Month August 2020
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu posted a video of Emiratis welcoming Israelis to visit the UAE in Hebrew. The video was promoted by the UAE Foreign Ministry as well as by Netanyahu. The video opens to the sound of the Hava… Continue Reading →
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — An appeals court has allowed ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft to continue treating their drivers as independent contractors in California in a decision that will give the two companies a few more months to protect their… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will seek to reinstate a death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man who was convicted of carrying out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Attorney General William Barr said Thursday. In an interview with The… Continue Reading →
The IDF carried out airstrikes on Hamas terror targets in the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning for the eleventh consecutive night in response to the continuous launching of incendiary balloons into southern Israel by Gazan terror groups. Fires continued to… Continue Reading →
Yesterday the world suffered a tragic loss with the passing of Rabbi Dovid Oberlander, a 38-year-old father of 5 from Ashdod. Dovid & his father, renowned askan Rabbi Moshe Yosef Oberlander, were both admitted to the corona ward on the… Continue Reading →
Just prior to Elul Zman, the Yeshivos of Chasdei Belz are reinforcing the message to maintain proper hygiene as proscribed by the Health Ministry, and have issued a directive from the Beis Din with the backing of the Belzer Rebbe…. Continue Reading →
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Sara’s marriage was dead, but she couldn’t end it herself. As an Orthodox woman, Sara — not her real name, for privacy concerns — needed a “get,” or religious consent to divorce, from her husband to end… Continue Reading →
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, underwent surgery Thursday to remove a growth from his vocal cord that was causing his notably raspy voice. Fauci, who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, underwent… Continue Reading →
Have a public health question? Just “Ask a Health Educator.” That’s what the Ocean County Health Department (OCHD) is calling its new educational campaign that provides children or students the opportunity to ask our experts questions they have regarding any… Continue Reading →
Big vehicles don’t make me nervous. I grew up with them. My father, an engineer, drove a succession of pickups through fields and forests developing agricultural and construction equipment. My… Read more » The post AUTO REVIEW: 2021 Chevrolet Tahoe… Continue Reading →
Pharmacists in all 50 states are now allowed to give childhood vaccinations under a new directive aimed at preventing future outbreaks of measles and other preventable diseases. Alex Azar, the… Read more » The post Pharmacists Can Give Childhood Shots,… Continue Reading →
The coronavirus recession struck swiftly and violently. Now, with the U.S. economy still in the grip of the outbreak five months later, the recovery looks fitful and uneven — and painfully slow. The latest evidence came Thursday, when the government… Continue Reading →
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo dismissed concerns that his state’s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes could be a significant undercount, saying it makes sense to include only those residents… Read more » The post Cuomo Dismisses Undercount Concerns in… Continue Reading →
A day after the city’s powerful teacher union threatened to strike over school reopening guidelines, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday the city will see the “safest school… Read more » The post Mayor De Blasio Says NYC… Continue Reading →
The Blue Dog Coalition of moderate House Democrats is circulating a letter they plan to send to congressional leaders urging them to get back to the bargaining table on a… Read more » The post Moderate Democrats Call for Restart… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Torah world was plunged into mourning with the passing of one of the greatest Dayanim and Torah personalities in this generation, Rabbi Zalman Nehemia Goldberg at the age of 89. Rabbi Zalman Nehemia was distinguished in… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) – As hospitals care for people with COVID-19 and try to keep others from catching the virus, more patients are opting to be treated where they feel safest: at home. Across the U.S., “hospital at home” programs… Continue Reading →
A live air-to-air missile discovered at a small central Florida airport has been secured in a munition storage facility at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. The unarmed French S-530 air-to-air missile was found at Lakeland Linder International Airport on… Continue Reading →