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Thursday, January 28, 2021 | ט"ו שבט תשפ"א
- U.S. Senate to Begin Work on COVID-19 Relief as Early as Next Week
- Navalny Defiant as Russian Court Rejects Arrest Appeal
- New Biden Healthcare Orders Begin to Unspool Trump Policies
- Wisconsin Assembly to Vote on Repealing Statewide Mask Order
- Jobless Claims Drop; Still at 847,000 as Pandemic Rages
- NYC Vaccine Sites to Reopen in Anticipation of Supplies Arriving
- NY AG Says Cuomo ‘Severely Undercounted’ Nursing Home Deaths
- Iran Says U.S., Not Tehran, Should Act First to Resolve Nuclear Deal Row
- Israel Funds Single Outgoing Flight Each Day
- Economy Shrank 3.5% in 2020 After Growing 4% Last Quarter
- GameStop Slugfest Spreads as Calls for Probe Build
- Israel to Supply Air Force Fighter Jets to Top Aces for U.S. Air Force Training Services
- Study: Pfizer Vaccine Only Slightly Less Effective Against S. African Mutations
- Report: Netanyahu Trying to Arrange Visit of Moroccan King Ahead of Elections
- FOCUS: How Many Variants of the Coronavirus Are There?
- We Want the Shots We’ve Ordered, U.K. Says, as Europe’s Vaccine Row Sharpens
- Russia Detains Allies of Jailed Opposition Leader Navalny
- Edelstein: Lifting the Lockdown Now Would Be ‘Highly Irresponsible’
- S. Korean PM: N. Korea, U.S. Should Aim for Initial Nuclear Freeze
- Blinken Stands by Demand Iran Return to Nuclear Deal Before U.S. Does
- WHO Team in Wuhan Departs Quarantine for COVID Origins Study
- Pakistan Court Orders Man Accused in American’s Death Freed
- Blinken: U.S. Committed to Israel’s Security
- Man Arrested After Anti-Semitic Attack in Belgium
- Simcha Goldin to Knesset Committee: Freed Hamas Prisoners Are Building Tunnels With Cement From Israel
- BD’E – Harav Yitzchak Lasker, Zt”l
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 | י"ד שבט תשפ"א
- California Discloses Math Behind Easing Stay-At-Home Order
- Advocates Urge Biden, Congress to Leave Section 230 Intact
- U.S. House Data Not Ready Until April, States’ Data After July
- Cuomo to Address Possible Reopening of NYC Indoor Dining on Friday
- Stocks Have Their Worst Day Since October as Big Tech Sinks
- Pompeo Lands Spot at Think Tank Amid Speculation Over 2024 Presidential Ambitions
- Wisconsin Pharmacist Accused of Destroying Dozens of COVID Vaccine Doses to Plead Guilty
- U.K. COVID Variant Identified in 26 States
- Joint List Has “Terrible Meeting”
- Bernie Sanders’ Mittens, Memes Help Raise $1.8M for Charity
- Gantz Admonishes IDF Chief
- Sudan Wants Signing Ceremony with Israel at White House
- Court: NJ Transit Due $300 million in Sandy Damage Coverage
- Fed Leaves Policy Unchanged as Economic Recovery Appears to Moderate
- Biden Pauses Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia, UAE
- Barge of Waste from Gowanus Sinks Back Into Gowanus
- U.S. Terrorism Alert Warns of Politically Motivated Violence
- Russian Lawmakers Approve Extension of Nuclear Arms Pact with U.S.
