Yeshiva World News

The newly unveiled statue of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Ardabil, northwest Iran, was toppled just days after it was installed.

The streets of Nahavand in western Iran have turned into a battlefield, as pro-regime Iranians fighting alongside security forces clash with anti-government protesters.

Zohran Mamdani announced the appointment of a new Department of Transportation commissioner during his speech last night after being sworn in as mayor.

Several people were killed in clashes between protesters and Iranian security forces near the governor’s building in Lordegan, according to the IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency.

WATCH: Protesters set an Iranian security forces vehicle on fire in Marvdasht, southern Iran.

Iranian security forces opened fire with live ammunition on protesters in the southern city of Marvdasht.

President Donald Trump signed a New Year’s Eve proclamation delaying increased tariffs on upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets and vanities for a year, citing ongoing trade talks. Trump’s order signed Wednesday keeps in place a 25% tariff he imposed in September on those goods, but delays for another year a 30% tariff on upholstered furniture and […]

For many Holocaust survivors, the past is never far away, but neither is extraordinary resilience. Every survivor carries a story of survival and, just as powerfully, a story of rebuilding a life against impossible odds. At the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, JCCGCI, it is a profound privilege, and responsibility to walk alongside […]

From Sydney to Paris to New York City, crowds rang in the new year with exuberant celebrations filled with thunderous fireworks or light shows, while others took a more subdued approach. As the clock struck midnight in Japan, temple bells rang and some climbed mountains to see the year’s first sunrise, while a light show with somersaulting […]

Embracing Matthew After His Bris   It almost feels unfaithful and disloyal to choose a favorite Parsha, when every Parsha in the Torah is sacred and beloved. Why then is the Rav of BJX so enamored with Parsha Vayigash?  Parshas Vayigash embodies everything we seek to accomplish at BJX. It is the Parsha of reconciliation, reunification and […]

Several members of the Jewish kehilla were injured in a fire at the Crans-Montana ski resort in Switzerland, which occurred near the local shul, Mako reported. Reports say that at least 40 people were killed and over 100 were injured in the fire, many of them tourists who had come for celebrations at the Swiss Alpine resort. […]

A volunteer member of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was killed in a western province during widening demonstrations sparked by the Islamic Republic’s ailing economy, authorities said Thursday, marking the first fatality among security forces during the protests. The death Wednesday night of the 21-year-old volunteer in the Guard’s Basij force may mark the start of […]

A fire ripped through a bar’s New Year celebration in a Swiss Alpine resort less than two hours after midnight Thursday, with dozens of people feared dead and about 100 more injured, most seriously, police said. The Crans-Montana resort is best known as an international ski and golf venue and overnight its crowded Le Constellation bar morphed […]

Enhanced tax credits that have helped reduce the cost of health insurance for the vast majority of Affordable Care Act enrollees expired overnight, cementing higher health costs for millions of Americans at the start of the new year. Democrats forced a 43-day government shutdown over the issue. Moderate Republicans called for a solution to save their 2026 political aspirations. President Donald Trump floated […]

Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City just after midnight Thursday, taking the oath of office at an historic, decommissioned subway station in Manhattan. Mamdani, a Democrat, was sworn in as the first Muslim leader of America’s biggest city, placing his hand on a Quran as he took his oath. “This is truly the […]

Russian officials on Thursday said a Ukrainian drone strike killed 24 people and wounded at least 50 more as they celebrated the New Year in a Russian-occupied village in Ukraine’s Kherson region, as tensions between the two nations continue to spike despite diplomats hailing productive peace talks. Three drones struck a cafe and hotel in […]

Supreme Court Justice Ofer Grosskopf issued a temporary injunction blocking the transfer of tens of millions of shekels from the GEFEN program budget to the Shas party’s educational network in response to a petition filed by the radical-left Hadash movement. The move follows the Court’s dramatic ruling on Wednesday evening blocking the transfer of about […]

Respondents to an annual Michigan college survey of overused and misused words and phrases say ” 6-7 ” is “cooked” and should come to a massive full-stop heading into the new year. Those are among the top 10 words on the 50th annual “Banished Words List,” released Thursday by Lake Superior State University. The tongue-in-cheek […]

Adv. Yitzchak Lax addressed the Supreme Court’s increasing invention of laws, warning that its decision to halt the State Comptroller’s probe of the failures surrounding the October 7 massacre risks the lives of Israelis and the Court will ultimately bear responsibility for bloodshed. “The Supreme Court’s decision to halt, in mid-course, the State Comptroller’s examinations […]

Shas MK Yaakov Margi on Wednesday visited the home of yeshiva bochur Yair Saadeh in Be’er Sheva, after he was brutally pulled from his sickbed by military police and thrown into prison while suffering from a high fever. The father, Moshe Saadeh, a disabled IDF veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and treats post-traumatic […]