Month August 2020
Residents in southwestern Louisiana embarked Saturday on the epic task of clearing away felled trees, ripped-off roofs and downed power lines after Hurricane Laura tore through parts of the state. The U.S. toll from the Category 4 hurricane rose to… Continue Reading →
Residents in southwestern Louisiana embarked Saturday on the epic task of clearing away felled trees, ripped-off roofs and downed power lines after Hurricane Laura tore through parts of the state. The U.S. toll from the Category 4 hurricane rose to… Continue Reading →
Residents in southwestern Louisiana embarked Saturday on the epic task of clearing away felled trees, ripped-off roofs and downed power lines after Hurricane Laura tore through parts of the state. The U.S. toll from the Category 4 hurricane rose to… Continue Reading →
Two soldiers were killed and three were injured when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a training exercise off Southern California’s coast, the Defense Department said Saturday. Staff Sgt. Vincent P. Marketta, 33, of Brick, New Jersey, and Sgt. Tyler… Continue Reading →
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The United States’ top intelligence office told lawmakers it will largely stop holding in-person briefings on election security, officials said on Saturday, signaling it does not trust lawmakers to keep… Read more » The post Trump Administration Halts Election Security… Continue Reading →
The U.N. Security Council will extend the mandate for a peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon for another year later on Friday, but will reduce the number of troops amid U.S.… Read more » The post U.N. to Renew Lebanon Peacekeeping… Continue Reading →
The destructive storm surge has receded, and the cleanup has begun from Hurricane Laura, but officials along this shattered stretch of southwestern Louisiana are warning returning residents they will face… Read more » The post Weeks Without Power or Water… Continue Reading →
Higher Education and Water Resources Minister Ze’ev Elkin (Likud) has been appointed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to lead a team of ministers that will examine an outline for the… Read more » The post Minister Elkin Charged With Leading… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden have emerged from their presidential nominating conventions with each candidate believing he has a head of steam. Trump’s job approval ratings and standing in polls are perilously low for an incumbent, but Biden… Continue Reading →
A commuter bus slammed into a divider at New York City’s main bus terminal on Saturday, injuring 16 people – one critically, the fire department said. The New Jersey Transit bus crashed around 9:30 a.m. on an upper ramp at… Continue Reading →
National Weather Service teams have confirmed that tornadoes touched down in southern Connecticut and in the suburbs north of New York City and uprooted and snapped trees during Thursday’s storms that caused power outages for tens of thousands of residents…. Continue Reading →
Israel Health Ministry recorded 1,337 new coronavirus cases on Motzei Shabbos. There are currently 20,331 active cases, with 438 people in serious condition, of whom 116 are ventilated. Twelve fatalities were recorded in the previous 24 hours, raising the death… Continue Reading →
About 300 Breslover chassidim who were detained at Ukrainian airports on Friday due to the country’s ban on foreign nationals were released shortly before the onset of Shabbos following extensive efforts by Israeli politicians, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. In light of… Continue Reading →
BEIJING (AP) — Seventeen people were killed in China after a two-story restaurant collapsed during a gathering Saturday morning, state media said. The official Xinhua News Agency said 28 other people were injured in the accident, including seven in serious… Continue Reading →
The ruler of the United Arab Emirates issued a decree Saturday formally ending the country’s boycott of Israel amid a U.S.-brokered deal to normalize relations between the two countries. The… Read more » The post UAE Formally Ends Israel Boycott… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (VINnews) — As guests left the Republican National Convention Thursday night, they were accosted and harassed by Black Lives Matter protesters. In one instance, two men were surrounded by a masked mob shouting: “Racists! racists!” while filming them on… Continue Reading →
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — President Donald Trump got a firsthand look Saturday at the damage from Hurricane Laura on a post-Republican National Convention trip that allowed him to use the trappings of his office to try to project empathy… Continue Reading →
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The ruler of the United Arab Emirates issued a decree Saturday formally ending the country’s boycott of Israel amid a U.S.-brokered deal to normalize relations between the two countries. The announcement now allows trade… Continue Reading →
By: Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel. A number of people have called my attention to an anti-Agudath Israel screed that was recently published as an op-ed column in a Jewish periodical. The article defames Rabbi Moshe Sherer z’l, distorts the words… Continue Reading →