- Biden Forming a Commission on Supreme Court Reform
- Israel Refutes Accusations of Vaccine Discrimination Against Palestinians
- Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Fiat Chrysler
- Nominee for UN Ambassador Condemns BDS
- Luxembourg Signs Restitution Deal for Holocaust Victims
- Knesset Votes to Extend Lockdown Without Raising Fines
- Report: Yehuda and Shomron Population Surged During Trump Era
- Germany Remembers Auschwitz Liberation in Parliament
- Biden to Target Drilling, Fossil Fuel Subsidies
- MTA Loses $5M Each Month That It Delays Fare Hikes
- NY Civil Rights Advocates Back Facial Recognition Ban
- Blinken Confirmed as Biden’s Secretary of State
- Stocks Fall Sharply on Wall Street, Led Lower by Tech Stocks
- Gov’t to Meet Thursday on Extension of Lockdown
- English Lockdown Set to Last Until at Least March, Johnson Indicates
- Moderna to Deliver Another 200 Million Doses by Summer
- In Warning to Iran, U.S. Bomber Flies Over Persian Gulf
- Sefer Torah Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day in Germany
- U.K. Plant Producing AstraZeneca Vaccines Partially Evacuated Over Suspect Package
- International Team Disables World’s Most Dangerous Malware
- UAE, Bahrain Call for Joint Stance With Israel in Approaching U.S. on Iran
- BD”E: Harav Moshe Alexander Zusha Kinstlicher, Zt”l
- Rouhani: Israel Needs to Understand That Trump Is No Longer President
- EU Asks AstraZeneca to Publish Vaccine Contract as Supply Row Deepens
- NYPD Officer Shot in the Bronx
- Tefillos Requested for Harav Chaim Wosner; Hospitalized in Serious Condition
- Minister: Israel-Sudan Signing Ceremony in Washington ‘Within Months’
- Three Toronto Shuls Hold Adopt-a-Kollel Virtual Renewals Amid Lockdown
- Austrian and Slovakian Shoah Survivors to Get Vaccine on Auschwitz Liberation Day
- Senate Republicans Unite Behind Failed Effort to Challenge Trump Impeachment Trial
- Poll Gives Likud Solid Lead; Majority Would Prefer Chareidim Excluded From Coalition
- The Chicago Center Steps Up to the COVID Crisis
- Senate Confirms Antony Blinken as 71st Secretary of State
- 7,737 New COVID-19 Cases in Israel, Slight Drop in Serious Patients
- Murphy’s Top Message to Biden? Ramp Up Vaccine Production
- Alaska to Investigate Issuance of Offensive License Plate
- Vermont Sen. Leahy Taken to Hospital for Observation
- French Doctors: Don’t Talk on the Subway, to Limit COVID Spread
- Questions Over Death of COVID Vaccine Recipient in California
- Capitol Officials Blocked Request for National Guard Before Riot
- Video-Rank Choice Voting in NYC to Begin
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 | י"ג שבט תשפ"א
- Biden Orders End of Federally Run Private Prisons
- Justice Department Rescinds ‘Zero Tolerance’ Immigration Rule
- And the Trees Answered, Amen
- Tefillos Urged for Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski
- Tell-the-Truth Diplomacy
- Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial: Lots of Fascinating Questions But Few Answers
- Labor Leaves Coalition But Its 2 Ministers Stay
- IDF Chief to US: Don’t Go Back to Iran Deal
- Biden Holds First Call with Putin
- NYC Running Low on Vaccines; Appointments Delayed
- Judge Bars Biden From Enforcing 100-Day Deportation Ban
- Old Meds for New Ills — Redux
- NYC Pension Funds Divest from Fossil Fuels in Green Energy Push
- IDF Will Return Cows That Strayed Over Lebanese Border
- Lockdown Not Working As Expected
- Court Disallows Arbitrary ID Demand from Ethiopians
- France Warns Iran Needs to Make Gestures for Revival of Nuclear Deal
- Attempted Mugging of Hatzalah Member in Crown Heights
- Senate Filibuster Fight Cools, but Battles Ahead
- NY Assembly to Pass Bills Protecting Workers, Small Business
- Internet Outage Hits Northeast for Several Hours
- U.S. to Reopen Palestinian Mission Offices
- Montreal Health Officials Apologize to Jewish Community Over Changing Guidelines
- Netanyahu Proposes Special Budget for Fighting Crime in Arab Sector
- School Reopenings in Doubt as British Variant Spreads
- Mayoral Candidate Kathryn Garcia Wants to Get NYC ‘Moving Again’
- Head of Mission Arrives in Morocco
- China CDC: Inactivated COVID-19 Vaccines Can Be Upgraded for Variants in 2 Months
- Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Trial Results to Be Published
- U.K. Eyes Quarantine Hotels for Travelers to Curb Variants
- Billionaire James Dolan Funds Educational Ad Blitz Before Mayoral Primaries
- Edelstein: No Serious Cases Among Israelis Given Pfizer Shot
- WHO Experts Issue Recommendations on Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine
- Veteran Activists Campaign for Biden’s Immigration Reform
- U.K. Jobless Rate Highest Since 2016 as Second Lockdown Hits
