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An Arab tried to run over a police officer at the Elazar Junction in Gush Etzion early Tuesday afternoon and then fled the scene. B’Chasdei Hashem, no one was injured in the incident. An initial investigation revealed that the police officer got out of a patrol car and tried to stop the vehicle that swerved […]

A long-delayed effort to construct a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River is moving toward physical construction, with excavation scheduled to begin this spring using newly built tunnel boring machines now en route to New Jersey.

According to the Gateway Development Commission, which is managing the project, the first of the specialized machines is expected to arrive in January. Their arrival marks the transition from years of planning and delay to actual underground work on the long-anticipated tunnel.

“We are on the verge of a new phase of the Hudson Tunnel Project,” GDC commissioners said in a joint statement. “When the two tunnel boring machines that were manufactured this year begin their journey under the Palisades, it will represent a major step forward for the project.”

The machines were manufactured by Herrenknecht in Germany and are a key component of the Gateway program’s New Jersey construction phase. Together, they account for part of the roughly $465 million cost associated with excavating one mile of new rail tunnel on the New Jersey side. Operating at the same time, the two machines will carve out separate, parallel tunnel tubes.

The initial boring work beneath New Jersey is expected to take approximately one year, a spokesperson for the commission said. After that phase is completed, the project will move into the Hudson River itself, where different tunnel boring equipment will be required due to the riverbed’s unique conditions.

Once completed, the new tunnel—part of the broader Gateway program—will carry trains for both Amtrak and New Jersey Transit. It is intended to relieve pressure on the existing Hudson River tunnel, which is more than a century old and serves as a critical rail connection between New Jersey and Manhattan.

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It is with deep regret that we share the petirah of HaRav Yitzchak Abadi zt”l, a towering posek and marbitz Torah from Lakewood’s early years. Rav Abadi zt”l was born on March 12, 1933, in Venezuela. When he was just two years old, his family moved to Teverya in what was then Mandatory Palestine. From […]

The Powerball jackpot has grown to an estimated $1.25 billion for Wednesday night’s drawing after lottery officials said no ticket matched all six numbers drawn Monday night. The U.S. has seen more than a dozen lottery jackpot prizes exceed $1 billion since 2016. Here is a look at the largest U.S. jackpots won and the […]

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The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people as scrutiny over the boat strikes is intensifying in Congress. The military said in a statement on social media that the strikes targeted “designated terrorist organizations,” killing three people in […]

Two more victims of the Sydney massacre on Sunday were identified as a Jewish couple, Boris and Sofia Gurman, H’yd, who were murdered after they heroically confronted one of the terrorists, Sajid Akram, and even briefly disarmed him. Akram, 50, grabbed another rifle and executed Boris, 69, and Sofia, H’yd, at close range. The Gurmans, […]

HY’D: Another victim murdered by the Sydney terrorists on Sunday was identified on Tuesday by Australian media outlets as grandmother Edith Brutman, H’yd. She served as the vice president of an anti-prejudice committee in the B’nai Brith organization.

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Another victim murdered by the Sydney terrorists on Sunday was identified on Tuesday by Australian media outlets as grandmother Edith Brutman, H’yd. She served as the vice president of an anti-prejudice committee in the B’nai Brith organization. “Former vice president of ADU and long-time member of Aviv, Edith Brutman, was killed in the massacre. She […]

Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, arrived for a brief visit to Sydney, Australia. The minister met with leaders of the local Jewish community and, together with them, put on tefillin at the site of the Bondi Beach terror attack.

No winning ticket was sold in tonight’s Powerball drawing, pushing the jackpot to an estimated $1.25 billion. The next Powerball drawing is scheduled for Wednesday night.

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Footage shows the moment a Coast Guard helicopter rescued 14 people from a fishing vessel after it ran aground in Dingle Bay, Ireland.

BREAKING: U.S. Southern Command confirms that three vessels suspected of drug trafficking were targeted by U.S. forces earlier today in the Eastern Pacific, resulting in eight suspected traffickers killed.

WATCH: Vice President JD Vance is seen greeting Reb Moshe Margaretten of the Tzedek Association as he arrives at the Chanukah event at his residence this evening.

A 20-year-old Lubavitcher bochur who grew up in Texas and recently learned in Brooklyn for a year was shot twice during Sunday’s massacre in Sydney. He underwent surgery and is being treated in the ICU, where he is in critical but stable condition. He suffered a significant amount of blood loss and faces further surgery […]

Hakeem Jeffries: Republicans got high on their own supply. These people actually believed that America was moving their extreme direction. It is not.

Conservative actor James Woods: “There is now a jihad…this country, over the past 4 years…there’s been an invasion. If you look at Europe, see how far ahead the invasion is progressing there – it’s going to end this country as we know it!”

In newly released dashcam footage, a heroic older couple is seen trying to tackle the Sydney terrorists with their bare hands and disarm them in the moments before the massacre began. The husband succeeded in briefly disarming the older terrorist, Sajid Akram, 50, before he recovered his weapon and shot and killed the couple. The […]