Month April 2021
A Seudas Hodaah was held in Lakewood this evening for Avi Abboud, the founder of Jersey Shore Hatzalah and member of Hatzolah of Central Jersey. Over the last few years Avi was hospitalized multiple times due to various emergencies, including… Continue Reading →
The wave of violent incidents perpetrated by Arabs against religious Jews continues and on Monday afternoon, Arabs threw rocks at a bus with Chareidi passengers returning from Har Hazeisim. The rock shattered a window and one of the passengers, a… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JNS) – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) urged the Biden administration to consider conditioning military aid to Israel in order to help the Jewish state “adjust course.” “We should talk about the elephant in the room—America’s military assistance to… Continue Reading →
Atlanta-area voters looking to return their ballots using a drop box in next year’s gubernatorial election will have to do some searching. Just eight boxes will be spread across Fulton County’s nearly 529 square miles — or about one for… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department has agreed to limit its use of sound cannons on crowds, ending a five-year legal battle over claims that the devices caused hearing damage, dizziness and migraines. In a settlement agreement… Continue Reading →
Baltimore, MD (Baltimore Jewish Life) – It’s not just the dentists who are coming for you if caught eating candy in 2021; it is now the stewardesses. Mr. Avi Mandel, a 35 year old local business owner living with his… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three months after more than 25,000 National Guard troops poured into the nation’s capital to secure President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Defense Department and Guard officials are losing patience and are denying some of the city’s recurring requests… Continue Reading →
The sheloshim of the 14-year-old boy who was killed by his father during a psychotic fit took place on Sunday and for the first time words of preida were read in the name of the father. The boy’s uncle read… Continue Reading →
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) — A Montana backcountry guide has died after he was mauled by a large grizzly bear that was probably defending a nearby moose carcass just outside Yellowstone National Park, officials said Monday. Charles “Carl” Mock, 40,… Continue Reading →
Marie Watson wanted to be among the first in line when she and other essential workers became eligible for the coronavirus vaccine — and with good reason. The maintenance parts buyer for a Mission Foods tortilla plant in Pueblo, Colorado,… Continue Reading →
Two federal agencies are sending teams to investigate the fatal crash of a Tesla near Houston in which local authorities say no one was behind the wheel. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board said… Continue Reading →
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A mainstream daily in the Netherlands has apologized for a caricature depicting a Jewish political pollster and entrepreneur as a puppet master. Pieter Klok, editor in chief of De Volkskrant, issued a statement Monday saying the image… Continue Reading →
A beloved member of the South Florida Jewish community lost his life in a tragic car crash that took place on the front porch of his home. On March 7th Moshe Behar, who was a paraplegic, was in the midst… Continue Reading →
I’m writing this as I sit here in my kitchen horrified and dejected. My mind is in a jumble of angry thoughts and I am in shock and disbelief over what has been occurring over the past few days. My… Continue Reading →
In a rare critique of the French justice system, French President Emanuel Macron said that “going crazy” due to taking drugs is not a valid excuse for a lack of criminal responsibility. “Deciding to take drugs and then ‘going crazy’… Continue Reading →
The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not hear a case out of Pennsylvania related to the 2020 election, a dispute that had lingered while similar election challenges had already been rejected by the justices. The high court directed… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) – Clubhouse, the new audio-based social network, announced that it “shut down a number of rooms” in the wake of complaints about anti-Semitism. On Sunday, a Twitter user with the handle @EliKohn3 wrote about a chat on… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (DOJ Press Realease) – Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced new… Continue Reading →
U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced New Jersey will receive $694,327,527 in federal funding from the American Rescue Plan to support child care providers, help them reopen safely, and ensure families have access to affordable, high quality… Continue Reading →
CAIRO (JTA) – In the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire was looking to conscript men into its army, including the several thousand young Jewish ones who were living in the city of Baghdad. The Jewish community didn’t like the idea… Continue Reading →
A dispute over voting in east Jerusalem is threatening to cancel or delay the first Palestinian elections in more than 15 years. While President Mahmoud Abbas is vowing to hold the vote, Israeli restrictions on Palestinian voters in east Jerusalem… Continue Reading →