Month January 2022
Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver passed away Monday afternoon at the age of 77, after having been hospitalized for several weeks. Silver, a Democrat who represented a district… Read more » The post BDE: Former New York Assembly… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) — The British government announced Monday that it is scrapping coronavirus travel testing requirements for the vaccinated, news hailed by the travel industry as a big step back to normality. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that “to show… Continue Reading →
Anti-Semitic flyers were distributed over the weekend to hundreds of homes in two South Florida cities with large Jewish populations, authorities said. Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber tweeted that flyers in plastic sandwich bags with small pebbles were distributed to… Continue Reading →
Burkina Faso‘s army said on Monday it had ousted President Roch Kabore, suspended the constitution, dissolved the government and the national assembly, and closed the borders. The announcement, signed by… Read more » The post Burkina Faso Army Says it… Continue Reading →
Whenever a bus arrives at the Greyhound station in Plattsburgh, New York, a small band of taxi drivers waits to drive passengers on a half-hour trip to a snowy, dead-end dirt road. There, at the border with Canada, refugees pile… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Chaya Sarah Malka, 38-year old mother of 3 from Los Angeles (Fairfax area) is in a very tough battle against cancer. She has lost her sight in one eye and is extremely weak and in constant pain. Chaya Sarah Malka… Continue Reading →
Stocks fell sharply Monday as investors anticipate inflation-fighting measures from the Federal Reserve and fretted over the possibility of conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The stock market extended its three-week… Read more » The post Stocks Drop Sharply as Market… Continue Reading →
Israel’s internal divisions must be addressed if the country is to successfully meet security challenges coming from Iran and the Palestinians, according to a report by the Institute for National… Read more » The post Think Tank Highlights Internal Divisions… Continue Reading →
It’s mayhem on the subways. The NYPD reported more subway assaults in 2021 than in any other year going all the way back to 1997. The NYPD says that there were 461 felony assaults on the city’s subway system in… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — The highest-ranking Arab Muslim in Israel’s police force has taken leave, the police said Monday, after video emerged showing him tripping over a stabbing victim as he left the scene of a crime in 2020. Maj. Gen…. Continue Reading →
A short but major storm dubbed “Elpis” is expected to arrive in Israel on Wednesday, with a significant amount of snow expected in the morning in the north, and central Israel, including Jerusalem, by Wednesday afternoon. The predictions have instilled… Continue Reading →
Jean, a 73-year-old grandmother, was at her Long Island home Thursday morning when she received a phone call from a man claiming to be her grandson. He was in jail for drunken driving, he said. He needed her help posting… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israel’s cabinet approved a plan to plant 450,000 trees in the country’s cities to mitigate some effects of climate change by offering more shade and cooler temperatures. The plan, which is predicted to cost about 2.25 billion… Continue Reading →
Syrian and Russian military jets jointly patrolled the airspace along Syria’s borders on Monday and plan to make such flights regular, the Interfax news agency quoted Russia’s defense ministry as… Read more » The post Syria, Russia Start Joint Air… Continue Reading →
Governor Murphy said Monday at his weekly press conference that the rate of Omicron infections in New Jersey is now “subsiding.” If cases continue to decline, it would indicate that the worst of this Covid-19 wave is behind us. “The… Continue Reading →
The Emergency Rescue Mortgage Assistance Program (ERMA), administered by the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (NJHMFA) will launch on February 8th at 9 am. The program will provide up to $35,000 in assistance to cover mortgage arrearages, delinquent… Continue Reading →
Former Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu issued a statement on Monday in which he rejected a plea deal in his corruption trial that would have entailed exiting politics for seven… Read more » The post Plea Deal Off: Netanyahu Denies… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 1,000 points Monday as financial markets buckled in anticipation of inflation-fighting measures from the Federal Reserve and fretted over the possibility of conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Stocks… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Well over a decade after she emerged on the national stage as a Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin is on the verge of making new headlines in a legal battle with The New York Times. A… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — The crisis in Ukraine is hardly going away — a showdown of two world views that could upend Europe. It carries echoes of the Cold War and resurrects an idea left over from the 1945 Yalta… Continue Reading →