Month November 2019
Usman Khan was convicted on terrorism charges but let out of prison early. He attended a “Learning Together” conference for ex-offenders, and used the event to launch a bloody attack, stabbing two people to death and wounding three others. Read… Continue Reading →
This year’s Black Friday was the biggest ever for online sales, as fewer people hit the stores and shoppers rang up $7.4 billion in transactions from their phones, computers and tablets. Read more on Yeshiva World News
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of next week’s NATO summit in London. The summit comes at a critical moment for the… Continue Reading →
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teen Friday near the Gaza-Israel frontier and Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel in the evening, apparently in response to the fatal shooting. The Israeli military… Continue Reading →
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police say multiple people have been injured in a stabbing incident in The Hague’s main shopping street. Police said in a tweet Friday evening that the incident happened in the city’s main shopping street…. Continue Reading →
HONG KONG (AP) — Hundreds of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists rallied Friday outside the British Consulate, urging the city’s former colonial ruler to emulate the U.S. and take concrete actions to support their cause, as police ended a blockade of… Continue Reading →
Last week saw a rare occurrence in the Bais HaVaad’s Even HaEzer division, with the performance of a Chalitza ceremony. Chalitza – the process by which a childless widow and a brother of her deceased husband may avoid the ‘yibum’… Continue Reading →
A massive Texas chemical plant fire that rocked a Gulf Coast town with two major explosions is finally considered contained after three days and evacuation orders for 50,000 people have… Read more » The post Evacuation Order Lifted as Huge… Continue Reading →
Black Friday shoppers fought for parking spots and traveled cross-state to their favorite malls, kicking off a shortened shopping season that intensified the mad scramble between Thanksgiving and Dec. 25.… Read more » The post Black Friday Kicks Off Scramble… Continue Reading →
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister announced Friday that he would submit his resignation to parliament, a day after more than 40 people were killed by security forces in protests and following calls by Iraq’s top Shiite cleric for lawmakers… Continue Reading →
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi announced his resignation on Friday after the country’s top Shiite Muslim cleric urged lawmakers to reconsider their support for a government rocked by weeks… Read more » The post Iraq PM Says He Will… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) – London Mayor Sadiq Khan says police are not looking for anyone else in the stabbings that took place near London Bridge. The mayor commended the “breathtaking heroism” of the members of public who intervened in the incident,… Continue Reading →
Stocks moved lower in morning trading on Wall Street Friday as the market pulled back after a week of record highs for the major indexes. Trading volume was lighter than… Read more » The post U.S. Stocks Head Lower in… Continue Reading →
Trump Makes Secret Visit To Afghanistan – President Trump made a secret visit on Thanksgiving to the roughly 12,000 troops serving in Afghanistan. The visit was kept under wraps, with the White House taking steps to keep the president’s Twitter… Continue Reading →
Police shot dead a man suspected of stabbing several people near London Bridge on Friday in what detectives declared a terrorist incident. The Metropolitan Police said “a number” of people… Read more » The post Stabbings on London Bridge; Police… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Black Friday shoppers fought for parking spots and traveled cross-state to their favorite malls, kicking off a shortened shopping season that intensified the mad scramble between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The shopping season is the shortest since… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) – London’s Metropolitan Police say that though the circumstances of an incident on London Bridge remain unclear, authorities are treating it as if it is terror-related. The police acknowledged one man had been shot in the incident that… Continue Reading →
STRAND (JTA) — A Norwegian mayor asked a church to replace its traditional Star-of-David Christmas decoration due to complaints that it’s too associated with Israel and Jews. Strand Mayor Irene Heng Lauvsnes asked the Klippen Pentecostal church, which lights a… Continue Reading →
On Monday this past week, the medical auxiliary team from an emergency room (ER) in one of the hospitals in the Sharon region took a day to work on team building and left their duties at the emergency room. Read… Continue Reading →