Month August 2020
Imagine you’re a young girl who was abandoned by your birth parents, and adopted by a childless couple. Within a short time your “new” parents become dirt poor and can’t afford the basics. Your father becomes ill and can’t take… Continue Reading →
The victim of the terror attack on Wednesday afternoon was identified as Rav Shai Ochayan, h’yd, who was on his way home from his morning seder at his kollel when he was fatally stabbed. Rav Ochayan, a Breslover chassid, moved… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Following years of fending off going to prison, former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is about to begin serving time. Silver, 76, is due to report on Wednesday to a federal prison in Otisville, New… Continue Reading →
Casting aside his own advice to American diplomats and bulldozing a long tradition of secretary of state non-partisanship, Mike Pompeo plunged into the heart of the 2020 presidential race Tuesday with a speech supporting Donald Trump’s reelection. The address was… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein on Wednesday urged the public to refrain from large family gatherings during the upcoming High Holidays, which begin on Sept. 18. During a press briefing at the inauguration ceremony of the ministry’s… Continue Reading →
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Two people were shot to death and another was wounded during a third night of protests in Kenosha over the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, and authorities Wednesday hunted for a possible vigilante… Continue Reading →
Students and staff will be required to take their temperature prior to entering the school.
CHARLOTTE, NC (JTA) – Mary Ann Mendoza, a mother who had been scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night, was dropped from the program after she urged her Twitter followers to read a thread from an anti-Semitic… Continue Reading →
The number of Americans newly diagnosed with the coronavirus is falling — a development experts say most likely reflects more mask-wearing but also insufficient testing — even as the disease continues to claim nearly 1,000 lives in the U.S. each… Continue Reading →
The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency says Tehran has agreed to allow inspectors in to two sites where Iran is suspected of having stored or used undeclared nuclear material. The… Read more » The post UN Watchdog: Iran to Allow… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli attack helicopters struck observation posts of the militant Hezbollah group along the Lebanon border overnight after shots were fired at Israeli troops operating in the area, the military said Wednesday. Israel has been bracing for a… Continue Reading →
PETACH TIKVA (VINnews) — A 39-year-old Chareidi man was critically injured in a terror attack Wednesday morning at the Segula junction in Petach Tikva. An Arab from Samaria working in Israel brandished a knife, stabbed the Chareidi man in the… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Sunday (8/30/20)Morning R’ Pesach KrohnBrother Friday & Motzei Shabbos will be sitting in Queens, 117-09 85th Ave R’ Ariye KrohnBrother Mrs. Leah DeblingerSister Mrs. Tamar AbrahamSister Mrs. Esty SoferSister R` Avraham GuttmanSon R` Yehuda GutmanSon Mrs. Chana… Continue Reading →
Melania Trump went there. While others at the Republican National Convention spoke about the coronavirus as a challenge successfully conquered, the first lady on Tuesday night used her address from the Rose Garden to acknowledge the pain of lives lost… Continue Reading →
Iran has agreed to grant U.N. nuclear watchdog inspectors access to two suspected former nuclear sites, an Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday, although Tehran has told the agency that… Read more » The post Iran Agrees to IAEA Access… Continue Reading →
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called on Wednesday for an investigation into the circumstances behind Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s illness, saying medical reports of a toxic substance in his body… Read more » The post NATO Calls for Probe into… Continue Reading →
The Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee and Assembly Appropriations Committee on Monday both approved two bills aimed at addressing the backlog of residents seeking certain services from the Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) after the agency was closed for months… Continue Reading →
In a rare display of urgency, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held his third high-level political conference in as many weeks, where he raised alarm about the nation’s coronavirus response and a typhoon forecast to hit the country early… Continue Reading →
It’s the paradox of a pandemic that has crushed the U.S. economy: 12.9 million lost jobs and a dangerous rash of businesses closing, yet the personal finances of many Americans have remained strong — and in some ways have even… Continue Reading →
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group reported on Tuesday that four of their fighters were killed in an “accidental” explosion on Monday in Gaza City. Following the sound of explosions in a PIJ military compound. Palestinian media reported that… Continue Reading →
Ukraine announced a temporary ban on the entry of foreigners today, effective until Yom Kippur. The announcement came as Israel saw a new high in corona infections, with 2,000 cases… Read more » The post Ukraine Bans Entry of Foreigners… Continue Reading →