Month July 2021
The U.S. Department of Justice’s decision not to open an investigation into the extraordinarily high rate of deaths in nursing homes in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan during… Read more » The post A Message From the Department… Continue Reading →
“Antisemitism is always wrong, and it long preceded the creation of Israel,” tweeted Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth on Tishah B’Av. So far, so good. But then, having… Read more » The post A “Rights” Group Obsessed With… Continue Reading →
Israel’s IDF National Rescue Unit recovered 81 of the 98 victims at the site of the collapsed Champlain Towers, The Palm Beach Post reported on Tuesday. The commander of the rescue unit, Lt. Col. Golan Vach, personally found 20 of… Continue Reading →
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Sharon Schechter escaped the South Florida condominium tower collapse with just the nightclothes she was wearing, so she cried shortly after when the Global Empowerment Mission gave her an electric toothbrush, a phone charger and a… Continue Reading →
Lakewood resident Paul Hoffman is 93 years old, but not too old to come closer to his roots. Today, for the first time ever, Paul, a US Army Veteran, put on Tefillin. (Tefillin or phylacteries, is a set of small… Continue Reading →
U.S. regulators took action Wednesday that will make it easier to get a cheaper, near-copy of a brand-name insulin at the drugstore. Doctors now have to specifically prescribe what’s called… Read more » The post FDA Allows Automatic ‘Generic’ Swap… Continue Reading →
The Senate voted Wednesday night to start work on a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure package after President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators reached agreement on the key part of the White House agenda. The outcome after weeks… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hoping to set a model for employers nationwide, President Joe Biden will announce Thursday that millions of federal workers must show proof they’ve received a coronavirus vaccine or submit to regular testing and stringent social distancing, masking… Continue Reading →
Tempers flared in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday after its chief physician urged lawmakers to resume wearing masks to slow the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19,… Read more » The post Tempers Flare in U.S. Congress… Continue Reading →
Sky-high sales prices for its pickup trucks and SUVs helped Ford Motor Co. turn a surprise second-quarter profit despite a global shortage of computer chips that cut factory output in… Read more » The post Ford Overcomes Computer Chip Shortage,… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — Three-quarters of the members of the Israeli parliament on Wednesday called on Ben & Jerry’s to reverse its decision to stop selling ice cream in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and contested east Jerusalem. In… Continue Reading →
Vehicle traffic between New Jersey and New York City is approaching pre-pandemic levels while public transit ridership continues to lag, according to numbers released Wednesday by the Port Authority of… Read more » The post Vehicle Traffic Nearing Pre-COVID Levels… Continue Reading →
Two people are dead and 30 were hospitalized after a chemical leak at a Houston-area plant, officials said. LyondellBasell said that about 100,000 pounds (45,359 kilograms) of a mixture that… Read more » The post Texas Chemical Plant Leak Leaves… Continue Reading →
In a major shift of policy, Russia will no longer be turning a blind eye to Israeli strikes on Syrian territory, a senior official with close ties to the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed to Yisrael Hayom this week. Last week,… Continue Reading →
VERMONT (JTA) — The Jewish founders of Ben & Jerry’s defended the ice cream company’s boycott of Israel’s West Bank settlements in an op-ed in the The New York Times. Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who sold the company decades… Continue Reading →
Thanks to volunteers from Williamsburg Shomrim, a man with a gun was arrested and the gun taken off the street. Sources tell YWN that Williamsburg Shomrim witnessed a male and female stealing packages from homes on Wednesday afternoon. Shomrim immediately… Continue Reading →
A local camp is asking for the public’s help in locating a man who stole their cut-out figure from their lawn. Anyone with information is asked to call the Lakewood Police Department.
[Public Notice]
The spread of the COVID-19 delta variant is raising infections, leading some companies and governments to require vaccinations and raising concerns about the U.S. economic recovery. But on Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell injected a note of reassurance, suggesting… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) — A British journalist and her publisher contested a defamation claim in a London court on Wednesday from billionaire Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich over a book about the rise of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Catherine Belton’s… Continue Reading →
US State Department staff discovered a swastika etched onto the wall of an elevator on Monday, Axios reported on Tuesday. The elevator is located near the office of the special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism in the Harry S…. Continue Reading →