Month April 2020
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Some businesses in Georgia reopened cautiously Friday as the Republican governor eased a monthlong shutdown amid experts’ warnings of a potential new surge in coronavirus infections and a potent objection from President Donald Trump. Georgia has… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) – New York reported its lowest number of daily COVID-19 deaths in weeks on Friday. The state reported 422 deaths as of Thursday. That’s the fewest since March 31, when it recorded 391 deaths. More than 16,000… Continue Reading →
As YWN has reported, wild animals have been roving about cities around the world as streets gradually became desolate due to coronavirus restrictions. In some areas, where animals were accustomed to being fed by throngs of tourists, animals emerged from… Continue Reading →
Join us once again to Bring Shabbat Home this week! Win prizes at the new Jew Q trivia! We are all in isolation, stuck in our homes, praying and hoping for better news, for this terrible virus to run its… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says his comments suggesting people can ingest or inject disinfectant to fight COVID-19 was an attempt at sarcasm. Trump noted Thursday that researchers were looking at the effects of disinfectants on the virus and wondered… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Watching as nearly 1,000 Air Force Academy cadets celebrated their graduation standing 8 feet apart, Vice President Mike Pence choked up briefly at that slice of life in a nation transformed. It was a rare outward display… Continue Reading →
The New York City free kosher “Grab & Go” meal program continued to be plagued by problems, as Friday’s distribution began 90 minutes late at at least two Brooklyn locations.… Read more » The post Delays Continue at NYC’s Free… Continue Reading →
POWAY (JNS) — U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr and U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Belief Ahmed Shaheed will speak at a virtual ceremony on Sunday marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting… Continue Reading →
Stocks are holding steady Friday as Wall Street nears the end of its tumultuous week. The S&P 500 was up 0.2% in early afternoon trading, following losses for stocks in… Read more » The post Stocks Hold Steady on Wall… Continue Reading →
Assemblyman Edward Thomson announced plans today to introduce legislation establishing Covid-19 antibody testing in what he hopes will be the start of efforts to re-open the state’s economy. Antibodies are the body’s way of remembering how it responded to an… Continue Reading →
(by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) Enclosed is a letter from the Rabbis of the Five Towns/Far Rockaway community that is a result of a meeting that occurred this week. It should be noted that in another letter from Rav… Continue Reading →
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) The following is a translation of rulings from Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlita – who requested that they be publicized. Most apply to Eretz Yisroel; some apply specifically to Chutz La’Aretz. They deal with the… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JTA) — For the folks who monitor anti-Semitism, a pandemic-induced nightmare nearly became real this month. A Massachusetts man was arrested for trying to set off a firebomb near the entrance of a Jewish home for the elderly. He… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump signed a $484-billion bill Friday to aid employers and hospitals under stress from the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 50,000 Americans and devastated broad swaths… Read more » The post Trump Signs $484B Measure to… Continue Reading →
New York state reported its lowest number of daily coronavirus deaths in weeks on Friday. The state reported 422 deaths as of Thursday. That’s the fewest since March 31, when… Read more » The post New York’s Coronavirus Death Toll… Continue Reading →
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Pamela Austin, a recruiter at Adventist Health Bakersfield in California, made seven job offers to foreign nurses in February and just finished a first round of interviews with 12 more candidates. They are from all over… Continue Reading →
From the Hearts of Bikur Cholim, to Warm the Hearts of the Cholim! L’zecher Nishmas Rav Shaya Ben Rav Moshe ZTL [COMMUNICATED] What greater Zchus Is there than providing food to Cholim and their families on Rav Shayale’s Yahrtzeit? Lev… Continue Reading →
The post Elected Officials Ask Hospitals to Have Volunteers Communicate With Families appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein Calls For Ensuring Hospitals Communicate With Family Members New York Hospitals Told to Improve Communication With Patients’… Continue Reading →
The post Assemblymen Ask Hospitals to Have Volunteers Communicate With Families appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein Calls For Ensuring Hospitals Communicate With Family Members New York Hospitals Told to Improve Communication With Patients’ Families… Continue Reading →
U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced an additional $310,371,213 from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to support New Jersey’s K-12 school districts as they respond and adapt to the new realities caused by the COVID-19 outbreak…. Continue Reading →