Month July 2020

Due to the soaring number of coronavirus cases in Israel in recent weeks, more and more coronavirus wards in Israeli hospitals are full or almost full and hospitals in Israel’s capital are no longer accepting coronavirus patients, Israeli media reported… Continue Reading →

In an effort to prevent foreclosures and evictions throughout the state as a result of COVID-19, four Assembly Democrats sponsor a housing relief bill that would mandate uniform mortgage forbearance and establish a rent pause with affordable repayment options for… Continue Reading →

Target is joining Walmart in closing its stores on Thanksgiving Day, ending a decade long tradition of jump starting Black Friday door buster sales. The move, announced Monday, come as stores are rethinking the Black Friday in-store bargain shopping as… Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump on Monday filed a new challenge to the Manhattan district attorney’s subpoena for his tax returns, weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court said the president was not… Read more » The post Trump Files New Challenge to… Continue Reading →

One summer afternoon in 1961, President John F. Kennedy, vacationing on Cape Cod, emerged from his sailboat for a picnic with friends. He and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy had just… Read more » The post JFK Created the Modern White… Continue Reading →

New York City was host to another bloody Sunday, with seven murders over 24 hours. The killings come just a few weeks after the city saw one of its deadliest… Read more » The post Weekend Mayhem Continues, With Seven… Continue Reading →

The New York State Education Department just released its guidance for reopening nonpublic schools. Nonpublic schools, including yeshivas, are required to submit plans for safely reopening, and were awaiting this guidance. In anticipation of the release of the guidance, Agudath Israel’s Yeshiva Services Department… Continue Reading →

Melania Trump has announced plans to redo the White House Rose Garden to make it more in line with the original design implemented during the 1960s Kennedy administration. The first lady says Monday in a statement that decades of use… Continue Reading →

U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday announced their version of a $1 trillion coronavirus aid package hammered out with the White House, paving the way for negotiations with Democrats on a… Read more » The post U.S. Republicans Offer Coronavirus Aid… Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump is hoping to get credit for his administration’s aggressive push for a vaccine -– and hoping that one gets approved before Election Day. Trump and Vice President… Read more » The post Trump Seeks Political Shot in… Continue Reading →

The FDA is warning consumers and health care providers that the agency has seen a sharp increase in hand sanitizer products that are labeled to contain ethanol (also known as ethyl alcohol) but that have tested positive for methanol contamination. Methanol,… Continue Reading →

Opposition leader and chairman of Yesh Atid, Yair Lapid, continued his attacks on the Netanyahu-led coalition on Monday, as he called for the firing of Public Security Minister Amir Ohana… Read more » The post Lapid Calls for Public Security… Continue Reading →

The owners of a New Jersey gym that has repeatedly defied Gov. Phil Murphy’s executive order to remain closed during the COVID-19 pandemic were arrested Monday on contempt charges. Ian… Read more » The post NJ Gym Owners Who Defied… Continue Reading →

With eight successful Mars landings, NASA is upping the ante with its newest rover. The spacecraft Perseverance — set for liftoff this week — is NASA’s biggest and brainiest Martian… Read more » The post NASA’s Next Mars Rover Is… Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump on Monday welcomed a Marine veteran to the White House as he completed his 300-mile walk to the nation’s capital to raise awareness about the problem of… Read more » The post Trump Welcomes ‘The Walking Marine’… Continue Reading →