Month September 2021
Gov. Kathy Hochul said Saturday she is prepared to call in medically trained National Guard members, retirees and workers outside New York to address potential staffing shortages caused by an… Read more » The post NY Preps for Staff Shortage… Continue Reading →
Canada’s last known Nazi-era suspect died on Monday, ending the government’s quarter-century effort to deport him, in a case that critics said spotlighted the country’s poor record of bringing accountability… Read more » The post Canada’s Last Known Nazi Suspect,… Continue Reading →
Fourteen Mexican soldiers were detained early Saturday morning for several hours by U.S. border agents after they crossed into El Paso, Texas, from Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, the U.S. Customs and… Read more » The post U.S. Border Agents Briefly Detain… Continue Reading →
An executive of Chinese global communications giant Huawei Technologies returned from Canada Saturday night following a legal settlement that also saw the release of two Canadians held by China, potentially… Read more » The post Huawei Executive Returns as China… Continue Reading →
DUNMORE, Pa. (AP) — Four teenagers have been charged with a plot to attack a Pennsylvania high school in 2024, on the 25th anniversary of the massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School, authorities said. A 15-year-old girl and 15-year-old boy… Continue Reading →
Guinness World Records has certified two Japanese sisters as the world’s oldest living identical twins at 107, in an announcement Monday coinciding with Respect for the Aged Day, a national holiday in Japan. Umeno Sumiyama and Koume Kodama were born… Continue Reading →
The bitter custody battle over a six-year-old boy who survived a cable car crash in Italy inched forward in Israel on Thursday, with a new court date and appeals made for privacy. Lawyers for the two family branches spoke after… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) – New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge just days before it was to take effect. Workers in the nation’s… Continue Reading →
The anti-Israel minority in Congress failed to reduce support for Israel, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on the tarmac at Ben-Gurion Airport ahead of his trip to the United Nations… Read more » The post Bennett: Anti-Israel Group Failed in… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive congresswoman from New York, said she changed her vote from “no” to “present” on a bill for special funding for Israel’s anti-missile Iron Dome defense system because of the “panic and horror” that… Continue Reading →
Democrats pushed a $3.5 trillion, 10-year bill strengthening social safety net and climate programs through the House Budget Committee on Saturday, but one Democrat voted “no,” illustrating the challenges party… Read more » The post Panel OKs Dems’ $3.5T Bill,… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] The Oraysa siyum on מסכת שבת was held on September 9th at Lake Terrace Hall, Lakewood New Jersey. Over 1000 men, woman and children from around the world gathered on motzei Tzom Gedaliah to celebrate this monumental event. … Continue Reading →
The Oraysa siyum on מסכת שבת was held on September 9th at Lake Terrace Hall, Lakewood New Jersey. Over 1000 men, woman and children from around the world gathered on motzei Tzom Gedaliah to celebrate this monumental event. Oraysa is… Continue Reading →
New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge days before it was to take… Read more » The post NY Teacher Vaccine Mandate Temporarily… Continue Reading →
A sukkah that was built on stilts collapsed on Motzoei Shabbos in Yerushalayim, injuring four people. The sukkah had been built about seven feet above ground level, in the city’s… Read more » The post Four People Injured in Yerushalayim… Continue Reading →
Iran will return to talks on resuming compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal “very soon,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told reporters on Friday, but gave no specific date.… Read more » The post Iran Says Nuclear Talks to… Continue Reading →
One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not… Continue Reading →
Tens of thousands of pekelach were distributed to hundreds of kehillos in Jerusalem on Thursday evening, the 2nd day of Chol Hamoed in Israel, for Simchas Torah. The distribution was carried out at the initiative of Jerusalem City Councilman Dovid… Continue Reading →
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel on Friday of destroying the two-state solution with actions he said could lead Palestinians to demand equal rights within one binational state comprising… Read more » The post At U.N., Abbas Gives Israel… Continue Reading →
Sunni and Shiite leaders in Iraq openly called for peace with Israel on Friday, Channel 12 reported. At a rally in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, some 300 Sunni… Read more » The post Iraqi Leaders, Activists Call for… Continue Reading →