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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Sunday that a "tentative agreement" has been reached the teachers' union over COVID-19 safety protocols, potentially averting a strike in the nation's third-largest school district. Under…
George Shultz, the 60th Secretary of State, who served under Regan and Nixon, has died at 100. His death was announced by the Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank at…
A study on the effects of three lockdowns on the Israeli educational system confirms the severe damage to children’s development, according to The Times of Israel on Sunday. The as-yet-unpublished data…
Developers of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine expect to have a modified jab to cope with the South Africa coronavirus variant by autumn, the vaccine's lead researcher said Sunday. Health officials in Britain…
The Torah world was once again plunged into mourning with the petirah Sunday of Hagaon Harav Chaim Meir Wosner, zt"l, Rav of Zichron Meir in Bnei Brak and Rosh Yeshivah,…
Israel
The Likud and New Hope parties ruled out a coalition post for Itamar Ben Gvir, the far-right candidate who is running for the Knesset with Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party.…
President Reuven Rivlin hosted the launch of the Israeli Press Institute, which will be aimed at restoring public confidence in the news media, at Beit HaNasi on Sunday. “The role…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ call for elections has thrown his political future into peril, forcing him to negotiate competing demands to engage with a friendlier U.S. administration, mend the rift…
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Jewish Community in Montreal Wins Lawsuit on Shul CapacityA judge has sided with the Jewish community in Montreal in a dispute over houses of worship. Quebec Superior Court Justice Chantal Masse ruled Friday that 10 people can daven…
In the last few years, Lakewood’s housing shortage has caused many people to move to Jackson and Toms River. What prompted you to move to Manchester, New Jersey? Essentially, we…
It was about seven years ago, when Mr. Bentzy Eichorn had just gotten up from sitting shivah for his mother, Mrs. Esther Eichorn, a”h, that Misaskim of Toronto was first…
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A more infectious coronavirus strain that originated in the United Kingdom has made its way to the United States, and cases of it are doubling nearly every ten days. The…
A grim study published by the Congressional Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy found “dangerous levels” of toxic heavy metals in baby foods. The “inorganic arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury”…
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President Joe Biden said the United States will not lift its economic sanctions on Iran in order to get Tehran back to the negotiating table to discuss how to revive…
A year after his death from COVID-19, residents in the Chinese city of Wuhan say they remain grateful to the “whistleblower” doctor who first sounded the alarm about the outbreak…
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