Every year, as Adar approaches, police, schools and other officials warn of the hazards associated with fireworks, which unfortunately, for many, have become synonymous with Purim. A 15-year-old boy from Moshe N’vei Yerek was transported to a hospital by MDA on Wednesday, 6 Adar, after sustaining an eye injury playing with fireworks. The child was […]
Two New Jersey state troopers who successfully deactivated two improvised explosive devices following a terrorist attack have received the 2017 Trooper of the Year awards. Detective Sgt. James Abbes and
Payday lenders got regulators to rethink rules on how closely to vet borrowers. E-cigarette makers got a delay in federal oversight of many vaping products. Candy makers praised a decision
Jurors in the bribery trial of a former top aide to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (KWOH’-moh) may begin deliberations as early as next week. The government rested its
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-General Gadi Eizenkott on Thursday, 7 Adar, addressed the Diplomatic-Security Cabinet, briefing the ministers on various events. Regarding the return of the bodies of two terrorists
A senior FBI official acknowledged Thursday that the nation’s top law enforcement agency has lost public trust after the revelation that it failed to investigate a potentially life-saving tip before
Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman declared that he will be joining the fight to make sure that old age homes and nursing homes will have adequate quality workers. Litzman wrote a letter to the Ministers of Interior and Finance, demanding that they prevent the expulsion of foreign workers who entered Israel illegally and work in the […]
(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Educators from across the greater Baltimore area came together to learn more about the challenges that children living with loss face in the classroom at a special Chai Lifeline symposium February 19 at Suburban Orthodox Congregation. The program is the first in a planned series of ChaiSymposium for Baltimore’s Jewish community. […]
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times) The horrific shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, by someone with an affiliation to an anti-Semitic group
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he has undergone medical tests while in the United States and that he is in good health. Speaking on Palestine TV late Thursday night Abbas
(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) The Israel Police continues its determined activity to locate and seize illegally held weapons and ammunition. Weapons that are illegally held are often used to carry
A 19-year-old accused of spray-painting swastikas and other Nazi graffiti at a Jewish cemetery in upstate New York has pleaded guilty to a hate crime charge. The Times Herald-Record of
(By: Margie Pensak) Have you ever paid a shiva call in the tri-state area and noticed additional amenities made available to aveilim there, not offered in Baltimore? In all likelihood,
Councilman Kalman Yeger opposed a City Council resolution this month requesting that the federal government intervene to prevent the deportation of activist Ravi Ragbir to his native Trinidad and Tobago. Because Yeger’s father is an immigrant and his maternal grandfather fled Europe to escape the Nazis, he is a strong supporter of legal immigration as […]
New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) is calling upon the International March of the Living to suspend its upcoming trip to Poland in light of that country’s recent denial of its role in the Holocaust. In a letter to Dr. Shmuel Rosenman, Chairman of the International March of the Living, Hikind expressed his enormous […]
An Israeli court has extended the arrests of a media tycoon and a former adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implicated in a corruption case involving Israel’s telecom giant. A
(VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Three Egyptian policemen were able to catch a 5-year-old child as he fell from a third-floor apartment balcony in the southern city of Assiut, saving the
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