Month May 2020
As if trips to the grocery store weren’t nerve-wracking enough, U.S. shoppers lately have seen the costs of meat, eggs and even potatoes soar as the coronavirus has disrupted processing… Read more » The post U.S. Food Prices See Historic… Continue Reading →
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Saturday granting death benefits to the families of police officers, public health workers and other front-line workers who have died of the… Read more » The post Cuomo Signs Bill Granting Front-Line… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will postpone until the fall a meeting of Group of 7 nations he had planned to hold next month at the White House… Read more » The post Trump Postpones G7 Meeting, Seeks… Continue Reading →
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — First-term Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey appeared to be doing everything right. He worked with the city’s booming business community and the City Council. He reached out to minority neighborhoods and advocated for affordable housing. He implemented stricter… Continue Reading →
As NYC and the nation is set ablaze by “protestors” looking for “justice” in the murder of George Floyd, a reporter by the name “Eliza Shapiro” decided to tweet the following: “Just drove through Hasidic Williamsburg. Saw at least 250… Continue Reading →
Tense protests over the death of George Floyd and other police killings of black men grew Saturday from New York to Tulsa to Los Angeles, with police cars set ablaze… Read more » The post Tear Gas and Burning Cars… Continue Reading →
Shouting “Black Lives Matter” and “I can’t breathe,” hundreds of people converged on the White House for a second straight day Saturday to protest the death of George Floyd in… Read more » The post Protesters Converge on White House… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would withdraw funding from the World Health Organization, end Hong Kong’s special trade status and suspend visas of Chinese graduate students suspected of conducting research on behalf of their government,… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Saturday granting death benefits to the families of police officers, public health workers and other front-line workers who have died of the coronavirus. “You gave your lives for… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Street protests rocked New York City for a third straight day Saturday, even as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded for calm after a demonstration in Brooklyn the previous night descended into chaos that… Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The massive protests sweeping across U.S. cities following the police killing of a black man in Minnesota have sent shudders through the health community and elevated fears that the huge crowds will lead to a new… Continue Reading →
“That one’s for me! Can I have one too?” There’s nothing that is normal now, down to the way we buy paper towels. Torah Umesorah has become the oasis of stability in this chaotic time. TU response.org is dedicated to… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — NYPD cruisers drive into protesters who were pelting, pushing barricade against police car, knocking several to ground. Here is the overhead… pic.twitter.com/US6Qqhkz3O — Rob Bennett @ 🏡 (@rob_bennett) May 31, 2020
[COMMUNICATED] We are grief-stricken with this immeasurable tragedy. Mrs. Baila Rivka Mertzbach nee Uhr a”hA young mother from Monsey, with no prior medical conditions, has tragically succumbed to the coronavirus. She left behind a family of 11 children with… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] We are grief-stricken with this immeasurable tragedy. Mrs. Baila Rivka Mertzbach nee Uhr a”hA young mother from Monsey, with no prior medical conditions, has tragically succumbed to the coronavirus. She left behind a family of 11 children with… Continue Reading →
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Tense protests over the death of George Floyd and other police killings of black men grew Saturday from New York to Tulsa to Los Angeles, with police cars set ablaze and reports of injuries mounting on all… Continue Reading →
Governor Murphy announced that a $100 million fund is being set up to temporarily help low- and moderate-income households who have financially suffered from the Covid-19 pandemic pay their housing bills. The program will begin accepting applications in July, with… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has tried to walk back his post-midnight “thugs” tweet about Minneapolis protesters that added to outrage over the police killing of a black man. Trump’s repeated condemnation of the killing and outreach to the… Continue Reading →