Month August 2020
With coronavirus cases cropping up at colleges nationwide, New York will require schools to switch to remote learning for two weeks when cases surge, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday. Cuomo said he expects campus-based clusters now that many schools have… Continue Reading →
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, no stranger to the hot seat for his commentary, is being criticized for suggesting that no one should be surprised by the killing of two demonstrators during social unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Authorities “stood back and… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators gathered around the White House for a “noise demonstration and dance party” in an attempt to drown out President Donald Trump’s speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination. And later, a crowd enveloped U.S. Sen…. Continue Reading →
A judge ordered an Iowa county Thursday to invalidate 50,000 requests for absentee ballots, agreeing with President Donald Trump’s campaign that its elections commissioner overstepped his authority by pre-filling them with voters’ personal information. Judge Ian Thornhill issued a temporary… Continue Reading →
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel has listed an El Al flight taking off Monday for Abu Dhabi, which would be Israel’s first commercial passenger flight to the United Arab Emirates after the two countries agreed to a U.S.-brokered… Continue Reading →
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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The 8th of Elul marks two significant historic events separated by thousands of years but sharing a common denominator: Gentiles destroying Jewish houses and setting them on fire. In the year 70 C.E. after the destruction of… Continue Reading →
The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) called on Israel on Sunday to allow all Jews, regardless of whether they hold Israeli citizenship, to visit their family members in Israel despite the coronavirus pandemic. CER’s president, Rav Pinchas Goldschmidt, sent a… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden as a hapless career politician who will endanger Americans’ safety as he accepted his party’s renomination on the South Lawn of the White House. While the coronavirus kills 1,000 Americans each… Continue Reading →
Over 2,000 people were diagnosed with coronavirus on Thursday, the Health Ministry reported Friday morning. 2,068 people tested positive from the 36,372 tests that were taken on Thursday. Israel’s case… Read more » The post Over 2,000 New Coronavirus Cases;… Continue Reading →
The post 19th Yahrtzeit of Harav Pam, Zt”l, Marked appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: Talmidim of Harav Pam Mark 15th Yahrtzeit Yahrtzeit of Harav Ovadia Yosef Marked 30th Yahrtzeit of Harav Yaakov Landau Marked Harav Yaakov Ehrenreich’s 111th… Continue Reading →
The Lebanese presidency will convene consultations with parliamentary blocs on Monday to designate a new prime minister, the presidency said, after the government quit earlier this month following the catastrophic… Read more » The post Lebanese Presidency to Convene on… Continue Reading →
Housing and Construction Minister Rabbi Yaakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) said Thursday that he would not allow the imposition of a lockdown on Israel during the chagim. “There is no… Read more » The post Minister Rabbi Litzman: We Will… Continue Reading →
Several Midwestern states reported record one-day increases in the number of new coronavirus cases on Thursday as nationwide deaths from the virus topped 180,000 and officials braced for the possibility… Read more » The post COVID-19 Cases Spike in Midwest… Continue Reading →
Senator Rand Paul, who attended President Donald Trump’s Republican Party nomination convention, said on Friday he was attacked by what he described as an “angry mob” of more than 100… Read more » The post Republican Sen. Rand Paul Says… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest serving premier, is set to resign due to worsening health, ending a stint at the helm of the world’s third-biggest economy during which he… Read more » The post Japan PM Abe Set to… Continue Reading →
The World Health Organization (WHO) will next week receive a raft of pledges of support for its plan for COVID-19 vaccines for all. But the agency has already had to… Read more » The post New Reckoning for WHO Vaccine… Continue Reading →
Israeli aircraft and tanks struck Hamas facilities in Gaza on Friday after terrorists fired half a dozen rockets towards the western Negev, the IDF said, as mediators work for calm… Read more » The post Six Rockets Fired at Western… Continue Reading →