Month July 2020
The baseball season descended deeper into crisis Tuesday, states like Mississippi and South Carolina cast about for more hospital beds, and governors in some of the hardest-hit places staunchly resisted calls to require masks, despite confirmed cases of the coronavirus… Continue Reading →
The baseball season descended deeper into crisis Tuesday, states like Mississippi and South Carolina cast about for more hospital beds, and governors in some of the hardest-hit places staunchly resisted calls to require masks, despite confirmed cases of the coronavirus… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JNS) – Ice Cube had an almost-two-hour conversation with Zionist Organization of America national president Mort Klein following recent anti-Semitic tweets by the rapper and film actor. Klein told JNS on Tuesday that a mutual friend, whom Klein declined to… Continue Reading →
Russian intelligence services are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain ahead of the presidential election in November, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Two… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israelis who don’t want to see racy content have a new streaming service that allows them to skip the immodest parts. The Tov TV service, dubbed the “kosher Netflix” by the Israeli daily Haaretz, is geared toward… Continue Reading →
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyah said on Monday that the terror organization turned down the offer of $15 billion in development aid [which would greatly relieve the dire living conditions of Gazan citizens] since it was conditioned on its demilitarization. Haniyeh… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) – Shootings are up in New York City. So are anti-Semitic incidents. And federal law enforcement is recasting itself as an adversary, not an ally, to local authorities. That is the climate in which Tali Farhadian Weinstein… Continue Reading →
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Joe Biden is just days away from choosing his running mate, he said Tuesday. The presumptive Democratic nominee told reporters, “I’m going to have a choice in the first week in August. I promise I’ll let you know when I… Continue Reading →
Joe Biden is just days away from choosing his running mate, he said Tuesday. The presumptive Democratic nominee told reporters, “I’m going to have a choice in the first week in August. I promise I’ll let you know when I… Continue Reading →
A young cyclist is lucky to be alive after being struck by a vehicle while crossing a street and being thrown into Rt. 9. The accident occurrer at the intersection of Route 9 and John Street approximately 7:45 PM. The… Continue Reading →
CANADA (JNS) – The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) has reached out to the Ontario Minister of Education in search of answers after an anti-Israel video was found to be part of the curriculum of a Grade 10 online… Continue Reading →
Historic event takes place in ancient Jewish cemetery in Casablanca * Jews across the globe participate in live broadcast of Hataras Klalos * Chief Rabbi of Morocco Hagaon Harav Yoshiyahu Pinto shlit”a performs tikkun at the burial site of his… Continue Reading →
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Travelers from 34 states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, must now quarantine for 14 days when they travel to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Governors of New York and New… Continue Reading →
People’s walking speed may indicate their risk of becoming severely ill from the coronavirus, according to an epidemiological study in the UK, Reuters reported. After examining data of over 400,000 patients in the UK Biobank, researchers found that obese people… Continue Reading →
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said Tuesday she had received confirmation that U.S. agents had left the area after being sent to Seattle last week to protect federal buildings amid lingering… Read more » The post Seattle Mayor Says U.S. Agents… Continue Reading →
Israel’s returning ambassador to the United Nations affirmed the country’s bond with the Trump administration Tuesday, dismissing notions that Israel would pay a price for its tight ties to the… Read more » The post Returning UN Envoy: Israel Won’t… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein visited the Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva on Tuesday and spoke to the public following their tour. Responding to the media reports that Israel’s hospitals are quickly overfilling with coronavirus patients,… Continue Reading →
Joe Biden is set to unveil plans for addressing systemic racism that has put black people and other nonwhite communities at an economic disadvantage as the country struggles with the… Read more » The post Biden to Set Out Efforts… Continue Reading →
Joe Biden said Tuesday that he will make a decision on his running mate by the end of the first week in August, adding at most a week to his… Read more » The post Biden Will Pick Running Mate… Continue Reading →
U.S. home prices grew more slowly in May, but continued to show resilience in the face of the coronavirus outbreak. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 3.7% in from a year earlier. That’s a drop from the… Continue Reading →