New York – Marriott is pushing more heavily into home-sharing, confident that its combination of luxury properties and loyalty points can lure travelers away from rivals like Airbnb. The world’s biggest hotel company will soon start taking reservations through its website for 2,000 homes in 100 markets in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. It [...]

United Nations – On Monday morning, the United Nations Security Council held a special session on the Middle East, focusing on the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Council led by German Ambassador to the United Nations in New York Dr. Christoph Heusgen opened the debate with condemnations of a church attack in Burkina Faso which killed 6, [...]

New York – Measles continues to spread in the United States, with more 704 cases reported so far this year in 22 states. U.S. health officials on Monday updated the national tally. It has already eclipsed the total for any full year since 1994, when 963 cases were reported. The Centers for Disease Control and [...]

Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday accused New York state officials of trying to “take down” the National Rifle Association as the powerful gun rights group faces internal divisions and allegations of financial improprieties. New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, said on Saturday her office has launched an investigation related to the NRA, [...]

Jerusalem – Israel’s winner of last year’s Eurovision song contest said Monday there was no place for boycott calls of this year’s competition in Tel Aviv, saying that to snub such a popular world event celebrating diversity would be akin to “spreading darkness.” Noting Israel’s upcoming annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, pop icon Netta Barzilai reminded [...]

Poway, CA – A shrine of flowers to honor those shot at a San Diego-area synagogue is growing on the sidewalk near the location where a gunman killed a congregant and injured three others. Next door to the Chabod of Poway synagogue, Father Alexander Federoff said Sunday that he is praying for the recovery of [...]

Ankara, Turkey – A man accused of spying for the United Arab Emirates has been found dead in his prison cell, the Istanbul prosecutor’s office said Monday. The state-run news agency described the incident as suicide. The man was one of two suspects arrested in Istanbul earlier this month on charges of “political, military and [...]

Brooklyn, NY – A tallis-clad robber made off with $2,000 cash in a Chol Hamoed Pesach robbery that took place in a Bensonhurst Yeshiva. Police said that the incident took place on April 24th at approximately 8 PM at Yeshiva Ohel Torah Synagogue on 17th Avenue at the corner of 63rd Street when an unidentified [...]

Poway, CA – Eight-year-old Noya Dahan had finished praying and gone to play with other children at her Southern California synagogue when gunshots rang out. Her uncle grabbed her and the other children, leading them outside to safety as her leg bled from a shrapnel wound. “I was scared, really, really scared,” said Noya, recalling [...]

Washington – President Donald Trump on Monday lauded the rabbi of the synagogue hit by a shooting attack on Saturday, following a phone call in which he offered his condolences for the death of a veteran member of the community. “I spoke at length yesterday to Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, Chabad of Poway, where I extended [...]