- With a Conflict Over Iran Looming, Israel Sends New Envoy for the Post-Trump Era
- Angry Farmers Storm India’s Red Fort in Huge Tractor Rally
- Britain Confident That Vaccine Makers Will Deliver for Both U.K. and EU
- Iran: Biden Won’t Have Infinite Time to Rejoin Nuclear Deal
- Biden More Bullish on Vaccines, Open to 1.5M Shots Daily Goal
- Israel Records Record Number of Daily Coronavirus Deaths
- Iranian-American Facing Spying Charges Arrested as He Tried to Leave Iran
- Attempted Stabbing Attack Near Ariel Thwarted
- Tefillos Requested as Rosh Yeshivah Harav Yitzchak Sheiner in Serious Condition
- Israel Unemployment Soars
- U.N. Chief Urges Global Alliance to Counter Rise of Neo-Nazis
- Netanyahu Proposes Extended Lockdown, Gantz Opposes
- Japan’s Shionogi Sells Coronavirus Drug Rights to U.S. Biotech BioAge
- Israel Delegation to Sudan Discusses Normalization
- Under Biden, China Faces Renewed Trade Pressure
- Tornado Leaves Several Injured, Homes Damaged in Alabama
- Biden Doesn’t Believe Trump Will be Convicted at His Impeachment Trial
- Dept of Sanitation Issues ‘Snow Alert’ for NYC for Tuesday
- Rudy Giuliani Sued by Dominion Voting Systems for $1.3 Billion
- Trump Impeachment Goes to Senate
Monday, January 25, 2021 | י"ב שבט תשפ"א
- Janet Yellen Wins Senate Approval as Treasury Secretary
- Ex-White House Press Secretary Sanders Launches Governor Bid
- Minimum Wage Boost Likely Headed for Budget Reconciliation Bill
- Hawley Seeks Probe of Democrats for Ethics Complaint Against Him
- Schumer Sees COVID-19 Relief Bill Passing in 4-6 Weeks
- Senator Leahy to Preside Over Trump’s Impeachment Trial
- Pompeii’s Museum Comes Back to Life to Display Amazing Finds
- New Jersey Launches Live Hotline to Address Vaccine
- U.S. Virus Numbers Drop, But Race Against New Strains Heats Up
- EU Pressures AstraZeneca to Deliver Vaccines as Promised
- Lapid Lands Just Ahead of Ben Gurion Lockdown
- Effort to Put Tubman on $20 Bill Restarted Under Biden
- Snow Expected in Tri-State Area Tuesday
- Early Data Show Vaccine Even Better Than Advertised
- NYC Restaurant Week Features Takeout, Supports Struggling Small Businesses
- Justice Department Watchdog to Probe Election Results Interference
- Mayor: With Enough Doses, NYC Could Vaccinate 500,000 a Week
- California Lifts Virus Stay-at-Home Orders, Curfew Statewide
- Rabbanim Condemn Violence, Officials Work to Restore Calm
- Biden Officials Hope to Restart Talks with Iran, With Israel’s Input
- Joint List Coming Apart
- BoI Bashes PM’s Stimulus Plan
- Edelstein Talks Down Quick Exit from Covid
- Supreme Court Ends Trump Emoluments Lawsuits
- EU to Hold off on new Russia Sanctions if Navalny Released
- Oxfam Warns of Record Global Increase of Inequality
- Biden Signs Executive Order to Boost Manufacturing
- Ohio Senator Not Running in ’22 Over ‘Partisan Gridlock’
- Russian Hack of U.S. Agencies Exposed Supply Chain Weaknesses
- Job Losses From Virus Four Times as Bad as ’09 Financial Crisis
- Supreme Court Ends Anti-Corruption Lawsuits Against Trump
- Dominion Voting Systems Sues Giuliani for Defamation
- Moderna Confident Its Vaccine Works Against Variant Strains
- Bill That Would Increase Fines for Violations of COVID-19 Restrictions Passes First Reading
- Dr. Fauci: Prep on Vaccine Variant Upgrade Has Begun
- China Tackles Pandemic With Mass Construction Once Again
- Deadliest Day of Coronavirus Patients; Ventilated Patients at All-Time High
- House Sending Trump Impeachment to Senate, GOP Opposes Trial
- Johnson: Risk of ‘Vaccine-Busting’ New Variants Prompting Tougher U.K. Border Control
- Health Official: Ben Gurion Airport Must Stay Closed for Month
- Ten China Gold Miners Confirmed Dead After Others Rescued
- Biden Pushes Elusive ‘Buy American’ Goal With New Federal Contract Guidelines
- Former Trump WH Press Secretary Plans to Run for Gov. of Arkansas
- Poll: Likud Grows Stronger as New Hope Falters; Still No Outright Coalition
- Chareidi MKs: Marginal Groups Stain the Residents of Bnei Brak
- Hidden Bunker Discovered in Warsaw Ghetto; Pairs of Tefillin Found
- China Says U.S. Military in South China Sea Not Good for Peace
- White House Begins Talks With Lawmakers on COVID-19 Relief
- Lakewood Briefs – January 24, 2021
- Hatzolah Treats Several People at Fire in Madison
Sunday, January 24, 2021 | י"א שבט תשפ"א
- Lockdown May Not Lift All At Once
- Indonesia Says it has Seized Iranian and Panamanian Tankers
- China Surpasses U.S. in International Investments
- El Al to Refund Tickets Canceled by Lockdown
- Biden Chief of Staff Commits to ‘100 Million Doses in 100 Days’
- Harav Pinchos Dovid Horowitz, Zy”a, Bostoner-Chuster Rebbe of Boro Park
- Harav Shlomo Zalman Brizel, Zt”l
- Rabbi Moshe Rapps, Zt”l
- Rabbi Yehudah Kelemer, Zt”l
- Netanyahu Proposes Economic Jumpstart