Month April 2021
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Israel’s Health Ministry has registered a demand that the government ban travel to “dangerous” countries where coronavirus is raging, such as India, and enforce compulsory isolation for all returnees to… Read more » The post Health Ministry Demands Travel Ban… Continue Reading →
American and Iranian warships had a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf earlier this month, the first such incident in about a year amid wider turmoil in the region over… Read more » The post Iran, U.S. Warships in First… Continue Reading →
India recorded more than 320,000 new cases of coronavirus infection Tuesday as a grim surge of illness and death weighed on the country and its sinking health system started getting… Read more » The post India Records 320K New Cases… Continue Reading →
The border between Israel and Gaza saw a return to calm after several nights of tension during which dozens of rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel. The Security… Read more » The post Calm Returns to Gaza Front… Continue Reading →
An international rights watchdog accused Israel on Tuesday of pursuing policies of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians – and against its own Arab minority – that amount to crimes against… Read more » The post Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel… Continue Reading →
Hagaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita, and Hagaon Harav Gershon Edelstein, shlita, issued a special letter Tuesday, calling for more limmud Torah in light of the fact; “… that the tzarah… Read more » The post Leading Gedolim Call for Increased… Continue Reading →
The Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday that China was open to India and other South Asian countries participating in a virtual conference on fighting COVID-19. The foreign ministers of… Read more » The post China Says It Is Open… Continue Reading →
Anti-Semites adopted a new tactic for spewing their hate when the COVID-19 pandemic closed synagogues and Jewish schools and community centers: hijacking video conferences. The Anti-Defamation League counted 196 cases… Read more » The post Pandemic Gives Rise to Anti-Semitic… Continue Reading →
Dr. Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signaling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his desperately ill patients start gasping for air in the New Delhi emergency ward where he works. Like other doctors… Continue Reading →
New York will lose one seat in Congress as a result of national population shifts, according to census data released Monday — a loss that might have been avoided if just a few dozen more people in the state had… Continue Reading →
Chaim V’Chessed has detailed new guidelines who can visit Israel, according to the Interior Ministry. All requests must be emailed to consular.services@newyork.mfa.gov.il, or the nearest Israeli Embassy or Consulate. In… Read more » The post Updated Information on Israel Travel… Continue Reading →
A San Francisco Bay Area man in his 30s is recuperating after developing a rare blood clot in his leg within two weeks of receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, University of California, San Francisco officials said. As of Friday,… Continue Reading →
India’s surge in coronavirus infections, growing at the fastest pace in the world, has left families and patients pleading for oxygen outside hospitals, the relatives weeping in the street as their loved ones die while waiting for treatment. Delhi has… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security on Monday announced an internal review to assess the threat of violent extremism from within the agency, part of a broader administration focus on domestic threats following the Jan. 6 insurrection at… Continue Reading →
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado police officer accused of dislocating the shoulder of a 73-year-old woman with dementia while arresting her seemed to be aware he had injured her. He told fellow officers “ready for the pop?” as he showed… Continue Reading →
A Black man killed by deputies in North Carolina was shot in the back of the head and had his hands on his car steering wheel when they opened fire, attorneys for his family said Monday after relatives viewed body… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS/STEVEN BURG) – In recent weeks, there has been an alarming number of violent attacks on visibly religious Israelis. While not original, these seemingly random incidents are turning their perpetrators into social-media stars, as they appear to be in… Continue Reading →
More than a year since the 2020 census began in a remote Alaska village, the first numbers to emerge from the nation’s once-a-decade head count were released on Monday, showing how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state… Continue Reading →
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Organizers of the recall effort against California Gov. Gavin Newsom collected enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot, state election officials said Monday, likely triggering just the second such election in state history. “The people… Continue Reading →
A 61-year-old Chinese American man was attacked by a man who kicked him repeatedly in the head in East Harlem, police said. The man was collecting cans when he was attacked from behind, knocked to the ground and kicked in… Continue Reading →