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Thursday, April 2, 2020 | ח' ניסן תש"פ
- Yeshiva Sh’or Yoshuv Transformed Into Hospital
- U.S. Social Security Recipients to Automatically Get Coronavirus Money
- The Meaning of Pandemic
- Business Briefs – April 2, 2020
- UN: Pandemic could shrink global economy almost 1% in 2020
- Stocks Skid as Physical, Economic Toll of Virus Worsens
- `A Battlefield Behind Your Home’: Deaths Mount in New York
- Trump: U.S. to Deploy Anti-Drug Navy Ships Near Venezuela
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 | ז' ניסן תש"פ
- FDA Wants Heartburn Meds Off the Market Due to Contamination
- Truck Hauling Toilet Paper Catches Fire on Texas Interstate
- Fighting 2 Viruses in Lakewood
- Democrats Proposing Commission to Study U.S. Pandemic Response
- Sprint and T-Mobile Merge, Creating New Wireless Giant
- Small Businesses Can Apply for Forgivable COVID-19 Loans Friday
- Protective Gear in National Stockpile is Nearly Depleted, DHS Officials Say
- Unity Deal Calls for New Deputy PM Residence
- Masks Required for Everybody, More Limits on Bnei Brak
- Trump Resists National Shutdown, Leaving It Up to States
- National Gallery of Art Returns Picasso Painting to Jewish Heirs
- Israel Links Coronavirus Aid to Return of Fallen Soldiers
- Quarantine Policy on Arrivals From Abroad Up in Air
- New Jersey Pushing Tax Deadline to July 15
- Mossad in Undercover Competition for Coronavirus Supplies
- Coast Guard: Cruise Ships Must Stay at Sea With Sick Onboard
- Reporting for Duty: Airline Crew Sign Up to Help Hospitals
- Police Set to Enforce No-Guests Rule at Seder
- April 1, Rent’s Due: Many Struggle to Pay in Coronavirus Pandemic
- Kiddush Levana Notification
- 1.5 Million Israelis Using Voluntary Coronavirus Monitoring Software
- U.N. Delivers Food to Gaza Homes in Coronavirus Crisis
- Virus Deaths in NYC Top 1,100 as City Prepares for Worse
- Rouhani: U.S. Has Lost Opportunity to Lift Iran Sanctions Amid Coronavirus
- U.K. Coronavirus Deaths Rise by 563 to 2,352
- Netanyahu Pressed in Negotiations From Right, Left on Annexation
- Netanyahu: All Coming From Abroad Will Quarantine in Designated Hotels
- German Zoos Ask Merkel for Funds to Feed Animals During Crisis
- Teams to Bring Food, Assistance to Homebound, Alone Elderly
- Spain Reports More Than 100,000 Coronavirus Cases, New Daily Death Toll Record
- New Law Will Let Homebound MKs Participate in Knesset Votes
- Asian Shares Skid on Virus Worries, Bleak BOJ Survey
- Corona-Challenged Supermarkets to Provide Quick Delivery on Basic Products
- China Reports Fewer New Coronavirus Cases, Starts Posting Asymptomatic Cases Daily
- Coronavirus Cases in Israel Up to 5,591, 21 Fatalities
- Experts Say Virus Could Kill Up to 240,000 Americans
- BD’E – Harav Yosef Leifer, Zt”l, Verdaner Rebbe of Flatbush
- Memos From CDC to White House Lay Out Rationale for Possible Widespread Use of Face Coverings
- Trump Calls for Infrastructure Spending in Next Coronavirus Stimulus Bill
- Could Coronavirus Hit Again in the Fall? Yes, But it Would Be Different, Dr. Fauci Says
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 | ו' ניסן תש"פ
- House May Cancel Recesses, Extend Legislative Weeks for Days Lost to Pandemic
- Coronavirus Spread on USS Theodore Roosevelt is ‘Ongoing and Accelerating,’ Ship’s Captain Says
- U.S. Death Toll Eclipses China’s as Reinforcements Head to NYC
- US Lays Out Plan to Form Transition Government in Venezuela Without Maduro or Guaidó
- Mayor De Blasio Suspends Alternate Side Parking Through April 14
- New Jersey Death Toll From COVID-19 Approaching 300
- Coronavirus Shows Everyone What People With Disabilities Have Known All Along
- Stocks Fall, Closing Out Their Worst Quarter Since 2008
- Amazon Fires Warehouse Worker Who Staged Walkout
- Knesset Speaker Gantz Gets Flak From Colleagues, Old and New
- Israeli Coronavirus Cases Jump to 5,358, 15th Fatality
- Hospital Head Decries Failure to Check Arrivals From COVID-19 Epicenters
- Business Briefs – April 1, 2020
- Coronavirus Shows U.S. Too Dependent on Cheap Medical Imports, USTR Says
- Impeachment ‘Diverted the Attention’ of Administration From Coronavirus Response, McConnell Says
