A substantial uptick in student suicides has prompted the nation’s fifth-largest school district to start bringing children back to the classroom as soon as possible, despite high numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths, a report says.
A special presentation was shown at this year’s Halikut Siyum courtesy of JEM, highlighting the pleasure the Rebbe got from people learning Lekkutei Sichos.
The government has opened up the PPP loan program for the second time, allowing thousands of struggling businesses to pay their payroll over the next few months. So what do you need to know?
A Hatzalah volunteer found himself “under the gun” in a new way Monday night when two males attempted to mug him in Crown Heights. Thankfully the victim was uninjured.
Chilling evidence has emerged from the Sobibor death camp in Poland: Personal identity tags made of metal belonging to four children aged 5–11 from Amsterdam, Holland, were retrieved from archaeological excavations conducted at the camp.
The World Health Organization is putting a halt on the coronavirus vaccine by Moderna for pregnant women due to a lack of data.
A terrorist stabbing attack was foiled in Samaria Tuesday morning, according to initial reports. The terrorist was shot and neutralized during the attempted attack.
From the moment they were informed that their test came back positive for Covid-19, Chabad of Nigeria escorted the family all the way to the airport 10 days later.
Simmy Morrison (Troy, NY ) to Chaya Seidner (Miami, Florida)
Casa Grande, located approximately halfway between Phoenix and Tuscon in Arizona is quickly becoming a city of choice for families and individuals looking for cheaper, and more spacious housing while working in the two cities. And in March, for the first time ever Casa Grande will see the establishment of its own Jewish community.
Zoom is a great tool that has allowed schools to continue functioning through the pandemic, and has allowed people to get together virtually when in person was not an option. But is it safe?
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 for snow operations. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
The New York City Emergency Management Department has issued a travel advisory for Tuesday, January 26. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for New York City in effect from 7 a.m. Tuesday through midnight. A Winter Weather Advisory means that periods of snow, sleet or freezing rain may cause travel difficulties during Tuesday’s morning and evening commutes.
Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim in Morristown, NJ has announced a new tech training program as they pair with Adaleg-IT, which teaches programs such as IT Networking, Python Programing, Full Stack Development, Data Science and Machine Learning and Cloud technology.
In 1994, amidst the communal mourning of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s passing, Larry King interviewed Rabbi Simon Jacobson bringing the historic moment to mainstream media. Watch that clip here.
When President George W. Bush nominated Michael B. Mukasey to be the 81st Attorney General of the United States, it was not a responsibility that the Orthodox Mukasey took lightly. How was Mukasey, as attorney general and as a federal judge before that, shaped by his deeply held Jewish beliefs and ideas?
Have you put on tefillin today? Two secular Israelis have created an app to help answer that question, as well as help others do the daily mitzvah.
