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Ferry Operators Around the Country to Receive $220M in Federal Grants to Modernize Fleets
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Biden administration will issue $220 million in grants to modernize the country's ferry systems, officials announced Thursday.
The grant program will fo...
CHANUKAH – An Overview – Print Out to Review Over Shabbos
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Chanukah occurred during the time of the Second Beis HaMikdash approximately in the year 3596/165 BCE. That is 2188 years ago a...
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Don’t Eat Pre-cut Cantaloupe if the Source Is Unknown, CDC Says, as Deadly Salmonella Outbreak Grows
Consumers shouldn't eat pre-cut cantaloupe if they don't know the source, U.S. health officials said Thursday, as the number of illnesses and recalls tied to a deadly salmonella ou...
Live – Rabbi Gershon Schusterman Speaks Live in Lakewood New Jersey
Rabbi Gershon Schusterman
Author of Why, God, Why?
How to Believe in Heaven When it Hurts like Hell
Rabbi Gershon Schusterman, a communal Rabbi in Los Angeles an...
House Passes Resolution to Block Iran’s Access to $6 Billion From Prisoner Swap
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed a bipartisan measure Thursday that would block Iran from ever accessing the $6 billion recently transferred by the U.S. in a prisoner swap, a ste...
Drivers Would Pay $15 to Enter Busiest Part of NYC Under Plan to Raise Funds for Mass Transit
NEW YORK (AP) — Most drivers would pay $15 to enter Manhattan’s central business district under a plan released by New York officials Thursday. The congestion pricing plan, which n...
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Eight Hostages Return to Israel From Gaza Strip
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Hamas freed six more Israelis from captivity in the Gaza Strip shortly before midnight on Thursday, bringing the total number of hostages released on the seventh ...
Sen. Rand Paul Performed Heimlich Maneuver on Choking Sen. Joni Ernst During GOP Lunch
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joni Ernst, a Republican from Iowa, was choking on food during a luncheon Thursday when fellow Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky performed the Heimlich m...
UN Weather Agency Says 2023 Is the Hottest Year on Record, Warns of Further Climate Extremes Ahead
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.N. weather agency said Thursday that 2023 is all but certain to be the hottest year on record, and warning of worrying trends that suggest ...
Appeals Court Reinstates Gag Order That Barred Trump From Maligning Court Staff in NY Fraud Trial
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court Thursday reinstated a gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting about court personnel after he disparaged a law clerk in his New Y...
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DeSantis and Newsom Will Face Off in a Fox News Event Featuring Two Governors With White House Hopes
WASHINGTON (AP) — California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis are meeting in a nationally televised event on Thursday night that will feature t...
Adelson Adding NBA Team to Resume of Casino Mogul, GOP Power Broker, Us and Israel Newspaper Owner
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Miriam Adelson is one of the richest women in the world, a U.S. and Israel newspaper publisher and political powerbroker who, after selling $2 billion in stock to ...
NYPD Asks Public for Help Identifying Anti-Semitic Suspects After String of Violent Attacks in Flatbush
A trio of three males is being sought in connection with a string of assaults that took place last Shabbos afternoon in Flatbush in the span of less than an hour.
The NYPD s...
Somali Maritime Police Intensify Patrols as Fears Grow of Resurgence of Piracy in the Gulf of Aden
BOSASO, Puntland (AP) — Somalia’s maritime police force on Thursday intensified patrols in the Gulf of Aden following a failed pirate hijacking of a ship earlier this week.
The ...
Anthony Fauci Will Testify Before Congress on COVID Origins and the US Pandemic Response
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anthony Fauci, former chief White House medical adviser, is expected to testify before Congress early next year as part of Republicans' yearslong investigation in...
‘We’d Told Them to Go to Hell,’ Lindsey Graham Says of Ceasefire Calls After 9/11
WASHINGTON (JNS) - In an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) made an “eloquent presentatio...
Biden Administration Proposes Biggest Changes to Lead Pipe Rules in More Than Three Decades
(AP) - Most U.S. cities would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under strict new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency as the Biden administration mo...
Hamas Gaza Leader: ‘Oct. 7 Was Just a Rehearsal’
GAZA (JNS) - Hamas’s Oct. 7 slaughter was “just a rehearsal,” the Islamist group’s leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar threatened on Thursday, in his first public statement since the terro...
A Friendship Forged Over 7 Weeks of Captivity Lives on as Freed Women Are Reunited
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — In the depths of captivity, they formed an unlikely but prized friendship. And reunited in a video call this week, the bond between a recently freed Israeli...
Thousands of Fake Facebook Accounts Shut Down by Meta Were Primed to Polarize Voters Ahead of 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — Someone in China created thousands of fake social media accounts designed to appear to be from Americans and used them to spread polarizing political content in a...
Israel: 2,005 Soldiers Injured Since Oct. 7
JERUSALEM (JNS) - According to Israel’s Defense Ministry, 2,005 soldiers have been injured since Oct. 7, the first such figures have been released since the war began.
The annou...
Protesters Brandish Swastikas at Pro-palestinian Rally Outside Rockefeller Center X-mas Tree Lighting
NEW YORK (JTA) - At least two protesters brandished signs with swastikas at an anti-Israel protest targeting the annual Rockefeller Christmas tree lighting in midtown Manhattan on ...
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Elon Musk Expresses Regret for Endorsing Antisemitic Post but Swears at Advertisers Boycotting X Over It
NEW YORK (JTA) - Elon Musk called his recent endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory “foolish” and said he was “sorry for that post” on X, the social media platform he owns...
On Israel’s Right to Exist, Massie Votes ‘No,’ Tlaib ‘Present’
WASHINGTON (JNS) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted 412-1, with one voting “present,” on Nov. 28 to reaffirm Israel’s right to exist.
“The House of Representatives reaffi...
IDF: Two Hostages Return to Israel From Gaza Strip
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Hamas on Thursday afternoon released two Israeli women from captivity in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said.
They were handed over by Hamas to offici...
Netanyahu Meets ‘Heroes’ Who Defended Sderot Police Station
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday visited the police station in Sderot that was demolished during a fierce battle with Hamas terrorists durin...