Due to popular demand following last year’s virtual kosher seminar and the recent New Frontiers in Kosher webinar, OU Kosher Community Relations is pleased to present Kosher Encounter. This weeklong seminar will run from Monday,
Jacob Steinmetz’s blazing fastball helped make him a baseball draft trailblazer. The New York native is believed to be the first known practicing Orthodox Jewish player to be selected by a major league team, going in the third round — 77th overall — to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday. The 6-foot-5, 220-pound Steinmetz, from the […]
Medicare on Monday launched a formal process to decide whether to cover Aduhelm, the new Alzheimer’s drug whose $56,000-a-year price tag and unproven benefits have prompted widespread criticism and a congressional investigation. A final decision isn’t likely until next spring, said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, although an initial ruling could […]
Emerging from a private meeting at the White House, Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that he and President Joe Biden are on the same page as Democrats draft a “transformative” infrastructure package unleashing more than $3.5 trillion in domestic investments on par with the New Deal of the 1930s. Sanders and Democratic senators on the […]
As Israel grapples with a surge of coronavirus cases due to the spread of the Delta variant, preliminary data seems to indicate that those who recovered from COVID have a
When the body of 4-year-old Emma Guara was pulled from the rubble of last month’s Florida condominium collapse, she was wearing the silver necklace her mother recently gave her, the pendant shaped like half a heart and inscribed “Little Sis.” When firefighters found her 11-year-old sister, Lucia Guara, she was not wearing her near-matching necklace, […]
U.S. regulators on Monday added a new warning to Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine about links to a rare and potentially dangerous neurological reaction, but said it’s not entirely clear the shot caused the problem. The Food and Drug Administration announced the new warning, flagging reports of Guillain-Barre syndrome, an immune system disorder that can […]
As a nation, we have known many tragedies throughout our history. The time period we find ourselves in now commemorates some of our most devastating events. More recently, Klal Yisrael
As crews keep searching for the last missing remains of the souls who perished in their collapsing beachfront condos nearly three weeks ago, the question is swirling across the ruins of the Champlain Towers South: What will become of the ground that bears so much pain? “There’s a lot of emotion. People talk about it […]
Wildfires that torched homes and forced thousands to evacuate burned across 10 parched Western states on Tuesday, and the largest, in Oregon, threatened California’s power supply. Nearly 60 wildfires tore through bone-dry timber and brush from Alaska to Wyoming, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Arizona, Idaho and Montana accounted for more than half […]
Eastern Union, one of the country’s largest commercial mortgage brokerage firms, is offering a paid internship for Yeshiva and Kollel-lite during Bein Hazmanim in data analytics and research, one of
All remaining lockdown restrictions in England will be lifted in a week despite a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed Monday. He said it was “the right moment to proceed” as schools close for summer vacation but urged people to “proceed with caution.” Johnson said although risks of the pandemic […]
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday announced the appointment of Eyal Hulata, formerly a senior Mossad official, to the position of National Security Adviser and Head of the National Security
Tesla founder Elon Musk took to a witness stand Monday to defend his company’s 2016 acquisition of a troubled company called SolarCity against a lawsuit that claims he’s to blame for a deal that was rife with conflicts of interest and never delivered the profits he’d promised. And to the surprise of no one, the […]
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, a leading religious Zionist Rabbi and the Chief Rabbi of Tzefat, as well as one of the members of the council of the Chief Rabbinate, was visiting
The latest suspect detained in the search for the masterminds and assassins in the killing of President Jovenel Moïse is a Haitian man in his 60s living in Florida who claims to be a medical doctor and has accused the leaders of his homeland of corruption. Police identified the man on Sunday night as Christian […]
According to a report that appeared on Channel 13 news, one of the presidential aides, a young woman who worked in the home of former Israeli President Ruvi Rivlin, tested
In a speech unprecedented in its severity, the Chief Rabbi of Israel HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef slammed Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana for the changes in the religious status quo
Deepen your understand of the Holy City with a unique tour of the Old City of Jerusalem in a fascinating 1 hour and 12 minute tour that will teach you things you didn’t know about the city’s thousands of years of history. A perfect experience to enhance your Tisha B’av, you’ll have access to this […]
A 13-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy were among then 19 victims injured or killed in a series of shootings across New York City over the weekend, police said. Police
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