In an unusually coordinated cross-parliamentary move, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and U.S. House Majority Leader Mike Johnson unveiled a new joint initiative aimed at mobilizing legislative leaders across the world to nominate President Donald Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The announcement followed a meeting between the two lawmakers on Capitol Hill and comes […]
Brad Lander, the outgoing New York City comptroller and close ally of Rep. Zohran Mamdani, will challenge two-term Rep. Dan Goldman in the Democratic primary in 2026, injecting a volatile mix of ideology, personality clashes and New York political drama into a district that stretches across Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Lander signaled his run Tuesday […]
Israeli President Isaac Herzog is forcefully denying a bombshell Channel 12 report that he once explored a pre-arranged political deal to grant Benjamin Netanyahu a pardon — years before becoming president — in exchange for Netanyahu’s support for his eventual rise to the office. The report, aired Tuesday night, centers on a confidential 17-page legal […]
A fire ripped through an office building in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, on Tuesday, killing at least 22 people, including a pregnant woman, police said. Flames engulfed the seven-story building, sending thick black smoke billowing into the sky and causing panic among nearby residents and workers in a neighborhood in central Jakarta. The fire, which broke […]
A leading antisemitism-monitoring organization is warning that a dangerous new wave of coded hate speech is spreading across major social media platforms by hiding behind emojis. CyberWell, a nonprofit that works directly with Meta, TikTok and YouTube to identify and curb online antisemitism, says its analysts have uncovered a rapidly expanding trend of “algospeak” targeting […]
A new blast of Arctic air is barreling toward the central and northeastern United States, and it could bring the region’s first bona fide snowstorm of the winter, setting up a volatile weekend across one of the country’s most densely populated corridors. Meteorologists say a weakening Polar Vortex — the high-altitude cold-air system that typically […]
Britain announced sanctions against Russian media and ideas outlets on Tuesday as the U.K’s top diplomat warned Western nations must raise their game to combat information warfare from “malign foreign states.” Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the U.K. was imposing sanctions on the microblogging Telegram channel Rybar, the Foundation for the Support and Protection of […]
BREAKING: Eileen Higgins Projected to win Miami Mayor’s Race, Breaking Nearly 30-Year GOP Hold. CNN projects that Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of Miami, ending nearly 30 years of Republican control of the officially nonpartisan seat. Higgins, a former county commissioner, defeated city manager Emilio Gonzalez, who was endorsed by Trump. She won […]
Conservative Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared to back a Republican-led drive, supported by President Donald Trump’s administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president. A day after the justices indicated they would overturn a 90-year-old decision limiting the […]
Yad L’Achim is raffling off one of the most exquisite heritage menorahs ever crafted — and only 499 tickets will be sold. LESS THAN 50 TICKETS LEFT!! You’ll receive a random ticket number between 1–499, and that will be the amount you pay for your ticket – and a chance to bring home this stunning […]
Last year, around the end of the school year, one of my children asked what I thought was an appropriate way to show hakaras hatov to a child’s rebbi or morah. That question turned into a letter. So, as we approach Chanukah, I want to follow up. Chanukah is a time of light — ner […]
WATCH: Kīlauea roared back to life on Saturday as towering lava fountains — some shooting over 1,000 feet high — and thick ash plumes burst from Halemaʻumaʻu crater on Hawaiʻi’s Big Island.
A Queens man has been sentenced to two years in prison for a 2024 incident in which he stole two Israeli flags from a Long Island home and then assaulted the homeowner when confronted.
POTUS: I don’t want to give insurance companies any money. They’ve been ripping off the public for years. Obamacare was set up to take care of insurance companies, not to take care of Americans. I love the idea of money going directly to the people, not to insurance companies.
Israeli Yacht Missing — Search Underway in Mediterranean An Israeli yacht carrying four people disappeared in the Mediterranean after leaving Ashdod. * Contact was lost near Cyprus, prompting a large-scale international search and rescue operation involving Israeli, Greek, and Cypriot authorities. * The disappearance occurred during Storm Byron, which is currently bringing heavy rain, strong […]
