Month October 2020
HOUSTON (AP) — Months before the Trump administration separated thousands of families at the U.S.-Mexico border, a “pilot program” in Texas left child-welfare officials scrambling to find empty beds for babies taken from their parents in a preview of bigger… Continue Reading →
Once a gleaming symbol of early 20th-century ambition and prosperity, Hoboken’s grand rail terminal now sits as a somber reminder of the daunting challenges facing mass transit in the New York region. Eight years ago Thursday, Superstorm Sandy pushed the… Continue Reading →
Dear brothers and sisters, I am the almana of the tzaddik, Rav Chaim Ozer Yudelevitz of Yerushalayim. The brother of the famous Magid Harav Shabsi Yudilevitz. A cousin of להבדיל בין חיים לחיים, מרן שר התורה רבי חיים קנייבסקי שליט”א My late… Continue Reading →
Behind all of the false bravado & chest thumping of ineffective rabble rousers, aggressive Covid testing campaigns have been ongoing. These efforts led by well known community leaders & organizations under the guidance of Rabbonim with the stated goal of… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump reacted furiously to the announcement by former Whitehouse employee Miles Taylor that he was the author of an anonymous New York Times op-ed about an internal “resistance” to Trump within the administration, with the president calling for… Continue Reading →
Top Trump administration officials visited Texas five days before Election Day to announce they have nearly completed 400 miles of U.S.-Mexico border wall, trying to show progress on perhaps the president’s best-known campaign promise four years ago. While most of… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — North Carolina, yes. Pennsylvania, yes. Wisconsin, no. That’s how the Supreme Court has answered questions in recent days about an extended timeline for receiving and counting ballots in those states. In each case, Democrats backed the extensions… Continue Reading →
Send a Ten Yad prize package to someone special in your life! It is the gift that keeps on giving, with its effect felt for generations to come. Ten means to give. This year at Ten Yad we were looking… Continue Reading →
Some hardcore #MAGA fans decided to have a good time today, and trailed a Biden-Harris Campaign bus all day in Houston with a hearse! According to multiple Twitter reports, the Biden-Harris bus was running through red lights all day to… Continue Reading →
A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday that Minnesota’s absentee ballots that come in after Election Day should be separated from the rest of… Read more » The post Court: Late Minnesota Absentee Ballots… Continue Reading →
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — City councilors in Oregon’s largest city have delayed a vote on an additional $18 million in cuts to the Portland police budget until after next week’s presidential election amid a heated mayoral race and mounting tension… Continue Reading →
Send a Ten Yad prize package to someone special in your life! It is the gift that keeps on giving, with its effect felt for generations to come. Ten means to give. This year at Ten Yad we were looking… Continue Reading →
A dangling crane shut down several streets in Midtown on Thursday evening. It happened at 111 West 57th Street near 6th Avenue. The FDNY received a report of debris falling from a building just after 6:40 p.m. The building is… Continue Reading →
Send a Ten Yad prize package to someone special in your life! It is the gift that keeps on giving, with its effect felt for generations to come. Ten means to give. This year at Ten Yad we were looking… Continue Reading →
Power has just gone out in Israel in multiple locations around the country. Reports of power out in Yerushalayim, Tel Aviv, Holon, Ashdod, Ohr Akiva, Netanya, Haifa, Rechovot and many other locations. The Israel Electric Company says all power should… Continue Reading →
The New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles Announced that the Lakewood MVC location, along with several other locations around New Jersey, will be by appointment only beginning November 2nd. Some people seem to think this is a good thing –… Continue Reading →
Iran’s parliament speaker said that he has tested positive for the coronavirus, joining a growing list of infected Iranian officials as the country again shattered its single-day death record with 415 new fatalities reported Wednesday. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf tweeted that… Continue Reading →
BOSTON (AP) — Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals could unleash a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. health care system, an effort that, if successful, could paralyze hospital information systems just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking…. Continue Reading →
“Hunter Biden and his associates” have been under criminal investigation by the FBI since 2019, according to a new report. The probe is focused on allegations of money-laundering and the case remains open and active, James Rosen, Investigative Reporter for Sinclair… Continue Reading →
Lakewood, NJ – A group of children from the Misameach Organization had the opportunity to spend time with Ivanka Trump on Thursday. Sources tell YWN that the event was arranged by Boris Epshteyn, the Strategic Advisor for Coalitions on the… Continue Reading →
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Six Dutch churches issued what they called an acknowledgement of guilt for not having done more to save Jews or protest their murder during the Holocaust. But Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs told the CIP news site… Continue Reading →