Month May 2022
The Internal Revenue Service today reminded taxpayers living and working outside the United States that they must file their 2021 federal income tax return by Wednesday, June 15. This deadline applies to both U.S. citizens and resident aliens abroad, including… Continue Reading →
Here are the highest paid male and female CEOs in the S&P 500 index for 2021, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. The AP’s compensation study covered 340 executives at S&P 500 companies who… Continue Reading →
In an incredible show of communal unity, frum residents of Stamford Hill galvanized to raise the funds necessary to supply Stamford Hatzolah with a desperately needed fifth ambulance. Two of Hatzolah’s current ambulances are around 15 years old, while the… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — As a kid, Eitan Bernath didn’t collect baseball cards, comic books or coins like his peers did. He collected kitchen tools. “My fondest memories from my life are always around food,” he says. Mind you, that… Continue Reading →
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Hurricane Agatha, the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in May in the eastern Pacific, swept ashore on a stretch of tourist beaches and fishing towns Monday, then weakened moving inland over the mountains of southern Mexico. Torrential rains… Continue Reading →
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FRUITLAND, Wash. (AP) — FRUITLAND, Wash. — A 9-year-old girl survived a cougar attack after wandering up a trail with two friends while camping in northwest Washington state. It happened Saturday morning near Fruitland, Washington. The girl fought back while… Continue Reading →
We have just learned that due to overwhelming demand for tickets for the highly anticipated Adirei HaTorah event in honor of the yungeleit of Beth Medrash Govoha, a larger venue has been procured for the maamad, which will now be… Continue Reading →
We have just learned that due to overwhelming demand for tickets for the highly anticipated Adirei HaTorah event in honor of the yungeleit of Beth Medrash Govoha, a larger venue has been procured for the maamad, which will now be… Continue Reading →
U.S. consumer confidence edged lower in May as Americans’ view of their present and future prospects dimmed in the midst of persistent inflation. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index dipped to 106.4 in May — still… Continue Reading →
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Just one more step and the stroller would have been on the curb. The thought haunts Latanya Byrd years after a driver racing down Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia struck and killed her 27-year-old niece, Samara Banks, and… Continue Reading →
Rejuvenate your soul and get inspired by 60+ of the Jewish world’s high-demand speakers, including Rabbi Paysach Krohn, Rabbi Eytan Feiner, Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser, Rabbi Yissachar Frand, Rav Gav Friedman, and more. For the 24 hours of Rabbi Wallerstein’s shloshim,… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Ukrainian Refugees Escaped to Eretz Yisroel. Who’s Helping Them Now? Baruch Hashem, many families have escaped Ukraine for the safety of Eretz Yisroel. But when they arrive, Israeli officials direct these young kinderlach towards secular public schools. But Hashem… Continue Reading →
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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers have recovered all 22 bodies from the site where a plane crashed on a mountainside in Nepal, the airline said Tuesday. All the bodies were flown to Kathmandu and taken to the Tribhuvan University Teaching… Continue Reading →
For the first time on Tuesday morning, the Israeli Yated Ne’eman honored HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein with the title “Rabban shel kol Bnei HaGolah” (‘רשכבה”ג’). In the past, the רשכבה”ג title was used for HaGaon HaRav Elazar Menachem Shach, z’tl,… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign was acquitted Tuesday of lying to the FBI when he pushed information meant to cast suspicions on Donald Trump and Russia in the run-up to the 2016 election. The… Continue Reading →
A lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign was acquitted Tuesday of lying to the FBI when he pushed information meant to cast suspicions on Donald Trump and Russia in the run-up to the 2016 election. The jury in the… Continue Reading →
When President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden disagree, they don’t hash it out in front of other people. Instead, she says, they argue by text — “fexting” as they call it. Jill Biden also told Harper’s Bazaar magazine… Continue Reading →
Diane Murray struggled with her decision all the way up to Election Day. But when the time came, the 54-year-old Georgia Democrat cast a ballot in last week’s Republican primary for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. While state law allowed… Continue Reading →