Month August 2020
There has been a lot of talk throughout this year’s presidential race regarding the mental fitness of the both Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Sort of. The only people actually talking about the apparent cognitive decline of Democratic nominee Joe… Continue Reading →
British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab will meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas this week to press for renewed dialogue between their governments to pursue a… Read more » The post British FM to Meet Netanyahu,… Continue Reading →
OHIO (JTA) – The State Medical Board of Ohio permanently revoked the medical training certificate of a doctor who was fired from two residency programs after old anti-Semitic tweets surfaced — including one in which she threatened to give Jews… Continue Reading →
A federal judge on Sunday ordered a stay in President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign’s lawsuit seeking to ban drop boxes and other changes to Pennsylvania’s mail-balloting procedures. The Nov. 3… Read more » The post Federal Judge Issues Stay in… Continue Reading →
A Hong Kong man who recovered from COVID-19 was infected again four-and-a-half months later in the first documented instance of human reinfection, researchers at the University of Hong Kong said… Read more » The post Hong Kong Researchers Report First… Continue Reading →
The four Republican members of the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee expressed their support for calls by nearly two dozen interest groups for public hearings to be held on the revised budget plan for FY 2021 that Governor Phil Murphy… Continue Reading →
RABAT (JNS) – Moroccan Prime Minister Saad-Eddine el-Othmani on Sunday announced his rejection of any normalization agreement with Israel, claiming such agreements were prejudicial to the Palestinian cause. “We refuse any normalization with the Zionist entity because this emboldens it… Continue Reading →
More than two dozen former Republican lawmakers, including former Senator Jeff Flake, endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president on Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention, in the… Read more » The post Republican Ex-Lawmakers Back Biden on… Continue Reading →
As the deadline for a fourth election, at midnight Monday, is approaching, it seems that the Likud and Blue and White parties are toughening their positions and trying to maximize… Read more » The post As Deadline Nears, Both Likud,… Continue Reading →
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Families and survivors had their first chance to confront the white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers in a mass shooting at two New Zealand mosques as his four-day sentencing hearing began Monday. “You killed your… Continue Reading →
Oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico was slowed Sunday by the approach of two storms that led companies to remove workers from more than 100 offshore platforms. The Interior Department said that based on company reports at… Continue Reading →
We have successfully secured Bushkill Falls Resort for this אלול זמן . We have arranged accommodations for several hundred בחורים. We will be learning the same לימוד as Mir in Yerushalayim. There will be a Chabura Hookup with Hagaon Harav Asher Arielli. The Rosh Chabura… Continue Reading →
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and his United Arab Emirates counterpart, Abdul Rahman Mohammed Al Owais, spoke Monday and agreed on initial and immediate cooperation between Israel and the UAE regarding… Read more » The post Israel, UAE Health Ministers Agree… Continue Reading →
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Republicans gathered Monday to formally nominate President Donald Trump for reelection at a scaled-down convention kickoff in Charlotte that begins a weeklong effort to convince the American people that the president deserves a second term. Despite… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kellyanne Conway, one of President Donald Trump’s most influential and longest serving advisers, announced Sunday that she would be leaving the White House at the end of the month. Conway, Trump’s campaign manager during the stretch run… Continue Reading →
We regret to inform you of the petirah of Mrs. Zelda (Sarah Rochel Zelda) Sorscher A”H. Mrs. Sorscher was originally from Flatbush, and resided in Lakewood for the last few years. Her children are Mr. Beryl Sorscher, Mrs. Yocheved Reich,… Continue Reading →
Eli Rozenberg, the only one of the three people interested in buying El Al who has received a permit to acquire control of the financially troubled airline, has raised his… Read more » The post Investor Rozenberg Raises Offer to… Continue Reading →
A police officer-involved shooting on Sunday of a Black man who was shot in the back set off violent protests in the lakefront city of Kenosha,Wis., that have lasted into the early hours Monday. Many details of the shooting were… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — 19-year-old Dina Rozenzweig of Cedarhurst, NY, passed away from injuries sustained in a road accident in upstate New York on Motzaei Shabbos. Dina and a friend of hers were critically injured in the accident which took… Continue Reading →
Rav Avrohom Turin Zatzal served as the longtime Mashgiach of Yeshiva Bais Moshe of Scranton, as well as the Mora D’asra of Camp Agudah Toronto for approximately 35 years. Now, Camp Agudah is giving back, by dedicating a Sefer Torah… Continue Reading →
EIN GEDI (VINnews) — American bochurim studying in Mir in Israel have waited half a year to return to their studies in Israel, but when arriving in the country they must maintain a two-week period of isolation in which they… Continue Reading →