Massive crowds gathered on Wednesday night to celebrate the Chasunah of the daughter of the Ashlag Rebbe, author of the sefer Bnei Heichala on the Zohar. Admorim, rabbonim, mekubalim, and hundreds of chassidim filled the Heichlei Malchus halls in Bnei Brak to take part in the simcha, which drew participants from across the chassidic and […]
The British government said Sunday that it will unveil plans this week to create a new national police force, dubbed the “British FBI,” to take charge on complex investigations such as counterterrorism, fraud, online child abuse and criminal gangs. The National Police Service will bring under the same umbrella the work of existing agencies dealing […]
Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role and is expected to retire soon, The Atlantic reports. Bovino will return to his previous post in El Centro, near the U.S.–Mexico border, where he is expected to retire in the near future, according to a Department of Homeland Security official.
The Tri-State area has been below freezing since Friday night and may remain below freezing through next Monday, if not longer. That is over 9 days of below freezing temperatures! For context, the longest stretch of freezing temperatures at Central Park was 16 days in 1961.
Guinness World Records has reversed a controversial decision and is once again accepting submissions from Israel, Israeli President Yitzchak Herzog announced. The move follows months of criticism after the organization refused to recognize Israeli entries, citing regional tensions. Herzog made the announcement at a Jerusalem event hosted by Matnat Chaim, an Israeli nonprofit that facilitates […]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) filed an arrest detainer Monday asking New Jersey authorities to hold a man accused of throwing a baseball-sized rock into a school bus on the New Jersey Turnpike, an attack that fractured the skull of an 8-year-old Jewish girl. The suspect, Hernando Garcia-Morales, is being held on multiple state […]
German authorities have arrested a fourth suspect in a Hamas-linked terror cell accused of plotting attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. The suspect, identified only as Mohammad S., 36, was taken into custody Friday at Berlin Brandenburg Airport after returning from Lebanon, according to federal prosecutors. Investigators allege that […]
No more fawning praise. No more polite workarounds and old-style diplomacy. And no one is calling Donald Trump “daddy” now. European leaders who scrambled for a year to figure out how to deal with an emboldened American president in his second term edged closer to saying “no,” or something diplomatically like it, to his disregard for international law and his demands […]
International political leaders, diplomats and public figures convened in Jerusalem on Monday for the second International Conference on Combating Antisemitism — a two-day summit framed by Israeli officials as a global response to a sharp rise in antisemitism and Holocaust denial since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel. The conference, titled Generation of […]
Israeli intelligence helped the United States confirm that Iran’s regime carried out mass executions of protesters, contradicting assurances that President Donald Trump said he had received from Tehran, according to Yisrael Hayom. According to officials familiar with the intelligence, Israel was a key partner in gathering and corroborating evidence showing that Iranian authorities executed large […]
American workers adopted artificial intelligence into their work lives at a remarkable pace over the past few years, according to a new poll. Some 12% of employed adults say they use AI daily in their job, according to a Gallup Workforce survey conducted this fall of more than 22,000 U.S. workers. The survey found roughly one-quarter say they use AI […]
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte insisted on Monday that Europe is incapable of defending itself without U.S. military support and would have to more than double current military spending targets to be able to do so. “If anyone thinks here … that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the U.S., […]
The US Holocaust Museum has issued a statement condemning Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of comparing the plight of immigrants in his state to that of Anne Frank, who was murdered by the Nazis.
Your watch says you had three hours of deep sleep. Should you believe it? Millions of people rely on phone apps and wearable devices like rings, smartwatches and sensors to monitor how well they’re sleeping, but these trackers don’t necessarily measure sleep directly. Instead, they infer states of slumber from signals like heart rate and movement, raising questions about how […]
Bais Medrash Govoha in Lakewood has announced the appointment of Rav Reuven Hechster shlit”a, the mashgiach of Yeshivas Mir Brachfeld in Modiin Illit, as the yeshiva’s new mashgiach. Rav Hechster shlit”a, a close talmid of his Rav Nosson Wachtfogel zt”l — who served as mashgiach of Bais Medrash Govoha for decades — will assume the […]
Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, the U.S. State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, ripped into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after the former Democratic vice presidential nominee compared the experiences of families in his state during federal law enforcement activity to Anne Frank hiding from the Nazis. “Ignorance like this cheapens the horror of the […]
Ted Cruz: There is a tangible, dangerous antisemitic contingent on the right. That is gaining traction, gaining popularity, being listened to by young people, and gaining attention.
