Jerusalem – The Jerusalem municipality says it will “fix” a wave of fliers that have appeared in kindergartens city-wide forbidding entrance to “minorities,” using a Hebrew term considered code for Arabs. After an anti-racism group brought attention to the fliers, the city said Monday it had followed “security protocol determined by the police and Education [...]

Washington – The financial condition of the government’s bedrock retirement programs for middle- and working-class Americans remains shaky, with Medicare pointed toward insolvency by 2026, according to a report Monday by the government’s overseers of Medicare and Social Security. It paints a sobering picture of the programs, though it’s relatively unchanged from last year’s update. [...]

Seattle – Looking back at her time as an early Microsoft employee, Melinda Gates said the brash culture at the famously tough, revolutionary tech company made her want to quit, but that she didn’t discuss it with her boyfriend, and later her husband, Bill Gates, the company CEO who embodied that culture. “That wasn’t my [...]

Washington – The Trump administration is offering rewards of up to $10 million each for information that disrupts the finances of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah organization. The State and Treasury departments say the money will be paid to people who provide information such as the names of Hezbollah donors and financiers, bank records, customs receipts or [...]

Brooklyn, NY – The Pupa Rebbetzin, Mrs. Miriam Greenwald, the mother of the Pupa Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Yechezkiya Greenwald, passed away this afternoon at the age of 101. Born in Vodkert, Hungary to Rabbi Yisoscher Berman Weber and his wife Chana, the Pupa Rebbetzin was the great-niece of both the Arugas Habosem, Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, [...]

New York – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed legislation on Earth Day that bans the sale of single-use plastic bags in New York starting in March 2020, a significant step to reduce pollution and protect fish and wildlife. “Single-use” plastic bags do not degrade and often wind up as litter on lands and in waters, [...]

Beitar Illit, Israel – A trip to Israel to celebrate a major milestone over Pesach turned tragic for one Monsey family when their three year old son was killed by a bus on a visit to Beitar Illit. The fatal incident took place at approximately 4:20 this afternoon on Rechov Hachoze M’Lublin. Baruch Eisenberg was [...]

Mariposa County, CA – Authorities say an Israeli teenager who fell to his death last year at an iconic waterfall in California’s Yosemite National Park was trying to mimic a popular social media photograph when he fell. Officials said Tomer Frankfurter of Jerusalem died Sept. 4 that he was near the top of Nevada Fall [...]

Dallas, TX – New population estimates show that the Dallas-Fort Worth area led American cities in new residents from 2017 to 2018. U.S. Census Bureau numbers show that the two cities, along with Arlington in between, grew by nearly 131,700 residents and have gained more than a million residents since 2010. Houston and its neighboring [...]

Queens, NY – A thief stole $30,000 worth of doors and air vents from mausoleums at a historic Jewish cemetery in New York. The missing doors to seven mausoleums and 75 air vents were reported missing on Sunday from the Beth Olam Jewish Cemetery located on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, the New York [...]