Poway, CA – A 19-year-old man accused of opening fire on Sabbath worshippers in a deadly shooting rampage at a Southern California synagogue is believed to have acted alone, without help from any organized group, authorities said on Sunday. Police say the gunman walked into the suburban San Diego synagogue late on Saturday morning, the [...]

New York – A Jet Blue plane was stopped at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday night because of possible measles cases on board. Crew reported two active measles cases, officials said. The plane will be secured at a JFK handstand area. The flight was from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic with many [...]

New York – The New York Times apologized for publishing a political cartoon widely criticized as anti-Semitic. In a second statement on the cartoon issued Sunday, the newspaper said it was “deeply sorry for the publication of an anti-Semitic political cartoon” that appeared in its international print edition. The image, which drew wide criticism, including [...]

Washington – The United States signed a document agreeing to pay North Korea for the care of American Otto Warmbier but never paid the $2 million Pyongyang demanded, White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday. Bolton, who said he was not part of the administration at the time, confirmed newspaper reports that [...]

Poway, CA – President Donald Trump placed a condolence call to the spiritual leader of the Poway, the California synagogue where a shooting Saturday killed one and injured three others. “He spoke about his love of peace and Judaism and Israel,” said Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, of Chabad of Poway, speaking Sunday to the press in [...]

Jerusalem – Currency used in the Theresienstadt Ghetto was donated to the National Library of Israel. The six bills featuring a Star of David and a sketch of Moses holding the Ten Commandments were received by the National Library days before Israel’s Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. They are worth a total of 263 [...]

Indianapolis – Former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a Republican foreign policy sage known for leading efforts to help the former Soviet states dismantle and secure much of their nuclear arsenal, but whose reputation for working with Democrats cost him his final campaign, died Sunday. He was 87. The Lugar Center issued a statement saying Lugar [...]

Washington – American Airlines pilots have warned that Boeing Co’s draft training proposals for the troubled 737 MAX do not go far enough to address their concerns, according to written comments submitted to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and seen by Reuters. The comments were made by the Allied Pilots Association (APA), which represents pilots [...]

New York – Adults in the United States who were vaccinated against measles decades ago may need a new dose depending on when they received the shot and their exposure risk, according to public health experts battling the nation’s largest outbreak since the virus was deemed eliminated in 2000. Up to 10 percent of the [...]

Poway, CA – Shimon Abitbul says when gunfire erupted inside a San Diego-area synagogue, he immediately placed his 2-year-old grandson on the floor. Abitbul who is a paramedic with Magen David Adom in Israel, says Sunday that he was attending a service at Chabad of Poway a day earlier with his son-in-law and grandson when [...]