Residents forced from Center City high-rise after fire on balcony Residents were forced from a Center City Philadelphia high-rise early Tuesday morning as Philadelphia firefighters put out a fire that residents said began on a balcony. 04/16/2024 - 2:56 am | View Link
Ukraine-Russia war live: Major power plant destroyed as Kyiv has zero missiles to protect it, Zelensky says Major power plant destroyed as Kyiv has zero missiles to protect it, Zelensky says - Ukraine president’s comments come following repeated warnings from his government to its allies about scarce air de ... 04/16/2024 - 1:52 am | View Link
Federal official tells SF to fix ongoing problems at ‘uninhabitable’ Plaza East public housing After years of organizing alongside their neighbors and demanding the city make the necessary repairs to their homes, Plaza East Apartments residents could finally have a reason to feel optimistic. 04/15/2024 - 1:54 pm | View Link
Developer Says Preston Center West Project Complies With Area Plan, Will Add 180 Housing Units Developers with Ramrock Real Estate unveiled plans for redeveloping Preston Center West into a mixed-use concept with retail, office space, and 180 housing units — and insisted it’s compatible with ... 04/11/2024 - 11:05 pm | View Link
Preston’s Fishergate Shopping Centre ‘set for demolition’ as part of major city redevelopment The Fishergate Shopping Centre could be completely demolished as part of plans that would see the area around the city’s railway station transformed. 04/8/2024 - 3:00 pm | View Link
(JTA) For each of the last four winters, Mount Hermon ski area CEO Refael Nave spent practically every day at the mountain whose peaks straddle the borders of Syria, Lebanon and Israel.
As the only place in Israel to see regular snowfall, the Hermon’s Israeli recreation area drew 400,000 visitors in the winter of 2022-’23.
By DAVID BAUDER and LARRY NEUMEISTER (Associated Press Writers)
NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial ordered the media on Thursday not to report on where potential jurors have worked and to be careful about revealing information about those who will sit in judgment of the former president.
Judge Juan Merchan acted after one juror was dismissed when she expressed concerns about participating in the trial after details about her became publicly known.
The names of the jurors are supposed to be a secret, but the dismissed juror told Merchan she had friends, colleagues and family members contacting her to ask whether she was on the case.
The Miami Marlins’ game at the Chicago Cubs has been postponed because of rain in the forecast for Thursday night.
It will be made up as part of a split-doubleheader on Saturday at Wrigley Field.
Chicago was back at home after a 5-4 trip that included stops at San Diego, Seattle and Arizona.
When Professor Ron Hassner made the decision to stage a sit-in protest at his University of California, Berkeley office until the school’s administration agreed to take seriously rising campus antisemitism, several other local professors were inspired to visit the professor of political science in solidarity as he ate and slept in his office — and taught class from there — for two weeks.
Encouraged by Hassner’s activism and the support he received from other concerned faculty, the Academic Engagement Network announced it will coordinate a national campaign called the Faculty Against Antisemitism Movement (FAAM) and #KeepTheLightOn, eJewishPhilanthropy has learned exclusively.
Courtesy/Ron HassnerProfessor Ron Hassner shows the bed he set up in his office to protest antisemitism at the University of California, Berkeley, in March 2024.
By EDITH M. LEDERER (Associated Press)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States vetoed a widely backed U. N. resolution on Thursday that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for Palestine, a goal the Palestinians have long sought.
The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
(JNS) A rare volume of the Talmud printed before World War II and found unscathed in a historic Munich beer hall after the Holocaust was given to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum by the family of President Isaac Herzog.
The Pesachim Tractate of the Babylonian Talmud has been in the family’s possession for the last eight decades; it will be permanently displayed at the museum in Jerusalem.
Courtesy of Yad VashemIsraeli President Isaac Herzog (left) and the Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan at the ceremony at the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, April 17, 2024.