Month June 2020
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The Association of Jewish Camp Owners (AJOC) and a group of parents who plan to send their children to these camps are set to file suit on Thursday afternoon to… Read more » The post Association of Jewish Camp Owners… Continue Reading →
CBS reporter Rich Lamm asked NYC mayor DeBlasio about the insane spike in illegal fireworks being shot off around all parts of NYC the past few weeks. According to the NY Daily News, data from 311 shows that a whopping… Continue Reading →
CALIFORNIA (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric on Thursday was fined $4 million for the deaths of 84 people killed in a nightmarish Northern California wildfire ignited by the its long-neglected electrical grid. The sentencing comes as the nation’s largest… Continue Reading →
Adam Schleifer is running in a Democratic primary for New York’s 17th Congressional District, covering all of Rockland and portions of Westchester County. Schleifer, 38, is one of seven Democrats… Read more » The post Interview With Congressional Candidate Adam… Continue Reading →
State Sen. David Carlucci is running in a Democratic primary for New York’s 17th Congressional District, covering all of Rockland and portions of Westchester County. Carlucci, 39, is one of… Read more » The post Interview With Congressional Candidate David… Continue Reading →
State Assemblyman David Buchwald is running in a Democratic primary for New York’s 17th Congressional District, covering all of Rockland and portions of Westchester County. Buchwald, 42, is one of… Read more » The post Interview With Congressional Candidate David… Continue Reading →
Recently, a state court ordered Jackson Township to approve the proposed Jackson Parke development, which will consist of 1,100 homes. The Township approved it, but threw in a bunch of conditions – including a soil ordinance that they are being… Continue Reading →
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is pushing for a single-year budget for 2020 instead of a two-year plan including 2021, a move testing the fragile unity government he formed with… Read more » The post Budget Issue Could Fissure Unity… Continue Reading →
Acting to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States and to honor the history and contributions of Black Americans, Senate President Steve Sweeney and Senator Sandra Cunningham announced today the introduction of legislation making Juneteenth an official state… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Restaurants will be allowed to open with outdoor seating on Monday as New York City enters the second phase of easing coronavirus restrictions, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday. De Blasio said the outdoor seating plan… Continue Reading →
The U.S. ski industry has lost at least $2 billion last winter because of the economic collapse caused by the coronavirus pandemic, a national trade association said. The Denver-based National Ski Areas Association announced Wednesday that skier visits fell 14%… Continue Reading →
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she is ordering the removal from the Capitol of portraits honoring four previous House speakers who served in the Confederacy. In a letter to… Read more » The post Pelosi Orders Removal of Confederate… Continue Reading →
Summer camps, hair salons, pools, child-care centers and youth sports are just a few of the businesses and organizations that will start to re-open in the coming days and weeks as New Jersey begins phase two of Governor Murphy’s re-start… Continue Reading →
An inmate scaled a fence and tried to escape from New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex on Thursday but was captured, jail officials said. City Department of Correction spokesperson Peter Thorne said in a statement that a detainee climbed… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Perhaps, one might call it a silver lining in this year’s post-Corona camp crisis. Following the three-month closure of its Mesivta campus in Riverdale due to COVID-19, Yeshiva Ohavei Torah announced a special 3-week program at a premier resort… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu denied reports on Thursday that he had been doubtful that Jared Kushner was up to the assignment of drafting a peace plan for the Middle East.… Read more » The post Netanyahu Denies Doubting Kushner’s Abilities… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he learned about the importance of Juneteenth from a black Secret Service agent and is taking credit for making the unofficial holiday “very famous.” Trump made the comments in a Wall Street Journal interview… Continue Reading →
The New York City Rent Guidelines Board, the panel that sets rents for the rent-regulated apartments in New York City, decided on Wednesday to freeze rents for a year. The… Read more » The post Rent Guidelines Board Freezes Rent… Continue Reading →
The troubled Leviathan natural gas platform is in for more trouble, according to testimony given at the Knesset by a senior official in the Environmental Protection Ministry. Leviathan’s operator, Noble… Read more » The post Leviathan Natural Gas Rig Still… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) — Amid nationwide protests that have seen police cruisers set on fire, law enforcement officers attacked and calls to defund police departments, members of the Jewish community have hopped on board an Instagram campaign to show… Continue Reading →