(JL Staff and combined sources) Camp Seneca Lake, located in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, was forced to delay its 2020 opening by a few days when a counselor tested positive for the coronavirus upon arriving at camp for staff orientation last week.

The camp, which was set to receive campers beginning on July

(Vosizneias and combined sources) This week, a federal judge ruled against the Association of Jewish Camp Operators (AJCO) and upheld New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision to close New York sleepaway camps this summer.

On

(JL Staff and combined sources) Ezras Nashim, the first all-female volunteer EMT team, was granted a license this week by a state administrative judge to operate an ambulance in Brooklyn’s Boro Park and Kensington sections. This ruling reverses a decision handed down in November 2019 by

(Ynetnews) An Israeli start-up company has developed a coronavirus testing kit that provides results within 30 minutes. The kit is designed to detect the pathogen at its early stages, and has proven to have a 90% success rate in identifying COVID-19 carriers.

The kit’s components give it the ability to

(Courtesy of ALEH) On Sunday, July 5, ALEH (www.ALEH.org), Israel’s network of care for individuals with severe complex disabilities, hosted a virtual memorial ceremony and dedication to honor the life and legacy of Rhoda Fischer, z”l, who advocated passionately for the advancement of disability care and

(JNS and combined sources) Israel’s national carrier El Al Airlines has ceased all flights to and from Tel Aviv until further notice, amid a rise in COVID-19 infection both at home and abroad, as well as the company's financial crisis.

EL Al CEO Gonen Usishkin ordered all the company’s aircraft to

(JNS) Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said this week during a United Nations Security Council session that the U.S. attempts to extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran are endangering the 2015 nuclear accord.

The U.N. arms embargo was established by UNSC Resolution 2231 and is set to expire on

(Jackson Richman/JNS) The U.S. State Department called for “justice” one day after Pakistan’s Supreme Court refused to suspend a lower court’s ruling freeing Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was convicted of being part of the 2002 killing in Pakistan of Wall Street Journal Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl, paving the way for him to walk

(JNS) The International Criminal Police Organization Interpol has denied a request from Iran to issue an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump and 35 other unnamed officials whom Tehran claims were involved in the assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on Jan. 3.