Month May 2021

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dropped last week to 406,000, a new pandemic low and more evidence that the job market is strengthening as the virus wanes and economy further reopens. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed… Continue Reading →

Senate Republicans are poised to block the creation of a special commission to study the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, dashing hopes for a bipartisan panel amid a GOP push to put the violent insurrection by Donald Trump’s… Continue Reading →

A transit employee who gunned down nine coworkers and killed himself at a Northern California rail yard was “highly disgruntled” long before carrying out the latest U.S. shooting rampage, the… Read more » The post Police: California Rail Yard Gunman… Continue Reading →

Russia will allow European flights to arrive and depart via routes that bypass Belarusian airspace, the RBC news outlet reported late on Thursday, despite Moscow previously denying access to two… Read more » The post Russia Will Allow European Flights… Continue Reading →

With a week remaining until the expiry of his mandate to form a government, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid appears to be progressing with coalition building efforts. On Thursday, Lapid… Read more » The post Lapid, Bennett Meet for Coalition… Continue Reading →

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office with 95.1% of the votes in an election that will extend his rule over a country ruined by war but… Read more » The post Syria’s Assad Wins 4th Term… Continue Reading →

Residents of the city of Lod reported that three Molotov cocktails were thrown late Thursday night at a Jewish home, located near the train station in the city. Most of… Read more » The post Three Molotov Cocktails Thrown at… Continue Reading →

Israel is conditioning the rebuilding of the Gaza Strip on the advancement of the release of Israeli citizens held by Hamas, according to a report in the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar on Thursday morning, quoted by Ynet. Israeli officials and representatives… Continue Reading →

A victim of a massive crash on Route 17 on Wednesday, is thanking Hashem for the ness that he, his wife, and another passenger had. The man was travelling in the rain, when suddenly his vehicle began swearing and lost… Continue Reading →

Two major Jewish organizations were among the recipients of more than half a million dollars in funding from Brooklyn Borough Hall, announced Borough President Eric Adams at a press conference held today in front of the NYPD’s 90th Precinct in… Continue Reading →

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken jetted to Egypt and Jordan on Wednesday as he pressed ahead with a diplomatic mission aimed at shoring up a ceasefire that ended an 11-day war between Israel and the Gaza Strip’s ruling Hamas… Continue Reading →

Israel’s National Insurance Institute (NII) has concluded a proposal for a compensation package for the families of the Meron victims. The outline – prepared at the request of Finance Committee chairman Moshe Gafni – is based on the principles of… Continue Reading →

The Jerusalem Beis Din has imposed an ongoing weekly fine on a woman who refuses to accept a get from her husband The fine of NIS 1,250 a week was approved by Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau and also received the… Continue Reading →

Matthias Schmale, the head of the UNRWA in Gaza, apologized on Tuesday for the remarks he made about IDF strikes on the Gaza Strip, calling them “precise and sophisticated.” “I got the impression that there was huge sophistication in the… Continue Reading →

Agudah: There is no need to review here the horrors of what American Jews have been experiencing and witnessing in recent years and particularly these past few days. Wanton violence and hateful epithets have deeply wounded us, and some are… Continue Reading →