Month August 2020
B’chasdei Shamayaim, a group of about 20 bachurim and a staff member from Camp Adas Yereiyim that were missing for many hours in the Big Indian Wilderness near Neversink, N.Y., were found… Read more » The post Missing Bachurim Found After Nearly… Continue Reading →
Doctors in the Siberian city of Omsk refused to authorize the transfer of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny to a German hospital, his spokeswoman said Friday. Navalny remains in a… Read more » The post Russian Doctors Refuse Navalny’s Transfer… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hailed the United States’ move on Thursday to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran and called on world powers to support Washington. The United States submitted… Read more » The post Israel Backs U.S. Moves to… Continue Reading →
Joe Biden accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night with a vow to be a unifying “ally of the light” who would move an America in crisis past the chaos… Read more » The post Biden Vows to Unite America,… Continue Reading →
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri sent letters on Thursday to 174 local council heads throughout Israel, entitled Preparations Of The Councils For The Yamim Noraim Tefillos And The Tishrei Chagim In The Shadow Of The Coronavirus, encouraging the use of public… Continue Reading →
A search has been launched for a group of Yeshiva Bochrim missing in the Catskills Mountains. The group of around 20 boys from Camp Adas Yereiyim were hiking in the area of Biscuit Brook, located on Frost Valley Road in… Continue Reading →
In responding to numerous questions that have been posed to Rabbonim over the past few days, which then made their way to Hagaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, the Gadol Hador stated that parents should send all children to schools and Yeshivos…. Continue Reading →
The World Health Organization’s Europe office said it has begun discussions with Russia to try to obtain more information about the experimental COVID-19 vaccine the country recently approved. Last week, Russia became the first country in the world to license… Continue Reading →
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A former Uber executive was charged Thursday in federal court on allegations that he arranged to pay hackers $100,000 to cover up a high-tech heist that stole the personal information about 57 million of the ride-hailing… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to allow him to block critics from his personal Twitter account. The administration said in a high-court filing Thursday that Trump’s @realdonaldtrump account with more than 85 million followers is his personal… Continue Reading →
NEW York ((JNS) – Reality dawned slowly, painfully. In mid-March, it suddenly became clear that the novel coronavirus that first ravaged China, and then parts of Europe, was becoming a global pandemic. Five months later, the death toll remains staggering…. Continue Reading →
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NASA surpassed a “big milestone” on its latest mission to Mars, as the space agency was successfully able to power up the helicopter attached to the Perseverance rover, known as Ingenuity. The six lithium-ion batteries that power Ingenuity were powered… Continue Reading →
New York will allow voters to request absentee ballots for the general election because of coronavirus under a new state law signed Thursday. Lawmakers passed the bill last month, and voting rights groups have been calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Sen. Kamala Harris, newly nominated as the Democratic vice presidential candidate, will hold a “Virtual Conversation with the American Jewish Community.” Harris will be joined at the Aug. 26 campaign event by her Jewish husband, Doug Emhoff…. Continue Reading →
Former Vice President Joe Biden will accept the Democratic nomination for president tonight. Watch live below.
WASHINGTON (JNS) – Members of the historic Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, D.C., will be able to sit next to Jewish celebrities, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, during High Holidays services next month. Kind of. The… Continue Reading →
Hezbollah acquired a large amount of ammonium nitrate in the same time period that the ammonium nitrate stored at the Beirut port that caused the devastating explosion on August 4 was delivered, according to a report by the German newspaper… Continue Reading →
The bride is an orphan from a father (who passed away a year ago) who is due to get married in a few weeks and has not yet bought anything for her wedding day. She comes from a family of 10… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was pulled from a luxury yacht and arrested Thursday on allegations that he and three associates ripped off donors trying to fund a southern border wall, making him… Continue Reading →