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High Court cannot write vaccine legislation

High Court cannot write vaccine legislation

Opinion: Lawmakers passed a law allowing municipalities access to names of local residents who refuse to be vaccinated against coronavirus, placing public health over an… Read More ›

Israel’s ambassador in New Zealand casts the first vote of the elections

Israel’s ambassador in New Zealand casts the first vote of the elections

Ran Yaakoby kicks off March 23 elections in Wellington; ballots boxes to be set up in four new diplomatic outposts: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Rabat and… Read More ›

Cabinet gives final okay to reopening of restaurants, event venues and more

Cabinet gives final okay to reopening of restaurants, event venues and more

After delays, ministers approve return of much of economy under restrictions; studies to resume for grades 7-10 and in universities, colleges   The cabinet on… Read More ›

A blessed and welcome verdict for the House of David

A blessed and welcome verdict for the House of David

Opinion: The High Court decision to recognize Conservative and Reform conversions is an important step for Israel to finally embrace and truly practice its core… Read More ›

No vaccine? No patients! Hospital relegates unvaccinated staff to paper pushing

No vaccine? No patients! Hospital relegates unvaccinated staff to paper pushing

The Health Ministry has called for non-inoculated staff to be kept away from highest-risk wards; Jerusalem’s Hadassah has gone a step further, barring contact with… Read More ›

NY Gov. Cuomo Acknowledges Behavior Seen As ‘Flirtation’

NY Gov. Cuomo Acknowledges Behavior Seen As ‘Flirtation’

  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo acknowledged for the first time Sunday that some of his behavior with women had been… Read More ›

China and India to send vaccines to Palestinians

China and India to send vaccines to Palestinians

“China has decided to donate COVID-19 vaccines to Palestine,” the country’s Ambassador Geng Shuang told the UN Security Council during its monthly meeting on the… Read More ›

Wife Of Drug Kingpin ‘El Chapo’ Arrested On US Drug Charges

Wife Of Drug Kingpin ‘El Chapo’ Arrested On US Drug Charges

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested Monday at an airport in Virginia on international drug… Read More ›

In Britain, Jews Are Leading The Fight Against The Oppression Of China’s Uighur Muslims

In Britain, Jews Are Leading The Fight Against The Oppression Of China’s Uighur Muslims

  LONDON (JTA) — As the leader of British Jewry’s main human rights group, Mia Hasenson-Gross regularly hears personal stories of loss, grief and helplessness.… Read More ›

Allegations of shackled students and gang rape inside China’s detention camps

Allegations of shackled students and gang rape inside China’s detention camps

In the first day of her new teaching job at a Chinese government-run detention center in Xinjiang, Qelbinur Sidik said she saw two soldiers carry… Read More ›

Muddled Promises On Schools Pose Political Problem For Biden

Muddled Promises On Schools Pose Political Problem For Biden

  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is in a political firestorm over how and when to get more schools open amid the coronavirus pandemic,… Read More ›

Amid Growing Backlash, Pennsylvania GOP May Censure Toomey

Amid Growing Backlash, Pennsylvania GOP May Censure Toomey

  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Republican Party is planning a meeting to potentially censure U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey amid a growing GOP backlash over… Read More ›

Inside the new President’s routine: Oval Office fires and early bedtimes

Inside the new President’s routine: Oval Office fires and early bedtimes

When President Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force One for the first time this month, he did not spend much time soaking in the moment.… Read More ›

Prepare Now For Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Meals!

Prepare Now For Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Meals!

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) When Rosh Chodesh falls on Shabbos – there is a fascinating yet unresolved halachic question. As a preface, we… Read More ›

Coronavirus cabinet approves some schools opening on Thursday

Coronavirus cabinet approves some schools opening on Thursday

Preschools and grades 1-4 to open in areas with lower infection rates. Eleventh and 12th grades to stay home.   The first group of Israeli… Read More ›

J&J Asks US Regulators To OK Its One-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine

J&J Asks US Regulators To OK Its One-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine

  NEW BRUNSWICK (AP) — Johnson & Johnson asked U.S. regulators Thursday to clear the world’s first single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, an easier-to-use option that could… Read More ›

Iran’s Zarif hints at way to bridge nuclear deal impasse

Iran’s Zarif hints at way to bridge nuclear deal impasse

Former US president Donald Trump abandoned the deal in 2018 and reimposed US sanctions.   Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif sketched out a path… Read More ›

Israel has to stop riding the Haredi tiger

Israel has to stop riding the Haredi tiger

Opinion: The ultra-Orthodox community, which flooded the streets of Jerusalem not once but twice on Sunday, is telling the rest of the country that they… Read More ›

Trump parts ways with impeachment lawyers -source

Trump parts ways with impeachment lawyers -source

Butch Bowers and Deborah Barberi, two South Carolina lawyers, are no longer on Trump’s team, the source said.   WASHINGTON – Former US President Donald… Read More ›

Biden administration to purchase millions more coronavirus vaccine doses

Biden administration to purchase millions more coronavirus vaccine doses

Biden is in a race to contain the virus as faster-spreading variants threaten to increase the death toll across the United States.   The Biden… Read More ›