Month June 2020
LISBON (JTA) – Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, will be recognized with a monument at a site in Lisbon that recognizes the country’s greatest figures. The parliament decreed the honor… Continue Reading →
While many New York City residents will groan as street cleaning resumes next Monday, they will find one welcome change: each side of a residential street will be cleaned no… Read more » The post Alternate Side to Be Capped… Continue Reading →
Seattle police are investigating another shooting that happened near the city’s “occupied” protest zone. The shooting happened around 5 a.m. Tuesday in the Capitol Hill neighborhood east of downtown. A spokesperson at Harborview Medical Center said the man’s wounds were… Continue Reading →
European Union countries eager to revive their economies are prepared to block Americans from entering because the United States has failed to control the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Times… Read more » The post NY Times: EU Countries May… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Due to the current matzav, hundreds of bochurim who usually spend the better part of the year learning in Eretz Yisrael are stuck on this side of the Atlantic, unable to learn in their respective yeshivos. In a classic… Continue Reading →
The following is the back and forth between NYC Myor DeBlasio and reporters regarding the out-of-control fireworks plaguing NYC the past few weeks. Most note-worthy is the Mayor’s response to Veteran Hamodia reporter Reuvain Borchardt. Question from Julia of the… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JTA) — If the Palestinians are not willing to discuss Israel’s annexation of parts of the West Bank, “then we will have to move forward without them,” Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Tuesday. “We need to not only… Continue Reading →
Just a few hours remain until the winner of the Bais Rivka Raffle will be drawn! It’s now or never. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to win $10,000 Cash! Your ticket doubles as a scratch card through which you… Continue Reading →
Just a few hours remain until the winner of the Bais Rivka Raffle will be drawn! It’s now or never. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to win $10,000 Cash! Your ticket doubles as a scratch card through which you… Continue Reading →
Citing a lag in the return of shoppers despite a partial reopening of the economy, retail furniture chain IKEA announced shorter hours and a reduced workforce on Tuesday. The company… Read more » The post Less Shopping, Less IKEA appeared… Continue Reading →
Israeli police on Tuesday shot dead a Palestinian who they said had tried to run over an officer with his car near the town of Abu Dis, east of Yerushalayim.… Read more » The post Police Kill Palestinian in Ramming… Continue Reading →
An interview with attorney Avi Schick on the legal battle to open sleepaway camps in New York State. After two months of appeals that New York State should allow overnight… Read more » The post Camps Go to Court appeared… Continue Reading →
As coronavirus cases surged on Tuesday, the Israeli government declared a series of new “restricted zones” including the chareidi city of Elad and several neighborhoods in Tiverya. The measure was… Read more » The post New Restricted Zones Declared as… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s top infectious disease expert told a House committee on Tuesday he believes “it will be when and not if” there will be a COVID-19 vaccine and that he remains “cautiously optimistic” that some will be… Continue Reading →
Regrouping after a humbling weekend rally, President Donald Trump faces another test of his ability to draw a crowd during a pandemic Tuesday as he visits Arizona and tries to remind voters of one of his key 2016 campaign promises…. Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] This past year Harav Reuven Shlit”a, decided that it was time to rebuild the camp Bais Medrash. The old building was taken down immediately after the summer, and the work was moving right along until the virus started. After… Continue Reading →
A powerful earthquake hit the coast of southern Mexico on Tuesday, shaking buildings in Mexico City hundreds of miles away, sending people fleeing their homes into the streets, and triggering… Read more » The post Major quake of 7.4 Magnitude… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Mrs. Miriam Slavin a resident from Crown Heights left her home for the first time since the Covid Pandemic began. Her first stop was at 770 the Shull of the Rebbe. Mrs. Slavin expressed her wishes… Continue Reading →
Defense Minister Benny Gantz indicated on Tuesday that he could eventually support unilateral annexation in Yehuda and Shomron. “We won’t continue to wait for the Palestinians. If they say ‘no’… Read more » The post Gantz: We Won’t Wait for… Continue Reading →
The new top federal prosecutor in Manhattan on Monday announced her first case since the weekend’s upheaval: the arrest of a U.S. Army soldier charged with plotting a deadly ambush of his unit in Turkey by extremists. In a release,… Continue Reading →
PENNSYLVANIA (AP) – There was a boom, then the house shook. Daylan McLee thought for a minute it might have been a small earthquake until a relative came running inside to say there had been a car crash involving a… Continue Reading →