Month February 2021

With sunset remarks and a national moment of silence, President Joe Biden on Monday confronted head-on the country’s once-unimaginable loss — half a million Americans in the COVID-19 pandemic —… Read more » The post Biden Mourns 500,000 Dead, Balancing… Continue Reading →

The Jewish CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla, is scheduled to visit Israel on March 8, Channel 12 News reported. Bourla’s trip comes as Israeli health officials warned on Sunday of a possible shortfall of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines in coming weeks as… Continue Reading →

Christine Quinn, the former City Council Speaker who now runs a non-profit for the homeless, announced Monday that she would not run for mayor after months of speculation among politicos… Read more » The post Christine Quinn Confirms She’s Not… Continue Reading →

February 22, 2021 Dear Community Member, Before last Purim, we released our first community advisory regarding a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that was starting to spread in the United States. At that time, we encouraged the community to take basic precautions… Continue Reading →

Senate Republicans who want to derail Xavier Becerra’s nomination to join President Joe Biden’s Cabinet as Health and Human Services secretary will get their first shot at hearings this week… Read more » The post HHS Nominee Xavier Becerra Faces… Continue Reading →

[COMMUNICATED] CLICK HERE TO DONATE Yeshiva Mercaz Hatorah of Belle Harbor. An Oasis of Torah.   It is in this beis medrash, the Rosh Yeshiva’s Harav Levi Dicker zt”l’s, legacy is continued, ten years from his petira. There is no… Continue Reading →

An Israeli Druze Likud MK held secret talks with the Palestinian Authority in recent weeks to discuss the possibility of the PA tacitly supporting Netanyahu in the upcoming elections to encourage Israeli-Arabs to vote for Likud instead of the Joint… Continue Reading →

Victims of a 2019 shooting at a Florida military base and their families are suing Saudi Arabia, claiming the kingdom knew the gunmen had been radicalized and that it could… Read more » The post Suit Blames Saudi Arabia for… Continue Reading →

In an interview with the Gothamist last week, Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause NY, spoke about the proposed Rank Choice voting system, and singled out New York City’s ‘Orthodox Jewish’ community as an “extremist bloc.” The comment was… Continue Reading →

New York state has announced guidelines for the resumption of visitation at nursing homes, which will take effect Friday. In counties where the COVID-19 positivity rate is below 5%, testing… Read more » The post Visitation to Resume Friday at… Continue Reading →

Dear TLS Editor, No Shiva! No Kaddish! Today Lakewood lost a true pure Yiddish Neshama, Gail Wasserman A”H, Gittel Rochel bas Shmuel. She was 69 and was buried today in Lakewood with 10 men from a family that helped her… Continue Reading →

NASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous orange and white parachute hurtling open and the red dust… Read more » The post NASA Releases Mars Landing Video:… Continue Reading →

Fifteen Israeli municipalities announced on Sunday that they will allow 7th to 10th graders to return to their classrooms on Wednesday, in defiance of government directives that call for those grades only returning to in-school classes on March 9. All… Continue Reading →

Former President Donald Trump is likely to dangle the possibility of running again for president in 2024 in his first major post-White House speech this weekend, the organizer of the… Read more » The post Trump Likely to Dangle Possibility… Continue Reading →

A decision was made on Monday to reduce the number of people allowed into Israel each day from 2,000 to 200, following a meeting of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Transportation Minister Miri Regev and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein. Only “urgent… Continue Reading →