Month January 2022
The rollout of new 5G wireless service in the U.S. failed to have the much-dreaded result of crippling air travel, although it began in rocky fashion, with international airlines canceling some flights to the U.S. and spotty problems showing up… Continue Reading →
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been receiving medical advice from an Israeli doctor in recent months, Ynet revealed in a report on Thursday. The doctor is Prof. Itzchak Shapira, Deputy Director-General of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, who is… Continue Reading →
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been receiving medical advice from an Israeli doctor in recent months, Ynet revealed in a report on Thursday. The doctor is Prof. Itzchak Shapira, Deputy Director-General of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, who is… Continue Reading →
New York City authorities are investigating an antisemitic attack involving a woman who spat on an 8-year-old Jewish boy outside a Brooklyn shul last week and allegedly told him and… Read more » The post Woman Spits on Jewish Boy… Continue Reading →
If you live in Flatbush, there’s only one place to turn to keep up to date on all the comings and goings of the city: The Flatbush Scoop. With updates 24 hours a day, The Flatbush Scoop is the only… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Peloton’s shares tumbled on Thursday after a media report said the exercise and treadmill company was temporarily halting production of its connected fitness products amid waning consumer demand. Shares fell nearly 24%, or $7.62 to $24.22… Continue Reading →
Amid predictions that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s government will quickly dissolve if opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu signs a plea deal and leaves politics, a report on Thursday morning said that Bennett recently expressed his regrets that the Chareidi parties are… Continue Reading →
U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday that any Russian troop movements across Ukraine’s border would constitute an invasion and that Moscow would “pay a heavy price” for such an action.… Read more » The post Biden Issues New Warning to… Continue Reading →
U.S. prosecutors charged four Belarusian government officials on Thursday with aircraft piracy for diverting a Ryanair flight last year to arrest an opposition journalist, using a ruse that there was… Read more » The post U.S. Charges Belarus With Air… Continue Reading →
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the top U.S. public health agency has been criticized as too slow to collect and act on new information. Now, increasingly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also being criticized for… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s new mayor, Eric Adams, plans to convert his first paycheck this week into two cryptocurrencies, which he has been hyping as a potential economic engine for the city. The Democrat’s office announced Thursday… Continue Reading →
The Justice Department dropped its case Thursday against a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor accused of concealing ties to the Chinese government, a further setback to a federal initiative aimed at preventing Beijing from profiting off academic research at U.S…. Continue Reading →
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Israel signed a three billion euro ($3.4 billion) deal on Thursday to buy three cutting-edge submarines from Germany, the defense ministry announced. The Dakar-class diesel-electric submarines will be produced by German manufacturer Thyssenkrupp and are expected to be delivered within… Continue Reading →
New York City’s new mayor, Eric Adams, plans to convert his first paycheck this week into two cryptocurrencies, which he has been hyping as a potential economic engine for the… Read more » The post NYC’s Mayor Invests First Paycheck… Continue Reading →
Tonight marks the first Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski ZT”L. Rabbi Twerski was a world-renowned lecturer and author, who has helped hundreds of thousands of individuals for over 50 years. The world-renowned brilliant psychiatrist was author to approximately… Continue Reading →
Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates continued to rise this week. The rate on the benchmark 30-year loan breached 3.5%. Home loan rates have been running in recent weeks at levels not seen since early 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic was… Continue Reading →
The Israeli school curriculum has largely ignored the heritage of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), according to a survey submitted to the Ministry of Social Equality… Read more » The post Poll Shows Mizrahi Jewry Slighted… Continue Reading →
Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan protested the Security Council’s biased treatment of Israel as he addressed a session devoted to the problems of the Middle East on Thursday. In… Read more » The post Israeli Envoy Uses Rock to… Continue Reading →
Following three years of committee discussions and countless meetings, the Interior Ministry’s Jerusalem District Geographical Committee rejected the request of the Telzstone Council to expand the yishuv, while approving the request of the neighboring Arab settlement of Abu Ghosh. Even… Continue Reading →
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly approved an Israeli-sponsored resolution Thursday condemning any denial of the Holocaust and urging all nations and social media companies “to take active measures to combat antisemitism and Holocaust denial or distortion.” The… Continue Reading →