The United States’ biggest Jewish educational institution, Yeshiva University, closed its main campus on Wednesday, citing confirmation that a student has been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the highly contagious coronavirus. The school expects that it will reopen on Thursday, according to an email alert. The student is the son of a man…
A Yeshiva University student is the son of a man infected with coronavirus, the school reported Tuesday afternoon. The student, who has not been on campus since February 27, is in self-quarantine and is showing symptoms, which are being monitored. The student is the son of a Westchester man who was hospitalized in “serious condition”…
(JTA) — The National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia filed for bankruptcy protection, saying it owes more than $30 million to bondholders. Much of the debt is from the construction of its building on Independence Mall, the museum said in its Chapter 11 filing, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The museum, which is affiliated…
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg said Tuesday that he had no intention of dropping out of the Democratic presidential primary and endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden, saying that Biden was “taking votes away from me.” Speaking at a press conference in Miami, Bloomberg was asked about former rivals who had dropped out…
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Three attackers assaulted a kippah-wearing Jewish man walking on a street in Brazil while yelling anti-Semitic slurs. They held down the 57-year-old victim, broke his teeth and tore his kippah with a pocketknife on Thursday in Jaguariuna, a city of 50,000 located in the south of the country. He was…
Update: Yeshiva University reports student is son of man infected with coronavirus (JTA) — A Jewish day school in New York City is closed Tuesday due to a “suspected case of coronavirus in our community.” In a letter addressed to parents and faculty, the SAR Academy in the Riverdale section of the Bronx announced that…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Biden made an appearance via video and Mike Bloomberg turned up in person. So did Mike Pence. Even the coronavirus got a shoutout. Despite threats of a boycott by Democrats and anxieties about communicable diseases, this year’s annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was a busy, bustling…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is likely to once again be the largest party in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, but still may fall just short of a governing majority, according to exit polls. Israel’s Channel 11 and 12 found that Likud (currently at 32 seats) is likely to get 36 or 37 Knesset…
Shas, the Israeli political party representing Mizrahi Orthodox Jews, was fined 7,500 shekels ($2,150) for giving voters supposedly holy amulets that would purportedly protect voters from the coronavirus, The Jerusalem Post reported. The amulets included a picture of Shas’ late spiritual founder, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, and came in a container with a Biblical quote about…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Vice President Mike Pence called for the re-election of President Donald Trump, earning cheers from a crowd of 18,000 Israel activists on hand Monday at AIPAC’s annual policy conference. “The most pro-Israel president in history must not be replaced by one who would be the most anti-Israel president in the history of…
(JTA) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said the pro-Israel lobby has “a lot of money; they have a lot of power” in a television interview. Sanders was responding to a question on the CBS News program “Face the Nation” from moderator Margaret Brennan, who asked the Vermont senator if he sees a “a political…