- Defense Ministry to Use Computer Analysis to Find Coronavirus Carriers
- Watchdog Finds New Problems with FBI Wiretap Applications
- Israel Testing COVID-19 Vaccine
- Lieber’s Recalls Some Cans of Crushed Tomatoes With Basil
- Stocks Drift, Still Headed to Worst Quarter Since 2008
- Misaskim Pleads: Stop the Toxic Spread of Information
- Florida Docking Plan in the Works for Ill-Fated Cruise Ships
- Chesed Shel Emes Asks People Not to Share Images of Niftarim
- Business Briefs – March 31, 2020
- Coronavirus Ravages Israeli Economy, Over a Million Jobless Expected
- Wall Street’s Rally Rolls On, Led by Health Care Stocks
- NYC Reports First Coronavirus Death of a Person Under 18
- IDF Chief Goes Into Quarantine
- Empire State Building Lights Up in Tribute to Emergency Workers
- FDA Authorizes Use of New 2-Minute Test Kit for Coronavirus
- Some Instacart, Amazon Workers Strike as Jobs Get Riskier
- U.S. Outlines Plan for Venezuela Transition, Sanctions Relief
- Traders Scramble to Sell Cheap Crude Cargoes as Glut Grows
- Bennett: We’ll Begin Reopening Economy After Pesach
- Millions of ‘Invisible’ Stateless Could Be Denied Help If They Get Coronavirus
- Sheba Hospital: All Chareidim Are Suspected Coronavirus Carriers
- Kosel Stones Disinfected, Kvittlach Removed
- Iran Says Natural Gas Exports to Turkey Halted after Attack by ‘Terrorists’
- Growth in Australia Coronavirus Cases Slows, But Experts Urge Caution
- U.K. Police Criticised for Overzealous Lockdown Response
- Top Health Official: Israel May Be Turning a Corner
- Health Worker Shortage Prompts Relaxation of Quarantine Rules
- China to Focus on Asymptomatic Coronavirus Cases as Public Fears Grow
- Two Women Die of Coronavirus, Raising Israel’s Toll to 18
- U.S. Nears China’s Virus Death Toll as New York Calls for Help
Monday, March 30, 2020 | ה' ניסן תש"פ
- Governor Murphy and Superintendent Callahan Clarify Businesses Permitted to Operate
- San Diego Virus Fighter to Lead International Effort to Stanch Spread of Coronavirus
- Poll: Gov. Cuomo Wins Over 87% of NY Voters With His Handling of Coronavirus Crisis
- 8 Nursing Home Residents Die of COVID-19, NJ Mayor Says
- Gas is Cheap, But for Many Motorists There’s Nowhere to Go
- Cuomo Pleads for Medical Volunteers Amid New York’s ‘Staggering’ Death Toll
- BPJCC Launches New COVID-19 Info-Site
- Greek WWII Resistance Hero Manolis Glezos Dies at 97
- Coronavirus Has Small Mutations and Now Has 8 Strains, Doctors Say
- Google, Oracle and Trump Cases are Put on Supreme Court Hold by Virus
- Here’s How to Get a Small Business Loan Under the $349 Billion Coronavirus Aid Bill
- Russian Regions Join Coronavirus Lockdown as Toll Rises
- Coronavirus Cases Reach 4,695, Rate May Be Slowing
- No Matzah Shortage Expected Before Pesach
- Mercedes F1 Team Helps to Develop Breathing Aid in Pandemic
- Huge Emergency Aid Package, Tighter Restrictions on Gatherings
- Annexation Snags Unity Talks
- Partisan Divide Returns in U.S. Congress on Coronavirus Next Steps
- Wall Street Pushes Higher, Led by Surging Health Care Stocks
- Ben Gurion Airport Down to 3 Airlines
- Navy Hospital Ship Arrives in NYC to Back Up Health Systems
- Public Meeting on Toll Hikes Set Despite Stay-Home Order
- Chinese Chutzpah
- Macy’s to Furlough Majority of Its 130,000 Workers
- Israeli Cabinet to Meet on Coronavirus, Gatherings May Go Down to 2
- Mossad Delivers 10 Million Protective Masks
- First Israeli in Serious Condition From Coronavirus Recovers
- Urgent Pre-Pesach Advisory, With New Florida Coronavirus Restrictions in Place
- Navy Hospital Ship Set to Arrive in NYC Harbor
- Agriculture Ministry Facilitating Increased Egg Imports
- Fauci: Health Experts Pushed Strongly for Trump to Extend Coronavirus Restrictions
- Report: Likud Seeking to Increase Number of Gov’t Ministers
- North Korea Says U.S. Clearly Doesn’t Want Nuclear Talks
- No Traffic Means More Road Construction, Minister Says
- Spain’s Coronavirus Cases Rise to 85,195, Surpasses China
- 58-Year-Old Dies of Coronavirus, Raising Israel’s Toll to 16
- Netanyahu and Staff to Self-Quarantine as Precaution
- Israeli Health Ministry Head: No Timeline Yet on Back to Normal
- New York State Surpasses 1,000 Coronavirus Deaths
