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Tom Homan reveals President Trump plans to add 10,000 new agents by mid-January to apprehend and deport illegal aliens.

President Trump has ordered the Department of War to destroy another narco-terrorist vessel in the Caribbean.

REPORT: Israel is bracing for the possibility that Hamas may transfer the bodies of several slain hostages later tonight. At this stage, it remains unclear whether the handover will actually take place, as Hamas has not officially confirmed its intentions. The remains of 11 hostages are still being held inside Gaza.

British Transport Police have provided an update on yesterday’s Huntingdon train stabbing, saying there is currently no indication it was a terrorist incident. Two British-born men — a 32-year-old Black man and a 35-year-old man of Caribbean descent — remain in custody on suspicion of attempted murder. Two victims remain in life-threatening condition, while four […]

The IDF says it foiled another attempt to smuggle weapons into Israel from Egypt overnight, after troops located and shot down a drone that had crossed the border carrying eight handguns.

Millions of Americans who depend on food assistance are set to feel the impact of both a government shutdown and sweeping new restrictions on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), as the updated rules took effect — the same day benefits stop ped flowing without federal funding.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s website bluntly warns that “the well has run dry” for issuing benefits. In a message at the top of the site, the agency places blame squarely on Democrats in the Senate for blocking continued funding.

“Senate Democrats have now voted 13 times to not fund the food stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,” the notice states. “At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01. We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. They can continue to hold out for healthcare for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance.”

Even as benefits are suspended, new regulations under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will simultaneously take hold. The law, which cuts an estimated $186 billion in federal spending over the next decade, adds stricter eligibility and work requirements that will remove some participants from the program.

Among the most significant revisions are those targeting able-bodied adults without dependents, known as ABAWDs. They must now prove they work at least 80 hours a month, attend school, or participate in job training to stay eligible. Anyone who fails to meet these standards will be limited to a total of three months of benefits.

The work requirement expansion also affects all able-bodied adults under 65, though parents with children under 14 are newly exempt — previously, the exemption covered parents of children under 18. Veterans, young adults, and homeless individuals are now required to meet the same work standards to continue receiving more than three months of assistance.

Another policy shift concerns immigrants’ access to SNAP, with new “non-citizen eligibility” rules impacting lawful permanent residents, Cuban and Haitian entrants, non-citizen U.S. nationals, and undocumented individuals. According to the USDA, state agencies must review “household circumstances to take appropriate action” before informing applicants that they are no longer eligible for benefits.

In addition, a memo from Oregon’s Department of Human Services reveals that even refugees who have been granted asylum and survivors of human trafficking will lose their SNAP benefits under the new federal guidelines.

A central point of contention remains whether the USDA can dip into its contingency fund to keep SNAP payments going through November. On Friday, U.S. District Judge John McConnell temporarily blocked the administration from halting benefits altogether, rejecting the government’s claim that emergency funding was limited to natural disasters.

“SNAP benefits have never, until now, been terminated,” McConnell said during the hearing. “And the United States has, in fact, admitted that the contingency funds are appropriately used during a shutdown and that occurred in 2019.”

Currently, about $5.25 billion is available in the USDA’s reserve fund — far short of the $9.2 billion needed to cover a full month’s worth of food assistance. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins maintained that Democrats are misrepresenting how those funds can be spent.

“If today, say for example Democrats say, ‘Oh, never mind, sorry, we’ll reopen the government,’ and SNAP flows, Hurricane Melissa or one of the hurricanes hits, that’s the contingency fund that we would use to send more money into the vulnerable communities that are harmed by a specific event like a hurricane,” Rollins said.

“But it is a contingency fund that can only flow if the underlying appropriation is approved,” she added. “And listen, even if it could flow, it doesn’t even cover half of the month of November. So here we are again, in two weeks having the exact same conversation.”

Late Friday, President Trump addressed the matter directly, pledging to restore benefits as soon as legal questions are resolved.

“Our Government lawyers do not think we have the legal authority to pay SNAP with certain monies we have available, and now two Courts have issued conflicting opinions on what we can and cannot do,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“I do NOT want Americans to go hungry just because the Radical Democrats refuse to do the right thing and REOPEN THE GOVERNMENT,” he continued. “Therefore, I have instructed our lawyers to ask the Court to clarify how we can legally fund SNAP as soon as possible.”

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Hamas officials said Sunday that they had located the bodies of three Israeli hostages killed during the war, according to statements made to Al-Hadath.

Earlier that day, reports indicated that members of Hamas’s military wing accompanied Red Cross personnel into the Shuja’iyya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City. They were joined by engineering vehicles as they searched through the ruins for the remains of the captives.

The day before, Israel’s Institute of Forensic Medicine completed its analysis of the bodies that Hamas had previously transferred to Israel. Experts determined that the remains did not match any of the identified hostages.

Meanwhile, the IDF has asserted that Hamas is in possession of at least two Israeli bodies that could be handed over without delay. Military officials also believe the terror group has lost track of several others, estimating that between three and five hostages’ bodies remain unaccounted for.

