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A group of teenagers assaulted and menaced two Jews in Bensonhurst early Shavuos morning. Around 4:32 a.m. Friday, a 25-year-old man was walking home from an all-night learning session. Just steps…
Governor Phil Murphy signed an executive order which permits child care services to resume normal operations on or after June 15. The resumption is subject to their compliance with health…
Campaign staff for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden are advertising their donations to a group that pays bail fees in Minneapolis after the city's police jailed people protesting the killing…
China's state media lashed out on Sunday at possible retaliatory moves by the United States to impose sanctions and end Hong Kong's special status if Beijing imposes new national security…
Shouting "Black Lives Matter" and "I can't breathe," hundreds of people converged on the White House for a second straight day Saturday to protest the death of George Floyd in…
Israel
Border police officers fatally shot a man they suspected was carrying a weapon near the Lion’s Gate in the Old City of Yerushalayim on Shabbos, a police spokesman said, but…
Israeli schools will remain open despite a COVID-19 outbreak at the Gymnasia high school in Rechavia, Yerushalayim, the Health Ministry said on Motzoei Shabbos, but Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned…
Three teachers from the Gymnasia Rechavia school in Yerushalayim tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday morning, raising the total number of coronavirus cases in the school to six, three…
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Anti-Semitic crimes in Germany last year reached their highest level since the country started keeping statistics, amid an overall strong increase in right-extremist criminality that is a cause for “great…
Boro Park Jewish Community Council in partnership with Met Council held a Holiday Food Drive for the Boro Park community. Over 500 families received necessary holiday food staples. A large…
National
Tense protests over the death of George Floyd and other police killings of black men grew Saturday from New York to Tulsa to Los Angeles, with police cars set ablaze…
The House is moving to pass a bipartisan measure to modify a new “paycheck protection” program for businesses that have suffered COVID-related losses, giving them more flexibility to use federal…
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President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will postpone until the fall a meeting of Group of 7 nations he had planned to hold next month at the White House…
The Trump administration announced Wednesday it is ending nearly all of the last vestiges of U.S. sanctions relief provided under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo…
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