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The National Institutes of Health is taking a recipient of federal research dollars to task even as it seeks to quell the latest controversy over coronavirus experiments funded by the…
Evidence is growing that contracting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is generally as effective as vaccination at stimulating your immune system to prevent the disease. Yet federal officials have been…
The Israeli cabinet approved on Sunday a massive spending bill aimed at bettering the socioeconomic status of the country’s Arab population. The five-year, 30 billion omnibus ($9.4 billion) will now go…
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A fire was burning in several containers aboard a cargo ship chartered by Israel’s Zim Shipping line off Canada’s Pacific coast province of British Columbia on Sunday. The Canadian Coast…
Israel will grant an additional 9,000 entry permits for Palestinian construction workers, according to media reports on Sunday. The move, announced by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories…
Environmental as well as economic considerations have won out over a plan to build an airport in the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel, Globes reported on Sunday. The decision for…
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In honor of Meseches Rosh Hashanah the Daf Yomi commission of Agudas Yisroel coordinated a shiur, featuring a fascinating audio-visual presentation ‘Avenues of the Sky’ by Rabbi Shea Hertz Ostreicher…
Rebbetzin Fradel Weiss, a”h, the widow of noted talmid chacham and Chassid Reb Moshe Weiss, zt”l, passed away on Sunday. A survivor of the Holocaust, she moved to Eretz Yisrael…
B’chasdei Hashem, Hagaon Harav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, shlita, was released from the hospital on Friday, following a stay of several days. The Rosh Yeshivah was hospitalized on Monday in Hadassah…
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A powerful storm roared ashore Sunday in Northern California, flooding highways, toppling trees and causing mud flows in areas burned bare by recent fires as forecasters predict record-breaking rainfall. Drenching…
Earlier this year, an insistent cry arose from business leaders and Republican governors: Cut off a $300-a-week federal supplement for unemployed Americans. Many people, they argued, would then come off…
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Africa Tries to End Vaccine Inequity by Replicating its OwnIn a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine…
A senior U.S. diplomat on Sunday urged North Korea to refrain from additional missile tests and resume nuclear diplomacy, days after the North fired off its first underwater-launched ballistic missile…
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