Month May 2020
NEW YORK (AP) – Sixteen hospitals in New York state will allow visitors as part of a pilot program addressing the heartbreak of COVID-19 patients suffering while isolated from their families and friends. Cuomo said visits under the two-week pilot… Continue Reading →
A plan to create a technology-heavy interactive exhibit at the site of the Holocaust-era Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine has met with sharp international criticism. The proposal was part of… Read more » The post Virtual Reality Plan for Babi… Continue Reading →
U.K.-based budget airline easyJet said Tuesday that “highly sophisticated” hackers accessed the email addresses and travel details of approximately 9 million customers. It also said that following a “forensic” investigation, it found that the credit card details of only 2,208… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] ספר תורה שרוי בצער! הרבנים הגאונים הגאון הצדיק רבי שמעון גלאי שליט״א והגאון הצדיק רבי יצחק קולדצקי שליט״א חתן מרן הגר״ח קנייבסקי שליט״א Have gathered together to launch this emergency campaign. One of the great Talimidie Chachomim in Eretz… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican political operatives are recruiting “pro-Trump” doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible, without waiting to meet safety benchmarks proposed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention… Continue Reading →
Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress said on Tuesday they were in no hurry to work on another coronavirus relief package, despite the House of Representatives’ passage last week of… Read more » The post Republican Senators Put Brakes on… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared an end to all agreements with Israel, including security cooperation, effectively turning over to Israel’s government the running of the entire West Bank. “The Palestine Liberation Organization and the State of… Continue Reading →
The talmidim of Yeshivas Ateres Shlomo, led by the Rosh Hayeshiva, Hagaon Rav Shalom Ber Sorotzkin shlita, return to the bais medrash with the approval of the Israeli Health Ministry.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Republicans have been waiting for a turning point and some think it’s finally arrived. The party of Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan has been fading in California for years: Democrats control every statewide office,… Continue Reading →
The Treasury Dept. and the IRS began sending prepaid debit cards to nearly 4 million Economic Impact Payments (EIPs) recipients instead of paper checks. With their EIP Cards, the recipients… Read more » The post Treasury is Delivering Millions of… Continue Reading →
Minyanim will be permitted to resume on Wednesday morning in batei knesses in Israel, after being closed since mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic. The decision was made on Tuesday… Read more » The post Shuls to Re-open In Israel… Continue Reading →
Lawyers for Michael Flynn are asking a federal appeals court to order the dismissal of the criminal case against the former Trump administration national security adviser. They also want the… Read more » The post Flynn’s Lawyers Ask Appeals Court… Continue Reading →
Canada and the U.S. have agreed to extend their agreement to keep their border closed to non-essential travel to June 21 during the coronavirus pandemic. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau… Read more » The post Canada, U.S. Extend Border Closure… Continue Reading →
Dear YWN, I’ve lived in the Five Towns my entire life and I grew up always in the middle between Yeshivish and Modern, and recently due to the conversation of Minyanim the split has me confused. Although I understand the… Continue Reading →
Israel’s Energy Ministry has begun investigating a series of complaints by motorists regarding the quality of gasoline that was sold at stations across central Israel. The affected gasoline was all at the level of octane 95. This is one of… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) — Many New York City restaurants are closing for good as their owners are unable to pay rent during the state’s shutdown, which has now gone on for more than eight weeks. In addition to the city’s… Continue Reading →
Rabbi Motty Kopman, his friends recall, could become a person’s best friend the moment he met them. He always spoke from the heart, and had a charm about him that allowed him to connect with every individual on a personal… Continue Reading →
More than three weeks after Brandon Bell stopped showing up at a New York office that serves people with schizophrenia, employees finally located him at a nearby homeless shelter. The… Read more » The post Pandemic Threatens to Deepen Crisis… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Netanyahu met with Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (all of whom are religious Jews) and with other officials to discuss the opening of shuls in Israel. It… Continue Reading →
Friends, neighbors, attendants, Hatzalah members, FDNY and many others participated in the bar mitzvah of Yosef at the HASC group home in Flatbush Park-Mill Basin on Tuesday afternoon, May 18,… Read more » The post HASC Celebrates a Special Drive… Continue Reading →