coronavirus. The billionaire former New York City mayor is spending tens of millions of… Continue Reading →
Help has poured into New York from many places as the coronavirus has killed thousands, but the most humble of gifts — a single N-95 mask — brought a mist to the eyes of the state’s governor. A retired farmer… Continue Reading →
Federal prosecutors charged a New York retailer Friday with hoarding tons of disposable masks, surgical gowns and hand sanitizer in a Long Island warehouse and selling the items at huge markups. Amardeep “Bobby” Singh, 45, was charged with violating the… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) – The Navy hospital ship sent to relieve stress on New York City hospitals at the height the pandemic is discharging or transferring its last 12 patients this weekend as it nears the end of its mission,… Continue Reading →
Rav Binyamin Wolff, z’l, a Chabad shaliach in Hanover, Germany, passed away from the coronavirus on Friday night at the age of 43, leaving behind his wife, 8 young children, parents and siblings, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. Rav Wolff is the… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump’s raising of unproven, even far-fetched ideas for fighting COVID-19 — including his latest musing about injecting disinfectants into people — triggered an outcry from health officials everywhere. It also highlighted his unconventional approach to the special responsibility… Continue Reading →
New York is starting to test healthcare workers for coronavirus antibodies and will do the same next week with transit and law enforcement workers as the state eases away from… Read more » The post NY Opens Antibody Testing to… Continue Reading →
Health Minister Yaakov Litzman (UTJ) told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday that he is stepping down from his position, a Channel 12 News report said. Litzman will head the Construction and Housing Ministry instead, reportedly due to the Gerrer… Continue Reading →