Month December 2021
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese officials promised steady deliveries of groceries to residents of Xi’an, an ancient capital with 13 million people that is under the strictest lockdown of a major Chinese city since Wuhan was shut early last year… Continue Reading →
As the fast-spreading coronavirus variant omicron rages through Western Europe, officials and experts in low-vaccinated Eastern Europe anticipate a post-holiday explosion of COVID-19 cases in much of the region. Many countries in Eastern Europe only recently emerged from infection waves… Continue Reading →
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s former president said he had no choice but to abruptly leave Kabul as the Taliban closed in and denied an agreement was in the works for a peaceful takeover, disputing the accounts of former Afghan and… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) – Mayor-elect Eric Adams held a news conference unveiling his plans to combat COVID in New York City as he prepares to take office this weekend. Adams said the plan is to, “Keep our city open. That’s… Continue Reading →
This morning’s serious accident on New Hampshire Avenue in Lakewood was caught on video, obtained exclusively by TLS. The video shows a vehicle traveling northbound on New Hampshire Avenue, and apparently trying to turn left onto Chestnut Street when it… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com In recent weeks, our youth have had much to struggle with, r”l. Chaim Walder, a famous author in the Torah community, was accused of horrific actions in a virulently anti-Chareidi and openly racist newspaper. … Continue Reading →
The private business vaccine mandate implemented by outgoing-Mayor Bill de Blasio will remain in effect when mayoral-elect Eric Adams is sworn in, Adams announced on Thursday. Other vaccine and mask… Read more » The post Adams Announces Covid Policies appeared… Continue Reading →
Mayor-elect Eric Adams said Thursday that he will keep New York City’s vaccine mandate for businesses and that the city will set a spring deadline on whether to have a new vaccine mandate for public school students. Adams made the… Continue Reading →
BEIRUT (AP) — Satellite images taken this week over the Syrian port of Latakia show the smoldering wreckage after a reported Israeli missile strike, hours after firefighters contained a massive blaze. The raid launched from the Mediterranean Sea Tuesday was… Continue Reading →
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The following is an ‘Ask The Mayor’ question submitted to TLS, and the Mayor’s response. Email your questions for the Mayor to AskTheMayor@thelakewoodscoop.com. Question: Hi, I’ve seen a few accidents happen at the intersection of chestnut and New Hampshire. As… Continue Reading →
SEATTLE (AP) — The omicron-fueled surge that is sending COVID-19 cases rocketing in the U.S. is putting children in the hospital in close to record numbers, and experts lament that most of the youngsters are not vaccinated. “It’s just so… Continue Reading →
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Thursday announced it launched a satellite carrier rocket bearing three devices into space, though it’s unclear whether any of the objects entered orbit around the Earth. The state TV report, as well as others… Continue Reading →
Israel has documented its first case of the so-called “flurona” — a simultaneous coronavirus and influenza virus infection, Yediot reported on Thursday. The double infection was first identified in a… Read more » The post Israel Reports First Case of… Continue Reading →
A federal judge in Oklahoma on Tuesday ruled against the state in its lawsuit challenging the vaccine mandates for members of the Oklahoma National Guard in a dispute that is… Read more » The post Judge Rejects Oklahoma’s Lawsuit Over… Continue Reading →
JERUSALM (JTA) – Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi called for victims of sexual abuse to bring complaints to the “relevant authorities,” saying “there is an obligation to complain to the authorities in charge of these issues, and not hide it,” according… Continue Reading →
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s Environment Minister said Thursday a clandestine oil deal that would have turned a scuba divers’ paradise into a waypoint for Emirati oil headed for Western markets has effectively been blocked. Tamar Zandberg told Israeli… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Multiple neighborhoods in Lakewood are seeing the rates of home break-ins and property theft drop dramatically after they hired a local private security firm to patrol their areas on Friday nights. Y&R Security, which currently services six Lakewood neighborhoods,… Continue Reading →
Authorities were searching Thursday for two people believed to have been involved in the fatal shooting of one police officer and wounding of another at a northern Illinois hotel. The… Read more » The post Illinois Police Seek Two in… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] As the great campaign of Yavneh V’chachamehah draws to a close… At the last moment: The eyes of the kollel yungeleit in Israel are lifted to the Torah supporters in the United States After unprecedented efforts in Israel during which… Continue Reading →
Stocks are opening with slight gains on Wall Street Thursday, keeping the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hovering just above the latest record highs they set a… Read more » The post Stocks Open Slightly Higher; S&P… Continue Reading →