Month June 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — Congress on Thursday overturned a set of regulations enacted in the final days of the Trump administration that effectively allowed payday lenders to avoid state laws capping interest rates. The House voted 218-208 to overturn the… Continue Reading →
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A song heard at every Donald Trump campaign rally blared at least twice at the close of a North Carolina event featuring President Joe Biden. Biden had just finished urging people to get vaccinated against COVID-19… Continue Reading →
We have all heard the devastating news of the 12-story condo that suddenly collapsed in Surfside, Florida this morning. Over a hundred individuals are still unaccounted for, rachmana litzlan. This is a time for achdus and tefillah for the safety… Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Chicago businessman will remain in the United States as a federal judge in Los Angeles weighs whether he will be extradited to India for his alleged role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack that… Continue Reading →
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Honduras on Thursday opened its embassy in Jerusalem, becoming the fourth country to follow the U.S. move under former President Donald Trump to relocate its chief diplomatic mission in Israel from Tel Aviv. To mark the occasion, Honduran President Juan… Continue Reading →
A new poll on American attitudes toward a core conflict in the Middle East finds about half of Democrats want the U.S. to do more to support the Palestinians, showing that a growing rift among Democratic lawmakers is also reflected… Continue Reading →
Shimon Wdowinski, a professor with Florida International University’s Institute of Environment, told CNN he determined in a study last year that the Champlain Towers South condo showed signs of sinking in the 1990s. The condo had a subsidence rate of… Continue Reading →
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with Israel’s new Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Italy over the weekend, a senior State Department official and Israel’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday. They said the meeting would take place on… Continue Reading →
Lakewood Mayor Ray Coles and Police Chief Greg Meyer this evening commented on the Surfside tragedy and disaster which left multiple people dead, and scores injured. A Lakewood couple is also among the missing. “I could not believe the images… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Eliezer Sandler “You are all so proficient in Shas, Rashi and Tosfos, that your minds are Talmudic minds and your reasoning is Talmudic reasoning,” declared Maran Hagaon, the Rishon l’Tzion, Harav Yitzchak Yosef, shlit”a, to the avreichim geonim of… Continue Reading →
The United States voted against a U.N. resolution Wednesday that overwhelmingly condemned the American economic embargo of Cuba for the 29th year, maintaining the Trump administration’s opposition and refusing to return to the Obama administration’s 2016 abstention. The vote in… Continue Reading →
What should I know about the delta variant? It’s a version of the coronavirus that has been found in more than 80 countries since it was first detected in India. It got its name from the World Health Organization, which… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday extended the nationwide ban on evictions for a month to help millions of tenants unable to make rent payments during the coronavirus pandemic, but said this is the last time it plans… Continue Reading →
Israeli tech companies seeking to fill personnel vacancies have taken to putting their Help Wanted messages on billboards in the Tel Aviv and Herzliya area. Business intelligence company Gong, Playtika… Read more » The post High Tech Takes Talent Search… Continue Reading →
The Jackson Board of Education has released a list of Lakewood schools that will not be receiving transportation for the 2021-2022 school year, and will instead receive aide in lieu (AIL) of transportation if the student is eligible. The list of schools… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] It’s up to you to paint Lakewood Green with Goodness. Too many families confront a grey, dreary world where affording day-to-day necessities is impossible. Join us as we bring color to their day and brighten their future. Together, let’s… Continue Reading →
Shas leader Rabbi Aryeh Deri has refused an offer of chairmanship of a Knesset committee and urged others in the opposition to similarly boycott the Lapid-Bennett government. “We should refuse… Read more » The post Shas Refuses Committee Chairmanship, Urges… Continue Reading →
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced today that two Brooklyn teenagers have been arraigned on an indictment in which they are charged with second-degree murder for fatally shooting a 17-year-old… Read more » The post Two Teenagers Indicted for Fatally… Continue Reading →
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ARIZONA (JNS) – A doctor who worked in radiology at Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Arizona is no longer affiliated with the center after posting on social media that Israel was a state based on inhumanity and even cannibalism, reinventing one… Continue Reading →