Month September 2020
During a memorial service for fallen soldiers during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned that Israel has not ruled out a preemptive strike against Iran. “A… Read more » The post Netanyahu Warns: Preemptive Strike Against… Continue Reading →
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that one million deaths from COVID-19 was “a very sad milestone,” with many victims suffering “a terribly difficult and lonely death” and… Read more » The post WHO: One Million COVID-19 Deaths… Continue Reading →
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) The following is a step by step guide as to what to look for when buying the Arba Minim. [You may want to print this out] Please also be aware that there is a… Continue Reading →
A civilian was killed on Tuesday in the Armenian town of Vardenis after it was shelled by Azeri artillery and targeted in a drone attack, Armenia’s Foreign Ministry said, the… Read more » The post Armenia Reports First Death on… Continue Reading →
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday night announced a “target date” of Oct. 5 to finish the 2020 Census count, just days after a federal judge blocked the government from… Read more » The post Commerce Department Announces Oct. 5… Continue Reading →
Africa’s overburdened public health systems, lack of testing facilities and overcrowded slums had experts predicting a disaster when COVID-19 hit the continent in February. The new coronavirus was already wreaking… Read more » The post Puzzled Scientists Seek Reasons for… Continue Reading →
A northern California wildfire raging in the foothills of the Cascade range has claimed three lives, officials said, as a separate blaze prompted mass evacuations and spread turmoil to the… Read more » The post Northern California Wildfires Kill 3,… Continue Reading →
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein told KAN News on Tuesday that the current lockdown “will not end with anyone saying that everything is over and everything is fine.” He said that… Read more » The post Health Minister: Lockdown Will Be… Continue Reading →
Multiple Brooklynites who requested absentee ballots this year are reporting having received other people’s ballots. One Brooklyn voter, who spoke to Hamodia and asked to be identified only as David,… Read more » The post Some Brooklyn Voters Receiving Wrong… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The tax-avoidance strategies that President Donald Trump capitalized on to shrink his tax bill to essentially zero are surprisingly common among major real estate developers and other uber-wealthy Americans. Yet Trump characteristically pushed those strategies to the… Continue Reading →
The school announced the closure as a precaution to prevent the spread of Covid. There has been talk about schools taking this step, but this is the first school to implement it.
MONTREAL (VINnews) — According to a video released Monday evening, a Montreal synagogue was interrupted and dispersed on Yom Kippur, right around or during the Neilah service. In the video, Montreal resident Berel Solomon relates that every member of his… Continue Reading →
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is rallying Democrats to prepare for a once-in-a-century election scenario requiring Congress to decide the outcome of the presidential race if neither Democrat… Read more » The post Pelosi Eyes Possible U.S. House… Continue Reading →
Democrats are confronting the limits of their power as they fight against the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett with a strategy aimed at avoiding costly mistakes that could… Read more » The post Democrats Stick to Health Care… Continue Reading →
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale has been hospitalized after he threatened to harm himself, according to Florida police and campaign officials. Police officers talked Parscale out of his Fort Lauderdale home after… Continue Reading →
Hello, my name is Adel. I was born a quadruplet, one of four siblings, and we live in Eretz Yisrael. With great appreciation to Hakadush Baruch Hu, my sister just got married a few weeks ago and it was a great… Continue Reading →
After months of trading barbs through social media, speeches, ads and two nominating conventions, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will meet face to face — and… Read more » The post What to Expect in Presidential… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — Must an observant Jew who has lost his sense of taste and smell because of COVID-19 recite blessings for food and drink? Can one bend the metal nosepiece of a surgical face mask on the Sabbath? May… Continue Reading →
The White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., resumed discussions over a possible economic-relief bill as Democrats offered a $2.2 trillion package and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin immediately engaged… Read more » The post Economic Relief Talks Between White… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Orlando Sentinel Editor-in-Chief Julie Anderson was curious how readers in polarized central Florida would react to her newspaper leading Monday’s edition with a report that President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income tax in… Continue Reading →