New York – Quarantines in California. Fines in New York City. Orders for some people to avoid public places in Rockland County, New York. As an outbreak of measles surges across the United States — with 704 cases this year and counting — some local health officials are trying to deal with contagion in unvaccinated [...]

Leiden, Netherlands – When Boeing launched its 737 MAX jetliner in response to Airbus’s record-selling A320neo, a wave of poker-faced satisfaction spread through Airbus headquarters in France. Its reasons for cheering Boeing’s decision to make a similar jet, based on a similar strategy of engine efficiencies, partly explain why Airbus is wary of exploiting Boeing’s [...]

United Nations – The U.N. political chief warned Monday that the worsening Palestinian financial crisis poses a growing risk “of a financial collapse of the Palestinian Authority.” Rosemary DiCarlo told the U.N. Security Council that “a sustainable resolution” to the authority’s funding crisis is urgently needed. Israel is withholding about $11 million of the roughly [...]

London – Jaguar Land Rover, Britain’s largest auto manufacturer, said on Monday it is testing software that will allow drivers of its cars to earn the IOTA cryptocurrency as a reward for sharing data. The company is developing what it calls “smart wallet” technology to be installed in its automobiles. This would reward Jaguar car [...]

Pittsburgh, PA – Joe Biden accused President Donald Trump of abusing the powers of his office and ignoring everyone but his political base Monday in his first public rally as presidential candidate, arguing in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania that strengthening unions and promoting social and economic unity can restore Democrats to the White [...]

London – The brother of a kosher supervisor slain last year in Chicago will name a kosher food outlet in London after him. Rabbi Yossi Moscowitz told the Jewish Chronicle that he will name the store, which will operate out of the Chabad House in Wimbledon, in south London, after his brother, Eliahu Moscowitz. The [...]

Sacramento, CA – California lawmakers adopted a resolution in honor of Holocaust Memorial Day and took a moment during Monday’s ceremony to speak about this weekend’s attack on a synagogue near San Diego. Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, vice chairman of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, said the state’s Jewish community is alarmed by the “infusion of [...]

Jerusalem – Earlier this month, just hours before the start of Passover, the British Labour Party tweeted out holiday greetings to its more than 671,000 followers. “As Jewish people prepare for Passover, we’re wishing everyone in the Jewish community chag sameach,” read the now deleted message, which was accompanied by the image of a Star [...]

Washington – Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he and other negotiators for the Trump administration should know this week or next whether they can reach a trade deal with China — or whether it’s time to “move on.” Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer are traveling to Beijing to resume talks Tuesday to try to [...]

Brooklyn, NY – The MTA has identified the driver who allegedly made discriminatory remarks to a Chasidic passenger earlier this month referring the large number of reported cases of the highly contagious virus that has swept through Williamsburg’s Jewish community, placing her on restrictive duty while it investigates the incident. While not identifying the bus [...]