Month December 2020
Israeli jets fired missiles on targets near Damascus early on Wednesday, killing one Syrian soldier and wounding three, Syria’s military said. The after-midnight attack in the Zabadani region in the Damascus countryside targeted a Syrian air defense unit and also… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump’s push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks all but died Wednesday as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed an alternative approach of loading up the bill with other… Read more » The post Trump’s $2,000 Checks All But… Continue Reading →
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UNITED KIONGDOM (JNS) – A London university has refunded a former Jewish student who left the school over what he said was a “toxic anti-Semitic environment.” The School of Oriental and African Studies at London University (SOAS) recently gave back… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Tuesday (1/05/21)Morning R’ Sruly GordanFather Mrs. Yocheved GordanMother Habachur Yaakov Mordechai GordanBrother Hayeled Moshe GordonBrother Mrs. Rivky AdelmanSister Mrs. Mimi BritvanSister Miss Toby GordanSister Miss Shoshana GordanSister Hayalda Sara GordanSister
Iran’s Cabinet on Wednesday allocated $150,000 for the families of each of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian plane shot down in Iranian airspace in January, the official IRNA news… Read more » The post Iran Allocates $150,000 for Families… Continue Reading →
New York’s Finest indeed! NYPD Inspector Emanuel (Manny) Gonzalez was out for a bike ride when he saw pages of a holy Jewish text scattered across the street. He collected them, and then called NYC Councilman Chaim Deutsch to find… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump ran out the clock Wednesday in his long-running legal battle to shield his tax and financial records from Congress, when a federal appeals court declined to rule… Read more » The post House Democrats Cannot Immediately Access… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner’s family real estate business wants to raise at least $100 million in capital through Israel’s bond market, according to papers filed near the end of his tenure as President Donald Trump’s main Israel and Middle… Continue Reading →
Israel’s third nationwide lockdown, which went into effect on Sunday evening, is not working well, health officials were saying on Wednesday. Health Minister Yuli Edelstein called it a swiss cheese,”… Read more » The post Health Officials: Current Lockdown Not… Continue Reading →
A man wielding a machete and chasing a woman was shot to death by police. On Tuesday around 6 PM, police were called to Brownsville, Brooklyn, where multiple witnesses reported… Read more » The post Police Officers Shoot Man with… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) — Britain became the first country to authorize AstraZeneca’s inexpensive, easy-to-handle COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday, gaining another weapon against the virus amid a resurgence so severe that the government extended lockdowns to three-quarters of England’s population. The country also… Continue Reading →
With vaccines to protect against COVID-19 continuing to be distributed exclusively to frontline workers, at least five Lakewood school nurses have already been vaccinated, with more expected in the near future. The vaccines, which are administered by CHEMED, are expected… Continue Reading →
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday encouraged schools to resume in-person education next year, starting with the youngest students, and promised $2 billion in state aid to promote coronavirus testing, increased ventilation of classrooms and personal… Continue Reading →
In the days before he detonated a bomb in downtown Nashville on Friday, Anthony Quinn Warner changed his life in ways that suggest he never intended to survive the blast… Read more » The post Nashville Bomber Left Hints of… Continue Reading →
A large explosion struck the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Wednesday, shortly after a plane carrying the newly formed Cabinet landed there, security officials said. At least 26 people were killed and 60 were wounded in… Continue Reading →
Democrat Ray Coles is expected to be voted in as the mayor of Lakewood for his fifth consecutive term in the position, an extraordinary statement of his performance on the job, considering that the Lakewood Township Committee has a Republican… Continue Reading →
Deep in the lush mountain valleys of southern China lies the entrance to a mine shaft that once harbored bats with the closest known relative of the COVID-19 virus. The area is of intense scientific interest because it may hold… Continue Reading →
BERLIN (VINnews) — Yevgeni Wasserman, a German Jewish citizen serving as a policeman in Germany related that he is hiding his Jewish identity at present due to the worrying increase in anti-Semitism in Europe and in particular in Germany. Yevgeni… Continue Reading →
COVID-19 is ruthless. Over the past year, we have davened for long lists of people who suffered from the coronavirus it causes. We all have neighbors, friends and family members who have sat shiva for the loss of a parent,… Continue Reading →
A Chinese court on Wednesday sentenced 10 pro-democracy activists and protesters who sought to flee Hong Kong by speedboat to between seven months and three years in prison, in a case with major political overtones for the territory. The Yantian… Continue Reading →