Jessica Sweet spent the federal government shutdown cutting back. To make ends meet, the Social Security claims specialist drank only one coffee a day, skipped meals, cut down on groceries and deferred paying some household bills. She racked up spending on her credit card buying gas to get to work. With the longest shutdown ever coming to a […]
The excitement is palpable. From Lakewood to London, Bnei Brak to Brooklyn, the kol Torah of tens of thousands of lomdim rises higher each day as Klal Yisrael prepares for a milestone unlike any before: the Siyum on Seder Mo’ed. With the final dafim of Maseches Chagigah now being learned, the dream that began nearly […]
BDE: Corporal Ermias Bahata, aged 18, from Maale Adumim, a trainee at the Logistics Corps training base collapsed and passed away on a base in southern Israel earlier today. The circumstances of his death are currently under review, and a medical inquiry is being conducted.
Government shutdown back pay headed to federal workers in coming days • Federal workers who were furloughed during the 43-day-long U.S. government shutdown could begin seeing back pay arrive in their bank accounts in the coming days. • “There really has been an aggressive effort to get people to get their checks as soon as […]
Even before he was elected president, Isaac Herzog tried to advance the granting of a pardon to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Haaretz reported on Thursday evening. According to the report, Herzog discussed the matter with former President Reuven Rivlin, suggesting that Netanyahu and Rivlin meet to discuss it. Herzog acted secretly, partly out of fear […]
The streets of France came to a standstill this week in honor of the historic visit of HaGaon HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, shlita, Rosh Yeshivas Slabodka and one of the foremost leaders of the Torah world. For three days, Jewish communities across France experienced an extraordinary spiritual awakening as the Rosh Yeshiva traveled throughout the […]
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar accused Iran of “constantly” plotting attacks on Israeli diplomats worldwide, warning that Tehran’s operations extend far beyond a recently exposed plan to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to Mexico. Speaking in Tallinn at the opening of Israel’s new embassy in Estonia — the third diplomatic mission he has inaugurated this year — […]
A hearing was held on Thursday regarding the petition by the Force 100 reservists—who were accused of beating a Hamas terrorist in the now notorious Sde Teiman case—to revoke their indictment in light of the disgraced Military Advocate General’s deliberate leak of the so-called evidence (a doctored video) to the press. The president of the […]
BREAKING: Senator John Fetterman was hospitalized in Pittsburgh after a fall this morning. His office said a ventricular fibrillation episode caused him to feel light-headed and fall, hitting his face and sustaining minor injuries. He is now “doing well” under routine observation.
European Union regulators said Thursday they’re investigating whether Google is unfairly demoting some content from media publishers in search results under a policy the company says is aimed at combating scammers. Brussels moved forward despite the risk of incurring the wrath of President Donald Trump, who has lashed out at the 27-nation bloc’s digital regulations […]
They Spend All Night Immersed in the Holy Kabbalah in Yerushalayim—Will You Join Them? It’s midnight in the holy city of Yerushalayim, and a group of exalted and illustrious mekubalim stream in, one by one, into the Beis Medrash overlooking the Makom HaMikdash—the site of our destroyed Beis HaMikdash—where they will spend the night immersed […]
Venezuela announced a large-scale military mobilization in response to what it calls a growing “imperialist threat” from the United States, escalating tensions as the Pentagon continues to surge warships, aircraft and personnel into the Caribbean. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said the operation — ordered directly by President Nicolás Maduro — will involve land, air, […]
Next week, Verizon is set to lay off about 15,000 employees which is roughly 15% of its workforce, marking the largest job cuts in the wireless carrier’s history as part of its ongoing restructuring.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is unsure whether he would accept a presidential pardon if one were offered, calling his ongoing corruption trial a “politicized and unjust witch hunt” during an interview with conservative podcast host Erin Molan. His comments came just hours after President Donald Trump sent an official letter to Israeli President […]
The British government said Thursday that a memorial wall in London created by those who lost loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic will be preserved. In a statement, it said that the 8-foot-high (2½-meter-high) Portland stone wall on the south side of the River Thames, directly opposite the Houses of Parliament, will remain to commemorate […]
The streets of Brooklyn are transforming into the nerve center of global Jewish life, with the annual Kinnus Hashluchim just hours away. Flights are landing, Signs are going up, and the air hums with the energy of 6,200 Shluchim arriving from 111 countries. This is the largest Kinus HaShluchim in history, and it lands at […]
BIBI ON MAMDANI: Netanyahu says he thinks “New York has a dim future” under Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, noting that socialism doesn’t work and that antisemitism causes societies to collapse.
