Month May 2021
Hong Kong’s legislature on Thursday passed a bill amending electoral laws that drastically reduces the public’s ability to vote and increases the number of pro-Beijing lawmakers making decisions for the… Read more » The post Hong Kong Changes Electoral Law,… Continue Reading →
A California transit employee killed nine co-workers before taking his own life on Wednesday, the latest in a spate of deadly U.S. mass shootings. Authorities did not immediately offer many… Read more » The post California Transit Worker Kills Nine,… Continue Reading →
Israel has conditioned the rebuilding of the Gaza Strip on promoting the issue of bringing back its citizens held by the Hamas terrorist group, Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported Thursday morning.… Read more » The post Lebanese Report: Israel to Condition… Continue Reading →
Negotiating teams from Yesh Atid and the New Hope parties are to meet on Thursday as part of Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid’s efforts to form a government. Lapid is… Read more » The post Yesh Atid, New Hope Negotiating… Continue Reading →
Israel’s top diplomat to the United Arab Emirates attended a ceremony in Dubai on the grounds of the Arabian Peninsula’s first permanent exhibition to commemorate the Holocaust. Hours earlier, he’d… Read more » The post UAE and Israel Press Ahead… Continue Reading →
Australia’s second most populous state of Victoria will enter a one-week COVID-19 lockdown forcing its near seven million residents to remain home except for essential business as authorities struggle to… Read more » The post Australia’s Victoria State to Enter… Continue Reading →
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Eitan Biran, 5, the only survivor of the cable car disaster in Italy woke up from his coma on Wednesday with his aunt Aya and one of his doctors by his bedside. “He’s ventilated and is regaining consciousness,” a doctor… Continue Reading →
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A southwestern Ohio woman won the state’s first $1 million Vax-a-Million vaccination incentive prize, while a Dayton-area teen was awarded the first full-ride college scholarship offered by the program, the state announced Wednesday night. The winners… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday said they don’t plan to use materials from recent raids on Rudy Giuliani’s home and office at an upcoming trial of two of his associates and another man on charges that they made… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JNS) – Inna Vernikov remembers what life was like for families in the former Soviet Union when she was a child. “I remember standing in very long lines with my grandfather—he’d have a ticket so we could get… Continue Reading →
Following an op-ed published by the YWN Editorial Board blasting the reckless actions of an anonymous organizer, a pro-Israel car rally which was scheduled for Thursday in the heart of Flatbush, has been cancelled. The organizer reached out to YWN… Continue Reading →
Less than 18 months ago, the Jewish community on the U.S. East Coast received a terrifying wake-up call with the tragic attacks in Jersey City and Monsey, which came only… Read more » The post Homeland Insecurity appeared first on… Continue Reading →
The Biden administration approved the sale of advanced precision-guided missiles to Israel, bypassing attempts of progressive Democrats to block it, Jewish Currents reported on Tuesday. The State Department granted an export license to the Boeing weapons manufacturer for the $735… Continue Reading →
Major Israeli news outlets Tuesday called on Facebook and Twitter to halt what they said were social media posts inciting violence against journalists after a rash of attacks and death threats targeting reporters. In letters sent to the social media… Continue Reading →
PARIS (JNS) – As many as 40,000 people participated in an online rally, along with leaders from France and Canada, to demand justice for Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old French Jew murdered by her Muslim neighbor in 2017. “My mother always… Continue Reading →
A “pro-Israel” rally scheduled for Flatbush this Thursday has the potential to have serious implications for the local Jewish community in Flatbush and elsewhere. The rally was announced by an anonymous person on social media, someone who clearly lacks the… Continue Reading →
The magnitude of suffering in India is difficult to comprehend. More than 4,000 people are dying every day because their overstretched healthcare system does not have enough oxygen to save them. We cannot look the other way as the critically… Continue Reading →
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday announced plans to reopen a key diplomatic outreach office to the Palestinians and pledged nearly $40 million in new aid — reversing key policies of the Trump administration as he moved to bolster… Continue Reading →