U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Thursday. The fraction of
An imam in the Bronx turned the solemn funeral of slain NYPD Officer Islam Diller into a stage for his own political soapbox, and it’s left a sour taste. On Wednesday, as thousands of police officers, elected officials, and community members gathered to honor a devout Muslim officer killed in the line of duty, this […]
The FBI has opened a federal hate crime investigation following a savage assault on multiple Jewish diners at a kosher restaurant in Queens, as shocking new details emerge about the attackers’ antisemitic threats and the extent of the violence. The incident, which took place on July 20 at Sezam, a kosher eatery in the Forest […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren, a program created in 1966 to help interest young people in following healthy, active lifestyles. Children had
Slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that Black people face “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of discrimination in the United States, according to a poll. That’s a decline from the solid majority, 60%, who thought Black Americans faced high levels of discrimination in the spring of 2021, months after racial reckoning […]
Tisha B’av is almost here and we are grieving. Collectively grieving the loss of the Beis Hamikdash, our connection to the Shechina, and the wholeness we once knew. Grieving the hostages still unreturned, the loss of life and innocence, the loss of clarity and hope. The grief is both collective and personal, as we mourn […]
The United States will enter a 90-day negotiating period with Mexico over trade as 25% tariff rates stay in place, President Donald Trump said Thursday. Trump, posting on his Truth Social platform, said a phone conversation he had with Mexican leader Claudia Sheinbaum was “very successful in that, more and more, we are getting to […]
This Thursday evening, July 31 (6 B’Av) at 8:30 PM, the Monsey community is invited to Beis Yosef Meir (19 Olympia Lane, Monsey – lower Beis Medrash) for an inspiring event featuring Reb Moshe Meir Engelson shlita. Reb Moshe Meir, who survived the Holocaust as a hidden child, will share his extraordinary story of survival, […]
Newly declassified intelligence documents allege that Hillary Clinton personally approved a covert plan to smear then-candidate Donald Trump with fabricated claims of Russian collusion — all to divert attention from her own spiraling email scandal. The files, declassified Thursday by Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel at the request of Senator Chuck […]
Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) have reintroduced legislation that would cut off federal funding to universities that engage in boycotts of Israel. The Protect Economic and Academic
The political fallout from Monday’s deadly mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan has ignited a fierce war of words between New York’s two most prominent mayoral contenders, pitting law-and-order rhetoric against progressive reform in a high-stakes showdown that could reshape the race. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent after losing the Democratic nomination, came […]
Appellate court judges expressed broad skepticism Thursday over President Donald Trump’s legal rationale for his most expansive round of tariffs. Members of the 11-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington appeared unconvinced by the Trump administration’s insistence that the president could impose tariffs without congressional approval, and it […]
In an inspiring and emotional event, a Siyum Mishnayos was held along with the dedication of the “Taharos” branch of the Mishnas Yaakov Eliezer Kollel, which will now bear the name of Reb Yaakov Eliezer Rajchenbach Zt”l — one of the foremost builders of Torah, who devoted his life to supporting Torah and incredible Chesed […]
The Trump administration is canceling plans to use large areas of federal waters for new offshore wind development, the latest step to suppress the industry in the United States. More
Last night, the Lakewood kehilla came together for a powerful atzeres tefillah and asifas chizuk at Ateres Chana (Bais Faiga). The event was organized in response to growing concern over
The Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia has announced that, due to the ongoing need for Rachamei Shamayim for the Rosh Yeshiva, Hagaon HaRav Shmuel Kamenetsky, an additional Asifas Tehillim will take
A groundbreaking exhibition exploring the October 7 Hamas-led massacre through the lens of archaeology will open to the public in Jerusalem on August 6, shedding light on how experts from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) helped recover human remains and personal items in the wake of the terror attack. Titled “Rising from the Ashes: Archaeology […]
A Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam was hit by serious turbulence, sending 25 passengers to hospitals and forcing the flight to divert to Minneapolis-St. Paul
President Donald Trump has privately acknowledged that his MAGA base is souring on the Jewish state. “My people are starting to hate Israel,” Trump told a prominent Jewish donor recently, according to a Financial Times report citing a Middle East expert with close ties to the administration. The comment, striking in its bluntness, marks a […]
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