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New York state will apply for a federal program for unemployment money now that the state won’t have to come up with additional funds to cover a portion of what
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by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Even during the COVID-19 era there are people that enter shuls to collect Tzedakah. Some shuls still let everyone in, and others do not.
Israel’s Health Ministry updated the statistics of Covid-19 cases after Shabbos. The number of ill patients in serious condition with the disease rose to 398. On Shabbos, some 1,492 people
With heated debate over mail delays, the House approved legislation in a rare Saturday session that would reverse recent changes in U.S. Postal Service operations and send $25 billion to
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Bantering during the final night of the Democratic National Convention, actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang repeatedly got the name of “our current vice president” wrong. Was
French politicians of all political views roundly condemned Saturday graffiti denying the Holocaust that was scrawled on a wall in the village that was the site of the France’s biggest
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Joe Biden’s speech on Thursday night seems to have hit a homerun among voters. But to people in Canada that were listening – there
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The head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency will head to Tehran next week to press Iranian authorities for access to sites where the country is thought to have stored
Federal authorities on Saturday forced demonstrators away from a plaza near a federal building as dueling demonstrations in Portland by right-wing and left-wing protesters turned violent. The area includes county
Firefighters in California were racing to slow the spread of wildfires that burned nearly one million acres in a week and destroyed hundreds of homes as weekend weather threatened to
Israel’s Health Ministry recorded 1,140 new coronavirus cases over Shabbos. There are currently 22,393 active cases, with 398 patients in serious condition, of whom 119 are ventilated. Ten more deaths
The Trump administration will send two top officials to the Middle East this week in a bid to capitalize on the momentum from the historic agreement between Israeli and the
Two tropical storms advanced across the Caribbean on Saturday as potentially historic threats to the U.S. Gulf Coast, one dumping rain on Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands while the
The coronavirus cabinet meeting on Thursday ended without a decision regarding restrictions to stem the tide of the high coronavirus infection rate and will convene again on Monday. The meeting
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