Month May 2020
A federal judge on Thursday agreed to impose financial sanctions against the Trump administration for failing to produce hundreds of documents during litigation over whether a citizenship question could be added to the 2020 census. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran is slowly pulling out of Syria in response to Israeli strikes, as well as growing domestic discontent linked to the economy and its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the Israeli military said Thursday. Israel and Iran… Continue Reading →
[communicated] Can you imagine that just 141 days ago we came together in MetLife Stadium with nearly 100,000 fellow yidden, with no distancing, no masks, no gloves, (well ok, maybe some winter gloves) and we joined as one, united, in celebration… Continue Reading →
The weekend meal boxes prepared by Sodexo and Gelbstein’s will be available on Friday morning. In addition to the standard bus stop deliveries, the seven public school locations will provide Sodexo packages, while these four public schools will provide the… Continue Reading →
Summer school in New York will be conducted remotely, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday, citing the risks of returning children to the classroom. The governor said it’s too early to… Read more » The post Cuomo: Summer School in New… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (THE CONVERSATION/Marilyn Roberts University of Washington) – Some people worry that cash may be spreading the coronavirus. Earlier this year, both China and South Korea began sterilizing their bills using UV light or high heat before putting them… Continue Reading →
A plane carrying 119 new immigrants to Israel from Ethiopia landed at Ben Gurion Airport on Thursday, the annual memorial day for Ethiopian Jews who died en route to Israel.… Read more » The post Planeload of Immigrants Arrives on… Continue Reading →
Jackson, NJ (JTA) – The U.S. Justice Department has filed a discrimination lawsuit against a New Jersey township over zoning restrictions that allegedly target the Orthodox Jewish community. The lawsuit accuses the Township of Jackson and its Planning Board of… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Rav Yitzchok Grossman released a video this week on behalf of a young man whose family the Rav knows personally. The young man’s parents are both ill, and he had already been struggling to make his own wedding. In… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz met on Thursday to smooth over some differences between them as the new government feels its way forward. The source… Read more » The post Netanyahu, Gantz Meet to Smooth… Continue Reading →
Reports of coronavirus infection in Israeli kindergartens have increased jitters over a possible resurgence of the pandemic as the country lifts restrictions. In Tel Aviv, a kindergarten teacher who had… Read more » The post Israel Reopening Continues Despite Jitters… Continue Reading →
NEW JERSEY (JTA) — The U.S. Justice Department has filed a discrimination lawsuit against a New Jersey township over zoning restrictions that allegedly target the Orthodox Jewish community. The lawsuit accuses the Township of Jackson and its Planning Board of… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] When the Coronavirus hit New York – almost without warning – Jewish day schools, Yeshivos and Mesivtos had to scramble to find a solution for schooling kids from home while keeping them engaged – without free access to… Continue Reading →
No serious injuries reported. (Thanks MB)
No serious injuries reported. (Thanks MB)
NEW YORK (AP) — Summer school in New York will be conducted remotely, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday, citing the risks of returning children to the classroom. The governor said it’s too early to make a decision about the fall… Continue Reading →
Israel’s new Foreign Minister, Gabi Ashkenazi, denied on Thursday that he agreed to a joint statement with his Hungarian counterpart that their two countries have a shared cause in fighting… Read more » The post FM Ashkenazi Denies Anti-Immigration Talk… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (THE CONVERSATION/Claudia Finkelstein Michigan State University) – Even if we escaped getting sick from the coronavirus, we are all sick of staying at home, practicing social distancing and wearing masks. While case numbers and deaths from COVID-19 are… Continue Reading →
Has Michael Cohen become Frum in prison? Video and photos from his return home sure make it seem that way. Footage shows his Tallis and Tefillin bag being brought into his home upon his early release from prison. Additionally, a… Continue Reading →
New York State has added four hospitals to the pilot visitation program, and released detailed guidelines for the program, set to begin next Tuesday and run for two weeks. Following… Read more » The post New York Releases Guidelines for… Continue Reading →
NY Governor Cuomo, during a daily coronavirus task force briefing in Manhattan, said a syndrome that is similar to Kawasaki disease that has afflicted 157 children across the state has made his administration hesitate to make a decision on reopening… Continue Reading →