Month January 2021
Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up nationwide protests… Read more » The post Russia Arrests Over 4,000 at… Continue Reading →
Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai’s new party The Israelis has taken just a few weeks to prove its lack of appeal, according to the latest polls. After months of preparation… Read more » The post Polls Show Huldai’s Party Crashing… Continue Reading →
The head of the Mossad reportedly criticized remarks made by IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi which warned the Biden administration not to return to the Iran nuclear deal, and… Read more » The post Controversy Flares Again Over Kohavi… Continue Reading →
LRRC: January 31, 2021, marks the close of Open Enrollment, which is usually the last opportunity to purchase private health insurance for the year. However, The LRRC is pleased to announce two new Special Enrollment Periods allowing specific individuals and… Continue Reading →
LRRC: January 31, 2021, marks the close of Open Enrollment, which is usually the last opportunity to purchase private health insurance for the year. However, The LRRC is pleased to announce two new Special Enrollment Periods allowing specific individuals and… Continue Reading →
New York’s attorney general has joined calls for the state to loosen a partial immunity from lawsuits and criminal prosecutions it had granted to nursing homes at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring. In a report issued Thursday,… Continue Reading →
TEHRAN (JNS) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that its 2015 nuclear agreement with six world powers was non-negotiable, and rejected any changes to the participants in the accord. The announcement came in response to French President Emmanuel Macron’s… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) – After days of frigid temperatures but little else weather-wise, the Northeast braced for a whopper of a storm that could dump well over a foot of snow in many areas, create blizzard-like conditions and cause travel… Continue Reading →
A huge fire engulfed a recycling plant overnight in northern New Jersey and raged into Saturday as firefighters battled flames, wind and frigid cold that turned the water from their hoses into treacherous ice. Officials warned it could burn for… Continue Reading →
Israeli police sprayed a crowd of protesters with a water cannon on Motzei Shabbos as they tried to disperse demonstrators calling for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s resignation over corruption charges.… Read more » The post Police Use Water Cannon to… Continue Reading →
Back in March, when Covid closed Judaism’s central institutions, the most essential aspects of Jewish life soldiered on – Kosher supermarkets, the Chevra Kadisha, and Mikvahs remained opened. That is, for most Jewish communities. For tiny, remote Jewish communities in… Continue Reading →
A group of Senate Republicans called on President Joe Biden to meet them at the negotiating table as the newly elected president signaled he could move to pass a new… Read more » The post GOP Lawmakers Urge Biden to… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JNS) — Personal identification tags bearing the names of four Jewish children who were deported to the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland have recently been retrieved in an archaeological excavation at the site. The metal tags, worn around… Continue Reading →
With a potentially serious storm bearing quickly down on Lakewood, Township Manager Pat Donnelly tells TLS that they are going “all out” on the storm, and not leaving anything up to chance. “We are going all out on this storm;… Continue Reading →
The Knesset voted Sunday afternoon to increase fines imposed for violations of the lockdown, paving the way for a government resolution to extend the ongoing lockdown. 42 MKs voted in… Read more » The post Knesset Doubles Fines for Violations… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] News of the passing of Rabbi Naftali Bernstein spread through the Beit Shemesh community like wildfire on Friday morning. Bernstein was a well-known community figure, a beloved cheder rebbi, and a father of 10. After he was taken to the… Continue Reading →
A huge fire engulfed a recycling plant overnight in northern New Jersey and raged into Saturday as firefighters battled flames, wind and frigid cold that turned the water from their… Read more » The post Huge, Stubborn Recycling Plant Fire… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis on Sunday thronged the funeral of a prominent rabbi in Jerusalem, flouting the country’s ban on large public gatherings during the pandemic. The funeral procession for Rabbi Meshulam Soloveitchik, who died at age… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — For the second time on the same day, the Torah world was plunged into mourning with the news of the passing of Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner, the Rosh Yeshiva of Kamenetz just hours after the passing of Rabbi… Continue Reading →
The warden brought in to clean up the federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself has abruptly stepped down after a yearlong tenure marred by the rampant spread of the coronavirus, inmates’ complaints about squalid conditions, a smuggled gun and… Continue Reading →
A Minyan Shachris was held today in Manchester Township, said to be the first such Minyan in the Ocean County Township. With even Toms River and Jackson quickly becoming unaffordable for young families, some are beginning to look at Manchester… Continue Reading →