Month April 2020
A crane fell and hit a building Wednesday morning at a construction site in Rishon LeTzion, causing it to collapse, but, b’chasdei Shamayim, there were no injuries. Many rescue forces made their… Read more » The post Building Damaged by Collapsing Crane… Continue Reading →
Due to the current situation, many Jews are faced with the inability to say Kaddish. When a person passes away the soul ascends to the heavenly court where it must face judgment for all the actions performed during its lifetime. Based… Continue Reading →
Due to the current situation, many Jews are faced with the inability to say Kaddish. When a person passes away the soul ascends to the heavenly court where it must face judgment for all the actions performed during its lifetime. Based… Continue Reading →
The coronavirus death toll in Israel rose to 187 Wednesday morning, as the death rate continues to slow, with six fatalities over the last 24 hours. The Health Ministry recorded a… Read more » The post Israel’s Coronavirus Death Toll Rises… Continue Reading →
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said on Wednesday that it launched a military satellite into orbit amid wider tensions with the United States, describing it as a successful launch after months… Read more » The post Iran’s Guard Says It Launched… Continue Reading →
A Border Police officer was moderately wounded in a combined car-ramming and stabbing attack at a checkpoint near Abu Dis, east of Yerushalayim, on Wednesday morning. According to police, the… Read more » The post Police Officer Wounded in Ramming-Stabbing… Continue Reading →
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. pressed Mexico on Tuesday to reopen border assembly plants that are key to the U.S. supply chain, including defense contractors, as more employees staged walkouts and protests at the facilities because of fears over… Continue Reading →
R’ Eliezer Samet, a Toldos Aharon chassid, who recovered from the coronavirus and tested negative twice for the virus, was suddenly pounced on by two police officers and arrested on Rechov Malchei Yisrael in Geulah on Tuesday morning on the… Continue Reading →
ZAKA volunteers were forced to deal with an extremely difficult scene on Sunday when the body of an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor who died on Erev Pesach, almost two weeks earlier, was found. “Our volunteers tended to a body of an… Continue Reading →
This Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 at 9 p.m. join Rabbi Yosef Heinemann’s special zoom conference “Stuck At Home? Or Happy To Be Home”? Click HERE to Join! The post Stuck At Home or Happy To Be Home? Free Shalom Bayis… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JNS) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio authorized on Monday the serving of kosher food at 10 food-distribution sites in Brooklyn and Queens, N.Y., several hours after the Metropolis Council’s Jewish Caucus issued a letter stating… Continue Reading →
WARSAW, Poland (edited JTA) — Today, at 100 years old, Jozef Walaszczyk is Poland’s oldest living rescuer of Jews. But he was fortunate enough just to survive World War II. As a partisan fighter who specialized in smuggling arms in… Continue Reading →
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s plan to suspend immigration is distracting from efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic and part of “inconsistent messages” that spread fear and put the public in… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Anyone who had the privilege of knowing Ari knew of his infectious smile and his wholehearted willingness to help anyone in need. His heroics and life saving actions made him famous. However, Ari and his family had a very… Continue Reading →
We regret to inform you of the Petirah of R’ Yehuda Falik Z”L, of Lakewood, who was Niftar today. R’ Yehuda Z”L, in his mid-thirties, resided on Aspen Court. Levaya details will be published when available. Baruch Dayan Ha’emes.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Katie Rosenberg likely would have made headlines in any case for being elected mayor of Wausau, a small city in central Wisconsin. She’s 36, for one thing, young for an executive, and she’s a Democrat who ousted… Continue Reading →
The Gerer Rebbe emerged after a month-and-a-half of not being able to see his followers due to the health restrictions in place in Israel, and stood at the window of the Beis Medrash Hagadol on Yirmiyahu Street in Yerushalayim in… Continue Reading →
TIME SENSITIVE: Flatbush Hatzolah is looking for volunteers who are trained in drawing blood on Wednesday to assist them in an urgent plasma drive. If you are able to draw blood or knows someone who may, please fill out the… Continue Reading →
EASTERN UNION REWRITES CORPORATE CRISIS RULEBOOK WITH BOLD COVID-19 BUSINESS PIVOT DESIGNED TO HELP STRUGGLING BUSINESS OWNERS A commercial real estate brokerage founded by a former rabbinical student from Lakewood, New Jersey, has been unexpectedly thrust into the national spotlight…. Continue Reading →
A second coronavirus outbreak could emerge this winter in conjunction with the flu season to make for an even more dire health crisis, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told The Washington Post in an interview…. Continue Reading →