Monthly Archives: April 2020
Biden marks year after Poway shooting, releases plan to address hate crimes
Former U.S. Vice President and presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden honored the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Chabad of Poway in Southern California, where a 60-year-old Lori Kaye was killed and three others injured on April 27,...
Israeli government awards Haifa faculty funding for 18 projects related to COVID-19
The University of Haifa today announced that its faculty members have been awarded funding from the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology for 18 of the 84 coronavirus-related research proposals that the government is...
New York City Department of Education offers free iPads to students with special needs
Teach NYS, a division of the Orthodox Union advocating for equitable government funding for New York nonpublic schools, welcomed the New York City Department of Education announcement that students in nonpublic schools who receive...
ADL denounces New Mexico mayor’s remarks comparing governor, police to Nazis
The Anti-Defamation League condemned recent comments made by a New Mexico mayor who comparing New Mexico State Police and New Mexico’s governor to the Nazis.
Mayor Martin “Modey” Hicks of Grants, N.M., said in an...
Rivlin at the Western Wall marking Memorial Day: ‘This year, we cannot cry together’
Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism, began on Monday evening with a siren and minute of silence in memory of those who have fallen followed by an official...
Israel’s COVID-19 death toll hits 208; infection rate continues to slow
Four more Israelis died of COVID-19 late Monday and early Tuesday, bringing Israel’s death toll to 208, according to the Israeli Health Ministry. As of Tuesday, there have been 15,589 confirmed cases of infection...
‘US prepared to recognize application of Israeli law to areas of the West Bank’
A U.S. State Department spokesperson said on Monday that the United States remains ready to recognize Israel’s annexation of territory in the West Bank, but expects Israel to continue negotiations with the Palestinians.
“As we...
Report: One dead, dozens wounded in clashes as Lebanese currency crashes, food prices soar
At least one person died and dozens more were wounded in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Monday after protests over Lebanon’s increasingly dire economic situation deteriorated into rioting, Arab media reported on...
Israel marks its Memorial Day under tightened COVID-19 restrictions
Israel came to a standstill on Tuesday morning as sirens sounded marking Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism.
This year’s Memorial Day is overshadowed by the...
Bipartisan group of senators calls for increased funding for State Department anti-Semitism envoy
A bipartisan group of 28 senators have called on the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs to increase funding for the U.S. State Department’s office that develops and implements...