Washington – The leaders of three of the four major Jewish religious streams were not invited to a White House briefing on issues “impacting the community,” nor was the Jewish community’s leading civil rights advocacy group. Officials of three Orthodox umbrella groups — Orthodox Union, Agudath Israel, and America and Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad) — [...]

Washington – Does an older friend or relative have a hard time hanging up on telemarketers? Or get excited about a “You’ve won a prize” voicemail? New research suggests seniors who aren’t on guard against scams also might be at risk for eventually developing Alzheimer’s disease. Elder fraud is a huge problem, and Monday’s study [...]

Burnsville, MN – Supporters of U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar rallied outside a Minnesota business visited by U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday, after he launched a fresh attack on the Muslim-American lawmaker by calling her an “out of control” purveyor of “hate” speech. Trump was in Minnesota, which Omar represents in Congress, for a tax [...]

Washington -Melania Trump says she’s ready to serve another four years as first lady if her husband is re-elected. “I love what I do,” she said Monday. The first lady revealed her intentions during a question-and-answer period with students at Albritton Middle School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. She traveled there with Karen Pence, Vice [...]

New York – Department of Buildings Acting Commissioner Thomas Fariello, R.A. announced today, the deployment of more than 90 DOB inspectors throughout New York City to perform safety sweeps of construction sites, and educate workers about the importance of construction site safety. These construction inspectors, including those from the Department’s newly created Construction Safety Compliance [...]

Jerusalem – Hundreds of people gathered in the old city of Jerusalem on Monday evening to reenact the Temple Passover celebration described in Jewish sources. The spectacle included silver trumpets, the washing of the hands of those believed to be priests and the feasting on lamb meat. People reenacting the Passover celebrations in Jerusalem with [...]

Washington – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is giving its highest honor to the Syria Civil Defence, a volunteer group that operates in rebel-controlled areas in Syria and Turkey. The group, also known as the White Helmets, was founded in 2014 during the Syrian Civil War and provides aid and rescue to those affected [...]

Kosher Guru’s Kosher For Passover 2019 Guide features content curated by Team Kosher Guru. Enjoy The Recipes, Chol Hamoed trip suggestions, and the Kosher for Passover Restaurant directory. Keep us posted on what you ate, where you ate, and how you spent your Chol Hamoed! Recipes It’s hard to put together a list of the [...]

San Francisco – Thousands of tourists could soon have to pay as much as $10 to drive down world-famous Lombard Street in San Francisco. City and state officials on Monday announced a bill that would give San Francisco the authority to establish a toll and reservation system for the street that winds down a steep [...]

Mount Holly, NJ – A New Jersey woman pleaded guilty Monday to her role in concocting a feel-good tale about a homeless man rescuing her from the side of a highway in order to scam 14,000 donors out of $400,000 in GoFundMe contributions. Katelyn McClure pleaded guilty in state Superior Court to second-degree theft by [...]