- Latest Coronavirus Effect: Pre-Pesach Egg Shortage in Israel
- City at Center of China’s Virus Outbreak Gradually Revives
- BD’E: Reb Yehosef Neumann, Hy”d, Victim of Monsey Attack on Chanukah
- Business Briefs – March 30, 2020
- Stocks Drop, But Hold on to Weekly Gains After a Big Rally
- Governor Cuomo Announces New Test for COVID-19
- Governor Cuomo Extends PAUSE Functions for Two More Weeks
Sunday, March 29, 2020 | ד' ניסן תש"פ
- For These We Cry
- FDA Approves 5-Minute Virus Test For Use Almost Anywhere
- Beth Medrash Govoha Pesach Guidelines 5780
- Cabinet Meets to Consider More Coronavirus Measures
- White House Pays Clothing Makers to Churn Out Millions of Masks
- Rescue Flight Brings 206 Israelis Home from Nigeria
- American Consumers, Once Bulwark of Economy, Are Rapidly Losing Confidence
- Minister Deri to Coordinate Coronavirus Response in Chareidi, Arab Sectors
- Unity Deal Threatens to Squeeze Out Right-Wing
- Gas Prices Keep Falling Amid Lower Demand During Epidemic
- New York State Nears 1,000 Coronavirus Deaths
- Fifteenth Person Falls to Coronavirus
- U.S. Embassy in Israel: Leave Now or You May Be Stranded
- Yesh Atid, Telem Go Into Opposition
- IDF to Help Enforce Coronavirus Lockdown
- Gaza Terror Groups Cancel Border Protests
- Specter of 100K-Plus Virus Deaths as Trump Seeks Reopening
- Mnuchin: Coronavirus Task Force Advised Trump on NY, NJ, CT Warning
- Woman Passes Away From Coronavirus, Bringing Israel’s Toll to 14
- Gov’t Official: Bnei Brak Needs to Be Under Closure
- Hagaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky, Shlita, Issues Psakim About Coronavirus
- Report: Supermarkets Way Behind on Online Orders
- Spain’s Coronavirus Death Toll Rises by 838 Overnight to 6,528
- Report: One Out of Every Two Heads of Household Unemployed
- U.K.’s Johnson Warns: Things to Get Worse Before They Get Better
- Israel’s 13th Coronavirus Fatality: A 92-Year-Old Patient in Shaare Zedek
- China Guards Against Second Wave of Coronavirus Coming From Abroad
- After Marathon Meeting, Netanyahu, Gantz Say Deal Close
- Klal Yisrael Unites in Chessed Vs COVID-19
- Mayo Clinic Researchers Join Quest in Getting COVID-19 Vaccine on Fast Track
- Trump Issues Order to Bring Retired Troops Back to Active Duty to Assist in Coronavirus Response
- NYS Department of Health Reverses Fallsburg Denial of Certificate of Occupancies for Bungalows and Camps
- Mayor De Blasio Calls for Rent Freeze Amid COVID-19 Crisis
- BD”E – Reb Tzvi Schmidt, Z”l
- Statistics of Fatalities in NYC From Coronavirus
- Pence Says Virus Taskforce Soon to Deliver Recommendation on Whether to Re-open Economy
- Executive Order From Gov. Cuomo to Allow Support in Hospital Delivery Wards
- Trump: No Quarantine, but Travel Advisory for NY, CT and NJ
- NY Delays Presidential Primary; Nurses Appeal for Protective Gear
- Letter From Chicago Rabbanim
- Trump Congratulates Netanyahu for Moving Towards Forming Gov’t
- Italy Coronavirus Death Toll Surges Past 10,000; Lockdown Extension Likely
- Health Chief: U.K. Coronavirus Death Toll Under 20,000 Would Be ‘Good Result’
- 3,619 Coronavirus Cases in Israel; Death Toll Rises to 12
- Trump Considering Quarantine for NY, NJ and Connecticut
Friday, March 27, 2020 | ב' ניסן תש"פ
- House Passes $2.2T Rescue Package, Rushes It to Trump
- As Coronavirus Toll Mounts in New York, More Hospitals Sought
- New York Subway Driver Killed in Fire Being Investigated as a Crime
- Stocks Move Lower on Wall Street Following a Big 3-Day Rally
- Boris Johnson Tests Positive for Virus; Deaths Soar in Spain
- Maimonides ER Triage to Be Done in Tent
- BDE: Dr. Mark Allen Respler, Niftar From Coronavirus
- On NYC’s Front Lines, Health Workers Worry They Will Be Next
- Asian Shares Advance After Stimulus Surge on Wall Street
- U.S. Imposes Fresh Iran-Related Sanctions Despite Coronavirus
- China’s Xi Offers Trump Help in Fighting Coronavirus as U.S. Caseload Surges Past China
- Two More Fatalities in Israel, Bringing Toll to Ten; 3,035 Patients
- Gantz to Lapid, Yaalon: Thanks for the Memories
- Meet the Los Angeles Teen Who Gave Away Toilet Paper From His Car Trunk
- Stocks Surge Again After Relief Bill Passed; Indexes Up 6%
- Business Briefs – March 27, 2020