Poway, CA – Lori Gilbert-Kaye, who was killed in the attack at a Chabad synagogue near San Diego, is credited with jumping in front of the synagogue’s rabbi to shield him from the gunman’s bullets. Gilbert-Kaye, 60, of San Diego, is survived by her husband and 22-year-old daughter. “Lori you were a jewel of our [...]

Washington – Former Vice President Joe Biden is reporting he raised $6.3 million in the first day of his campaign, the most of any of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates in the first 24 hours after their announcements. In a news release Friday, Biden’s campaign says he raised the money from nearly 97,000 individuals across [...]

Poway, CA – For one family caught up in the California synagogue shooting, a move from Israel to the United States in search of a safer life has been a journey “from fire to fire”. Israel Dahan and three of his five children were at Sabbath services at Congregation Chabad in Poway, near San Diego, [...]

Jerusalem – The Kaliver Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub, the eldest of the “Admorim,” passed away Sunday afternoon at his home in Jerusalem after undergoing extensive resuscitation efforts. About two weeks ago, the Rebbe tripped in his home and since then had been very weak and unable to leave his home. Close associates of the [...]

New York, NY – A U.S. Marine killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan was honored by mourners from across the country at his funeral Friday in New York City, where he also was a decorated firefighter. The flag-draped casket of Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman was carried atop a fire engine from a Bronx funeral [...]

Los Angeles – A Southern California man who was imprisoned in Israel for trying to bomb a bus has been sentenced in the U.S. for lying to immigration authorities when he became a citizen. Fifty-one-year-old Vallmoe Shqaire of Downey was sentenced to nine months in federal prison Friday for unlawfully procuring U.S. citizenship in 2008. [...]

Albany, NY – Hundreds turned out Friday to honor a decorated World War II Marine in New York after a young friend ensured the 97-year-old’s life and death did not go unrecognized. Bob Graham had no living relatives when he died April 12 in Westchester County, north of New York City. Beth Regan, 27, befriended [...]

Jeffersonville – A city leader in southern Indiana is apologizing for making an anti-Semitic remark during a City Council meeting. Jeffersonville City Council Vice President Lisa Gill made the remark during the council’s April 15 meeting as the Fire Department was requesting a new service truck. The News and Tribune reports that after a Fire [...]

Seattle, WA – Four people were killed and three injured when a construction crane collapsed Saturday in downtown Seattle, pinning six cars underneath, Seattle’s fire chief said. The four were dead by the time firefighters got to the scene, Fire Chief Harold Scoggins said. He said two of the dead were crane operators and the [...]

New York – Wall Street capped a week of milestones by delivering a couple more Friday. A late-afternoon burst of buying lifted the major U.S. stock indexes, which had spent much of the day in a sideways drift. The gains nudged the benchmark S&P 500 index and Nasdaq composite to new closing highs for the [...]