The U.S. Coast Guard has again been forced to backtrack after outrage from Jewish groups, removing language that would have downgraded swastikas and nooses from hate symbols in its harassment policies. The late-Thursday reversal — the second such retraction in recent weeks — came only after intense scrutiny from lawmakers and Jewish organizations. The move […]
Georgetown University has quietly severed its ties with Francesca Albanese, a United Nations Special Rapporteur, following months of mounting outrage over her antisemitic statements and comments justifying the October 7 Hamas terror attacks. Albanese, who had been listed as an “Other Affiliated Scholar” at Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of International Migration, has now been […]
Rescuers braved shooting flames, falling debris and the threat of more explosions to evacuate dozens of nursing home residents after a blast ripped through a Pennsylvania facility, killing a resident
Israel has accused the United Nations of running a vast, taxpayer-funded campaign that singles out the Jewish state, alleging that roughly $100 million a year is spent on UN reports, debates, committees, and special mechanisms aimed almost exclusively at targeting Israel. The claim was laid out this week by Israel’s Permanent Mission to the United […]
In a rare moment of global recognition for a branding and marketing agency rooted in the Orthodox Jewish business world, M/OTG, with offices in Brooklyn NY and Israel, has been ranked #3 in DIELINE’s “10 Best Redesigns of 2025” for its rebrand and packaging redesign of Flaum, the century-old Brooklyn kosher deli brand. Flaum’s redesign […]
North Korea on Thursday displayed apparent progress in the construction of a nuclear-powered submarine, with state media photos showing a largely completed hull, as leader Kim Jong Un condemned rival South Korea’s push to acquire the technology. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim visited a shipyard to inspect the construction of what the […]
What happens when a group of chareidi real estate professionals encounter a large-scale coastal development originally planned for a secular audience—and see the opportunity to rethink it entirely? That
Rabbi Yaakov Herzog, the self-appointed “chief rabbi of Saudi Arabia,” announced that he was denied entry to the Kingdom, despite holding a valid visa and having spent years traveling in and out of the country. “With profound regret, I announce that I was barred from entering the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia upon arrival,” Herzog wrote […]
The Israeli man suspected of photographing former prime minister Naftali Bennett’s home on behalf of Iran was employed as a maintenance contractor at the Kirya military complex in Tel Aviv, Kan News reported on Thursday. The suspect, Vadim Kupriyanov, worked for the past three years as a maintenance contractor at the Kirya. On the day […]
Like many retirement communities, The Terraces serves as a tranquil refuge for a nucleus of older people who no longer can travel to faraway places or engaging in bold adventures.
Former captive Eitan Mor said on Thursday that Hamas possesses extensive information about the IDF. Speaking at the Bnei Akiva National Education and Makor Rishon conference, Mor said, “They know a lot about the army—sometimes even more than most of the soldiers serving in the army today.” “They have booklets in Arabic with details on […]
For more than half a century, two of America’s most infamous unsolved murders—the Zodiac killings and the Black Dahlia—have occupied a peculiar place in the national imagination: endlessly theorized, officially unresolved, and periodically revived by a new suspect or cipher crack that promises, and usually fails, to bring closure. Now, an unlikely figure is insisting […]
Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura won Honduras’ presidential election, electoral authorities said Wednesday afternoon, ending a weeks-long count that has whittled away at the credibility of the Central American nation’s fragile electoral system. The election is continuing Latin America’s swing to the right, coming just a week after Chile chose the far-right politician José Antonio Kast as its next president. Asfura, […]
Almost a thousand single parents and their children from across the Tri State area gathered at Nickelodeon Park in the American Dream Mall on the fifth night of Chanukah for
A bomb exploded during prayers at a mosque in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday night, killing five people in what police described as a likely suicide attack. Police said that 35 people were also injured in the attack. Nahum Daso, spokesperson for police command in the surrounding state of Borno, said in a […]
An objective bystander passing by the BJX Kiruv center on Avenue K, on the 4th night of Chanukah, would have been very intrigued. A Menorah was being lit in front
The son of a former prime minister of Bangladesh returned home Thursday, promising to work for a safe country after more than 17 years in self-imposed exile as a frontrunner
The Kremlin on Thursday said it was in contact with the French authorities over the fate of a French political scholar serving a three-year sentence in Russia and reportedly facing new charges of espionage. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russia has made “an offer to the French” regarding Laurent Vinatier, arrested in Moscow […]
For more than fifty years, Machon Yerushalayim has been doing something extraordinary: taking the world of classic Torah manuscripts, rare seforim, and complex texts, and making them come alive
A powerful winter storm is bearing down on the Tri-State area, with forecasters warning of significant snowfall, dangerous travel, and possible ice from Friday evening through Shabbos morning. The National
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