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  RIGHT NOW THE TEFILLAH is taking place at Rachel Imeinu on her yahrtzeit, and Talmidei Chachamin, messengers of Yad L’Achim will be davening in Kever Rachel for all your names for tefillah – for next ten hours! There is no cost to submit names online by clicking HERE, or visit www.YadLachim.org or call 1-718-690-2944.  Please submit the names […]

A shliach in the U.S.A was recently diagnosed with a severe illness, Hashem Yishmor. There is a operation that promises hope, but it is extremely costly. Already stretched to the limits financially, the shliach is now scrambling to save his life. Help the Shliach get this needed operation every day that goes by leaves the shliach in severe […]

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed that he personally apologized to President Trump earlier this week following controversy over a television advertisement aired in Ontario that mocked Trump’s tariff policies and invoked Ronald Reagan’s words to argue against them.

Speaking to reporters after the Asia-Pacific summit in South Korea, Carney acknowledged that he had urged Ontario Premier Doug Ford not to proceed with the commercial, but that his advice went unheeded. “I did apologize to the president,” Carney said, according to Reuters. “The president was offended by the act, or by the ad, rather … It’s not something I would have done — which is to put in place that advertisement — and so I apologized to him,” he added later, as reported by the New York Times.

Trump, addressing the incident aboard Air Force One, said the two had spoken directly and described Carney as “very nice.” “He apologized for what they did with the commercial because it was a false commercial. You know, it was the exact opposite. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs, and they tried to make it look the other way,” the president said. “And he did apologize and I appreciate it.”

The ad, which aired across Ontario and was also slated to run during the 2025 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays, was produced by Ford’s team despite warnings from Ottawa that it could inflame tensions with Washington. The commercial used edited Reagan clips to imply opposition to tariffs, a move that Trump denounced as “possibly” artificial intelligence-generated and “misinformation.”

In response, Trump retaliated by halting trade discussions with Canada and adding a ten percent increase to existing tariffs, citing the incident as evidence of what he called bad-faith communication from the Canadian side. Despite Carney’s apology, Trump said Friday that he had no plans to resume trade negotiations “at this time.”

Back in Canada, Ford’s allies stood by his decision to run the spot. Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown defended the move, telling CBC, “I support the premier’s approach. It’s got a lot of coverage.” Brown dismissed criticism of the ad’s editing, adding, “And the words are truthful, despite what they’re trying to spin and say that, you know, it’s only a portion of the speech, Ronald Reagan viewed tariffs as taxes that would cost America in the long term.”

The controversy comes as Trump’s tariff policies face judicial scrutiny. The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on November 5 in a case challenging the administration’s authority to impose the duties. Trump has accused Canada of attempting to influence that case, further straining relations between the two longtime allies.

In the wake of the uproar, Carney’s apology may have softened the tone but not the tension. For now, trade talks remain frozen — and what began as a local political stunt has spiraled into an international flashpoint between Washington and Ottawa.

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The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas, announced that their units are ready to recover the remaining bodies of both Israeli and foreign captives buried in areas located beyond the “yellow line,” near IDF positions. The group claims the effort is intended to help move toward a conclusion of the ongoing conflict.

In their official statement, the Al-Qassam Brigades appealed to international mediators and to the International Committee of the Red Cross, requesting access to heavy engineering equipment they say is essential for retrieving the bodies.

Late Friday night, Hamas handed over body parts to Israel that were believed to belong to three individuals. However, forensic experts later confirmed that the remains could not be matched to any of the known hostages.

Israeli authorities stressed that Hamas’ transfer of the remains does not, by itself, amount to a breach of the current ceasefire. Nonetheless, they insisted that Hamas must abide by its obligation to return every remaining hostage body without further delay.

Earlier in the week, Channel 12 reported that when Israel permitted Hamas personnel and Red Cross representatives to conduct recovery operations beyond the “yellow line,” the terrorists instead exploited the opportunity to search for weapons—an act that Israel viewed as a clear violation of the agreement.

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Hamas of continuing to seize humanitarian aid meant for civilians in Gaza, sharing drone footage that he said shows Hamas operatives looting an aid truck just weeks after the ceasefire took effect. “Hamas continues to deprive the people of Gaza of the humanitarian aid they desperately need,” Rubio […]

A 52-year-old Orthodox Jewish man was subjected to antisemitic abuse and intimidation by a London bus driver who refused to return his bank card for nearly an hour — even after police arrived on the scene. David Abraham told the BBC that the confrontation began after he accidentally dropped his bank card into the driver’s […]

Justice Minister Yariv Levin sent a letter on Motzei Shabbos to Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara informing her that she is prohibited from any involvement in matters related to the Sde Teiman affair—including the leak investigation, alleged obstruction of justice, and tampering with legal proceedings. Levin explained that the ban is based on Baharav-Miara’s personal involvement […]

Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo hit the campaign trail alongside Brooklyn Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, one of the city’s most prominent Republicans, as he seeks to build bipartisan support in his uphill battle against far-left Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral race. Vernikov, a Ukrainian-born Jewish lawmaker who represents a large […]

In this episode, Rabbi Reinman shows how Aristotle completed the creation of Hellenism, but that Alexander the Great, his student, was the true embodiment of the Greek ideal.

