Month June 2020
Governor Phil Murphy today announced increased indoor and outdoor gathering capacity limits. Effective immediately, indoor gatherings are now limited to 25% capacity of the rooms in which they will take place, with a maximum of 100 persons. Outdoor gatherings are… Continue Reading →
While New York State continues to grapple with the various stages of reopening, Mrs. Leah Steinberg, Director of Agudath Israel’s Project LEARN Division, has been appointed to New York State Education Department’s Task Force on Reopening Schools. Board of Regents… Continue Reading →
The European Union and China sparred over geopolitics and economics on Monday when the heads of the bloc’s main institutions held video conferences with the Chinese premier and president. EU… Read more » The post China Admonished by Europe Over… Continue Reading →
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Coronavirus cases in Florida surpassed 100,000 on Monday, part of an alarming surge across the South and West as states reopen for business and many Americans resist wearing masks or keeping their distance from others…. Continue Reading →
Following what appears to have been an arson attack on the house of Beit El Mayor, Shay Alon, local media outlets ave called the outcome a miracle. According to reports in the Israeli media, suspected arsonists spread flammable materials throughout… Continue Reading →
One of President Donald Trump’s most trusted economic advisers will leave the White House this summer amid one of the worst economic crises in decades. Kevin Hassett, who returned to… Read more » The post Kevin Hassett, Senior Trump Economic… Continue Reading →
According to John Bolton’s book out Tuesday, it’s fair to say that President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser agreed with Democrats that Trump politicized foreign policy for his own… Read more » The post Why John Bolton Didn’t Testify… Continue Reading →
BERLIN (AP) — Austria broke ground Monday on a new memorial to the country’s 65,000 Jews killed during the Nazi era. “The Memorial to the Jewish Children, Women and Men of Austria who were Murdered in the Shoah” being erected… Continue Reading →
The U.S. Supreme Court limited the power of the Securities and Exchange Commission to recoup illegal profits from wrongdoers, putting new curbs on one of the agency’s most potent legal… Read more » The post Supreme Court Narrows Power of… Continue Reading →
Fourteen people, including five children, were killed as more than 100 people were shot in a wave of gunfire in Chicago over the Father’s Day weekend that produced the city’s highest number of shooting victims in a single weekend this… Continue Reading →
One person was wounded in what was the second shooting in Seattle’s protest zone in less than 48 hours, police said. The shooting happened late Sunday night in the area near Seattle’s downtown that is known as CHOP, for “Capitol… Continue Reading →
BERLIN (AP) — German payment service provider Wirecard said Monday it has concluded that 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) which were supposed to be held in two accounts probably don’t exist, deepening troubles that last week prompted the resignation of… Continue Reading →
Avi underwent open heart surgery and is B”H on the road to recovery.
For the past few months our bochurim have spent hours on the phone learning remotely without the support of the yeshiva environment. It is a testament to the chinuch of Yeshiva Gedola of South Monsey that our bochurim have emerged from this time as… Continue Reading →
The pace of workers returning to the economy has not been matching expectations, and as unemployment benefits begin to run out, the Israeli government will be hard-pressed to cope with… Read more » The post Crisis Looms as Unemployment Benefits… Continue Reading →
Construction of Austria’s first public monument naming all the country’s Holocaust victims began on Monday, a further step by Adolf Hitler’s native land towards confronting an issue it has long… Read more » The post Construction of Austrian Holocaust Victims’… Continue Reading →
A New York City police officer removed from duty after he was recorded putting a man in what the police commissioner said was a banned chokehold once faced criminal charges… Read more » The post NYPD Officer in ‘Chokehold’ Video… Continue Reading →
A day before his firing, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman had refused to sign a letter requested by Justice Department lawyers condemning New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for… Read more » The post WSJ: Fired Prosecutor Berman Had… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer removed from duty after he was recorded putting a man in what the police commissioner said was a banned chokehold once faced criminal charges alleging he pistol-whipped a teenage suspect… Continue Reading →
A report released over the weekend by the IDF’s Coronavirus National Information and Knowledge Center saying that Israel is well in the midst of a second wave of the coronavirus and warning of the possibility of thousands of daily infections… Continue Reading →
It’s a good thing Socialist NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio got rid of all those dangerous plainclothes anti-crime cops last week, and a good thing DeBlasio called for “defunding the police”. New York City shootings over the last seven days skyrocketed… Continue Reading →