For more than fifty years, Machon Yerushalayim has been doing something extraordinary: taking the world of classic Torah manuscripts, rare seforim, and complex texts, and making them come alive for the modern learner. Walk into almost any beis medrash today and you’ll find their influence on the shelves—editions that are clearer, texts restored from […]
Auckland was the first major city to ring in 2026 with a fireworks display launched from New Zealand’s tallest structure, Sky Tower, followed by a defiant celebration in Australia in the aftermath of its worst mass shooting. South Pacific countries were the first to bid farewell to 2025. Clocks stuck midnight in Auckland 18 hours […]
A major milestone has been achieved in the Gaza border area two years after the October 7 massacre, with data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics showing that the Gaza border area is now home to roughly 65,000 residents—an increase of about 3,000 people from before the October 7 massacre. Most of the communities […]
In overnight acts of arson, Bedouin-Israelis set fire to five vehicles in the yishuv of Lehavim, located near the Bedouin town of Tirabin al-Sana in the Negev. Police determined that the incident was a Bedouin “price tag” act following the launch of a large-scale police operation that began this week in Tirabin. A senior police […]
Israel’s Supreme Court issued a dramatic decision on Wednesday morning, ordering State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman to suspend his ongoing probe into the failures surrounding the October 7 massacre. The decision was based on the opinion of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, who accepted the arguments of two petitions against the probe, one submitted by the corrupt […]
U.S. and partner forces have killed or captured nearly 25 Islamic State operatives in Syria following a wave of retaliatory strikes launched earlier this month, the U.S. military said, underscoring an intensified campaign to degrade the terror group’s remaining networks. According to a statement from U.S. Central Command, American and partner forces carried out 11 […]
A head-on collision between two tourist trains near Peru’s famous Machu Picchu killed a train driver and injured at least 40 people on Tuesday, authorities said. The crash occurred on the railway route to the ancient Inca citadel, one of the country’s top tourist destinations, with the trains operated by Inca Rail S.A. and PeruRail […]
The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Monday on Israel’s recognition of Somaliland. US Deputy Ambassador to the UN Tammy Bruce slammed the convening of the meeting, calling the Council out for its double standards. “Israel has the same right to conduct diplomatic relations as any other sovereign state,” she asserted. “Earlier this […]
Iran escalated its diplomatic confrontation with Canada on Tuesday, formally designating the Royal Canadian Navy as a terrorist organization in what Tehran described as direct retaliation for Ottawa’s 2024 decision to blacklist Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. In a statement, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said the move was a response to Canada’s designation of […]
Australian authorities said Tuesday that the father and son who carried out a mass shooting on Chanukah at Sydney’s Bondi Beach acted alone and were not part of a wider terrorist network, even though the attack was inspired by ISIS and deliberately targeted a Jewish event. The shooting – carried out with rifles and shotguns […]
The Pentagon announced that Boeing has been awarded an $8.6 billion contract to supply Israel with advanced F-15 fighter jets, a major expansion of Israel’s airpower that comes as Washington weighs a potentially contentious sale of F-35s to Turkey. The contract, disclosed shortly after Donald Trump met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Florida, covers […]
Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Monday that one of his first priorities after leaving office will be an effort to use cryptocurrency and other technology-based tools to combat antisemitism, though he offered few details about how such an initiative would work. Speaking at what was among his final press conferences as mayor, […]
“I’m very grateful to President Trump for the support that he gives us.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his meeting with President Trump Monday at Mar-a-Lago.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv was discussing with Washington a possible presence of US troops in Ukraine as part of security guarantees. The White House had no comment on the issue of dispatching US troops to Ukraine.
BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota after reports of fraud, ordered an audit of day care centers, activated the ‘defend the spend’ system requiring receipts and launched a fraud reporting hotline.
Sen. John Fetterman has endorsed new military action against Iran’s nuclear program, saying he fully supports past U.S. strikes and would back future attacks if Tehran continues pursuing nuclear weapons. “Iran can’t ever develop a nuclear weapon,” Fetterman wrote in a post on X, declaring his support for using force to prevent the Islamic Republic […]
Flu is rising rapidly across the U.S., driven by a new variant of the virus — and cases are expected to keep growing with holiday travel. That variant, known as “subclade K,” led to early outbreaks in the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada. In the U.S., flu typically begins its winter march in December. On Tuesday, the […]
Facebook has been accused of serious failures in moderating extremist content after allegedly allowing posts celebrating the Bondi Beach massacre to remain online. The findings, based on analysis by the UK-based Community Security Trust (CST), allege that Facebook lagged in removing content praising the deadly attack on a Chanukah celebration in Sydney earlier this month, […]
Meta is buying artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the owner of Facebook and Instagram continues an aggressive push to amp up AI offerings across its platforms. The California tech giant declined to disclose financial details of the acquisition. But The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta closed the deal at more than $2 billion. Manus, […]
