Month May 2020
NEW YORK (JTA) – For weeks, the two boys studied at their home in Borough Park as their teachers lectured through a phone line. But last Monday, one of the boys’ schools announced that classes would resume at the school… Continue Reading →
The NYPD visited a Satmar (Williamsburg) Shul on South 8th Street on Wednesday morning, and emptied hundreds of people out during Shacharis. In viral social videos you can see the crowd and the NYPD cordial with each other as the… Continue Reading →
The Yerushalayim District Court accepted the State Prosecution’s position stating that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu must attend a hearing to open his trial on Sunday. Netanyahu’s attorneys had asked the… Read more » The post Court Orders Netanyahu to Appear… Continue Reading →
HOLON (VINnews) — Israeli singer Ilana Adani could never have imagined herself being the victim of an anti-Semitic attack in her own hometown of Holon. Adani, who performs in France and other Jewish locations in the diaspora, had heard the… Continue Reading →
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s top homeland security official received nearly nonstop calls in early March from grocery chains, trucking companies and other logistics firms wanting to know if rumors of an impending national lockdown were true. They weren’t,… Continue Reading →
Lawrence NY – A teenager is lucky to be alive after he took his fathers car for a high-speed joyride early this morning. Sources tell YWN that the teenager lost control of the vehicle traveling at a high rate of… Continue Reading →
The Rabbanim of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations have announced that they will be setting up an eruv in parts of Stamford Hill, specifically the Tottenham area. The Rabbanim… Read more » The post London: Local Rabbanim Work on… Continue Reading →
As countries begin to emerge from shutdowns imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, the issue of how the virus affects children and whether schools should be reopened is taking on heightened… Read more » The post Do Children Spread COVID-19? Risks… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden on Tuesday night deflected questions about President Donald Trump’s allegations of improper behavior during the Obama administration and other conspiracy theories pushed by his top allies, saying, “I don’t want to get down in the… Continue Reading →
A vote in the Knesset plenum on the controversial Expanded Norwegian Law was postponed on Wednesday, due to a technical dispute over the Knesset committees. The Knesset’s legal advisers said… Read more » The post Vote on Controversial Norwegian Law… Continue Reading →
Agudath Israel of America is grateful to Governor Andrew Cuomo for instituting a pilot program towards eventually allowing visitors in hospitals statewide. Sixteen hospitals across the state will take part in the two-week pilot program and will allow visitation for… Continue Reading →
SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Twenty years after Hezbollah guerrillas pushed Israel’s last troops from southern Lebanon, both sides are gearing up for a possible war that neither seems to want. Israeli troops are striking Hezbollah targets in neighboring Syria and… Continue Reading →
Modeh Ani is being said, charts are being filled, raffles are being picked, newsletters are being sent out, and champs are doing a great job! It is so easy to join! You know those mornings that you jump out of… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JNS) – Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, the 2020 presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said on Tuesday that if Israel applies sovereignty to parts of the West Bank, it would “choke off any hope for peace,” according to audio… Continue Reading →
A Telzstone family made a kiddush Hashem by returning NIS 47,000 to the Menorah insurance company after finding a missing bag of jewelry seven years after they claimed it, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. Seven years earlier, the family was in a… Continue Reading →
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the Palestinian Authority will no longer be committed to any signed agreements with Israel or the United States, following Israel’s pledge to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank…. Continue Reading →
More than 23,000 people from 102 countries have volunteered to be a part of a test to find an antidote for the Covid-19 Coronavirus. The testers will voluntarily infect themselves with the virus as part of a global project called… Continue Reading →
A person who worked on a farm where mink are bred to export their fur contracted the coronavirus from the animals, the Dutch Agriculture Minister said in a letter to… Read more » The post Dutch Farm Worker Contracted Coronavirus… Continue Reading →
What can a COVID-19 antibody test tell me? An antibody test might show if you had COVID-19 in the recent past, which most experts think gives people some protection from the virus. The tests are different from the nasal swab… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] A difficult tragedy occured last summer, when the choshuve yungerman, muflag in Torah and Yiras shomayim, Rabbi Eliyahu Kletzkin zt”l passed away at a young age, after having been purified through bitter and difficult travails, the physical and emotional… Continue Reading →