Month January 2022
The Coast Guard said Thursday that it had found four additional bodies in its search for dozens of migrants lost at sea off Florida but would suspend its rescue operations… Read more » The post Coast Guard to Suspend Search… Continue Reading →
A Winter Storm Warning has been issued for the Lakewood area. The warning is in effect from 7PM Friday to 7PM Saturday. Snow is expected to begin Friday evening in Delmarva and southern New Jersey, spreading northward overnight into Saturday… Continue Reading →
The new quarantine policy in the Israeli school system saw its first update within the first twenty-four hours of its implementation on Thursday, following days of well-publicized internal dissension among… Read more » The post School Quarantine Policy Changes Again… Continue Reading →
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President Joe Biden on Thursday called on Congress to immediately enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment in the U.S. Constitution and formally protect women’s rights nearly a century after lawmakers first… Read more » The post Biden Urges Congress to Act… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – When Marc Chagall debuted a series of biblically inspired stained-glass windows at the Louvre in Paris and then at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1961, these shows were only stopovers before the windows reached… Continue Reading →
The Tel Aviv Labor Court ruled illegal on Thursday a wildcat strike called by the Israel Teachers Union to protest the easing of quarantine rules for students. The court upheld… Read more » The post Court Shuts Down Teachers Strike… Continue Reading →
A speech by U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day fell short of expectations of the Israeli ambassador, reports The Times of Israel. Israeli envoy Gilad Erdan,… Read more » The post UN Head Disappoints in Holocaust… Continue Reading →
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced his decision on Thursday to close the investigation into the death of a teenager in a car crash while fleeing police in Yehuda and Shomron… Read more » The post Mandelblit Closes Case of Teen… Continue Reading →
The LRRC today announced that it will be administering one-time grants to Lakewood Township households affected by COVID-19 to help make their mortgage payments. Who Qualifies: Residents of Lakewood Township who own the home they are living in and whose… Continue Reading →
Just days ahead of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s trip to the United Arab Emirates, the U.S. has issued an advisory against travel to the country due to the threat of… Read more » The post Ahead of Herzog Visit, US… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JNS) – The multinational firm Unilever, which owns Ben & Jerry’s, announced on Tuesday that in the wake of severe losses, it will fire 1,500 workers around the world and split off its ice cream division from its… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden on Thursday said he plans to name a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer by the end of February and reiterated his intention to nominate… Read more » The post Biden to Name Black Woman… Continue Reading →
After spending two years in a strict lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic, North Korea may finally be opening up — slowly. The reason could reflect a growing sense of recognition by the leadership that the nation badly needs to… Continue Reading →
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, is expected to visit Turkey next month, the Turkish president has said, as the two countries move to heal rifts. In an interview with private NTV broadcaster late Wednesday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan… Continue Reading →
Three pendants inscribed with the “Shema Yisrael” prayer and depictions of Moses and the Ten Commandments have been discovered in archaeological excavations in the Sobibor extermination camp over the past decade, the Israel Antiquities Authority revealed on Thursday. The findings,… Continue Reading →
Five Democratic senators urged President Biden on Wednesday to continue to fight hard to extend the child tax credit, which he suggested last week might have to be dropped from… Read more » The post Democratic Senators Push Biden to… Continue Reading →
Officials from the Lakewood Township OEM today held a meeting to discuss the impending storm, and the resources they’ll be making available to the town.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday affirmed his pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying it was “long overdue.” He praised retiring Justice Stephen Breyer as a model public servant and promised… Continue Reading →
Members of the Lev Tahor cult have found a new residence after wandering from Guatemala to Iraq, Turkey, Albania, and Moldova, with a group of them having apparently settled in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Local Bosnian media… Continue Reading →