If you are single or if you know someone single, then you need to see/read this.      500,000 Yidden will unite this Tu B’Av Together this Wed, Aug. 5th @10am.

Global air travel is recovering more slowly than expected and it will take until until 2024 to return to pre-pandemic levels, the trade association for the airline industry said Tuesday. The International Air Transport Association pushed back its prediction by one year due to the slow containment of the outbreak in the U.S. and developing countries. The industry is seeing a rebound from the depths of the shutdowns in April, but the bad new is that any increase “is barely visible,” IATA chief economist Brian Pearce said during an online briefing for journalists. Pearce said that air travel is not rebounding along with rising levels of business confidence in Europe, the U.S. and China.

Spirit of Survival by Project Witness. Don’t Miss It.For the past 8 years, Project Witness has organized major events during the Nine Days featuring each year’s new documentary. Blockbusters such as In One Split Second, Once Upon a Family, Rosja, and Giant are among the famed collection. Each year, thousands of people flock to these Nine Day showings, which faithfully echo the spirit of the calendar. This year, due to Covid-19, public showings are not possible. Yet, despite that knowledge, Project Witness forged ahead to create Spirit of Survival, yet another, if not the greatest, masterpiece thus far. You can still watch this documentary during the Nine Days, but this year you can do so in the privacy of your home on our website, projectwitness.org.

Israel’s Health Ministry recorded 1,999 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday morning in the previous 24 hours, raising the number of active patients to 31,875, with 321 in serious condition, of whom 97 are ventilated. The death toll has risen to 474. Health Minister Yuli Edelstein announced the appointment of Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis to the position of the ministry’s head of public health, replacing Prof. Sigal Sadetsky, who resigned earlier this month amid criticism of the government’s response to the pandemic. Alroy-Preis has served as the Deputy Director of the Carmel Medical Center since 2015 and interestingly was the New Hampshire State Epidemiologist from 2010 to 2013. She has a master’s degree from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in New Hampshire.

New York City police say 303 department vehicles have been vandalized since George Floyd’s May 25 death, causing nearly $1 million in damage. The department said Monday that 14 vehicles were a total loss because of fire damage, seven are still being repaired and the rest have returned to service. Several people were arrested in the early days of the unrest for allegedly hurling Molotov cocktails at police vehicles in Brooklyn. Those cases are still pending in federal court. In the latest incident, Saturday night in Manhattan, a man was seen on video using a protest sign to bash the window of a parked police van while another man sprayed graffiti onto an adjacent police van. In all, three vehicles were damaged, police said. None of them were occupied and no injuries were reported.

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Google has decided that most of its 200,000 employees and contractors should work from home through next June, a sobering assessment of the pandemic’s potential staying power from the company providing the answers for the world’s most trusted internet search engine. The remote-work order issued Monday by Google CEO Sundar Pichai also affects other companies owned by Google’s corporate parent, Alphabet Inc. It marks a six-month extension of Google’s previous plan to keep most of its offices closed through the rest of this year. “I know this extended timeline may come with mixed emotions and I want to make sure you’re taking care of yourselves,” wrote Pichai, who is also Alphabet’s CEO, in an email to employees. Pichai’s decision was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the 5TJT.com Is sixty the new forty?  Or is sixty considered elderly?  This has been a debate raging in America since the birth of the expression in 2003. Our question, however, is the halacha.  Is it true?  Is sixty the new forty?  The World Health Organization does not seem to think so, as they delineated this secular decade of 2020-2030 the Decade of Healthy Aging – they defined elderly as, yes, you guessed it, age sixty and up. So what does halacha say?  Here goes. There is a Mitzvah in the Torah to arise before an older person and to respect Torah scholars. The Mitzvah (see Sefer HaChinuch #407) includes arising in their presence.

There is a tremendous crisis brewing, and for some reason, it is not being spoken about. That is, what are thousands of Yeshiva Bochurim and Seminary girls going to be doing in a few weeks from now? We all saw the breaking reports from Israel, that Yeshivas and seminaries will be opening on Rosh Chodesh Elul. While many of the emails from various seminaries were written with glee of the amazing news that the girls can come this year, some Yeshivas – such as the Mir Yerushalayim – wrote their letters with cautionary wording. As it stands right now, going to Eretz Yisroel to learn this Elul won’t be anything close to a picnic in the park.

Nearly 3,000 federal workers have filed compensation claims for having contracted COVID-19 on the job, a number that is expected to double by early next month, according to a Department of Labor review. Through mid-June, families of 48 federal workers had filed death claims with the Division of Federal Employees’ Compensation. The report only reflects the number of federal workers or their families who filed claims by June 16 — not the number who actually have contracted the coronavirus or died from it. Reports from individual agencies indicate the number of infections and deaths is much higher.