Month May 2020
by Yechiel Spero. Let me tell you an absolutely beautiful Corona story. There is a fellow in Toronto who asked Rav Shlomo Miller if he can make a porch minyan, and Rav Shlomo paskened for him that there was no… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Incoming Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich caused a stir in the Knesset when she added the words B’Ezrat Hashem (With the help of G-d) to her declaration of commitment during the swearing-in ceremony of Israel’s new government…. Continue Reading →
International credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) said on Sunday that Israel’s fundamentally strong economy should be able to absorb the battering of the coronavirus shutdowns. S&P began with… Read more » The post S&P: Israel Can Absorb the… Continue Reading →
The U.S. military’s mystery space plane rocketed into orbit again Sunday, this time with an extra load of science experiments. It’s the sixth flight of an X-37B, a solar-powered plane… Read more » The post U.S. Military’s Mystery Space Plane… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden has longed to win the White House for more than three decades. If he finally makes it there after November’s election, he’s already talking about leaving. In an effort to ease concerns about his age,… Continue Reading →
In an extremely rare occurrence, sextuplets were born to the Ben-Simon family in Strasbourg, France late last week, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. The five girls and one boy were delivered though a C-section in the Hautepierre hospital in Strasbourg at 24… Continue Reading →
In an extremely rare occurrence, sextuplets were born to the Ben-Simon family in Strasbourg, France late last week, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. The five girls and one boy were delivered though a C-section in the Hautepierre hospital in Strasbourg at 24… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge rejected the request of convicted pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli to be let out of prison to research a coronavirus treatment, noting that probation officials viewed that claim as the type of “delusional self-aggrandizing behavior”… Continue Reading →
Seven weeks ago a Navy hospital ship pulled into the Port of Los Angeles to provide relief to the city amid fears it was about to become the next epicenter for the coronavirus pandemic after New York City. But Los… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Before the pandemic, Shalinder Singh spent Sundays at his gurdwara, helping serve a community meal for 300 people or more at the Sikh place of worship in suburban Detroit. Now, he’s all about pizza. Singh and… Continue Reading →
As politicians across the nation continue pressing the panic button over Covid-19 and the need to keep isolating ourselves, a new study shows that deaths resulting from quarantine orders could actually top the total death toll from coronavirus itself. Researchers… Continue Reading →
After the swearing-in of the new government on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu defended the record 34-minister cabinet as a bargain, considering the alternative. “This cost is much lower… Read more » The post Netanyahu Defends Ministerial Price Tag… Continue Reading →
U.S. lawmakers said on Saturday that they have opened a probe into President Donald Trump’s firing of the State Department’s head of internal audits, inspector general Steve Linick. Eliot Engel,… Read more » The post U.S. Lawmakers to Probe Firing… Continue Reading →
Gas prices edged up amid rising demand with the easing of stay-at-home restrictions in some regions. AAA Mid-Atlantic says the national average gas price Friday was $1.86, up four cents… Read more » The post Gas Prices Edge Up appeared… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers who flouted coronavirus restrictions for a weekend night on the town got the mayor’s wrath on Sunday. Mayor Bill de Blasio admonished people seen crowding outside bars, many with drinks in hand but no… Continue Reading →
New York City’s alternate side parking rules will resume Monday for the first time in two months. Alternate side parking was suspended on March 18 as city and state officials began to enforce strict rules under the New York PAUSE… Continue Reading →
Reb Asher Amar Z”L was survived by his widow and 17 children! 10 of them still home unmarried.He was well known in Yerushalayim, where he was from the founders of the Rabbi Elbaz Yeshivah.Reb Asher was a tremendousירא שמים מקפיד… Continue Reading →
Fishing charters and other chartered boat services and watercraft rentals have been cleared to resume at the New Jersey shore beginning Sunday amid easing of coronavirus restrictions. Gov. Phil Murphy… Read more » The post Fishing Charters, Watercraft Rentals to… Continue Reading →
New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration is citing a 2005 emergency powers law enacted after Hurricane Katrina to block some information about the state’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak.… Read more » The post NJ Cites Katrina-Era Law to… Continue Reading →
Statement: Agudath Israel of America is deeply concerned by reports that the site in Iran traditionally thought to be the tomb of Mordechai and Esther was set aflame last week. Although the Iranian government asserts that it was the action… Continue Reading →
Jerzy Glowczewski, a Polish-born fighter pilot who flew World War II missions with Britain’s Royal Air Force after Nazi Germany invaded his country, and who later was an architect in… Read more » The post Polish WWII Pilot Jerzy Glowczewski,… Continue Reading →