Month December 2020
The United States sold the ambassador’s residence in Israel for more than $67 million in July, according to an official Israeli record of the sale, which the State Department only confirmed several weeks later. The State Department confirmed the sale… Continue Reading →
MASSACHUSETTS (JTA) – As one of the youngest Holocaust survivors, Eva Clarke has spent years telling the story of how her mother, weighing just 68 pounds, gave birth to her inside a concentration camp just a month before it was liberated…. Continue Reading →
For centuries, members of the British Parliament were divided into three groups or “estates”: the nobility, the clergy and the commoners. A fourth group — the members of the press… Read more » The post Cooking Up the News appeared… Continue Reading →
It isn’t always easy to draw a line between cause and effect, especially when it comes to terrorism. How do you explain why anyone would wake up one morning and… Read more » The post Terrorism, Cause and Effect appeared… Continue Reading →
Jonathan Pollard landed early Wednesday morning in Eretz Yisrael with his wife Esther as the U.S. authorities finally removed all restraints from his dream to relocate there. As the plane… Read more » The post Jonathan and Esther Pollard Land… Continue Reading →
Several days ago, Israel’s Chevros Kadisha requested of the Health Ministry that all their workers involved in caring for the bodies of the deceased be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The Chevra Kadisha noted that their 500 employees are at great… Continue Reading →
The family just returned from the hospital after witnessing their father exhale his final breath. They have to get ready for the levaya, to bid their final farewell to their departed father. The atmosphere is tense. The pain is so… Continue Reading →
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The railroad industry has installed an automatic braking system on nearly 58,000 miles of track where it is required ahead of a yearend deadline, federal regulators said Tuesday. Federal Railroad Administration chief Ronald Batory said railroads… Continue Reading →
Rosh Yeshivas Mir and new member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel HaTorah HaGaon HaRav Eliezer Yehudah Finkel received a positive result from a coronavirus test on Monday evening. The Rosh Yeshivah was tested after a family member was… Continue Reading →
Today, the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department will begin delivering a second round of Economic Impact Payments as part of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021 to millions of Americans who received the first… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] For-Tech Electric is a Lakewood based Electrical contractor that specializes in new construction custom homes as well as the installation and service of standby generators. The company was founded in 2010 and has continued to grow year over year…. Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump lashed out at congressional Republicans on Tuesday after the House easily voted to override his veto of a defense policy bill. A total of 109 Republicans, including Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a member of GOP leadership, joined… Continue Reading →
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s campaign asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to take its failed lawsuit challenging election results in swing state Wisconsin. Trump lost the state to Democrat Joe Biden by about 21,000 votes. The… Continue Reading →
A revolution in Torah life in the Chareidi communities of South America is beginning under the leadership of HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein with the establishment of a Chareidi city in Mexico. The city, aptly named Ir Hatorah, is a colossal… Continue Reading →
A huge U.S. study of another COVID-19 vaccine candidate got underway Monday as states continue to roll out scarce supplies of the first shots to a nation anxiously awaiting relief from the catastrophic outbreak. Public health experts say more options… Continue Reading →
The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it would not bring federal criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers in the 2014 killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, saying video of the… Read more » The post Feds Decline Charges Against Officers… Continue Reading →
The Michigan Supreme Court, in a split 3-3 decision issued on December 28, upheld a 2016 law reimbursing nonpublic schools for complying with state mandates. The Michigan Legislature had appropriated… Read more » The post Michigan Supreme Court Allows Reimbursement… Continue Reading →
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein announced that Israel has vaccinated about half a million Israelis in the nine days since the start of Israel’s vaccine campaign, with over 115,000 Israelis vaccinated on Monday alone. With 495,000 Israelis vaccinated as of Tuesday… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s plan to require hospitals and insurers to disclose the actual prices for common tests and procedures. The White House praised the decision to reject the… Continue Reading →
In an effort to maximize security across its campuses, Bais Medrash Govoha will be adding fingerprint entry to all its dormitories. The dormitories currently have combination locks on them, but the fingerprint locks will be added to enhance the security… Continue Reading →
The first reported U.S. case of the COVID-19 variant that’s been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday. The coronavirus variant was… Read more » The post First Reported U.S. Case of… Continue Reading →