Yeshiva World News

Shomrim: When Every Second Counts, Staten Island Counts On Them

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 […]

Report: New Jersey And US Weren’t Prepared For COVID-19 And State Remains Unprepared

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 […]

Google Employee Terminated After Disrupting Tech Conference with Anti-Israel Rant

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, […]

Activists Want Sephardic Chief Rabbi Punished For Saying Charedim Will Leave Israel Over Draft

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 […]

Trump Opposes TikTok Ban Despite National Security Threat Because It Would Help Facebook

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 Arrest 3 Palestinian Terrorists Planning Suicide Bombings

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 […]

NICE TRY: State Of The Union Speech Fails To Improve Biden Approvals On Key Issues

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, […]

France Says It’s Being Targeted By Unusual Intense Cyberattacks

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, […]

IDF Launches Successful Operations Against Terrorist Cells in Gaza

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, […]

MERCY ON THE CRUEL: IDF Transferred 70 Gazan Orphans To The PA

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 […]

FDNY Going After Firefighters Who Booed Trump-Hating NY Attorney General Letitia James

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 […]

Suspected Attack by Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Sees Explosion Near Ship in Red Sea

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 […]

BaDatz Yerushalayim Issues Ruling on Torahs

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 […]

Degel HaTorah Candidate Wins Beit Shemesh: Shmulik Greenberg Defeats Aliza Bloch

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 Enters Not Guilty Plea To Latest Criminal Indictment

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 […]

MID-FLIGHT HORROR: 50 Injured When Boeing Plane Suffers ‘Technical Event’

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 […]

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