A fast-moving blaze destroyed a Shul and home on the Far Rockaway / Lawrence border early Thursday morning. The fire broke out at 2-06 Seagirt Ave, on the Queens border
By Baruch Swinkin BEIT SHEMESH, ISRAEL- With President Biden’s administration settling in and a new agenda laid out, a clearer picture has begun to emerge on the issue of taxation for US citizens living or working overseas. Many Americans living in Israel, who pay taxes both in the United States as well as in Israel, […]
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Yankee Stadium will open as a COVID-19 vaccination site on Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday. The vaccination mega-site will be run jointly by the city and state and will serve only Bronx residents, the two Democrats said. “Yankee Stadium has always been known for […]
Far-right political parties The Religious Zionist party, Otzma Yehudit, and Noam, signed an agreement on Wednesday to all run together under a single ballot for the Knesset in the upcoming
The residents of the Kerem Avraham Geula neighborhood in Jerusalem are in shock after five residents of the neighborhood passed away, including a mother and son and two Gedolim, in
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Nine Israelis sought treatment in hospitals for jackal bites over two days, Channel 12 News reported on Tuesday evening. Most of the incidents occurred in the Nahriya area in northern
Almost six months after a rare face and hands transplant, Joe DiMeo is relearning how to smile, blink, pinch and squeeze. The 22-year-old New Jersey resident had the operation last August, two years after being badly burned in a car crash. “I knew it would be baby steps all the way,” DiMeo told The Associated […]
Readers around the world were moved last month to read of the Rav of the Stefanesht community’s mission to help keep COVID patients out of the ICU. Rav Solomon started
Ma’ayanei Hayeshuah Hospital in Bnei Brak saw yet another pregnant woman whose situation deteriorated after contracting COVID-19. The family of the woman, whose name for Tehillim is Ruth bas Rivka,
New York City’s health commissioner, the face of the city’s campaign to halt the spread of the coronavirus, announced Wednesday that he has been infected with the virus himself. Dr. Dave Chokshi said in a statement that he recently tested positive. “I now have mild symptoms, but they are manageable,” Chokshi said, adding that he […]
Former Vice President Mike Pence has opened a transition office in northern Virginia. Pence announced Wednesday that the Office of the Former Vice President will handle correspondence, scheduling requests, public
President Joe Biden told House Democrats on Wednesday he’s “not married” to an absolute number on his $1.9 trillion COVID rescue plan but Congress needs to “act fast” on relief for the pandemic and the economic crisis. Biden also said he doesn’t want to budge from his proposed $1,400 in direct payments that he said […]
Likud Minister Tzachi Hanegbi said on Tuesday that the US will never attack Iran’s nuclear program and Israel will have to make a decision to either strike Iran alone or accept the fact of a nuclear Islamic Republic. “The United States will never attack the nuclear facilities in Iran,” Hanegbit told Kan News. ” Israel […]
Chinese police have arrested more than 80 suspected members of a criminal group that was manufacturing and selling fake COVID-19 vaccines, including to other countries. Police in Beijing and in
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AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine does more than prevent people from falling seriously ill — it appears to reduce transmission of the virus and offers strong protection for three months on just a single dose, researchers said Wednesday in an encouraging turn in the campaign to suppress the outbreak. The preliminary findings from Oxford University, a co-developer […]
New York sales tax collections dropped by $1.8 billion or 10% in 2020 compared to 2019, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said in a report released Tuesday. That’s more than in the 2009 recession, when collections dropped 6%. Sales tax revenue dropped most sharply in the second quarter as Gov. Andrew Cuomo closed nonessential businesses statewide. […]
Denmark’s government said Wednesday it is joining forces with businesses to develop a digital passport that would show whether people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, allowing them to travel and help ease restrictions on public life. Finance Minister Morten Boedskov told a news conference that “in three, four months, a digital corona passport will […]
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