Month September 2020
The video conferencing software Zoom has announced it will not host a San Francisco State University event that was going to include Leila Khaled as a speaker, Jewish Insider reported. The university-sponsored… Read more » The post Zoom Will Not Allow its… Continue Reading →
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been released from a Berlin hospital after more than a month’s treatment for poisoning, with doctors now believing that it’s possible he could see a “complete recovery” from the Soviet-era nerve agent, the hospital… Continue Reading →
Johnson & Johnson is beginning a huge final study to try to prove if a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine can protect against the virus. The study starting Wednesday will be one of the world’s largest coronavirus vaccine studies so far, testing… Continue Reading →
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — A 19-year-old young lady, married just three months, was seriously injured Tuesday after a tree fell on her in a Bnei Brak courtyard. Hatzalah medics were called to the scene and gave the young lady initial… Continue Reading →
A record number of 6,923 new coronavirus cases in the previous 24 hours were confirmed in Israel on Wednesday morning, the highest number of daily cases since the start of the pandemic. The positive testing rate has risen to 11.4%… Continue Reading →
The U.K. will host clinical trials where volunteers would be deliberately infected with the new coronavirus to assess the effectiveness of experimental vaccines, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing… Read more » The post U.K. to Host ‘Human Challenge’… Continue Reading →
Marshall University has suspended a professor for saying in an online class that she hopes Trump supporters get coronavirus and die before the November election. The video posted on social media last week identifies the professor as Jennifer Mosher, who… Continue Reading →
SAN FRANCISCO (JNS) – The video-conferencing platform Zoom has canceled a conversation on its platform hosted by San Francisco State University’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) featuring a documented Palestinian terrorist following complaints from the Lawfare Project… Continue Reading →
The US Department of Justice is threatening to file a lawsuit against Toms River over zoning regulations that make it difficult to build houses of worship. In a letter sent to Toms River officals, US Attorney Craig Carpenito gave the… Continue Reading →
Sudan and the United States have discussed how Khartoum could advance Arab-Israeli peace, authorities said on Wednesday, adding the talks also covered the removal of the former hardline foe of… Read more » The post Sudan Discusses Arab-Israeli Peace With… Continue Reading →
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden was running late. Again. On a recent Friday, he’d already apologized for the delayed start to a speech, then taken more questions than expected at a subsequent press conference. When it was finally over,… Continue Reading →
BROOKLYN (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – A list of Brooklyn’s 50 most powerful non-elected political figures published by a recognized New York City news magazine includes two well known faces in the Orthodox Jewish community – Met Council CEO David Greenfield and… Continue Reading →
A day after reports emerged on a deal between the United States and the United Arab Emirates over the sale of the F-35 fighter jets, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David… Read more » The post Ambassador Friedman: If UAE Gets… Continue Reading →
HELSINKI (AP) — Finland has deployed coronavirus-sniffing dogs at the Nordic country’s main international airport in a four-month trial of an alternative testing method that could become a cost-friendly and quick way to identify infected travelers. Four dogs of different… Continue Reading →
The Soffer family will be sitting Shiva until Sunday morning, Erev Yom Kippur, at the home of Menachem and Brocha Soffer at 24 Truman Ave, Lakewood. Phone: 732-730-8864. Mr. Eleazer Soffer can be reached at 917-217-6628. המקום ינחם אותם בתוך… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden are locked in close races in Florida and Arizona, according to a pair of Washington Post-ABC News polls in two Sun… Read more » The post Polls: Trump and Biden in… Continue Reading →
As Israel’s daily coronavirus cases continue to soar, the coronavirus cabinet met for over eight hours on Tuesday to discuss further restrictions to combat the growing spread of the coronavirus but the meeting ended without any decisions. Following the meeting,… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Wednesday reported a new record level of daily cases of coronavirus, shortly before government officials were to meet to discuss tightening a new nationwide lockdown. The Health Ministry reported 6,861 new cases Wednesday as a… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is calling for the immediate implementation of tightened restrictions on Israel’s public sphere and economy. Netanyahu asserted that Israel is in a state of a national health emergency and restrictions must be tightened in a meeting… Continue Reading →
Over 1,500 families in Lakewood, Jackson and Toms River are relying on Tomchei Shabbos so that their children have what to eat on Sukkos and Chol Hamoed. We’re down to the wire; all deliveries must go out shortly. But Tomchei… Continue Reading →
As in past years, Agudath Israel of America’s Washington Office has worked closely with agencies of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to help avoid potential problems for travelers carrying arba minim. Both the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and U.S…. Continue Reading →