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The NYPD is looking for a suspect in an anti-Semitic hate crime that occurred in Crown Heights last week. On September 9 around 5:3o p.d., the man approached a 46 year-old…
The Transportation Department said Thursday it will give rights for several afternoon and evening flights in Newark, New Jersey, to a budget airline to drive down fares. The coveted takeoff and…
A spate of inmate deaths. Cellblocks unguarded. Staggering staffing shortages caused by AWOL guards. Detainees deprived of food and medical care. New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex, troubled by years…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reshuffled his senior ministers on Wednesday, appointing his party's first female foreign secretary, as he urged his government to get on with the job of…
Washington will not pressure Israel and the Palestinians to resume direct negotiations, or take other action to improve the conditions for regional peace talks, U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price…
Israel
Dozens of sets of the daled minim have recently been transferred to the few Jews still living in Arab countries like Syria and Iraq. The Yad L’Achim organization took care…
Qatar resumed its distribution of aid to Gaza on Wednesday for the first time since the May war between Israel and the territory’s Hamas rulers, this time through a new…
One year after the families of Naftali Frenkel, Gil-ad Shaer, and Eyal Yifrach, Hy”d, the three teens kidnapped and murdered by Hamas in 2014, filed an unprecedented lawsuit against the…
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I am deeply saddened by the petirah of my yedid nefesh of five decades, Rabbi Reuven Savitz, zt”l. Rabbi Savitz was one of the most respected people I have ever…
Lakewood School Bus Gets Into Accident; No Students HurtA school bus for a girls’ high school in Lakewood got into a three-vehicle accident on Tuesday morning, the Lakewood Scoop reported. B’chasdei Hashem, none of the fifteen students onboard…
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected an appeal by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, made in a phone call, for Republicans to join with Democrats in raising the federal debt ceiling,…
COVID-19 deaths and cases in the U.S. have climbed back to where they were over the winter, wiping out months of progress and potentially bolstering President Joe Biden’s argument for…
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Hezbollah began bringing Iranian fuel into Lebanon via Syria on Thursday, a move the Shiite Muslim group says should ease a crippling energy crisis but which opponents say risks provoking…
Iran acknowledged on Wednesday that it had removed several surveillance cameras installed by U.N. nuclear inspectors at a centrifuge assembly site that came under a mysterious attack earlier this year.…
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