It’s the Jewish world’s way of saying thank you. Beginning Lag baomer evening and continuing late into Lag Baomer day (May 11-12), a slew of the top talent in the Jewish music industry will be taking the virtual stage to fuel a 24 hour drive of giving to Hatzalahs around North America. It’s being billed as “Hatzalah-Thon: A Day of Joy, Appreciation, and Giving.”  The lineup continues to grow daily. The most recently updated list includes:  Avraham Fried. Mordechai Shapiro. Benny Friedman. 8th Day Band. Baruch Levine. Eli Marcus. Shulem Lemmer. Chazon Meir Helfgot. Gad Elbaz. Shmueli Ungar. Mitzvah Boulevard. Uncle Moishy. Lipa Schmeltzer. Freilach Orchestra. Shira Choir.

Joe Biden said Monday that he wears a face mask around Secret Service agents, drawing a distinction between himself and President Donald Trump as the issue of using face coverings in public amid a pandemic increasingly becomes a political flash point. The comment came as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was addressing a virtual town hall on better protecting meatpacking plant employees and others in essential industries exempt from stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus outbreak. “They deserve the personal protective equipment, including gloves like I have on, a mask that I wear whenever I’m around anyone from the Secret Service,” Biden said during an event organized by the League of United Latin American Citizens.

Sunday was the “first day of school” for children in the state school system – 1st through 3rd graders and 11 and 12th graders. According to the Health Ministry, 44% of Israel’s coronavirus cases are children, a statistic that led ministry officials to push for the re-opening of schools to be delayed by another week. However, they were rebuffed by the Finance Ministry, which feared further damage to the already beleaguered Israeli economy. According to a Channel 13 News report, only a quarter of the children authorized to return to school actually did as some cities weren’t prepared in time. In other cases, parents were fearful of sending their children despite governmental approval.

With the U.S. economy sinking into a severe recession, the Federal Reserve is set to launch a high-risk program through which it will lend money to small and medium-sized companies outside the banking industry for the first time since the Great Depression. More than the eight other lending facilities the Fed has established in the nearly two months since the viral outbreak shut down the economy, its Main Street Lending Program will be the most complex and challenging yet, economists say. It will likely draw the Fed into more public scrutiny than it has faced since the 2008 financial crisis.

The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments Monday related to the global economy, the work place and the spread of the virus. ________________________ AIRLINES BUFFETTED: Air travel has come to almost a complete standstill and industry executives believe the industry could shrink. The situation continues to worsen. — Billionaire Warren Buffett said over the weekend that he had unloaded his company’s entire stake in major U.S. airlines, believing he was mistaken in his valuation of the industry. Shares of American, Delta and United plunged between 13% and 14% Monday. Southwest slid 9%.

U.S. regulators Monday pulled back a decision that allowed scores of coronavirus blood tests to hit the market without first providing proof that they worked. The Food and Drug Administration said it took the action because some sellers have made false claims about the tests and their accuracy. Companies will now have to show their tests work or risk having them pulled from the market. Under pressure to increase testing options, the FDA in March essentially allowed companies to begin selling tests as long as they notified the agency of their plans and provided disclaimers, including that they were not FDA approved. The policy was intended to allow “flexibility” needed to quickly ramp up production, officials said. “However, flexibility never meant we would allow fraud,” Dr.

The owner of J.Crew is filing for bankruptcy protection, the first major retailer to do so since the pandemic forced most stores in the United States to close. More retail bankruptcies are expected in coming weeks with thousands of stores still shuttered, though states have begun a staggered restart of their economies. March sales at stores and restaurants had their most severe plunge on records dating back to 1992. Clothing sales fell more than 50% that month and, in the timeline of a pandemic, those may have been the good days. The U.S. Commerce Department reports retail sales figures for April next week. That report will reveal the full brunt of the pandemic because by the beginning of the month, the doors of almost every retailer had been ordered shut.

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Lawyers for supporters of withdrawn presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang on Monday urged a judge to overrule New York state’s decision to cancel its 2020 Democratic presidential primary. The lawyers for would-be delegates including Yang argued that the state acted unconstitutionally when it made the cancellation on April 27. The Democratic members of the State’s Board of Elections voted to cancel the presidential primary even though New York still plans to hold its congressional and state-level primaries June 23. Attorney Jeffrey Kurzon, representing Yang and others, said the case was about protecting the rights of citizens to vote. Kurzon said those who brought the lawsuits “must be protected for our democracy to survive” and asked that U.S.

The number of April background checks to purchase a firearm showed Americans flocking to gun stores in high numbers for the second month in a row amid worries about the coronavirus pandemic. The FBI numbers were released Monday with anticipation since March smashed previous records with 3.7 million checks conducted. While the numbers leveled off a bit to about 2.9 million checks for last month, one week — April 13-19 — is now among the top 10 highest weeks since the system was tracked in November 1998. That week in April alone, the FBI conducted 766,739 checks. Background checks are the key barometer of gun sales, but the FBI’s monthly figures also incorporate checks for firearm permits that are required in some states.