Tag: Thisweek
Getting There? Supreme court rules as a government tries to form
The justices of the Israeli Supreme Court have unanimously rejected a petition to stop Bibi Netanyahu from forming the next government of Israel. They...
Will Camps Open This Summer? As lobbying continues, parents and ...
Every summer, the start of the camping season is eagerly awaited by children who will be attending as campers. This year, their parents may...
Putin Weeps: Russia’s desire for the world’s admiration backfires
Vadimir Putin must feel sorry for himself. This was supposed to be his year of triumphs: a series of foreign policy successes, growth in...
Meron, Desolate: Rabbi Chaim Rabinowitz discusses Lag Ba’omer in a time...
‘Painful,’ ‘depressing,’ ‘I can’t believe my eyes.’ These are some of the things that residents of Meron keep repeating when they see Meron completely...
De Blasio Lashes Out At The Jewish Community: The New York...
A tweet from New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, in the aftermath of the levayah of Rav Chaim Mertz, the Tola’as Yaakov Rebbe, which...
Stopping the Nursing Home Pandemic
Across the US, one type of facility has been a horrifying locus for coronavirus deaths: the nursing home. The Associated Press reported this week...
Bat Lady Wuhan: Chinese con game or cry for help?
Everybody has the COVID-19 story a little bit right and everybody has it a little bit wrong. On the right, the White House says...
Death Watch In North Korea: Are the leaks about Kim Jong-un’s...
GCHQ, the British equivalent of the NSA, has leaked word to the British media that Kim Jong-un died on Saturday, April 24. Fox News...
I Expected to Die from Coronavirus: Eli Beer’s Remarkable Story
When Eli Beer, founder and president of Israel’s United Hatzalah, went to the United States a few weeks before Pesach, he did not in...
Are the Hospitals Neglecting Patients? As complaints about care for coronavirus...
The horror stories were slowly emerging, first a trickle, and then a rush of agony and pain.
Families were accusing medical centers in New York...
