Month April 2020
Health officials say two people died with the coronavirus in California weeks before the first reported death from the disease. Santa Clara County officials said Tuesday the people died at home Feb. 6 and Feb. 17. Before this, the first… Continue Reading →
A Knesset oversight committee on Wednesday suspended police use of cellphone data to enforce coronavirus quarantines, with one lawmaker citing privacy concerns. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government last month empowered… Read more » The post Knesset Suspends Cellphone Surveillance on… Continue Reading →
“We need a national emergency plan,” declared Amir Peretz on Tuesday, and no one disagreed. Peretz, head of the Labor party, and the putative Finance Minister of the new government,… Read more » The post Incoming Finance Minister Calls for… Continue Reading →
The financial conditions of the government’s two biggest benefits programs remain shaky, with Medicare projected to become insolvent in six years and Social Security on track to no longer be able to pay full benefits starting in 2035. And that’s… Continue Reading →
Rebbetzin Baila Porush was in the hospital yesterday fighting COVID-19, and seemed to be on her way to recovery. Her husband and 6 children were eager to have her home, and she was in relatively light condition. She was not… Continue Reading →
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday it was an Israeli decision whether to annex parts of Yehuda and Shomron, and the United States will offer its views… Read more » The post Pompeo Leaves Annexation to Israel,… Continue Reading →
Air Force One is mostly grounded. Fundraisers are canceled. And the closest thing to a campaign rally is President Donald Trump’s nightly coronavirus briefing. The president’s reelection campaign has been thoroughly upended by the coronavirus. But Trump’s team has revived… Continue Reading →
Stocks around the world are clawing higher on Wednesday, and the S&P 500 climbed toward its first gain of what’s been a dismal week. Even the oil market gained ground.… Read more » The post Stocks Claw Higher Worldwide; Oil… Continue Reading →
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is sending its Maven car-sharing business to the junkyard. The automaker says it’s winding down the app-based business after trying to make a go of it for more than four years. Customers were told about… Continue Reading →
We are truly living in troubled times- but there is something we can do together to help bring a yeshua (salvation)! The Sdei Chemed wrote on Meseches Shabbos (דף ט, עמוד א) over 100 years ago: “מגפה ראשי תיבות מפני גלוי פאת הנשים”… 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 of… Continue Reading →
The normally bustling city of Tel Aviv has fallen eerily quiet due to Israel’s tight restrictions on movement that are meant to halt the spread of the coronavirus. The city… Read more » The post In Empty Tel Aviv, Only… Continue Reading →
A large fire broke out moments ago at Jerusalem’s City Hall on Wednesday afternoon, and police are investigating it as a possible terror attack. Multiple reports state that an eyewitness has told police that he witnessed someone throwing a molotov… Continue Reading →
We regret to inform you of the Petirah of Reb Yaakov Mendlowitz Z”L. Reb Yaakov Z”L was originally from Boro Park, and recently resided in A Country Place, Lakewood. The Levaya was held yesterday. The Aveilim can be reached at:… Continue Reading →
JASENOVAC, Croatia (AP) — Jews, Serbs, Roma and anti-fascists joined top Croatian officials for the first time in years Wednesday in commemorating the victims of a notorious World War II concentration camp, but the community representatives warned that more needs… Continue Reading →
One of the grimmest symbols of the coronavirus outbreak — a morgue set up in a Madrid skating rink — closed on Wednesday as stores and other businesses reopened in places across Europe, while the U.S. was beset with increasingly… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a drastic new move, New York State has instructed emergency services to not revive cardiac patients who have no pulse upon arrival to a medical scene, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Until now, the protocol was… Continue Reading →
I hope this message is received in the most positive manner, with only toeles intended. Especially in this time of din, I would never want to cause any pain or negative feelings towards fellow yidden. Please keep this in mind… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to unite Democrats, Joe Biden has raced to line up supporters ranging from progressive icon Bernie Sanders to former President Barack Obama, whose administration sometimes irked liberals. But the person with the most influence may be… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — This is how the Supreme Court embraces technology. Slowly. It took a worldwide pandemic for the court to agree to hear arguments over the telephone, with audio available live for the first time. C-SPAN plans to carry… Continue Reading →
For many years, Rebbetzin Toiba Jungreis was the main breadwinner in her house. She juggled the responsibilities of caring for her growing family and paying the bills in order to allow her husband, the Tchenger rebbe of Boro Park, pursue… Continue Reading →