The government capitulated to the Ra’am party on Wednesday, giving in to its demand to immediately cease the planting of trees in the Negev. However, the Bedouins nevertheless continued to
The Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on
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The New Jersey General Assembly and Senate have unanimously passed legislation to bring vital reforms to New Jersey’s paramedic programs. Assembly Bill A-6132, sponsored by Assemblyman Schaer, Assemblyman Greenwald, Assemblyman Conaway, Senator Gopal, and Senator Singer permits volunteer paramedics to operate within mobile intensive care units. Hatzalah units have spent decades administering Basic Life Support […]
Kesher Networks is the Jewish community’s answer to the challenge of shidduchim for medically challenged singles. Kesher Networks, Bonei Olam’s new shidduch initiative, maintains a massive online database of boys and girls with every type of medical condition, from serious to innocuous. The database includes users from every country on the globe, and opens users […]
In the first three months of Fiscal Year 2022 – October through December – taxes collected by the federal government hit a record high: $1,051,873,000,000. Prior to this year’s collections,
Stocks wobbled lower on Wall Street Thursday afternoon as investors gauged the latest data on inflation and company earnings. The S&P 500 fell 0.6% as of 12:18 p.m. Eastern. The
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Israeli President Yitzchak Herzog on Thursday to express his condolences on the loss of his mother. Aura Herzog, z’l, who was also the almanah of Israel’s sixth president, Chaim Herzog, passed away earlier this week at the age of 97. Erdogan’s phone call is the latest in several conversations he had […]
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level since mid-November, but still low by historic standards. U.S. jobless claims climbed by 23,000 last
Watch this exciting video“My personal shidduch story” by Rabbi Binyomin Pruzansky We wanted to share with you an email we at Yad L’Achim received from Rivky F. from Brooklyn, NY:“I wanted
The U.S. Army, for the first time, is offering a maximum enlistment bonus of $50,000 to highly skilled recruits who join for six years, The Associated Press has learned, as
A “perfect storm” is brewing in the Democratic Party which could provide an opening for failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to mount another bid for the White House, two
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Police in Lauderhill, a city in the Miami metropolitan area, launched an arson investigation after one of their cars was set on fire outside a Chabad shul late Wednesday night.
The European Union is none-too-pleased about the recent publication of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s annual “Global Anti-Semitism Top Ten” list, with officials saying that the group is tarnishing Holocaust survivor
Mossad head Dovid Barnea and Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Mohammed Al-Dabaiba met recently in Jordan for talks on normalization, Libyan and Saudi media outlets reported on Wednesday. Al Dabaiba’s office denied that a meeting took place. It’s unlikely that Libya could reach an official normalization agreement with Israel in the near future as the country has […]
The presence of a senior Iranian official at the investiture of Nicaragua’s president has angered Argentina, which alleges the official was involved in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. Argentina’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that the appearance of Mohsen Rezaei, the Iranian vice president for economic affairs, […]
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s fragile coalition is being rocked by a crisis over tree planting in the Negev by the Jewish National Fund-Keren Kayemeth L’Yisrael (KKL-JNF), a yearly tradition that this year sparked violent riots by Bedouins and Ra’am’s boycott of the coalition. Bedouins falsely claim that the land is privately owned by Arabs, prompting […]
New York City’s subways and commuter rails are getting a $6 billion chunk of federal COVID-19 relief funds. Sen. Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has received the money as part of more than $14.5 billion in overall federal relief aid. The aid, contained in COVID-19 relief bills during both the Trump and […]
In an especially tragic incident, two IDF officers from a commando unit were killed at an army base in the Jordan Valley late Wednesday night, the IDF stated on Thursday
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