Month August 2020
The “traffic light” model devised by coronavirus task-force commissioner, Professor Prof. Ronni Gamzu, will go up for vote at the Coronavirus Cabinet on Monday, and if approved, will come into… Read more » The post Gamzu’s New Coronavirus Strategy Up… Continue Reading →
Anticipating a wave of mail-in voting this fall, New York state will now give voters a chance to correct missing signatures and other clerical errors so their absentee ballots can be counted — but the exact provisions haven’t yet been… Continue Reading →
Anticipating a wave of mail-in voting this fall, New York state will now give voters a chance to correct missing signatures and other clerical errors so their absentee ballots can be counted — but the exact provisions haven’t yet been… Continue Reading →
LEIPZIG (VINnews) — German scientists performed a novel simulation experiment in order to assess the risk of transmission of coronavirus at mass indoor events. The experiment, dubbed Restart-19, which was organized by the University Hospital of Halle, involved simulating a… Continue Reading →
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A bus and a passenger van have collided in Poland, killing all nine people in the van and injuring seven people who were traveling in the bus, rescue officials and media reported Sunday. The crash occurred… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that employees at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are attempting to sabotage his re-election campaign by slowing down research on coronavirus treatments. Trump tweeted that members of “the deep state” at the regulatory agency are… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel’s coronavirus “czar” (project manager) Prof. Ronny Gamzu issued an unequivocal statement Saturday night, stating that “There will be no flights to Uman. Period.” However Gamzu is well aware of the determination of the Breslav chasidim as… Continue Reading →
The head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency will head to Tehran this week to press Iranian authorities for access to sites where the country is thought to have stored… Read more » The post U.N. Atomic Watchdog Chief Heading… Continue Reading →
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and other senior government politicians said they were shocked over an attack on a Jewish community leader in the southern city of Graz on the weekend,… Read more » The post Austrian Leaders Condemn Attack Against… Continue Reading →
Israel is preparing to start negotiating the deal for normalization with the United Arab Emirates, and one of Israel’s main requests is that Abu Dhabi secure the approval of Saudi… Read more » The post Israel Wants UAE Deal Signed… Continue Reading →
As more universities abandon plans to reopen and decide instead to keep classes online this fall, it’s leading to conflict between students who say they deserve tuition discounts and college leaders who insist remote learning is worth the full cost…. Continue Reading →
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is to visit Sudan in the coming days, a Sudanese government official said on Sunday. Sudan has been normalizing relations with the United States since… Read more » The post Pompeo to Visit Sudan in… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Even during the COVID-19 era there are people that enter shuls to collect Tzedakah. Some shuls still let everyone in, and others do not. GREATNESS OF TEFILLAH The classic work entitled the Chovos Halvavos… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Even during the COVID-19 era there are people that enter shuls to collect Tzedakah. Some shuls still let everyone in, and others do not. GREATNESS OF TEFILLAH The classic work entitled the Chovos Halvavos… Continue Reading →
Alexi Navalny’s wife and a top aide visited him Sunday in a Berlin hospital where the comatose Russian dissident is being treated by German doctors after a suspected poisoning. Navalny… Read more » The post Comatose Russian Dissident Visited by… Continue Reading →
Dear Yidden, What’s more important than providing a ‘close to homeless’ family, a roof over their head? Although there are many of us going through a hard time and my cause is not entirely unique, I still feel compelled to… Continue Reading →
The Health Ministry reported Sunday morning that 720 new coronavirus cases were diagnosed over the course of the last day. The number of active coronavirus patients stands at 22,022. Nearly 80,000… Read more » The post 720 New Coronavirus Cases; Death… Continue Reading →
Kuwait said it will rebuild Lebanon’s only large grain silo that was destroyed by the massive Beirut port explosion, raising fears of food shortages in a country already in financial… Read more » The post Kuwait to Rebuild Lebanon’s Only… Continue Reading →
Oregon’s biggest city appeared to have a quiet Saturday night after months of dramatic protests downtown near its federal buildings. On Saturday afternoon, however, federal authorities forced demonstrators away from… Read more » The post Oregon’s Biggest City Has Quiet… Continue Reading →
United States-led international coalition troops withdrew from Iraq’s Taji military base on Sunday and handed it over to Iraqi security forces, Reuters witnesses and the coalition said. The base, 20… Read more » The post U.S.-Led Troops Withdraw From Iraq’s… Continue Reading →
Analysis from the black boxes of a downed Ukrainian passenger plane shows it was hit by two missiles 25 seconds apart and that passengers were still alive for some time… Read more » The post Iran: Black Boxes From Downed… Continue Reading →