New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has tapped longtime anti-Israel activist Ramzi Kassem as his chief counsel. The appointment, announced roughly a day before Mamdani’s inauguration, elevates Kassem—who served on the mayor-elect’s transition team—into one of the most powerful legal roles in City Hall. As chief counsel, Kassem will serve as the mayor’s top legal […]
Russian drones blasted apartment buildings and the power grid in the southern Ukraine city of Odesa in an overnight attack that injured six people, including a toddler and two other children, officials said Wednesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed confidence in his country’s eventual victory in the nearly four-year war against its neighbor. Four apartment buildings were damaged in […]
Justice Minister Yariv Levin sent a sharply worded letter on Wednesday morning to the Courts Administration, demanding the cancellation of a conference set to take place at the Supreme Court under the title “Education for Democracy.” His request followed reports that the event would feature former Supreme Court president Esther Hayut and Justice Yitzchak Amit, […]
President Donald Trump is not the first president to want more room at the White House for entertaining, says the longest-serving top aide in the executive residence, offering some backup for the reason Trump has cited for his ballroom construction project. Gary Walters spent more than two decades as White House chief usher to presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, […]
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
Auckland was the first major city to ring in 2026 with a fireworks display launched from New Zealand’s tallest structure, Sky Tower, followed by a defiant celebration in Australia in the aftermath of its worst mass shooting. South Pacific countries were the first to bid farewell to 2025. Clocks stuck midnight in Auckland 18 hours […]
A major milestone has been achieved in the Gaza border area two years after the October 7 massacre, with data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics showing that the Gaza border area is now home to roughly 65,000 residents—an increase of about 3,000 people from before the October 7 massacre. Most of the communities […]
In overnight acts of arson, Bedouin-Israelis set fire to five vehicles in the yishuv of Lehavim, located near the Bedouin town of Tirabin al-Sana in the Negev. Police determined that the incident was a Bedouin “price tag” act following the launch of a large-scale police operation that began this week in Tirabin. A senior police […]
Israel’s Supreme Court issued a dramatic decision on Wednesday morning, ordering State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman to suspend his ongoing probe into the failures surrounding the October 7 massacre. The decision
U.S. and partner forces have killed or captured nearly 25 Islamic State operatives in Syria following a wave of retaliatory strikes launched earlier this month, the U.S. military said, underscoring an intensified campaign to degrade the terror group’s remaining networks. According to a statement from U.S. Central Command, American and partner forces carried out 11 […]
The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Monday on Israel’s recognition of Somaliland. US Deputy Ambassador to the UN Tammy Bruce slammed the convening of the meeting, calling the Council out for its double standards. “Israel has the same right to conduct diplomatic relations as any other sovereign state,” she asserted. “Earlier this […]
Iran escalated its diplomatic confrontation with Canada on Tuesday, formally designating the Royal Canadian Navy as a terrorist organization in what Tehran described as direct retaliation for Ottawa’s 2024 decision to blacklist Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. In a statement, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said the move was a response to Canada’s designation of […]
Australian authorities said Tuesday that the father and son who carried out a mass shooting on Chanukah at Sydney’s Bondi Beach acted alone and were not part of a wider terrorist network, even though the attack was inspired by ISIS and deliberately targeted a Jewish event. The shooting – carried out with rifles and shotguns […]
The Pentagon announced that Boeing has been awarded an $8.6 billion contract to supply Israel with advanced F-15 fighter jets, a major expansion of Israel’s airpower that comes as Washington weighs a potentially contentious sale of F-35s to Turkey. The contract, disclosed shortly after Donald Trump met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Florida, covers […]
Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Monday that one of his first priorities after leaving office will be an effort to use cryptocurrency and other technology-based tools to
Sen. John Fetterman has endorsed new military action against Iran’s nuclear program, saying he fully supports past U.S. strikes and would back future attacks if Tehran continues pursuing nuclear weapons. “Iran can’t ever develop a nuclear weapon,” Fetterman wrote in a post on X, declaring his support for using force to prevent the Islamic Republic […]
Flu is rising rapidly across the U.S., driven by a new variant of the virus — and cases are expected to keep growing with holiday travel. That variant, known as “subclade K,” led to early outbreaks in the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada. In the U.S., flu typically begins its winter march in December. On Tuesday, the […]
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