A terrified mother searching frantically for her missing 4-year-old son. A shocked business owner finding his store ransacked by thieves. A traumatized teen who was just assaulted in a dark alley by a stranger. An anxious mispallel worries about suspicious individuals hanging around his shul. These are just a smattering of the broad range of […]
New Jersey and the nation were not prepared when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and the state “remains underprepared for the next emergency,” according to an independent report examining New Jersey’s response to the pandemic that sickened nearly 3 million people statewide and killed over 33,000. The report released Monday faults planning, communication and decision-making before […]
A Google employee was terminated after interrupting a tech conference with an anti-Israel rant, accusing the company of “powering genocide”. The incident occurred at New York City’s “Mind the Tech” conference this past Monday, where Google Israel managing director Barak Regev was giving a lecture. The unnamed employee shouted, “I’m a Google cloud software engineer, […]
The Movement for Quality Government in Israel has filed a complaint with the ombudsman of the Israeli judiciary, former Supreme Court justice Uri Shoham, calling for the removal of Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef from the Great Rabbinical Court of Appeals. The complaint alleges that Rabbi Yosef has politicized his judicial role and violated ethical […]
Former President Donald Trump said Monday that he still believes TikTok poses a national security risk but is opposed to banning the hugely popular app because doing so would help its rival, Facebook, which he continues to lambast over his 2020 election loss. Trump, in a call-in interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” was asked about […]
Italian police arrested three Palestinians in central Italy who were allegedly planning suicide bombings against civilian and military targets “on foreign soil.” The suspects, who are linked to the Tulkarm branch of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, were granted visas for humanitarian reasons. Italy’s interior minister praised the arrest of the “dangerous terrorists” According to the […]
President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last week failed to boost his popularity on key issues among Americans, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll found Sunday. Biden’s approval ratings on issues such as the economy, crime, Hamas’s war, and the Ukraine war remain unchanged, with only 36% approving of his handling of the economy, […]
The French government said Monday that several of its services have been targeted by cyberattacks of “unprecedented intensity,” and a special crisis center was activated to restore online services. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s office said in a statement that the attacks started Sunday night and hit multiple government ministries, without providing details. By Monday afternoon, […]
In a series of targeted raids and strikes, the ID killed approximately 15 terrorists in the central Gaza Strip over the past day. The operations were carried out in response to terrorist activity that endangered IDF troops in the area. IDF special forces are continuing to operate in the area of Hamad in Khan Yunis, […]
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. teens say they feel happy or peaceful when they don’t have their phones with them, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. In a survey published Monday, Pew also found that despite the positive associations with going phone-free, most teens have not limited their phone or social media […]
The IDF and the Civil Administration, under the direction of the National Security Council, carried out an unusual operation in the past day to rescue over 70 Gazan orphans from Gaza and transport them to an orphanage in the Palestinian Authority. As part of the operation, the orphans were transferred inside Israel, including on the […]
The special counsel who impugned the president’s age and competence in his report on how Joe Biden handled classified documents will himself be up for questioning this week. Robert Hur is scheduled to testify before a congressional committee on Tuesday as House Republicans try to keep the spotlight on unflattering assessments of Biden. Some Biden […]
The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) reprimanded firefighters who displayed inappropriate behavior during a recent promotion ceremony, where they booed New York Attorney General Letitia James and cheered for former President Trump. According to a report, the FDNY issued a stern warning, stating that such actions brought “discredit” to the department. A memo distributed […]
An explosion that took place near a ship in the Red Sea on Monday is suspected to have been an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, though the blast caused no damage, authorities said. The master of the vessel reported the explosion and said no one was hurt, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman The BaDatz Yerushalayim has just issued a ruling concerning the new Sifrei Torah that have been written in the past six years which have used the Horowitz Tikkun. 2018 is the first year that the Horowitz Tikkun was used. Until you check them twice with a reliable magi’ah and fix them […]
A second round of municipal elections took place on Sunday in cities and yishuvim where none of the candidates won enough votes (40%) to declare victory in the first round of elections last month. As expected, Shmulik Greenberg, the Degel HaTorah candidate in Beit Shemesh, defeated the incumbent mayor Aliza Bloch by a large margin, […]
Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife pleaded not guilty on Monday to new obstruction of justice charges in a New York court. The new charges were in a rewritten indictment returned last week against the Democrat in Manhattan federal court. “Once again, not guilty your honor,” Menendez responded after Judge Sidney H. Stein asked him […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was interviewed by Fox News on Monday and responded to US President Joe Biden’s comments on MSNBC over the weekend that Israel’s invasion of Rafah would be a red line. “The president and I have agreed that we have to destroy Hamas,” Netanyahu said. “We can’t leave a quarter of the […]
President Joe Biden and his likely Republican challenger, Donald Trump, are on track to win enough delegates this week to become their parties’ presumptive nominees, ushering in a bruising eight-month campaign for the White House. Elections in four states on Tuesday will likely give Biden and Trump the delegates they need to clinch the nominations. […]
At least 50 people were injured Monday by what officials described as a “strong movement” on a Chilean plane traveling from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand. LATAM Airlines said in a statement that there was “a technical event during the flight which caused a strong movement.” It did not elaborate on what happened. Passengers were […]