Month April 2021
Dozens of members of a polygamous, vegan sect in Israel have received deportation orders from the government, the group’s spokesman said Monday, despite much of the community having received permanent residency under arrangements with Israel. The community, which numbers around… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans will have more time to get the Real ID that they will need to board a flight or enter federal facilities. The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday extended the Real ID deadline until May 3,… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Tuesday to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour for federal contractors, providing a pay bump to hundreds of thousands of workers. Biden administration officials said that the higher wages would lead… Continue Reading →
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Three Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) fast inshore attack craft (FIAC) came into close proximity to U.S. naval vessels in international waters of the north Arabian Gulf at… Read more » The post Iranian Navy Interacts With U.S…. Continue Reading →
The astronauts flying SpaceX back to Earth this week urged boaters to stay safe by staying away from their capsule’s splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. NASA and SpaceX are promising more Coast Guard patrols and fewer pleasure boaters for… Continue Reading →
Three of the Lakewood Roshei Yeshiva have banned a separate seating concert in Lakewood scheduled for Friday, Lag Baomer. The event was to have singer Benny Friedman perform as well as a storyteller. Interestingly, an event to be held on… Continue Reading →
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met in Washington on Tuesday, April 27 with Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat. Their conversation was a continuation of the close bilateral consultations between… Read more » The post U.S. National Security Advisor Meets… Continue Reading →
A groundbreaking conference of Menahalim and mental health professionals was held at Yeshivas Toras Aharon. The conference focused on the troubling rise of school refusal and the general large increase in mental health cases since the onset of Covid. The… Continue Reading →
PARIS (JTA) – Outraged by a high court’s ruling in the Sarah Halimi affair, a French-Jewish judge has quit his post. “I decided to resign over the ruling, which at first I couldn’t believe,” Jack Broda of the Tribunal of… Continue Reading →
New Jersey Attorney General Grubir S. Grewal announced today that his department has filed a lawsuit against Jackson Township, New Jersey, alleging Jackson Township has engaged in a litany of illegal, discriminatory practices against Orthodox Jews. Among them are: enacting… Continue Reading →
A Lag Ba’omer event scheduled for children this Friday, Lag Ba’omer, from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Blue Claws Stadium Parking Lot in Lakewood, NJ, is under scrutiny, having been banned by various rabbonim and mosdos hachinuch. At… Continue Reading →
It has been a little bit over a year since I was in Hong Kong, but I could never forget the wonderful Jewish community there. Two weeks ago, a healthy… Read more » The post Children in Hong Kong Await… Continue Reading →
LAKEWOOD (VINnews) — A Kosher concert scheduled to take place in Lakewood on Lag Baomer has drawn the ire of Beth Medrash Govoha’s leadership. The concert, geared towards children, was to feature performances by Benny Friedman and master storyteller Rabbi… Continue Reading →
The kever of one of the elder Rabbanim of the pre-war Warsaw community who was killed al kiddush Hashem during deportations from the city’s ghetto, was found last week amid… Read more » The post Kever of Rav Murdered in… Continue Reading →
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — The FBI launched a civil rights probe Tuesday into the death of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man killed by deputies in North Carolina, as his family released an independent autopsy showing he was shot… Continue Reading →
A man was arrested Tuesday in an assault on a Chinese immigrant who was kicked repeatedly in the head in East Harlem, police said. Jarrod Powell was charged with two counts of felony assault in Friday’s attack on 61-year-old Yao… Continue Reading →
The State Department on Tuesday ordered a significant number of its remaining staff at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul to leave Afghanistan as the military steps up the pullout of… Read more » The post U.S. Orders Big Drawdown at… Continue Reading →
Israel’s Fire and Rescue Services has banned private bonfires due to the unseasonably warm and dry temperatures expected this week, with temperatures peaking on Thursday and Friday. Bonfires will be allowed in cities and towns only in designated areas approved… Continue Reading →
MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court on Tuesday restricted the activities of an organization founded by imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, pending a decision on whether it and his offices across Russia should be outlawed as extremist groups. The ruling… Continue Reading →
An Iranian-British woman long held in Tehran has been sentenced to another year in prison, her lawyer said Monday, drawing immediate criticism from Britain in the high profile case that has prompted international condemnation of Iran. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has already… Continue Reading →