What's happening in the Mid-Hudson Valley: April 13, 2024 Hudson River Sloop Clearwater will begin its first sail of the season, launching from its home port at the Hudson Valley Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston, at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 13. 04/12/2024 - 11:46 pm | View Link
Why top-ranked recruit Sarah Strong is the 'perfect fit' for UConn women's basketball program Sarah Strong became the third No. 1 recruit within the last five years to commit to UConn women's basketball following Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd. 04/12/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
What happened Thursday and Friday at the 2024 Masters Follow live coverage of today’s second round at the 2024 Masters, with Bryson DeChambeau leading by one from Scottie Scheffler ... 04/12/2024 - 1:38 pm | View Link
Preservation Austin Hosts 2024 Homes Tour April 20 & 21 Preservation Austin is excited to present their 2024 Homes Tour on Saturday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21 from 10 am to 5 pm. The ten stunning ... 04/12/2024 - 8:23 am | View Link
A Hidden Sexual-Assault Scandal at the New York Philharmonic Muckey and Wang were fired in September 2018. Nearly all the details of the investigation were withheld from the public. A New York Times article on the subject was headlined “New York Philharmonic ... 04/12/2024 - 5:45 am | 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.