admin | November 19, 2020
Course is made available at no cost to schools and teachers across the U.S. In response to a surge in antisemitic acts in schools, EVERFI, Inc., the leading social impact education innovator, and ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today announced the availability of a new digital antisemitism prevention course for high school students
admin | November 7, 2020
Chris McKenna|Times Herald-Record A judge has ordered an insurance company to pay the Town of Chester's legal expenses for an ongoing federal discrimination case, resolving a coverage dispute that arose after two past insurers each denied responsibility. State Supreme Court Justice Sandra Sciortino ruled last week that Allied World Assurance Companywas obliged to pay Chester's legal expenses under its policy because Allied was the insurer when the developers of the 431-home Greens at Chester projectsued the town last year.
admin | November 7, 2020
The St. Louis International Film Festival, presented annually by Cinema St. Louis, runs from Thursday through Nov
admin | November 7, 2020
The urgent calls from doctors to the county department of health began in mid-October, shortly after skyrocketing coronavirus cases had brought a state-imposed lockdown to the community north of New York City. Some patients are refusing testing because they do not want D.O.H. bothering them, a doctor said in a message for the county health commissioner on Oct
admin | November 1, 2020
Chris McKenna,Jon Campbell|Times Herald-Record Gov.
admin | October 24, 2020
(RNS) On Oct. 8, mere hours before the happiest day on the Jewish calendar, during which adherents gather en masse to dance with the Torah,new COVID-19regulationsthatNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo had announced two days prior went into effect, more than dampening the holiday mood. The regulations were for cluster areas hot spots with spikes in new COVID-19 cases in Brooklyn, Queens, Broome, Orange and Rockland Counties
admin | October 24, 2020
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) An important Hasidic wedding scheduled for Monday in Williamsburg could be a big test of the resolve of state and city officials to enforce infection reducing lockdown rules to keep COVID-19 clusters in check.
admin | October 24, 2020
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) Police have released photos of individuals wanted for questioning in connection to an attack on a Hasidic Jewish man in Brooklyn. The incident happened just after 10:30 p.m. Thursday on Bartlett Street in Williamsburg.
admin | October 24, 2020
In the course of about a month, the Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel, N.Y., managed to drop its rate of positive tests for coronavirus infection by a dramatic 30 points from 34.2% in the last week of September, to 4.2% this week, according to state data released Wednesday. Town leaders and New York Gov.
admin | October 24, 2020
(JTA) On Saturday night, shortly after observant Jews went back online after Shabbat, Orthodox media outlets, Twitter accounts, and WhatsApp groups were ablaze about news that had broken several hours earlier. At his afternoon press conference, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that his office would shut down a planned wedding for the grandson of Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, the Williamsburg Satmar Rabbi, which organizers said would attract as many as 10,000 followers.
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