Month January 2022

Negotiators at talks to salvage the Iran nuclear deal will ask their political superiors to take decisions to resolve various thorny issues that remain as they return to their capitals… Read more » The post Officials at Iran Nuclear Talks… Continue Reading →

Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine has expanded to include supplies of blood along with other medical materials that would allow it to treat casualties, in yet another key indicator of… Read more » The post Russia Moves Blood Supplies Near… Continue Reading →

The Health Ministry said on Motzoei Shabbos that for the first time since February 2021, the number of seriously ill COVID patients exceeded 1,000, with 231 on ventilators. The ministry… Read more » The post Israel Passes 1,000 Serious COVID… Continue Reading →

A storm with wind gusts near hurricane force lashed the Northeast, dropping heavy snow, causing coastal flooding and threatening widespread power outages while forecasters warned conditions would worsen and then… Read more » The post Winter Storm Lashes East Coast… Continue Reading →

Israel has signed a deal to buy five million COVID-19 vaccine doses from Novavax, the Health Ministry said on Friday. The vaccines are due to arrive in Israel in the… Read more » The post Israel Signs Deal With Novavax… Continue Reading →

It was a classic Russian power play with echoes of Cold War gamesmanship. Shortly after entering into service in 2019, Russia’s most advanced warship made a goodwill tour of the Caribbean, armed with cruise missiles, air defense systems and other… Continue Reading →

A 50-year-old bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh early Friday, requiring rescuers to rappel down a ravine and form a human chain to reach a few occupants of a municipal bus that plummeted along with the span. No deaths were reported. The… Continue Reading →

A court declared Friday that Pennsylvania’s expansive 2-year-old mail-in voting law violates the state constitution, agreeing with challenges by Republicans who soured on the practice after former President Donald Trump began baselessly attacked it as rife with fraud in his… Continue Reading →

A Jewish woman is suing Mount Sinai West in New York City over the facility’s refusal to treat her husband with ivermectin. Erika Quintero-Sherry’s husband, Benjamin Chernyavsky, 60, is on a ventilator and in medically induced coma due to a… Continue Reading →

A storm with wind gusts near hurricane force lashed the Northeast on Saturday, dropping heavy snow, causing coastal flooding and threatening widespread power outages while forecasters warned conditions would worsen and then be followed by bitter cold. The nor’easter thrashed… Continue Reading →

A 17-year-old from Bnei Brak passed away from COVID in Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer on Wednesday. The teen had serious underlying illnesses and his medical situation deteriorated after contracting COVID, Yisrael Hayom reported. Three Israelis under the age… Continue Reading →

As he prepared to tee off at one of his Florida golf courses, a fellow player introduced Donald Trump as the “45th president of the United States.” “45th and 47th,” Trump responded matter-of-factly, before hitting his drive. The quip —… Continue Reading →

Israel’s Chevrei Kadisha are staggering under the load of the high COVID death rate this month amid an unprecedented infection rate spurred by the Omicron variant, with the number of COVID cases confirmed in three weeks in January surpassing all… Continue Reading →

Residents and officials across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. were bracing for a powerful winter storm expected to produce blizzard conditions Friday and Saturday. Heavy snow and… Read more » The post Winter Storm to Bring Blizzard… Continue Reading →

A 50-year-old bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh early Friday, requiring rescuers to rappel nearly 150 feet and form a human chain to reach occupants of a bus that had plummeted with… Read more » The post Bridge Collapses in Pittsburgh Hours… Continue Reading →