Month May 2020

President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to permanently halt funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) if it did not commit to improvements within 30 days, and to reconsider his… Read more » The post Trump Threatens to Halt WHO… Continue Reading →

A 41-year-old woman from Rishon LeTzion was arrested Monday evening, after she apparently attempted to dig up, and desecrated, the grave of IDF soldier Amit Ben-Yigal, Hy”d, who was killed in a terror… Read more » The post Woman Arrested for Desecration of… Continue Reading →

An underground complex carved out of rock that dates back to the Second Beis Hamikdash era has recently been excavated at the foot of a 1,400-year-old building near the Kosel.… Read more » The post Archaeologists Uncover Unique Bayis Sheini… Continue Reading →

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is pledging to reveal the names and other details of the entities that borrow from the emergency programs the central bank has set up to offset the economic hit from the viral outbreak. In prepared… Continue Reading →

Some 100 commercial airlines have announced dates for resuming flights to Israel, but many predicate this on Israel’s changing its two-week quarantine policy for arrivals to the country. Among the… Read more » The post Airlines Post Tentative Renewal of… Continue Reading →

The United States will announce on Tuesday that it has signed a $354 million contract with a company to make generic medicines and pharmaceutical ingredients needed to treat COVID-19 in… Read more » The post NYT: Trump Signs $354M Deal… Continue Reading →

China reported seven new coronavirus cases Tuesday, a day after President Xi Jinping announced his country would provide $2 billion to help respond to the outbreak and its economic fallout.… Read more » The post China Reports Seven New Cases… Continue Reading →

The Health Ministry announced that Israel’s coronavirus death toll to 277, with one fatality recorded overnight Monday. The number of coronavirus cases stands at 16,650, an increase of 29 in… Read more » The post Israel’s COVID-19 Death Toll Rises… Continue Reading →

Asian shares rose Tuesday on optimism about a potential vaccine for the coronavirus after hopes for a U.S. economic recovery in the second half of the year sent Wall Street… Read more » The post Asian Stocks Up on Hopes… Continue Reading →

The coronavirus has cut an unequal path of grief through New York City, hitting hardest in a ring of predominantly poorer, nonwhite neighborhoods a long subway and bus ride from… Read more » The post Stark Disparities in New York… Continue Reading →

The stock market bounced back from its worst week in nearly two months Monday as optimism about a potential vaccine for the coronavirus and hopes for a U.S. economic recovery in the second half of the year put investors in… Continue Reading →

The Boro Park Jewish Community Council has been inundated with hundreds of individuals reaching out weekly for assistance with unemployment and job assistance as a result of COVID-19. In response,… Read more » The post New Free COVID-19 Employment Initiative… Continue Reading →

Yuval Karmi, the felafel store owner whose tears moved the nation, becoming a symbol of the severe economic distress caused by the coronavirus pandemic, was hospitalized on Sunday due to a heart attack. Karmi went to the Kaplan Medical Center… Continue Reading →

At a meeting with restaurant executives at the White House on Monday, President Trump told reporters that he was taking hydroxychloroquine prophylactically to keep him safe from the coronavirus.  As he was being badgered by reporters for details, President Trump… Continue Reading →

Cholov Yisroel cream cheese has apparently listened to government and medical personnel to “stop the spread”, and consumers are reporting a shortage of the product. Consumers report that most Kosher supermarkets have no cream cheese whatsoever. One person told YWN… Continue Reading →

A talmid of Yeshivas Siach HaTalmud in Elad was diagnosed with the coronavirus late last week, sending 15 bochurim in his “capsule” and two of his rabbanim into self-quarantine, Kikar H’Shabbos reported. The incident led the Rosh Yeshivah, Rav Aharon… Continue Reading →

In their zest to catch all those “non-essential” businesses that are open around the city, the NYC Sheriff Department decided to illegally block an “essential” service: The Williamsburg Hatzolah garage on Park Avenue. For those unaware, the ambulance garage is… Continue Reading →