Month December 2020
The Peleg Yerushalmi is protesting in Bnei Brak on Sunday evening. Highway 4 is totally shut near “Coca Cola”, as hundreds protest the arrest of a Yeshiva Bochur last week who refused to go to the draft office to get… Continue Reading →
More than 300 Syrian refugees were forced to flee an informal camp in northern Lebanon as a blaze raged through and burnt tents to the ground, U.N. and Lebanese officials… Read more » The post Syrian Refugee Camp Burnt to… Continue Reading →
The Troopers are reportedly primarily in the Downtown and BMG Yeshiva area.
NEW YORK (VINnews/Daniel Berman, M.D.) — With great pain, we recently heard of two more grandparents attending two different weddings of their grandchildren, contracting Covid 19 and being niftar. I do not know the total count, but we have heard… Continue Reading →
NASHIVILLE (VINnews) – FBI agents are investigating whether the suspect in the bombing of a motorhome in Nashville, USA, on Friday, was “paranoid” with technology 5 G, according to several media outlets. Steve Fridrich, a real estate agent from Nashville,… Continue Reading →
The Knesset Education Committee on Sunday rejected government regulations that would have kept students in grades 5-10 at home for remote learning during a new lockdown. Under the terms for… Read more » The post Knesset Committee Allows Grades 5-10… Continue Reading →
South Korea had seemed to be winning the fight against the coronavirus: Quickly ramping up its testing, contact-tracing and quarantine efforts paid off when it weathered an early outbreak without the economic pain of a lockdown. But a deadly resurgence… Continue Reading →
South Korea had seemed to be winning the fight against the coronavirus: Quickly ramping up its testing, contact-tracing and quarantine efforts paid off when it weathered an early outbreak without the economic pain of a lockdown. But a deadly resurgence… Continue Reading →
BOSTON (JTA) – The vice chair of Massachusetts’ Republican Party — and of its Republican Jewish group — says he’s pretty sure he contracted COVID-19 at the White House Hanukkah party. Tom Mountain, who has been hospitalized twice in recent… Continue Reading →
Today we have good news for overseas residents. Some dear people and friends of Orchot Yosher have worked tirelessly to establish an English-language website designed for overseas residents, where you can see the Seforim that we have published, as well… Continue Reading →
The coronavirus vaccine developed by the British drugs group AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford has achieved a “winning formula” for efficacy, the company’s chief executive said in an interview.… Read more » The post CEO: AstraZeneca Has ‘Winning’ Vaccine… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel is leading the world in terms of ratio of vaccinations to the entire population, with only tiny Bahrain ahead of Israel in the number of vaccinations administered. During the first week of vaccinations Israel vaccinated 280,000… Continue Reading →
Doctors, nurses and the elderly rolled up their sleeves across the European Union to receive the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine Sunday in a symbolic show of unity and… Read more » The post EU Kicks Off COVID-19 Vaccine… Continue Reading →
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says he’s open to the possibility of running for president in 2024. Christie, a Republican, made the announcement during recent interviews when asked about his 2024 plans. The former governor, who ran unsuccessfully for… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) — Hurricane-force winds reaching up to 106 mph (170 kph) and heavy rainstorms battered parts of Britain on Sunday, disrupting train services and stranding drivers in floodwaters. The Isle of Wight saw Storm Bella’s strongest gusts hit 106… Continue Reading →
The coronavirus infection rate in Chareidi cities has risen to alarming rates in recent weeks and health officials believe that the mutated virus variant originally found in the UK is the reason for the rise. Senior Health Ministry officials claim… Continue Reading →
Presidential Advisor and First Daughter Ivanka Trump is considering a Senate run in Florida, according to media reports. Trump and her husband White House adviser Jared Kushner recently purchased a $31 million waterfront estate on Indian Creek Island, an elite… Continue Reading →
“Don’t go to work in your pajamas!” A year ago, had you heard this said at a sales webinar you would have been confused, maybe even shocked. However, in December of 2020, that same statement seems totally normal, even relevant, and was actually said at an Agudah sales webinar, held on zoom, a platform many… Continue Reading →
Homework is a hot topic that always elicits strong opinions on both sides. My view on homework is based on the approach of my Rebbi, Rav Mattisyahu Salomon, shlita who writes: “School should be the place to learn and the… Continue Reading →
A gunman opened fire inside an Illinois bowling alley, killing three people and injuring three others Saturday night in what authorities believe was a random attack. A 37-year-old male suspect was in custody after the shooting at Don Carter Lanes,… Continue Reading →
Vandals struck a synagogue gate in Bulgaria and a monument to the victims of the shooting attack last Yom Kippur near a synagogue in Halle, Germany, in a spate of… Read more » The post Bulgarian Synagogue and Halle Memorial… Continue Reading →