Month April 2020
Jewish New Yorkers excited for the first day of city-sponsored kosher meals were in for a rude welcome Thursday, as meals arrived late and ran out quickly, according to local… Read more » The post New York City Kosher Meal… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Rav Zalman Hillel was a Brilliant Ben Torah and Mechaber Sefarim The Lakewood community has lost a great talmid chochom with the petirah of Rav Zalman Hillel Fendel zt”l. Rav Zalman Hillel was a brilliant ben Torah and mechaber… Continue Reading →
As many as 1 million people in New York City may have been exposed to the coronavirus, the city’s health commissioner said Thursday. More than 142,000 people in the city… Read more » The post 1 Million People in NYC… Continue Reading →
They climb into their cars in the middle of the night, racing to get on a line from which they may be turned away. Feeling sick and stressed, people in the states hardest hit by the coronavirus have continued to… Continue Reading →
Israel’s new emergency government faced a mounting challenge from Europe on Thursday as France joined in expressing opposition to plans for annexation of parts of Yehuda and Shomron. French ambassador… Read more » The post France Warns Israel Against Annexations… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) – Jacob Kornbluh was walking past his synagogue in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park on Passover when he noticed a light on inside the building. Knowing that the synagogue had been closed as a result of… Continue Reading →
The federal government’s stimulus plan for small businesses (PPP) has already exhausted its initial round of funding. In light of this, another round is very likely to come soon, so finance expert Gershon Morgulis has provided the answers to a… Continue Reading →
ROCKLAND COUNTY (VINnews) — Rockland County Legislator Aron Wieder wants additional COVID-19 data to be immediately released to facilitate a deeper understanding of the local impacts of the virus. “Without this information, we don’t fully know what we are dealing… Continue Reading →
Unemployment in the U.S. has swelled to levels last seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with 1 in 6 American workers thrown out of a job by the coronavirus. More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment… Continue Reading →
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Thursday that the eldest of her three brothers, Donald Reed Herring, had died of covid-19 in Oklahoma. “He was charming and funny, a natural leader,” Warren,… Read more » The post Elizabeth Warren’s Oldest Brother Dies… Continue Reading →
More evidence is emerging that far more New Yorkers have had the coronavirus than the number confirmed by lab tests, officials said Thursday. A state survey of around 3,000 people… Read more » The post Governor: Antibody Survey Shows Wide… Continue Reading →
TIBERIAS (VINnews) — Coronavirus patients in Israel are either transferred to hospital (if they require treatment), left at home (if they have a place to stay in isolation) or if they are fortunate, transferred to designated hotels where they can… Continue Reading →
The Layman’s Guide to the Laws of Mourning is the first of its kind, a clear and comprehensive guide to the laws of mourning, based on the rulings of Rav Asher Weiss Shlita (Minchas Asher). By detailing practical situations and… Continue Reading →
Severe weather blew through the South on Thursday after killing at least seven people in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, including a worker at a factory hit by an apparent tornado,… Read more » The post At Least 7 Dead as… Continue Reading →
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that sewage plants and other industries cannot avoid environmental requirements under landmark clean-water protections when they send dirty water on an indirect route to rivers,… Read more » The post In Hawaii Case, Justices See… Continue Reading →
The European Union’s foreign affairs chief warned Israel on Thursday against annexing portions of Yehuda and Shomron, saying they will “closely monitor” Israeli actions. The statement came in response to… Read more » The post EU to Israel on Annexation:… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s medicines regulator on Thursday warned countries that malaria drugs being used experimentally to treat the new coronavirus have potentially serious side effects, including seizures and heart problems. The European Medicines Agency said in a… Continue Reading →
Scientists are baffled by how the coronavirus attacks the body – killing many patients while barely affecting others. But some are tantalized by a clue: A disproportionate number of patients… Read more » The post Blood-Pressure Drugs Are in the… Continue Reading →
Israel staggered forward in an accelerated reopening of the economy on Thursday, with reports of a sooner-than-expected order to allow more businesses to resume operations. Most stores and small shopping… Read more » The post Reopening of Economy Accelerates appeared… Continue Reading →
A college instructor who was accused last year of carrying gasoline and lighters into St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York has died, his lawyer said. Marc Lamparello took his own… Read more » The post Professor Accused of Attempted Arson… Continue Reading →