Vaccinated New Yorkers can let go of pandemic restrictions like wearing masks or social distancing and “get back to life,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday as he announced a spate of moves heralding the state’s reopening. “If you are vaccinated, you are safe,” Cuomo said, speaking from Radio City Music Hall’s grand auditorium, where he […]
Senate Republicans are signaling that they will try to block — or at least slow down — a Democratic effort to create a 9/11-style commission on the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, threatening the chances of a deeper, independent look at the siege and how it could be prevented from happening again. […]
President Joe Biden restored a long-standing presidential tradition Monday by releasing his tax returns, showing that 25.9% of the first couple’s income went to the federal government in 2020. The average federal income tax rate is just over 14%. Biden and his wife, Jill, a teacher, earned $607,336 last year while he was running for […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It was a complex Hilchos Shabbos question. Or so it seemed. A supply truck had arrived on a Shabbos with replacement uniforms for the soldiers. Rav Ra’am HaCohen presented the halachic query to Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l. Rav Ra’am explained that there was no doubt that the unifroms […]
U.S. home construction fell a surprisingly sharp 9.5% in April and economists attributed that partially to builders who delayed projects because of a surge in lumber prices and other supply
Amazon said Tuesday that it will extend its ban on police use of its face-recognition technology beyond the one-year pause it announced last year. Amazon and other technology companies have
Congress approved legislation Tuesday intended to curtail a striking rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, sending President Joe Biden a bipartisan denunciation of the spate of
The Biden administration said Tuesday it will repeal changes made by the Trump administration to a law aimed at stopping banks from discriminating against racial minorities and the poor. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, one of the nation’s bank regulators, said it plans to reconsider the regulations written in 2020 governing a […]
Climate change-triggered sea level rise added $8 billion in damage during 2012’s Superstorm Sandy, one of nation’s costliest weather disasters, a new study said. During Sandy — a late fall freak combination of a hurricane and other storms that struck New York and surrounding areas — the seas were almost 4 inches (9.6 centimeters) higher […]
Our Simcha would not be complete without the participation of all our family members. B’Chasdei Hashem, we have arranged plenty of seating for the ENTIRE MISHPACHAS MIR to join in
A 32-year-old woman was killed in a drive-by shooting in Brooklyn while attending an outdoor vigil for an earlier shooting victim, police said. Shalimar Birkett, of Queens, was shot in
Arab rioters opened fire at IDF soldiers near Beit El and the northern entrance to Ramallah on Tuesday afternoon. Two soldiers, a male and a female, were shot in their
Minutes after an IDF soldier was lightly injured by a mortar fire launched by Hamas early Tuesday afternoon, a new mortar barrage hit the Eshkol region of southern Israel, killing
An Arab terrorist was killed by his own bomb on Tuesday morning as he attempted to carry out a bombing attack on IDF soldiers in Chevron. The terrorist approached the
Seven Border Police officers were wounded in a ramming terror attack at a police checkpoint in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Sunday, Erev Shavous, at 5 p.m.
The Biden administration distanced itself Monday from growing calls by Democrats and others for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers as fighting entered a second week. The United States, Israel’s top ally, also blocked for the third time what would have been a unanimous statement by the 15-nation U.N. Security Council expressing […]
Lod resident Yigal Yehoshua, z’l, who was critically injured six days ago by Arab rioters in the mixed Israeli-Arab city of Lod, passed away on Monday. Yehoshua, 56, was on
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip continued to launch rockets at Israel over Shavuos, firing about 250 rockets into southern Israel on Monday. Fortunately, about 90% of the rockets were
By Yehudit Garmaise While picking up groceries and picking up Yom Tov essentials at supermarkets and stores in Boro Park, Williamsburg, and Crown Heights, readers can also enhance their
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