Month April 2021
The Florida Senate passed a bill Monday that will significantly increase the state’s income-based and special needs scholarships for nonpublic school students. As of July 1, students from working- and… Read more » The post Florida Senate Passes Bill Expanding… Continue Reading →
Russian authorities on Monday ordered the offices of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny to halt their activities pending what would be a landmark court ruling on whether they should be outlawed as an extremist group. The injunction from the Moscow… Continue Reading →
Hamodia is saddened to report the petirah Rabbi Refael Dovid Lehrfield, z”l, mara d’asra of Young Israel of Greater Miami, after a prolonged illness. Kevurah is scheduled in Eretz Yisrael.… Read more » The post BD’E — Rabbi Refael Dovid… Continue Reading →
The Center for Health Education, Medicine and Dentistry (CHEMED) is offering free Tdap shots at CHEMED for all pregnant women whether or not they are CHEMED patients on Wednesday, April 28th from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. No appointment is… Continue Reading →
In a bid to stop the ongoing Arab violence, Israel Police on Sunday evening removed the barricades it has placed around Sha’ar Shechem at the beginning of Ramadan. Arabs in east Jerusalem have claimed that the barricades and checkpoints are… Continue Reading →
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — In his first face-to-face encounter with journalists in months, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday flatly denied he had done anything inappropriate with any of the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct and harassment. Speaking… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Mrs. Zikpa GuttmanWife R’ Moshe Arye GuttmanSon R` Menachem Mendel (Mendy) GuttmanSon R’ Duvid Mordechai (Motty) GuttmanSon R’ Eleyahu Shimon (Shimmy) GuttmanSon Mrs. Chaya Rivka UngerDaughter Mrs. Esther BrullDaughter Ms Tziri GuttmanDaughter
The Florida State Senate unanimously passed SB1084, a bill which brings Hatzalah of South Florida a step closer to being recognized as a full-fledged EMS provider. The bill, sponsored by… Read more » The post Bill Recognizing Hatzalah of South… 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 avoided if just… Read more » The post NY State to Lose 1… Continue Reading →
More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, some of the worst fears are coming true in the crowded Gaza Strip: A sudden surge in infections and deaths is threatening… Read more » The post Virus Surge in Crowded Gaza… Continue Reading →
The preliminarily results of the 2020 US Census will keep the number of New Jersey Congressional Districts at 12. There are currently 10 Democrats and 2 Republicans from New Jersey serving in the House of Representatives. Some other states will,… Continue Reading →
The Israeli government took a significant step toward a more serious response to the rocket attacks from Gaza on Monday, as the security cabinet authorized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and… Read more » The post Cabinet Authorizes Military Action Against… Continue Reading →
CHICAGO (JTA) — Jewish actor Mandy Patinkin never thought he had family members who died in the Holocaust. The team behind “Finding Your Roots,” the long-running PBS celebrity genealogy show, proved he was mistaken. In his episode airing Tuesday night,… Continue Reading →
Pope Francis on Sunday decried as shameful the deaths of 130 migrants in the Mediterranean, saying they pleaded for two days for help for their overcrowded, foundering rubber dinghy in the sea off Libya but potential rescuers choose “to look… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Shacharis: 7:30 amMincha: 7:30 pmMaariv: 8:45 pm R’ Shaya RosenbergFather Mrs. Leah FeldmanSister R’ Moshe RosenbergBrother R’ Yosi RosenbergBrother
SpaceX’s four astronauts had barely settled into orbit last Friday when they were ordered back into their spacesuits because of a potential collision with orbiting junk. It turns out there… Read more » The post No Space Junk Threat to… Continue Reading →
The U.S. will begin sharing its entire stock of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines with the world once it clears federal safety reviews, the White House said Monday, with as many as… Read more » The post U.S. to Share AstraZeneca Shots… Continue Reading →
The European Union will likely open its borders soon to Israelis who have been vaccinated against Covid, The Jerusalem Post said on Monday. The report follows an EU decision to… Read more » The post EU Likely to OK Israelis… Continue Reading →
The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Monday extended the detainment of two Arab suspects arrested on Sunday night for assaulting a 68-year-old man on Rechov Derech Chevron in Jerusalem. The two Arabs approached the Charedi man, who had just gotten off… Continue Reading →
KANSAS (JTA) — Aviva Okeson-Haberman had come home after apartment hunting in Lawrence, Kansas, where the reporter for the Kansas City NPR affiliate was about to start a new job covering social services and criminal justice. On Friday, Okeson-Haberman was… Continue Reading →
The grandson of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kaniesky, Reb Yanky, who is constantly by his venerable grandfather’s side, met on Monday with Benny Gantz at the Defense Ministry in an effort to convince him to join a coalition with Prime Minister… Continue Reading →