Month August 2020

Thousands of Chasidic Jews streamed into Kiryas Joel Yesterday Sunday August 16 2020, for the 41st Yartzheitof the Satmar Rebbe, Hagaon HaRav Yoel Teitelbaum Zatzal, the founder of the Satmar Chasidic movement and namesake of the Satmar village in Orange… Continue Reading →

The Trump Administration on Monday finalized a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, putting it on track to issue decades-long leases in the… Read more » The post Trump Administration Finalizes Oil Drilling… Continue Reading →

A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI has been charged with spying for China, including by disclosing secret tradecraft and information on sources to intelligence officers, according… Read more » The post Former CIA Officer Charged With… Continue Reading →

Top White House adviser Jared Kushner said Monday that the Palestinian leadership’s credibility has fallen to an “all-time low” and that the Trump administration wouldn’t “chase” the Palestinians over a… Read more » The post Kushner Excoriates Palestinians for Rejectionist… Continue Reading →

The mostly virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention is kicking off at 6 PM this evening. Tonight’s keynote address will be delivered by former First Lady Michelle Obama.

Rabbi Simon Jacobson In Conversation with World Leaders  Featuring Rabbi Warren Goldstein, Chief Rabbi of South Africa  “‘The more they were oppressed, the more they thrived’ is a Torah verse that best encapsulates the current crisis. On one hand we’ve been brought to our knees by the pandemic and on the… Continue Reading →

 

Unwilling to cede the political stage, President Donald Trump is ramping up his campaign schedule to aggressively counterprogram former Vice President Joe Biden’s show at the Democrats’ convention as campaigning gets down to what the president on Monday called “crunch… Continue Reading →

Moments ago on the GSP southbound at mile marker 143. pic.twitter.com/mH39gYSWky — The Lakewood Scoop (@LakewoodScoop) August 17, 2020

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu‏‏ appeared on the Abu Dhabi-based Sky News Arabia on Monday, his first interview ever with the network. Netanyahu, in the course of hailing the historic… Read more » The post Netanyahu Debuts on UAE Sky… Continue Reading →

A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI has been charged with spying for China, including by disclosing secret tradecraft and information on sources to intelligence officers, according to a court documents unsealed Monday. Alexander Yuk Ching Ma… Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump is again threatening to send federal agents to New York City if local authorities don’t stop a surge of violence that has left seven people dead and… Read more » The post Trump Says He’ll Send Feds… Continue Reading →

We regret to inform you of the Petirah of the Bucharest Rebbe Zatzal. The Rebbe, 85, was born in Romania and immigrated to the United States, becoming close to the Satmar Rebbe Zatzal and other Gedolim. On the passing of… Continue Reading →

Former Republican governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman plans to make remarks this evening at the Democratic National Convention, which is kicking off tonight.  Whitman, a Republican for all her life, is one of a few who will be… Continue Reading →

A hostage situation ended peacefully Monday morning when a man and his mother exited a home near Austin, Texas, where a day earlier three police officers had been shot and… Read more » The post Hostage Situation After Texas Officers… Continue Reading →

“It’s really incredible how much Rabbi Nachum Bergos has given himself over to ‘The Possible You’ Seminars,” explains Rabbi Glaser. “He has worked tirelessly to bring up the standards of the seminars. And it’s all done quietly and modestly,” adds… Continue Reading →