Month September 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares rose Wednesday in Europe after sharp declines in Asia that tracked a broad slide on Wall Street on jitters over rising prices and surging U.S. government bond yields. A swift rise in Treasury yields is… Continue Reading →
Guests at an Ashdod engagement party were visibly emotional last week, and a brief look into the family’s history reveals why: The last time many of the guests had celebrated with groom Eliezer Avraham had been at his bar… Continue Reading →
SHENYANG, China (AP) — People in northeastern China ate breakfast by the light of smartphones and shopkeepers turned on generators as much of the country enforced power cuts Wednesday to meet official conservation targets and ease shortages in some areas…. Continue Reading →
A horrific crash in Northern Israel claimed the lives of at least five people – four of them from one family on Wednesday afternoon. The crash happened on Route 89 in the Upper Galilee, near the town of Hurfeish, when… Continue Reading →
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris commended a student at George Mason University who accused Israel of “ethnic genocide” and condemned funding of the Iron Dome missile defense system during a… Read more » The post VP Harris Commends Student Accusing… Continue Reading →
Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli held their first debate yesterday, and surprisingly both agreed on something – not to raise taxes during the term as governor. Watch the debate below. (Question begins at 47:43.)
Eighty years after the Babi Yar massacre, rare photographs that tell the story of the Soviet-era struggle to commemorate the atrocity have been released for the first time by the… Read more » The post Israel National Archive Reveals Rare… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday dismissed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s repeated complaints that the sexual harassment investigation that led to his resignation was tainted by politics, saying the Democrat has “never taken responsibility… Continue Reading →
North Korea said Wednesday that it successfully tested a new hypersonic missile it implied was being developed as nuclear capable, as it continues to expand its military capabilities and pressure Washington and Seoul over long-stalled negotiations over its nuclear weapons…. Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden is caught between a hard place and an even harder one when it comes to immigration. Biden embraced major progressive policy goals on the issue after he won the Democratic nomination, and he has begun enacting some…. Continue Reading →
A proposal to impose one of the nation’s strictest vaccine mandates on Los Angeles was supposed to be voted on Wednesday but was delayed a week following debate among city councilors who generally support the idea but acknowledged the plan… Continue Reading →
In an inspiring display of unity and kavod haTorah, history was made on Motzei Simchas Torah in Israel on Tuesday evening when HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky participated in the ‘neilas hachag’ tisch of chassidus Vizhnitz. HaRav Chaim’s participation in the… Continue Reading →
As first reported on our Status Erev Yom Tov, at approximately 3:30 P.M., Emergency Responders answered a call of a house fire at 31 Bay Way in the Bay Harbor section of Brick. Upon arrival a heavy smoke and fire… Continue Reading →
Stocks ended a wobbly day with mixed results on Wall Street Wednesday as the market regrouped following a sharp drop a day earlier. The S&P 500 and the The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose, while the Nasdaq fell. Treasury yields… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Russian plane travelling from Yekaterinburg to the southern city of Krasnodar was forced to make an emergency landing after being buffeted by severe turbulence as well as being hit by lightning. A short video captured… Continue Reading →
Hundreds of yeshivah bochurim participated in the ‘Neilas haChag’ tisch in Yeshivas Ponevezh immediately after Simchas Torah ended on Tuesday night. The bochurim sang songs of dveikus during the special event, which is held every year. The tisch was headed… Continue Reading →
As Prime Minister Naftali Bennett lauded Israel’s response to the coronavirus at the UN General Assembly in New York, overloaded hospitals in Israel were running out of ECMO machines. On Wednesday, Channel 13 News reported that Ichilov Hospital in Tel… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo on Wednesday amid rising tensions between Israel and Hamas. The Biden administration is… Read more » The post Biden Adviser Flies to Cairo… Continue Reading →
Thousands of healthcare workers in New York faced with either getting the COVID-19 vaccine or losing their jobs received at least one dose as the statewide mandate neared, according to… Read more » The post Facing Deadline, More NY Healthcare… Continue Reading →
Israel’s foreign minister will fly to Bahrain on Thursday, the highest-level official Israeli visit to the Gulf state since the countries established ties last year, the Foreign Ministry said. Foreign… Read more » The post Lapid to Visit Bahrain on… Continue Reading →