Month September 2020
The Bed Bath & Beyond store located at 4075 US 9 in Howell will be permanently shutting its doors as part of massive companywide changes that have been in the works since at least October 2019. The store, which many… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli Supreme Court ruled Monday that Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the rabbi of Tzfat, will undergo a disciplinary hearing in the wake of numerous statements he has made against the courts and enforcement authorities and against Israeli… Continue Reading →
Ramat Givat Zeev is a luxurious neighborhood that includes many spacious parks, a magnificent mikveh, a shopping center, shuls and schools. Now the community leaders are working toward strengthening the community of American olim, with the arrival of Hagaon Harav… Continue Reading →
Ramat Givat Zeev is a luxurious neighborhood that includes many spacious parks, a magnificent mikveh, a shopping center, shuls and schools. Now the community leaders are working toward strengthening the community of American olim, with the arrival of Hagaon Harav… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israeli Health Ministry Director General Hezi Levi on Monday called on the country’s hospitals to cease performing elective procedures and to take urgent steps to handle the country’s steadily rising coronavirus morbidity rate. In a letter sent… Continue Reading →
Submitted: When your toddler’s shoe size grow quickly, and the shoes are still in perfect shape, what do you do with them? Yad Eliezer, the premier chesed organization of Eretz Yisroel, will gladly take them off your hands and provide them… Continue Reading →
ABU DHABI (VINnews) — For the first time in history, a synagogue in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, opened on Rosh Hashana for public prayers. Rabbi Levi Duchman, who serves as the rabbi of the 1500-strong local Jewish… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Mrs. Rachel BinetWife R’ Ari BinetSon Mrs. Bini JankowitzDaughter Mrs. Raizy LebovitzDaughter Mrs. Yitty Perlmutter (Wax)Daughter
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Film agencies in Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced an agreement Monday to collaborate on television production, the latest development to follow a U.S.-brokered deal between the countries to normalize relations. The Abu… Continue Reading →
SUFFERN, NY — Two Rockland County residents, both members of the William Paul Feist Ambulance Corps and the Haverstraw Ambulance Corps, died in a crash on the New York State Thruway in the middle of the night Monday. New York… Continue Reading →
PETACH TIKVA (VINnews) — The new lockdown rules in Israel, which came into effect at 2 PM on the eve of Rosh Hashana, have left many people muddled. Technically people must stay within 500 meters of their houses but in… Continue Reading →
Please be Mispallel for Reb Yaakov Ben Faiga (Rosh Yeshiva Edison) whose condition took a turn for the worse and is currently in the ICU.
A 30-day window for Iran to live up to Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) expired 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, leading Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to announce the restoration of “virtually all previously terminated UN sanctions on the Islamic… Continue Reading →
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CHICAGO (AP) — A front-runner to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a federal appellate judge who has established herself as a reliable conservative on hot-button legal issues from abortion to… Continue Reading →
UMAN (VINnews) — Despite the fact that only a fraction of Breslov chasidim managed to pray in Uman on Rosh Hashana and many found themselves stranded in the neighboring countries of Belarus and Hungary, there was no lack of fervent… Continue Reading →
A New York City man was arrested Friday on charges he bashed a 67-year-old gas station attendant with a metal bar after the attendant asked him to observe social distancing during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Hiram Vega, of… Continue Reading →
The chief of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened Saturday to go after everyone who had a role in a top general’s January killing during a U.S. drone strike in Iraq. The guard’s website quoted Gen. Hossein Salami as saying, “Mr…. Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court on Monday approved the extradition of a former teacher wanted in Australia on charges of child sex abuse, potentially paving the way for her to stand trial after a six-year legal battle. Malka Leifer,… Continue Reading →
LONDON (VINnews) — Boris Johnson paid tribute to England’s Jewish community in his New Year’s message for them, citing their “fantastic and enormously varied contribution” to English life.