Month August 2020
1,637 people were diagnosed with the coronavirus in the last day, the Health Ministry reported Thursday morning. The total number of confirmed diagnoses of coronavirus since the start of the… Read more » The post 1,637 New Coronavirus Cases, 403… Continue Reading →
Hong Kong will suspend an agreement on mutual legal assistance with the United States, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, in a tit-for-tat response to Washington ending some agreements with… Read more » The post Hong Kong Will Suspend Some… Continue Reading →
China and the United States have agreed to hold trade talks “in the coming days” to evaluate the progress of their Phase 1 trade deal six months after it took… Read more » The post China, U.S. Agree to Hold… Continue Reading →
With the continuous talk of new elections, a new poll conducted by Panels Politics for the Maariv newspaper might cause Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to reconsider. The poll shows that the Likud… Read more » The post New Poll Shows Yamina Up… Continue Reading →
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a rare acknowledgment of a misstep in his response to COVID-19 on Wednesday as he acknowledged an earlier statewide mask mandate could have made… Read more » The post Cuomo: Earlier Mask Mandate Could… Continue Reading →
Iran inaugurated a surface-to-surface ballistic missile with a range of 1,400 km and a new cruise missile, Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami said in a speech on Thursday, ignoring U.S.… Read more » The post Iran Unveils Locally Made Ballistic… Continue Reading →
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is in a coma and on a ventilator in a hospital intensive care unit in Siberia after falling ill from suspected poisoning during a flight,… Read more » The post Russian Opposition Figure Navalny in… Continue Reading →
Asian shares slipped Thursday after sobriety set in on Wall Street, and the U.S. Federal Reserve minutes laid out challenges for the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei… Read more » The post Asian Shares Retreat After Fed… Continue Reading →
The United States is eyeing the sale of stealthy F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates in a side agreement to the UAE’s overtures to Israel, an industry insider… Read more » The post Source: UAE Could Get F-35… Continue Reading →
Hiring Blitz At Eastern Union Offers New Employees Unprecedented $500,000 Job Opportunity Innovative Mortgage Broker Training Initiative Helps Amateurs & Professionals Fast-Track Toward Netting Half-A-Million Dollar Incomes Within Two-To-Three Years (BROOKLYN, NY) — Eastern Union — one of the… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com It is now the month of Elul – the time when we ask mechila for what we may have done to others. But is it always effective? THE CASE IN POINT The young girl… Continue Reading →
Attorney General William Barr announced Wednesday that authorities have made more than 1,400 arrests as a part of “Operation Legend,” a Justice Department anti-crime initiative that launched with some controversy… Read more » The post Barr Says ‘Operation Legend’ has… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump on Thursday will travel to the area in the swing state of Pennsylvania where Democratic rival Joe Biden was born to slam his decades of government service,… Read more » The post Trump Heads to Biden’s Birthplace… Continue Reading →
Former President Barack Obama warned Wednesday night that American democracy may not survive if Donald Trump is reelected. Then delegates broke a historic barrier by nominating Kamala Harris as Joe… Read more » The post Democrats Pound Their Message: To… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JTA) – An official FBI Twitter account drew criticism for tweeting a link to a 139-page selection of the bureau’s files on “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” the infamously anti-Semitic early 20th century text that accuses Jews… Continue Reading →
Israel’s Health Ministry has admitted that it probably undercounted – by as many as 53 – the fatalities of residents of senior living centers due to CoVID-19 coronavirus in July and August. An explanation for the discrepancy, according to the Health… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo responded Wednesday to an Associated Press report that his state’s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes could be a significant undercount, saying it makes sense to include only those residents who… Continue Reading →
Fire crews were called to the scene of a blaze at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life at 2317 Vermont street at 2:45 Wendsday morning. Firefighters vented the roof after finding flames coming from a second floor attic. It took… Continue Reading →
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PORTLAND (JTA) – Firefighters put out a large fire Wednesday at the Chabad Jewish Center in Portland, Oregon — the second at the building in five days. The building suffered extensive damage from the blaze, which broke out in the… Continue Reading →
Twenty-four geriatric patients in Laniado Hospital in Netanya contracted the coronavirus following an outbreak in the hospital in recent days, Army Radio reported on Wednesday morning. Laniado opened a new coronavirus ward to treat the new cases and is struggling… Continue Reading →