Month June 2021
The JCC of Greater New Haven, Connecticut was forced to evacuate on Thursday morning after receiving a bomb threat, Fox 61 reported. The Woodbridge police department and fire department were… Read more » The post Connecticut Jewish Center Evacuated Over… Continue Reading →
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has signed an extension to the eviction moratorium further preventing the eviction of tenants who are unable to make rental payments. The moratorium that was scheduled to expire on June 30, 2021 is now extended… Continue Reading →
SURFSIDE (JTA) – Jewish emergency response services are participating in a search-and-rescue mission after a 12-story apartment building collapsed in Surfside, Florida, a heavily Orthodox town near Miami Beach. At least one person has been killed in the collapse, which… Continue Reading →
New York will lift more COVID-19 restrictions when the state of emergency expires later this week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. The state of emergency expires Thursday, he said, meaning that it lifts Friday. New Yorkers will still have to… Continue Reading →
The Jewish community of Belgium expressed concern after the government announced Wednesday it would withdraw army protection from Jewish institutions across the country, without providing an alternative or assigning the… Read more » The post Belgium’s Decision to End Protection… Continue Reading →
Hundreds of women from Israel and Europe participated last week in an incredibly inspiring convention about increasing mitzvah observance, which was held online, initiated by the Ministry of Religious Affairs… Read more » The post Hundreds of Women Participate in… Continue Reading →
The United States and Germany launched a new initiative Thursday to stem an alarming rise in anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial around the world. The two governments announced the start of… Read more » The post U.S., Germany Confront Rising Anti-Semitism,… Continue Reading →
Russia is prepared to target intruding warships if they fail to heed warnings, a senior Russian diplomat said Thursday in a tough statement in the wake of a Black Sea… Read more » The post Russia Says Next Time It… Continue Reading →
Israel’s Health Ministry will likely recommend reinstatement of the indoor mask mandate by Sunday due to the surge of coronavirus cases over the past week. The indoor mask mandate was lifted last week. Over 100 new virus cases were confirmed… Continue Reading →
Please join our Lakewood community in congratulating our Lakewood Middle School 8th graders on their promotion to High School. The 2020-2021 School Year will be one that we will all remember for many years to come, specifically, the dedication of… Continue Reading →
Hundreds of angry Palestinians marched towards Mahmoud Abbas’s presidential compound in Ramallah on Thursday to demand he resign over the death of a well-known activist following his arrest by Palestinian… Read more » The post Palestinians March on Abbas’s Compound… Continue Reading →
Reb Eliyahu Karpel, z’l, who was critically injured in the Karlin-Stolin bleacher disaster on Erev Shavuos, passed away at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in the early hours of Thursday morning at the age of 39. Reb Eliyahu had recovered somewhat… Continue Reading →
Indian police arrested four students from the city of Cargill in the Kashmir region on suspicion of involvement in an explosion near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi on Jan.… Read more » The post Indian Police Arrest Four Suspected… Continue Reading →
A bipartisan group of senators reached a tentative framework on an infrastructure deal Wednesday ahead of a crucial meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House. Biden’s top aides met with senators for back-to-back meetings on Capitol Hill and… Continue Reading →
Open Letter To ‘Proudly Jewish’ Rep. Andy Levin, Married To Gentile, Who Thinks Judaism Is A Culture
NEW YORK (VINnews) — In 1958, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, sent a letter to 51 Jewish intellectuals asking their opinion on how to identify who is a Jew. Ben Gurion had both a personal and political interest in… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Shabbos is the true sign of a Torah observant Jew, and someone who doesn’t keep it is deemed a kofer b’ikar. And we, as the bearers of this sign, need to strengthen ourselves in this topic so our influence… Continue Reading →
Levi Rapoport, alum of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program at Touro’s School of Health Sciences talks about his passion for mental health and helping others improve their lives. Why did you choose mental health as your career path? Growing… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — An outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority who was a candidate in parliamentary elections called off earlier this year died after Palestinian security forces arrested him and beat him with an iron rod on Thursday, his family… Continue Reading →
Former Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kisch (Likud) blasted the new government as “impotent,” saying it wasn’t doing anything to tackle the renewed outbreak of the coronavirus, in an interview with… Read more » The post Likud MK Blasts Gov’t’s Handling… Continue Reading →
Hatzalah of South Florida and Chesed Shel Emes have both reached out to YWN with an urgent message to Klal Yisroel around the world: STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION ON WHATSAPP! The sheer number of messages “confirming” multiple deaths in the Miami… Continue Reading →
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is highly effective against the Delta variant of COVID-19, a Pfizer official in Israel said on Thursday. First identified in India, Delta is becoming the globally dominant… Read more » The post Pfizer Official in Israel: Vaccine… Continue Reading →