Month May 2022
Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy are warning of burnout among the nation’s health care staff after more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the potential for severe worker shortages in the years… Continue Reading →
Machon Smicha’s elucidated Shulchan Aruch is making learning, getting tested and receiving smicha possible. Why Machon Smicha?Machon Smicha utilizes a unique curriculum which provides learners with step-by-step guidance through the smicha process, fusing authentic halachah learning with modern technology. At… Continue Reading →
Machon Smicha’s elucidated Shulchan Aruch is making learning, getting tested and receiving smicha possible. Why Machon Smicha?Machon Smicha utilizes a unique curriculum which provides learners with step-by-step guidance through the smicha process, fusing authentic halachah learning with modern technology. At… Continue Reading →
A school for gifted children in Michigan has suspended a teacher after she gave her students a worksheet that implied a resemblance between former President Barack and Obama and monkeys. The worksheet asked students to find primates among pictures of… Continue Reading →
During a meeting between the LSTA, TLS and Jay’s, Jay’s Bus Service announced major upgrades to the way they operate. Jay’s is the largest busing service in Lakewood, accounting for the majority of the runs. In an effort to be… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials remain perplexed by mysterious cases of severe liver damage in hundreds of young children around the world. The best available evidence points to a fairly common stomach bug that isn’t known to cause liver… Continue Reading →
Arab students waved PLO flags and sang anti-Israel songs at Ben-Gurion University in Be’er Sheva on Monday at a pro-Palestinian demonstration approved by the administration. Jewish students waving Israeli flags held a counter-demonstration nearby and dozens of security guards secured… Continue Reading →
Beijing extended orders for workers and students to stay home and ordered additional mass testing Monday as cases of COVID-19 rose in the Chinese capital. Numerous residential compounds in the city have restricted movement in and out, although conditions remain… Continue Reading →
When Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine, war seemed far away from Russian territory. Yet within days the conflict came home — not with cruise missiles and mortars but in the form of unprecedented and unexpectedly extensive volleys of… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Join women and girls from communities and neighborhoods all across the globe as they sign up for Shela-He. An AudioVisual presentation coming to your neighborhood in preparation for Kabbalas HaTorah. About Shela-He: Shela-He is a new initiative to connect… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay $7 million to a man who spent 23 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit, Comptroller Brad Lander said Monday. Grant Williams was exonerated last July in… Continue Reading →
Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that New Jersey has launched an investigation of social media platforms Discord and Twitch in the wake of the deadly mass shooting in Buffalo. The investigation seeks to determine if the platforms… Continue Reading →
NEWARK (VINnews) — Shocking video has surfaced of a former NFL player engaged in a fistfight with a United Airlines employee at Newark Airport last week. In the video, which seems to begin mid-fight, the airline employee appears to shove… Continue Reading →
Starbucks is pulling out of the Russian market. In a memo to employees Monday, the Seattle coffee giant said it decided to close its 130 stores and no longer have a brand presence in Russia. Starbucks said it will continue… Continue Reading →
The number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution has crossed the milestone of 100 million for the first time on record, propelled by the war in Ukraine and other deadly conflicts, The U.N. refugee… Continue Reading →
This fall, Chana Schochet will begin medical school at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. It will be part of her long-term effort to create something positive out of a great tragedy. When Chana was 11, her mother was… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] We were newlyweds and my all-of-three-weeks-husband stopped to watch me fold the laundry. “That’s interesting,” he mused, “my mother does it so differently…” And I shrugged, the ever-wise wife and answered “I dunno… this is just how my mother… Continue Reading →
Americans’ financial health reached its highest level in nearly a decade last year, the Federal Reserve said Monday, spurred by a strong job market and government support payments. Almost eight in 10 adults said last fall that they were either… Continue Reading →
Overview: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apple products. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could result in arbitrary code execution within the context of the application, an attacker gaining the same privileges as the logged-on user, or… Continue Reading →
Arizona’s Republican governor has signed legislation that will prevent state health officials from ever adding a COVID-19 vaccine to the list of required school inoculations and bar face mask mandates in any buildings operated by state or local governments. The… Continue Reading →
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A ferry carrying more than 130 people caught fire in the northeastern Philippines on Monday, killing seven passengers and forcing many survivors to jump into the sea where they were rescued by other vessels. The fire… Continue Reading →