A recent Pew survey reveals that 49% of Muslims in America believe Hamas has “valid” reasons for attacking Israel, while 54% reject Israel’s right to defend itself. Only 45% of Muslims condemned the October 7 massacres, with 21% admitting they supported the attacks and 31% unsure if burning Jewish families alive was wrong. These findings […]
U.S. stocks rose to a record Wednesday after breaking out of their three-day lull. The S&P 500 climbed 44.91 points, or 0.9%, to 5,248.49. It was the first gain for the index since setting its last all-time high on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 477.75, or 1.2%, to 39,760.08, and the Nasdaq composite […]
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei praised Hamas politburo leader Ismail Haniyeh for rallying international support for the Palestinian cause, saying that Hamas’s propaganda has outshone Israel’s efforts to garner global backing. “Despite the enemy’s wishes, it has turned Palestine into the world’s first issue,” Khamenei said, urging further efforts to build support for the terror […]
Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at the New York judge who put him under a gag order ahead of his April 15 hush-money criminal trial, suggesting that the veteran jurist was kowtowing to his daughter’s interests as a Democratic political consultant. The former president objected in particular to what he claimed was her posting of […]
New York is on track to become the first U.S. city with congestion tolls on drivers entering its central business district after transit officials approved a $15 fee for most motorists headed to the busiest part of Manhattan. Members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board on Wednesday voted to greenlight the congestion pricing plan, expected […]
Kari Lake, a Republican Senate candidate in Arizona who says she lost a 2022 race for governor because of fraud, is declining to defend against a defamation lawsuit filed by a top election official. Lake this week asked a judge to jump directly to the damages phase of the lawsuit filed by Republican Maricopa County […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with US Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on Wednesday. The two discussed, among other things, the Biden administration’s failure to veto the UN resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza without conditioning it on the release of Israeli hostages. “The worst part of the […]
Joe Lieberman, the shomer shabbos former four-term US Senator from Connecticut and the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2000, passed away today in New York City at the age of 82 due to complications from a fall. Lieberman was a self-described centrist Democrat who championed causes like environmental protection, and gun control. However, his […]
The cargo ship that lost power and crashed into a bridge in Baltimore underwent “routine engine maintenance” in the port beforehand, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday, as divers recovered the bodies of two of six workers who plunged into the water. The others were presumed dead, and officials said search efforts had been exhausted. […]
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre abruptly ended an interview with 99.3 WBT Charlotte News Director Mark Garrison on Tuesday, ahead of President Biden’s visit to Raleigh. The interview was cut short after Garrison asked a question about President Biden’s mental health. “That is incredibly offensive. I’m not going to take the premise of your […]
The death toll from last week’s Moscow concert hall attack rose to 140 on Wednesday after another victim died in a hospital, Russian officials said. That person was one of five still hospitalized in “extremely grave condition,” and the doctors “did everything they could” to save them, Russia’s Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said. A total […]
President Biden has made another embarrassing slip-up, claiming to have commuted by train over the Francis Scott Key Bridge “many, many times” despite the bridge having no rail lines. The President made the statement during a press conference on the recent bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland. “At about 1:30 [a.m. Tuesday], a container ship struck […]
Several women have taken to TikTok to share their experiences of being punched in the face by strangers on the streets of New York City. Halley Kate, a TikTok influencer with 1.2 million followers, posted a video showing a visible bump on her forehead and recounting how she was attacked and punched to the ground […]
The world wasted an estimated 19% of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons, according to a new United Nations report. The U.N. Environment Programme’s Food Waste Index Report, published Wednesday, tracks the progress of countries to halve food waste by 2030. The U.N. said the number of countries reporting […]
The Sanzer Rebbe held a tisch with thousands of chassidim in Kiryat Sanz in Netanya on Motzei Purim. After the chassidim sang several Purim songs, the Rebbe instructed them to sing Acheinu Kol Beis Yisrael, with the Rebbe bursting into bitter tears as it was sung. In his divrei Torah, the Rebbe spoke mainly about […]
The long-awaited date is finally here. See you at The Chidon Event—TOMORROW! This Thursday (girls) and next Thursday (boys) at 12 p.m., thousands of chayolim, family, and friends from around the world will be tuning into the International Sara Rohr Siyum Hamitzvos Event. The stage is set. Talented singers have prepared a day of celebration […]
The case against Donald Trump seemed relatively straightforward in August 2022 when FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago estate, with authorities citing evidence that the former president hoarded enough classified documents to fill dozens of boxes and obstructed the government’s efforts to retrieve them. But nine months after he was indicted, there are mounting doubts that […]
The terrorists who were eliminated in an IDF strike overnight Tuesday in southern Lebanon were planning to infiltrate the Israeli border to carry out an attack or at least carry out a shooting attack from the border. All seven terrorists killed in the overnight strike belonged to the Jamaa al-Islamiya terror organization, a Palestinian Sunni […]
A former Hungarian government insider turned critic released an audio recording on Tuesday that he says proves that top officials conspired to cover up corruption, the latest development in a scandal that has shaken Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s domination of the country’s politics. The country’s largest protests in years erupted in early February when it […]
Three kedoshei elyon had one common concept when it came to learning Torah – they were the Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh (Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar 1696-1743) when he came to Eretz Yisroel; the Ramchal (Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto 1707-1746) when he lived in Padua, Italy; and Hagaon, Harav Chaim Volozhiner, (1749-1821) the famous talmid of the Gaon of Vilna. They each had a yeshiva with […]
