South Korea had seemed to be winning the fight against the coronavirus: Quickly ramping up its testing, contact-tracing and quarantine efforts paid off when it weathered an early outbreak without
Today we have good news for overseas residents. Some dear people and friends of Orchot Yosher have worked tirelessly to establish an English-language website designed for overseas residents, where you
The coronavirus infection rate in Chareidi cities has risen to alarming rates in recent weeks and health officials believe that the mutated virus variant originally found in the UK is
Presidential Advisor and First Daughter Ivanka Trump is considering a Senate run in Florida, according to media reports. Trump and her husband White House adviser Jared Kushner recently purchased a $31 million waterfront estate on Indian Creek Island, an elite Miami area known as the “Billionaire’s Bunker.” Some reports say that the power couple’s move […]
Officials in Canada’s most populous province have confirmed the first two known Canadian cases of of a more contagious variant of COVID-19 that was first identified in the United Kingdom. The province’s associate chief medical officer says that the cases are a couple from Durham Region, just east of Toronto, with no known travel history, […]
A gunman opened fire inside an Illinois bowling alley, killing three people and injuring three others Saturday night in what authorities believe was a random attack. A 37-year-old male suspect
Israel’s Health Ministry published the statistics of new Covid-19 cases from the weekend. More than 5,433 people tested positive for the virus and an additional 20 people died in hospital
Millions of people in the U.K. faced tough new coronavirus restrictions Saturday, with Scotland and Northern Ireland demanding tighter measures to try to halt a new variant of the virus
BAY SHORE, NY — A Long Island man has been arrested after a Christmas morning crime spree that gave new meaning to the term doorbuster. It happened shortly before 2
My brothers, My mother died when I was only a child and I will never forget the love that she had towards me. As soon as she died, my father
Millions of people in the U.K. faced tough new coronavirus restrictions Saturday, with Scotland and Northern Ireland demanding tighter measures to try to halt a new variant of the virus
Retail sales increased a modest 3% during a longer holiday season this year, as homebound shoppers spent more on furnishing and food but less on clothing and jewelry, according to figures released Saturday by a firm that tracks all forms of payments. The increase fell short of predictions from the National Retail Federation, the nation’s […]
Agudas Yisroel’s divisions of Yeshiva Services and Government Affairs presented a webinar regarding the stimulus bill passed by Congress and still awaiting the President’s signature. The webinar focused on the sections of the bill most relevant to the yeshiva and day school community and the many opportunities for funding to help our mosdos. Topics included […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned Saturday that “New Yorkers have a long journey ahead” as the state reported over 10,800 new coronavirus cases and New Jersey saw 4,000 more cases. Cuomo said there were 10,806 more positives out of 201,442 tests on Friday, 5.36% of the total. Of those new cases, 3,949 were in New York […]
A recreational vehicle parked in the deserted streets of downtown Nashville exploded early Christmas morning, causing widespread communications outages that took down police emergency systems and grounded holiday travel at the city’s airport. Police were responding to a report of shots fired Friday when they encountered the RV blaring a recorded warning that a bomb […]
A federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after
A wave of COVID-19 has engulfed prisons in Belarus that are packed with people in custody for demonstrating against the nation’s authoritarian president, and some of the protesters who contracted the coronavirus while incarcerated accuse authorities of neglecting or even encouraging infections. Activists who spoke to The Associated Press after their release described massively overcrowded […]
The European Union and the United Kingdom made public Saturday the vast agreement that is likely to govern future trade and cooperation between them from Jan. 1, setting the 27-nation bloc’s relations with its former member country and neighbor on a new but far more distant footing. EU ambassadors and lawmakers on both sides of […]
Yeshivas Kol Torah was engulfed in mourning on Motzei Shabbos when the bitter news reached the yeshivah of the petira of HaGaon HaRav Shalom Povarsky, who served as one of
Federal agents converged Saturday on the home of a possible person of interest in the explosion that rocked downtown Nashville as investigators scoured hundreds of tips and leads in the
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