Month May 2021
ATLANTA (AP) — Citing newly filed motions, a judge has canceled a meeting to discuss logistical plans for a review of absentee ballots from Georgia’s most populous county. Henry County Chief Judge Brian Amero last week agreed to unseal 147,000… Continue Reading →
Remi Franklin, a jujitsu aficionado, stood guard next to an Orthodox shul in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles on Shabbos as members began to walk home after davening. Franklin and other volunteers have offered their services to escort Jews… Continue Reading →
Below are the remarks by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), co-chair of the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism, for today’s Virtual Rally against Anti-Semitism: Good afternoon: I’m Congressman Chris Smith and I strongly believe that the explosion of anti-Semitism in… Continue Reading →
The FBI’s New York Field Office is publishing Yiddish and Hebrew posters and ads encouraging members of the Jewish community to report hate crimes they may have witness or experienced,… Read more » The post FBI to Release Posters for… Continue Reading →
BALTIMORE (VINnews) — Bnos Yisroel of Baltimore was briefly under lockdown on Thursday, after an active shooter was reported in the area. People in the area of 6300 Park Heights Ave in Baltimore called 911 on Thursday, after around 9… Continue Reading →
Two of Israel’s biggest shopping malls are reporting that recovery from the government-ordered closures during the pandemic is proceeding, as shoppers return to stores in large numbers, according to Globes… Read more » The post Major Malls Making Quick Comeback… Continue Reading →
When Rena Schreier started at Lander College of Arts and Sciences Flatbush Women’s Division, after spending a year at Machon Raaya seminary in Israel, she expected to find large lecture halls and intimidating professors. Instead, she found a warm, supportive… Continue Reading →
The first winner of Ohio’s first $1 million Vax-a-Million vaccination incentive prize was driving to her family’s home in suburban Cleveland when she received a call about the good news… Read more » The post ‘A Whirlwind’: 1st Ohio Vaccine… Continue Reading →
The condition of the five-year-old Israeli boy who was the sole survivor of the cable car crash in Italy last weekend has continued to progress. “Eitan is now awake and… Read more » The post Cable Crash Survivor to be… Continue Reading →
Republicans on Wednesday pushed a resolution through the Kansas House expressing the state’s solidarity with Israel and condemning Hamas terrorists after an 11-day war this month in the Gaza Strip. The House voted 83-27 in favor of the resolution, which… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the aftermath of the Karlin tragedy on Shavuos in which 2 chasidim were killed and hundreds injured when a bleacher collapsed, many chasidic groups have taken a hard look at the bleachers they use. Not all… Continue Reading →
El Al will soon be able to complete the refunding of tickets for flights that were canceled because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Globes reported on Thursday. The airline said that… Read more » The post El Al to Finish Refunding… Continue Reading →
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — Frena Bakery and Cafe opened in this city more than four years ago and quickly became known for its savory stuffed Sephardic pastries like bourekas and sambusak, breads from challah to pita to Jerusalem bagels, and… Continue Reading →
VIENNA (JTA – A train passenger in Austria asked a couple of fellow passengers to stop denying the Holocaust and engaging in antisemitic rhetoric about Jews and Israel. It didn’t go well: One of the passengers punched him in the… Continue Reading →
Hong Kong’s legislature approved the biggest overhaul of its political system in the quarter century since British rule on Thursday, in a decisive step to assert Beijing’s authority over the… Read more » The post Hong Kong Passes Sweeping Pro-China… Continue Reading →
A relative of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has been hospitalized in Israel for over a month, including during the recent Gaza fighting, Channel 12 revealed on Thursday. Haniyeh’s seventeen-year-old niece… Read more » The post Hamas Leader’s Niece Treated at… Continue Reading →
PARIS (AP) – There’s a 40% chance that the world will get so hot in the next five years that it will temporarily push past the temperature limit the Paris climate agreement is trying to prevent, meteorologists said. A new… Continue Reading →
In response to yesterday’s article announcing Senator Singer’s fight to unmask our children, Lakewood Board of Education member Chanina Nakdimen sent the Senator the following letter: Good evening Senator Singer, Hope this email finds you in good health, As an… Continue Reading →
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar told journalists on Wednesday that he’d rather be eliminated by Israel than die of an illness. “The greatest gift Israel can give me is to assassinate me,” he said. “I’d rather die a martyr from an… Continue Reading →
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — An employee who gunned down eight people at a California rail yard and then killed himself as law enforcement rushed in had talked about killing people at work more than a decade ago, his ex-wife… Continue Reading →
New York state is making $3.5 billion in assistance available for renters and small businesses who are struggling economically due to the pandemic, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced. $2.7 billion worth… Read more » The post Struggling New Yorkers Can Apply… Continue Reading →