She became a vaccine celebrity by accident. Since being hailed as the first person in the United States to get a COVID-19 vaccine, New York nurse Sandra Lindsay has become a prominent face in the country’s biggest-ever vaccination campaign. She has been promoting the shots on panels, in Zoom town halls and at other events. […]
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday he is not opposed to a “good” nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, but voiced skepticism that such an outcome would emerge from the current negotiations. Bennett spoke a day after negotiators from Iran and five world powers resumed talks in Vienna on restoring Tehran’s tattered 2015 […]
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has agreed to defer its request for hundreds of pages of records from the Trump administration, bending to the
Nearly 17% of the NYPD’s 36,000 uniformed force – about 6,000 cops – are out of service due to sickness as the Omicron variant of Covid-19 causes infections to soar
Officials in Miami-Dade County have opened two new coronavirus testing sites and extended hours at Zoo Miami in response to an increased demand. “We are working around the clock to make sure Miami-Dade residents have access to testing to protect themselves and their loved ones during the holiday season,” Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said […]
(By Zvi Gluck) Seven and a half years ago, we created Amudim with a mission: to give a voice to the victims of sexual abuse and eradicate stigmas so that those who had been victimized could get the help they needed to heal. Baruch Hashem, we have come so far since we first opened our […]
Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82. Reid died Tuesday, “peacefully” and surrounded by friends “following a courageous, four-year battle with pancreatic cancer,” Landra Reid said of her husband in a statement. “Harry was a devout family man and deeply loyal friend,” she said. […]
Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev (Labor), who received a Shin Bet security detail earlier this week due to death threats against him after he besmirched the “settler” community, blamed the
With temperatures in normally mild Seattle dropping well below freezing, Kaety West walked a short distance in the snow from the tent where she usually stays to find refuge at a small warming center at an American Legion hall. “I’m not even willing to stay in it right now. It’s just so difficult,” she said […]
A bird flu outbreak in northern Israel has killed at least 5,200 migratory cranes and forced farmers to slaughter hundreds of thousands of chickens as authorities try to contain what they say is the deadliest wildlife disaster in the nation’s history. Uri Naveh, a senior scientist at the Israel Parks and Nature Authority, said the […]
Syria said Monday that Israel’s plan to double the settlement in the Israeli Golan Heights is “dangerous and unprecedented” and only perpetuates its “occupation of the territory.” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Sunday a multimillion-dollar plan to double the settlement in the region that Israel captured from Syria over five decades ago. Speaking at […]
The Vaad HaKashrus of Crown Heights has issued an urgent warning over red peppers being sold in many kosher supermarkets that originate in Israel and are products of Shemitta. “We
Israel Defense Minister Benny Gantz hosted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today at his home in Rosh HaAyin to discuss “economic and security issues.” This is the first time Abbas has
Video released Monday showed Los Angeles police firing at a man suspected of assaulting customers last week at a clothing store, a shooting that also killed a 14-year-old girl hiding
Israeli missiles fired from the Mediterranean struck the Syrian port of Latakia early Tuesday, igniting a fire in the container terminal, Syrian state media reported, in the second such attack
A Jewish realtor showing a home to prospective buyers was shot and killed in Florida by a disgruntled former tenant who mistook her for the homeowner. Sarah Mitchell-Trost A”H, a
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said Monday the nation should consider a vaccination mandate for domestic air travel, signaling a potential embrace of an idea the Biden administration has previously eschewed, as COVID-19 cases spike. Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief science adviser on the pandemic response, said such a mandate might […]
A Jewish man in Brooklyn was punched in the face at the Foot Locker in Bay Ridge over his wearing an Israel Defense Forces sweatshirt. Blake Zadavsky and his Ilan
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com H.M. versus A.M. These are the initials of two young women. They have been arguing since they were in the third grade. They are now in high school. HM wanted the window opened – even though it was winter. AM wanted the window closed. “It is cold in the […]
North Korea opened a key political conference Monday to review past projects and discuss new policies amid the pandemic and a diplomatic deadlock with the United States. The official Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday that leader Kim Jong Un presided over a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers’ Party. The […]
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