Yeshiva World News

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander officially announced Wednesday that he’s running for Congress, launching a primary challenge against Rep. Dan Goldman.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee discusses the potential announcement of phase two of the Gaza plan, the progress made in hostage recovery, and the ongoing ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Israeli forces conducted overnight raids across Judea and Samaria, detaining or questioning roughly 100 Palestinians. The operation focused on senior Hamas terrorists and previously released prisoners.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado ‘s daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her mother’s behalf Wednesday, hours after officials said Machado would miss the ceremony. Machado has been in hiding and has not been seen in public since Jan. 9, when she was briefly detained after joining supporters in a protest in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. […]

Paired with high-deductible healthcare plans, health savings accounts help ease healthcare costs. HSAs are a triple tax-advantaged vehicle in the tax code, allowing for pretax contributions, tax-free compounding, and tax-free withdrawals for qualified medical expenses. However, few owners fund their HSAs to the maximum, and even fewer invest their HSA dollars outside a savings account. Most consumers likely […]

The United States and Turkey are engaged in discussions over Ankara’s long-blocked purchase of F-35 stealth fighters, according to U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack, signaling the most significant movement in the years-long impasse since Turkey’s acquisition of Russia’s S-400 air defense system. In a statement posted on X, Barrack said Washington and Ankara have […]

A man was killed on Wednesday in a car explosion on Route 73, near Nahalal, a moshav in northern Israel. Firefighters, police officers, and MDA paramedics arrived at the scene following a report of a car that exploded and caught fire. After the flames were extinguished, the lifeless body of a man was found inside […]

In the final weeks of his administration, Mayor Eric Adams is laying down another political tripwire for his successor. This time, it’s at the NYPD’s oversight agency. Adams has quietly appointed former journalist Pat Smith — a favorite of police unions and a reliably pro-law enforcement vote on the Civilian Complaint Review Board — as […]

Ukraine is expected to hand its latest peace proposals to U.S. negotiators Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, a day ahead of his urgent talks with leaders and officials from about 30 other countries supporting Kyiv’s effort to end the war with Russia on acceptable terms. As tension builds around U.S. President Donald Trump’s push for a settlement […]

Brig. Gen. Gal Asael, the ex- Deputy Military Advocate General, rejected the police’s claims against him regarding the probe he led into the leaked Sdei Teiman video, shifting responsibility onto Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara during his police interrogation, i24News reported on Tuesday evening. According to the report, Asael claimed in his interrogation that “all of […]

A Dallas congresswoman opened her Senate campaign by telling voters that she “has gone toe to toe with Donald Trump.” Her Democratic primary opponent insisted that Americans are tired of “politics as a blood sport.” The divergent approach highlights how U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico are navigating a race where Democrats hope to break a […]

Avremi Malul, a yeshiva student who was arrested on charges of “draft dodging,” spoke with Kol Chai Radio and described the difficult conditions he endured in a separation wing in Prison 10. “I was arrested on Sunday morning at 10 a.m. I was released on Friday, right before Shabbos. They sentenced me to seven days, […]

Concerns are rising as a large-scale international search and rescue operation continues for an Israeli yacht that disappeared near Cyprus amid the powerful Storm Byron. The yacht, with four people on board, departed from Ashdod Port two days ago, and all communication with it was lost shortly before it was expected to reach the coast […]

Storm “Byron,” which has battered Greece and Cyprus in recent days, arrived in Israel on Tuesday night and had already caused significant rainfall and thunderstorms in various regions of the country by early Wednesday morning. “Winds will reach speeds of up to 90 km per hour in some places,” said Yossi Deklo, Deputy Fire Officer […]

Rejoice, New Year’s dieters: Oreos are getting a sugar-free option. Mondelez said Tuesday that Oreo Zero Sugar and Oreo Double Stuf Zero Sugar will go on sale in the U.S. in January. They’re a permanent addition to the company’s Oreo lineup. It’s the first time Mondelez has sold sugar-free Oreos in the U.S. They’re already […]

In an unusually coordinated cross-parliamentary move, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and U.S. House Majority Leader Mike Johnson unveiled a new joint initiative aimed at mobilizing legislative leaders across the world to nominate President Donald Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The announcement followed a meeting between the two lawmakers on Capitol Hill and comes […]

Brad Lander, the outgoing New York City comptroller and close ally of Rep. Zohran Mamdani, will challenge two-term Rep. Dan Goldman in the Democratic primary in 2026, injecting a volatile mix of ideology, personality clashes and New York political drama into a district that stretches across Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Lander signaled his run Tuesday […]

Israeli President Isaac Herzog is forcefully denying a bombshell Channel 12 report that he once explored a pre-arranged political deal to grant Benjamin Netanyahu a pardon — years before becoming president — in exchange for Netanyahu’s support for his eventual rise to the office. The report, aired Tuesday night, centers on a confidential 17-page legal […]

A fire ripped through an office building in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, on Tuesday, killing at least 22 people, including a pregnant woman, police said. Flames engulfed the seven-story building, sending thick black smoke billowing into the sky and causing panic among nearby residents and workers in a neighborhood in central Jakarta. The fire, which broke […]