Senator Josh Hawley on the suspected biolab that the FBI raided in Las Vegas: We don’t know if this property owner, who is a Chinese national, has ties to the Chinese government, and I think we’d better find out really quickly.
Residents of the city of Beitar Illit have become accustomed to the fact that every week, the gates of the city are closed before Shabbos to prevent Chillul Shabbos. But most residents weren’t aware of the story of emunah and mesiras nefesh behind the closing of gates, a story that ended this week with tears […]
Members of the newest class of probationary firefighters visited the 9/11 Memorial & Museum on Wednesday, continuing a long-standing department tradition held with each incoming class to honor the victims of the September 11 attacks.
Trump on his call with President Xi: “We have a very good relationship… these are the two most powerful countries in the world and we have a very good relationship. We spoke for an hour… China’s paying a lot of tariffs. In the past, they didn’t.”
More than 60 skiers were stranded in frigid conditions at a resort in New York’s Adirondack Mountains after a mechanical issue halted a ski lift, though all were evacuated safely.
TRUMP: “There are some areas in our country that are extremely corrupt. They have very corrupt elections. Take a look at Detroit, take a look at Philadelphia, take a look at Atlanta… If [states] can’t do it honestly, and it can’t be done properly and timely, then something else has to happen.”
Trump on helping cities remove criminals: “Well, one thing I say to my people… I say, ‘They have to ask, and they have to say please.'” NBC: “Who has to ask, and who has to say please? TRUMP: “The mayor or the governor.”
As the Super Bowl returns to center stage this weekend, Jewish billionaire Robert Kraft is using the country’s largest television platform to press a political and cultural message: confronting antisemitism, especially among young people. Kraft’s Blue Square Alliance Against Hate previewed its 2026 Super Bowl commercial ahead of its scheduled airing during Sunday’s matchup between […]
Israel’s cabinet approved a plan to build a supplementary international airport near Nevatim in the Negev, following a proposal by Benjamin Netanyahu. • The airport would serve as an additional hub alongside Ben Gurion Airport, aiming to ease congestion and support long-term aviation growth. • The project is expected to cost $7–10 billion, with construction […]
A 17-year-old student at Renaissance Charter School in Queens, NY, was arrested Monday after allegedly sending emails referencing “killing Jews” to multiple people connected to the school’s campus. Police said the teen sent the messages around 12:30 p.m. to recipients linked to the Jackson Heights school.
President Donald Trump signed a sweeping government funding package into law Tuesday that includes more than $4 billion in support for Israel, reinforcing the administration’s close alignment with the Jewish state as Congress moved quickly to end a brief federal shutdown. Trump signed the measure less than three hours after it cleared the U.S. House […]
As it marks its 100th anniversary, Lufthansa is breaking with decades of corporate caution and publicly confronting its deep ties to Nazi Germany, a move executives say reflects a broader shift toward institutional accountability in Europe’s largest economy. “We at Lufthansa are proud of what we are today,” CEO Carsten Spohr said in remarks released […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed Phylisa Wisdom, the former executive director of the New York Jewish Agenda, to lead the city’s Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism. The appointment, announced Wednesday, places Wisdom at the center of one of the mayor’s most sensitive and polarizing policy areas, as City Hall faces mounting pressure over […]
Nearly half a trillion dollars has been erased from the cryptocurrency market in under a week, as a Bitcoin-led selloff gathered pace. Bitcoin at one stage fell to its lowest level in about 15 months on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court rejected the California Republican Party’s emergency attempt to stop the state’s new gerrymandered congressional map, which is likely to result in five additional seats for Democrats in the 2026 midterms.
JD Vance on Iran’s nuclear ambitions: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That’s the stated policy goal of the President…We know the history. The President has no interest in repeating the history of Iraq, but you don’t let crazy people get nuclear weapons.
FBI Director Kash Patel was grilled Tuesday over the government’s lingering silence about the man who shot Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign. Appearing on Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News, Patel faced questions about why the FBI has released so little public information about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old Pennsylvania man who […]
A dramatic halachic ruling issued this week by HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein, has led a prominent chareidi seminary to cancel a planned trip to the Mount Hermon site. The ruling was published in the weekly Torah publication Divrei Chemed, which features the teachings of Rav Zilberstein. In a particularly forceful response, Rav Zilberstein ruled that there […]
LONDON: Thousands attend the levaya of Harav Elyakim Schlesinger zt”l, one of the gedolei roshei yeshiva of this generation, who was niftar earlier today at 104.