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Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Greek Warrior King

After The Iliad gained wide readership, hellenism took root in Greek society. The Greeks saw themselves at the pinnacle of the universe, superior to the god race. They built magnificent edifices. They studied the human condition in literature, art and drama. Idolizing the human body, they exercised in the nude in the gymnasiums and publicly displayed the beauty, perfection and prowess of the human body in organized athletic competitions performed in the nude.

The Greeks gloried in their new divinity, but they still lacked a sophisticated view of the universe and the profound questions of existence. Early hellenism had a mind, a body and a heart, but it lacked a soul until the philosophers arrived.

There were a number of early Greek philosophers, but the famous Big Three, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, established the idea that human reason is the ultimate measure of knowledge. Socrates said that man should always search for the truth by asking numerous questions, that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” The authorities in Athens thought he was dangerous and executed him. Socrates did not write a book, but Plato, his student, recorded his teachings and added many of his own. But Plato’s student Aristotle had the greatest impact on Western thought. Socrates and Plato were artists. Aristotle was a scientist.

Aristotle was remarkable for the orderliness of his brilliant mind and the sheer number of directions in which he pointed it. Never one to plunge headlong into the seas of knowledge, he always began with a dissection of the subject under study. He delineated his objectives, defined a set of terms to categorize his research, and only then, he conducted his inquiry. In this way, he formalized logic, developed controlled experimentation and the scientific method of inquiry and compiled veritable encyclopedias of information through observation, analysis and speculation. He also formulated numerous terms, such as matter, form, energy, infinity, genus and species, which endure until this day as basic units of Western thought. Above all, he was a disciplined student with an insatiable appetite for knowledge of practically any kind…

But if humanity had assumed the mantle of the god race in the Greek mode of thought, the idealized image of the ultimate man, the “Greek god” so to speak, was not the homely, squint-eyed thinker such as Socrates or Aristotle. For if man was a god then all of him was divine, his body, his mind and his soul.

Just as, in our own times, the crowds cheer the drivers of racing cars rather than the engineers who design them, the adoration of ancient Greek society was reserved for the sun-bronzed, heroic warrior-athlete, his body perfect and beautiful, his mind enriched by philosophy, his soul nourished by literature. The philosophers and writers were admired but not idolized as heroes. They were the engineers who designed the cultural tools, but the true Greek gods were the splendid human sculptures molded by those tools, the ones who trained unclad in the gymnasium while they discussed philosophy with their fellows.

The man who came closest to the Greek heroic ideal was Alexander the Great, who was not even a Greek but a Macedonian. Macedonia was a country of hardy mountainfolk so backward that in all of antiquity it did not produce a single philosopher, scientist, thinker, writer or artist whose name is known to history. But the ambitious King Philip II, an ardent admirer of Greek culture, he hired the best tutors to give his gifted son Alexander the benefits of a first-class Greek upbringing. Among others, the illustrious Aristotle was brought to the Macedonian capital of Pella to help mold Alexander’s mind during his teenage years. Philip himself trained the boy in the arts of war.

Alexander thus became a potent blend of Macedonian toughness and Greek intellect liberally seasoned with the overpowering personal ambition he inherited from his father. Alexander was a superb physical specimen, a ferocious and tireless warrior, a man with a kingdom at his command and the dream of world empire in his heart. He was also a lover of Greek culture who carried Homer’s The Iliad with him on his campaigns and kept it under his pillow at night next to his dagger. He was cast in the true mold of the Greek hero, and as we trace his career from its meteoric rise to its tragic end, we find that it mirrors the parabolic course of the Greek civilization from which it sprung….

Read full chapter and earlier chapters at www.rabbireinman.com.

President Donald Trump will host Ahmad al-Sharaa for talks, a first-ever visit by a Syrian president to the White House, an administration official said Saturday. The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly about the yet to be formally announced engagement, said that the meeting is expected to take place Nov. 10. Trump met […]

Israel Police announced on Sunday morning that they thwarted an imminent terror attack in central Israel Police officers rushed to the Ramle home of an Israeli-Arab on Sunday morning after he published a live video online about his intention to carry out an attack in the city. After becoming aware of the video, they located […]

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Following Israel’s elimination of four Radwan Force terrorists in southern Lebanon over the weekend, Defense Minister Yisrael Katz threatened Lebanon with a return to war if the government continues to ignore its commitment to disarm Hezbollah. The eliminated Radwan Force terrorists were involved in efforts to restore Hezbollah’s terror infrastructure in southern Lebanon, the IDF […]