A 35-year-old man was pulled from the Red Sea after he drowned by Herod’s Beach at the north side of Eilat’s bay. United Hatzalah volunteers and Magen David Adom ambulance teams responded to the emergency and treated the man at the scene performing CPR and succeeding in bringing back the man’s pulse. EMS teams then […]
A buoyant crowd comprised of hundreds of rabbeim, talmidim, Yeshiva families and distinguished guests welcomed a new Sephardic Sefer Torah to Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway, New York last Sunday, the first event of its kind in the yeshiva’s history. The Sefer Torah, which is being used by the Yeshiva’s Sephardic minyan, was […]
There was a small fire at Chabad World Headquarters on Friday morning. The FDNY was called to 770 Eastern Parkway just after 9:30AM, after the smell of fire and smoke
Well-known psychologist and community member from the Jewish community of Johannesburg, Dr. Miriam Wilks, 69, was R”L stabbed and killed during a home invasion incident that took place on Yom
Two missiles struck an Iranian tanker traveling through the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia on Friday, Iranian officials said, the latest incident in the region amid months
German investigators puzzled Thursday over how the suspect in a botched attack on a synagogue on Judaism’s holiest day managed to amass at least 4 kilograms (nearly 9 pounds) of explosives and acquire four firearms, an arsenal they said he planned to use in a massacre. While many questions remain about the suspect, German officials […]
The Trump administration on Thursday proposed a rewrite of rules for dealing with lead pipes contaminating drinking water, but critics say the changes appear to give water systems decades more
Inspections of some older Boeing jets have turned up structural cracks in more than three dozen of them, raising a new safety issue for the company, which is already dealing
New York City has filed a federal lawsuit against 22 online e-cigarette sellers, accusing them of selling their products to residents under the age of 21, Mayor Bill de Blasio
U.S. health officials are again warning doctors against abandoning chronic pain patients by abruptly stopping their opioid prescriptions. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services instead urged doctors to
A young child is in critical condition after a vicious attack in Queens. It happened at around 5:00PM in front of 122-01 Metropolitan Avenue in the Kew Gardens section of
More than 1.5 million people in Northern California were in the dark Thursday, most for a second day, after the state’s biggest utility shut off electricity to many areas to prevent its equipment from sparking wildfires as strong winds sweep through. Unprecedented in scope, the deliberate outages by Pacific Gas & Electric forced schools and […]
Americans are following impeachment proceedings closely and are slightly more likely to approve than disapprove of the inquiry itself. But the public is more closely split over whether President Donald
The city has announced a settlement that prevents floating digital billboards in New York City waters. Under the terms of the agreement announced Tuesday, Ballyhoo Media must pay a $100,000
For once, Republicans and Democrats in Congress were in the same place: out of the loop. When it came to President Donald Trump’s abrupt announcement that U.S. forces would no longer protect Syrian Kurds from a Turkish invasion, his supporters knew as little as his critics. All the effort by Republicans to assuage and court […]
They’ve skipped the high-profile Sunday TV shows and avoided driveway chat sessions with reporters. Few who are typically eager to defend the president have appeared at all on television this month. White House officials close to President Donald Trump are pulling off a disappearing act, remaining largely absent from public view — in the middle […]
Bernie Sanders says he’s “getting my endurance back” and “getting stronger every day” after last week’s heart attack, while promising to return to the presidential campaign trail “as soon as possible.” “I am feeling great,” the 78-year-old Vermont senator said in a 7-minute video posted online Thursday. He said that, while lying in a hospital […]
A Ukrainian Airlines flight packed with Jews heading from JFK Airport to Tel Aviv for Sukkos came under “Jewish profiling” on Thursday. Flight PS777 took off in JFK, and had
Two Florida businessmen tied to President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani have been arrested on campaign finance violations resulting from a $325,000 donation to a political action committee supporting Trump’s reelection. Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were arrested on a four-count indictment that includes charges of conspiracy, making false statements to the Federal Election […]
State prosecutors in New York City asked a judge Wednesday to reject claims by the defense team for twice-convicted Paul Manafort that their mortgage fraud case is double jeopardy. In
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