Yeshiva World News

WATCH: Vice President JD Vance is seen greeting Reb Moshe Margaretten of the Tzedek Association as he arrives at the Chanukah event at his residence this evening.

A 20-year-old Lubavitcher bochur who grew up in Texas and recently learned in Brooklyn for a year was shot twice during Sunday’s massacre in Sydney. He underwent surgery and is being treated in the ICU, where he is in critical but stable condition. He suffered a significant amount of blood loss and faces further surgery […]

Hakeem Jeffries: Republicans got high on their own supply. These people actually believed that America was moving their extreme direction. It is not.

Conservative actor James Woods: “There is now a jihad…this country, over the past 4 years…there’s been an invasion. If you look at Europe, see how far ahead the invasion is progressing there – it’s going to end this country as we know it!”

In newly released dashcam footage, a heroic older couple is seen trying to tackle the Sydney terrorists with their bare hands and disarm them in the moments before the massacre began. The husband succeeded in briefly disarming the older terrorist, Sajid Akram, 50, before he recovered his weapon and shot and killed the couple. The […]

President Trump filed a lawsuit against the BBC on Monday, accusing the broadcaster of defamation over edited clips of his Jan. 6 speech shown in a BBC documentary. The suit seeks at least $5 billion in damages.

Semi-trucks and vehicles slid off a snow-covered and icy I-80 in Iowa on Saturday. Officials recommend driving slower and increasing your following distance when driving on a snowy interstate.

The Senate voted 76–20 to advance the House-passed final version of the $900.6 billion defense policy bill for fiscal year 2026. The measure cleared the 60-vote threshold needed to move forward, and up to 30 hours of floor debate will now take place before a final passage vote.

Sajid and Naveed Akram, the father-son terrorists who murdered 15 people at a Chanukah celebration at Bondi Beach on Sunday, traveled to the Philippines to receive “military-style training” only weeks before the attack, according to a report by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Investigators are now probing whether the Akrams were part of a wider […]

Several bochurim from Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch were violently attacked in an apparent antisemitic incident on a New York City subway train while returning from Chanukah kiruv activities in Manhattan to Crown Heights. According to firsthand testimony from one of the victims, the group had spent several hours engaged in mivtzoim, spreading the light and joy […]

President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices. The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump,” calling it “a brazen attempt to […]

Letters Against Smoking by Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, and others

On the first night of Chanukah, a terror attack shattered a joyful gathering in Bondi. Rabbi Eli Schlanger הי״ד, a devoted Chabad shliach, was murdered. He was only 41. He leaves behind his wife and five young children, including a two-month-old baby. This fundraiser provides urgent and ongoing support for Rabbi Schlanger’s family, helping with […]

President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States is “looking into” whether Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire after a weekend airstrike killed senior Hamas commander Raad Saad. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump declined to accuse Israel of wrongdoing but confirmed that Washington is examining the circumstances of the strike, which targeted […]

In the aftermath of the deadly Bondi Beach terror attack, Iranians – many of them longtime critics of their own government – are publicly expressing solidarity with Israel and the global Jewish community. Under the hashtag #IraniansStandWithIsrael, users on X and other platforms posted messages mourning the victims of Sunday’s Chanukah celebration shooting in Sydney, […]

Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday rejected Israel’s bid to halt an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza, a ruling that ensures the probe will continue and leaves arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant firmly in place. The decision is the latest legal setback […]

As police continue to piece together the deadliest antisemitic attack in Australia in years, the mother of one of the terrorists is insisting her son is “a good boy” — apparently one who carries out massacres of Jews from time to time… Verena Akram, the mother of 24-year-old Bondi attacker Naveed Akram, told the Sydney […]

Dramatic video shows students hunkered down behind bookshelves at Brown University on Saturday until police were able to escort them to safety. Two people were killed and nine were injured in a mass shooting on campus, according to officials.

POTUS ON UKRAINE WAR: “At this moment Russia wants to get it ended. The problem is, they’ll want to get it ended and then all of sudden they won’t, and Ukraine will want to get it ended and all of the sudden they won’t.”