Month May 2020
Iran has begun withdrawing its forces from Syria, Israel’s outgoing defense minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday, and urged his successor, Benny Gantz, to maintain pressure on Iran, lest the… Read more » The post Bennett Urges Gantz to Keep… Continue Reading →
A gym in New Jersey re-opened for business early Monday, defying a state order that shut down nonessential businesses to help stem the spread of the coronavirus. People began gathering… Read more » The post New Jersey Gym Re-Opens in… Continue Reading →
The U.S. attorney who oversaw the reversal of a sentencing recommendation for Trump ally Roger Stone and the motion to dismiss charges against ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn will become… Read more » The post Trump Admin. to Name New… Continue Reading →
Governor Phil Murphy today unveiled a multi-stage approach to execute an economic restart to put New Jersey on the road back to recovery from COVID-19. The multi-stage blueprint, guided by the Governor’s Restart and Recovery Commission and complementary Advisory Councils,… Continue Reading →
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization bowed to calls Monday from most of its member states to launch an independent probe into how it managed the international response to the coronavirus, which has been clouded by finger-pointing between the… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 50 chosen Chasidim of the Gerer Rebbe were allowed to pray in a special outdoor minyan attended by the Rebbe for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus. The Chasidim strictly maintained social distancing and… Continue Reading →
Embattled Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot issued an apology to members of the NYPD after she reportedly blew off a request from NYPD top brass for 500,000 surgical masks, saying she didn’t “give two rats’ [EXPLETIVE REMOVED] about… Continue Reading →
As the summer is fast approaching, New York State Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein says it is time to have an honest and candid discussion about opening sleepaway summer camps. In the larger context of the COVID-19 pandemic, reopening the state will… Continue Reading →
Congressional Democrats say the State Department watchdog fired by President Donald Trump last week was investigating possible impropriety in a massive arms sale to Saudi Arabia last year, adding new… Read more » The post Democrats: Fired Watchdog Was Looking… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) – After the coronavirus killed Lipa Friedrich, a 39-year-old bus driver from Monsey, New York, in March, his wife and 11 children were left without a breadwinner. But within days of the launch of an online fundraiser… Continue Reading →
The Education Ministry’s hopes for a full re-opening of the school system ran into another obstacle on Monday: A heat wave like no other in the country’s history. Temperatures again… Read more » The post Heat Wave Beats Back School… Continue Reading →
The NYPD shut down a Yeshiva in Brooklyn after neighbors reported the school was operating in violation of city and state orders, law enforcement officials told NBC New York. The Yeshiva is on Madison Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JTA) — It turns out that taking the traditional photograph of the incoming Cabinet while following coronavirus social distancing regulations is very complicated. So much so that the director-general of Beit HaNasi, the official residence of the president of… Continue Reading →
As Shuls in the tri-state area slowly begin hosting small Minyanim with social distancing, one company came up with a way to enhance the measure and keep congregants safe. The see-through dividers, created by the Sukkah Outlet, were built for… Continue Reading →
The Florida Keys will reopen to tourists on June 1, more than two months after the island chain closed to visitors to minimize the spread of the coronavirus. Checkpoints that barred visitors from coming into the Florida Keys will be… Continue Reading →
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo indicated Sunday that he is open to the possibility of shuls in upstate New York being allowed to open for Shavuos with proper social distancing… Read more » The post Cuomo to Consider Allowing Upstate… Continue Reading →
The historic trial of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, scheduled to open May 24, may do so without its famous defendant. PM Netanyahu has requested permission to be absent from… Read more » The post Netanyahu to Ask to Be… Continue Reading →
An evangelical broadcaster who boasted of miraculously securing a license in Israel now risks being taken off the air over suspicions of trying to convert Jews to Christianity. The controversy… Read more » The post Evangelical Broadcaster Accused of Proselytizing… Continue Reading →
The NJ Office of the Attorney General, NJ Division of Criminal Justice, NJ Division on Civil Rights, NJ State Police, NJ Office of the Governor, US Department of Justice, US Attorney’s Office and the NJ Bias Crimes Officers Association have… Continue Reading →
Stocks moved solidly higher on Wall Street in morning trading Monday, extending a global rally amid optimism about a potential vaccine for the coronavirus and hopes for a U.S. economic… Read more » The post Stocks Move Higher on Wall… Continue Reading →
Following a strong Jordanian condemnation of the new government’s platform supporting annexation of parts of Yehudah and Shomron, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said on Monday that preserving the peace treaty… Read more » The post FM Ashkenazi Seeks to Mollify… Continue Reading →