Iran could conceivably launch missiles that might reach Israel, but as it has no nuclear weapons, and even with a crash program wouldn’t by any stretch of the imagination (or of the English language) have them “imminently,” such missiles, if they could even strike the target from that distance, would do..…

Anti-vaccination propaganda has been widely circulated online and in ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in parts of New York where there have been recent measles outbreaks. ... Other Orthodox Jewish areas in the state, such as in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Borough Park neighborhoods, are..…

Under such a scenario, North Korea would almost certainly retaliate with conventional weaponry and, potentially, short-range nuclear missiles, bringing devastation to South Korea and Japan, in particular, at enormous human cost and entailing the destruction of major global supply chains. . ..…

In New York, the epicenter of the largest US measles outbreak in recent history, the Orthodox Jewish community has been hardest hit. ..…

This ongoing emergency, of the presence of persistent, if quite small, minority within Orthodox Jewish community advocating against vaccination, led to increased pressure and urgency to eliminate Public Health Code's grant of exemption from vaccinations.. ..…

Agudath Israel, among others, claims the vaccination rate Orthodox Jewish schools statewide is above the 95 percent threshold recommended by Centers for Disease Control to establish herd immunity. ... review of data collected by New York State Department of Health reveals that while most of the..…