Month August 2021
After an official announcement that schools will open on Sept. 1, uncertainty reemerged on Thursday as a Health Ministry official said the matter was again under review. Ilana Gans, who… Read more » The post September 1st School Opening Not… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House hurriedly put off President Joe Biden’s first in-person meeting with Israel’s new prime minister and a phone call with governors on incoming Afghan refugees Thursday after more than a dozen people were killed in… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Menendez, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, in a statement called the situation unfolding in Kabul “a full-fledged humanitarian crisis.” He said that “U.S. government personnel, already working under extreme circumstances, must secure… Continue Reading →
Israel said that it would be easing commercial restrictions on the Gaza Strip and expand entry of goods to the Palestinian enclave following days of heightened tensions. The announcement came… Read more » The post Israel to Allow More Goods… Continue Reading →
Photos by Reuvain Borchardt/Hamodia The post Rabbinical Alliance Honors Police Officials at Annual Chai Elul Siyum HaShas Dinner appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: Mayor de Blasio: Stark Murder ‘Very Painful’ for Community New Brunswick Shul Buries Its Burned… Continue Reading →
UKRAINE (Jewish Heritage Europe) – Michael Schudrich, the Chief Rabbi of Poland and head of Poland’s Rabbinic Commission for Cemeteries, has forcefully condemned as desecration the destruction of part of the historic Jewish cemetery in Ukraine in the city of… Continue Reading →
The new school year is getting underway, but the severe shortage in bus drivers is impacting the LSTA operations in a serious way. The LSTA runs busing Monday through Friday beginning on September 1st, 2021 and ending on June 30th,… Continue Reading →
There were at least two explosions near Kabul’s airport amid a huge evacuation effort from Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Thursday, with civilians and U.S. service members among the casualties.… Read more » The post Blast Outside Kabul Airport Kills… Continue Reading →
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Few Palestinians in the West Bank get to board an airplane these days. The territory has no civilian airport and those who can afford a plane ticket must catch their flights in neighboring Jordan. But… Continue Reading →
The meeting between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has just been delayed due to the bombing in Afghanistan. Bennett was scheduled to meet with Biden at 11:30AM, but the developing details in Afghanistan have prompted… Continue Reading →
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has postponed her trip to Israel due to the situation in Afghanistan, Ynet reported. Merkel was expected to travel to Israel over the weekend for her… Read more » The post Merkel Postpones Israel Trip due… Continue Reading →
AUSTRALIA (CHABAD.org/Mendel Super) – Fifty-eight-year-old Rabbi Justice Marcus Solomon is a graduate of Chabad-Lubavitch yeshivahs in Australia, Israel and America. He was ordained as a rabbi before going on to study law in his native Australia. In 1987, he and his wife, Linda, married in Perth, where… Continue Reading →
A wildfire that burned several homes near Los Angeles may signal that the region is facing the same dangers that have scorched Northern California. The fire in San Bernardino County erupted Wednesday afternoon, quickly burned several hundred acres and damaged… Continue Reading →
States and localities have only distributed 11% of the tens of billions of dollars in federal rental assistance, the Treasury Department said Wednesday, the latest sign the program is struggling… Read more » The post Feds Report Most Rental Assistance… Continue Reading →
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An explosion went off Thursday outside Kabul’s airport, where thousands of people have flocked as they try to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Officials offered no casualty count, but a witness said several people appeared… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] An urgent letter to you from two of the leading rabbis of our generation: “We know of the many tzedakah activities and of the trustworthiness of Vaad HaRabbanim, in whose merit thousands of families across Israel are saved from their… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) — Police in London arrested a man on suspicion of contaminating food in three supermarkets by injecting them with syringes. Local authorities advised shoppers at the stores in the west London area of Hammersmith to throw away their… Continue Reading →
Delta Air Lines will charge employees on the company health plan $200 a month if they fail to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a policy the airline’s top executive says is necessary because the average hospital stay for the virus costs… Continue Reading →
Delta Air Lines will charge employees on the company health plan $200 a month if they fail to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a policy the airline’s top executive says is necessary because the average hospital stay for the virus costs… Continue Reading →