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There have been 285 reported cases of measles in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community since October, 246 of which are children, the Department of Health reported in early April,. (Hannah Smith/KOMU/Flickr)
The United States has confirmed 555 measles cases so far for 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced April 15.
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U.S. President Barack Obama presents the National Humanities Medal to historian David Brion Davis during an East Room ceremony on July 28, 2014 at the White House in Washington, DC.(Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Davis was the founding director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale.
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In 2019, Israel's Beresheet spacecraft took this "selfie" as it attempted to land on the moon. (SpaceIL/YouTube)
“We started something and we need to finish it. We’ll put our flag on the moon.”
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There have been 285 reported cases of measles in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community since October, 246 of which are children, the Department of Health reported in early April,. (Hannah Smith/KOMU/Flickr)
De Blasio ordered unvaccinated people living in the Williamsburg neighborhood to get the vaccine or pay fines of up to $1,000.
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Measles cases have been clustered in parts of Rockland County, N.Y., that include New Square, an all-Hasidic village. (Photo by Uriel Heilman)
A group of Rockland Hasidic rabbis issued a statement in Hebrew urging parents to vaccinate their children to stop the spread of measles.
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Jussie Smollett speaks at the Children's Defense Fund California's 28th Annual Beat The Odds Awards at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Dec. 6, 2018. (Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images)
Criminal charges against “Empire” star Jussie Smollett have been dropped.
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Israeli security forces inspect the scene of a house that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Moshav Mishmeret in central Israel, on March 25, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
Netanyahu said in a statement shortly after the attack announcing his return that Israel “will respond forcefully.”
Read MoreYang is the founder of Venture for America, an organization that helps entrepreneurs create jobs in larger cities.
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A wounded Israeli man is evauated to Beilinson hospital in Petah Tikva, after a terror attack at the entrance to the northern West Bank settlement of Ariel. (Flash90)
The death of Rabbi Achiad Ettinger of Eli brings to two the number killed in the attack at the Ariel and Gitai junctions in the northern West Bank.
Read MoreA member of the Genesis Prize advisory board resigned in protest over the decision to move forward with plans to honor Robert Kraft with the “Jewish Nobel.”
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and wife Sara attending the inauguration ceremony for the new emergency ward at the Barzilay Hospital in Ashkelon, Feb. 20, 2018. (Flash90)
Benjamin Netanyahu has denied all of the charges and has called it a witch hunt by the political left and the media.
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