Month May 2021
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo disclosed Monday that he was paid a $3.1 million advance to write his COVID-19 leadership book last year and under his publishing contract will make another $2 million on the memoir over the next two… Continue Reading →
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo disclosed Monday that he was paid a $3.1 million advance to write his COVID-19 leadership book last year and under his publishing contract will make another $2 million on the memoir over the next two… Continue Reading →
A North Carolina prosecutor said Tuesday that sheriff’s deputies were justified in fatally shooting Andrew Brown Jr. because he struck a deputy with his car and nearly ran him over while ignoring commands to show his hands and get out… Continue Reading →
Attorneys for Rudy Giuliani say a covert warrant that prosecutors obtained for his Apple iCloud account in November 2019 and a raid last month by agents who seized his electronic devices show they are treating him more like a drug… Continue Reading →
Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Tuesday as a late-afternoon sell-off in technology companies helped nudge stock indexes into the red for the second straight day. The S&P 500 lost 0.9%, with most of the pullback coming in the last… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Fifty-six-year-old Lod resident Yigal Yehoshua died on Monday, less than a week after being critically wounded by a mob of Arab rioters in the central Israeli city. Yehoshua was struck in the head by a brick while in… Continue Reading →
Palestinians across Israel went on strike in a rare collective action against Israel’s policies on Tuesday as terrorists fired dozens of rockets from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. With the war… Read more » The post Palestinians Go on Strike as… Continue Reading →
India’s total COVID-19 caseload surged past 25 million on Tuesday as a powerful cyclone complicated the health crisis in one of the states where the disease is spreading most quickly.… Read more » The post India’s COVID Tally Passes 25… Continue Reading →
Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, announced Tuesday he is seeking the Republican nomination for governor of New York, potentially setting up a battle with third-term incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo. “Giuliani vs. Cuomo. Holy… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden will send at least 20 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad by the end of June, marking the first time the United States is sharing vaccines authorized… Read more » The post Biden to Send 20M Doses… Continue Reading →
Yigal Yehoshua, Hy”d, a Jewish man who was lynched by a violent Muslim mob in Lod last week, died of his wounds on Monday, Shavuos. Yehoshua, 56, was fatally injured… Read more » The post Jew Lynched by Israeli-Arabs in… Continue Reading →
Governor Phil Murphy Monday signed Executive Order No. 241 eliminating the requirement of masks in outdoor public spaces, which was established under Executive Order No. 163 (2020). The Order reaffirms the masking requirement in indoor public spaces and workplaces, but… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It was a complex Hilchos Shabbos question. Or so it seemed. A supply truck had arrived on a Shabbos with replacement uniforms for the soldiers. Rav Ra’am HaCohen presented the halachic query to Rav… Continue Reading →
Senate Republicans are signaling that they will try to block — or at least slow down — a Democratic effort to create a 9/11-style commission on the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, threatening the chances of a… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden restored a long-standing presidential tradition Monday by releasing his tax returns, showing that 25.9% of the first couple’s income went to the federal government in 2020. The average federal income tax rate is just over 14%. Biden… Continue Reading →
Vaccinated New Yorkers can let go of pandemic restrictions like wearing masks or social distancing and “get back to life,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday as he announced a spate… Read more » The post New York to Let Vaccinated… Continue Reading →
Two people were killed and others injured when a rocket made a direct hit on a packing plant in the Eshkol Regional Council on Tuesday. All the casualties were reported… Read more » The post Two People Killed as Rockets… Continue Reading →
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Hundreds of mispallelim had gathered at the new Karlin-Stolin beis medrash in Givat Ze’ev just before the start of Shavuos. Bleachers (parenches) had been set up and hundreds of bachurim were… Read more » The post Bleachers Collapse in Stoliner Shul… Continue Reading →
U.S. home construction fell a surprisingly sharp 9.5% in April and economists attributed that partially to builders who delayed projects because of a surge in lumber prices and other supply constraints. The April decline left construction at a seasonally adjusted… Continue Reading →
Amazon said Tuesday that it will extend its ban on police use of its face-recognition technology beyond the one-year pause it announced last year. Amazon and other technology companies have been under pressure from civil rights activists and their own… Continue Reading →