Month February 2021
U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced the awarding of a combined $147,874,036 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Community Planning and Development to support the revitalization of communities… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — February is usually the peak of flu season, with doctors’ offices and hospitals packed with suffering patients. But not this year. Flu has virtually disappeared from the U.S., with reports coming in at far lower levels… Continue Reading →
Ahead of the Purim holiday, United Hatzalah of Israel is once again publishing a list of health tips and safety regulations to ensure that everyone has a happy and safe Purim. Each year, the organization receives nearly three times the… Continue Reading →
Mayor Bill de Blasio wished the Jewish community a “happy and safe Purim” at his press conference on Thursday and reminded people to refrain from holding large parties due to… Read more » The post Mayor Wishes Community a ‘Happy… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York prosecutor has obtained copies of Donald Trump’s tax records after the Supreme Court this week rejected the former president’s last-ditch effort to prevent them from being handed over. The Manhattan district attorney’s office… Continue Reading →
American drivers will find their gas prices at the pump have risen, as the country thaws itself out from sweeping ice and snow that blanketed the South and Midwest. The… Read more » The post Gas Prices Rise Due to… Continue Reading →
L’chvoid all the Purim Shluchei Mitzvah, As the events of this past year has caused all of us to alter our plans, traveling this Purim to collect for the Mosdos Hatorah and Chesed are unfortunately no different. As someone living… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — A public service ad campaign unveiled Thursday aims to convince Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19, telling them “It’s Up to You.” The campaign by the Ad Council and its partners is focused on those who… Continue Reading →
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman underwent a “successful surgery” to remove his appendix Wednesday, the royal court said, and he left the hospital soon after the operation. The 35-year-old prince had surgery for appendicitis at the King Faisal Specialist… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Simchas Purim cannot be stopped! Along with Klal Yisrael, Covid Purim 5781 will be different. No bochurim to go around raising funds, no merry making in people’s homes. But the simcha only grows! In Yeshiva Ohr Hatorah, no… Continue Reading →
Reb Yosef Friedenson Z”L, the quintessential Holocaust survivor, was taken from us on Shabbos Parshas Zachor, 5773. But “Reb Yossel” was more than just a survivor; he was an embodiment of the precious Jews of pre-War Poland, and for 70… Continue Reading →
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After a lengthy legal battel, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has access to former president Donald Trump’s tax records. Vance was able to enforce the subpoena for the tax records… Read more » The post Manhattan DA Obtains Trump’s Tax… Continue Reading →
As Am Yisrael prepares to celebrate Purim in the shadow of the coronavirus, the Gedolei HaPoskim in Eretz Yisrael wrote a letter calling for people not to drink to the point of drunkenness this year. The letter was signed by… Continue Reading →
JERUSAELM (AP) — A secretive Israeli nuclear facility at the center of the nation’s undeclared atomic weapons program is undergoing what appears to be its biggest construction project in decades, satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press show. A dig… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) – NBC pulled an episode of the show “Nurses” that aired on the channel on Feb. 9, responding to pressure from Jewish groups that said it contained an anti-Semitic storyline about Orthodox Jews. An NBC source told… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] “After I am 120, when I will stand before Beis Din Shel Maalah” said Rav Shteinman zt”l, “they will ask me what I did for the poor, the widows and the orphans. I will answer that I was a… Continue Reading →
FRANKFURT (VINnews) — 80 Israelis were stranded in Frankfurt airport Tuesday evening after a rescue flight which was due to bring them back to Israel left with only half of the 160 passengers who had intended to depart. The flight… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK — Pfizer announced Thursday that it has begun studying a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, part of a strategy to guard against mutated versions of the coronavirus. Health authorities say first-generation COVID-19 vaccines still protect against variants… Continue Reading →
The U.S. military on Wednesday began delivering shots at coronavirus vaccination centers in Texas and New York and announced that service members will start staffing four centers in Florida and… Read more » The post Military Begins Delivering Vaccines in… Continue Reading →
I am a very devoted mother who is extremely dedicated and makpid on my children’s chinuch. something happened yesterday that shook me to my core. My oldest son, who is 12 years old and enrolled in one of the top schools in Lakewood, came… Continue Reading →