Avremi Malul, a yeshiva student who was arrested on charges of “draft dodging,” spoke with Kol Chai Radio and described the difficult conditions he endured in a separation wing in Prison 10. “I was arrested on Sunday morning at 10 a.m. I was released on Friday, right before Shabbos. They sentenced me to seven days, […]
Concerns are rising as a large-scale international search and rescue operation continues for an Israeli yacht that disappeared near Cyprus amid the powerful Storm Byron. The yacht, with four people
Storm Byron, which has battered Greece and Cyprus in recent days, arrived in Israel on Tuesday night and had already caused significant rainfall and thunderstorms in various regions of the
Rejoice, New Year’s dieters: Oreos are getting a sugar-free option. Mondelez said Tuesday that Oreo Zero Sugar and Oreo Double Stuf Zero Sugar will go on sale in the U.S. in January. They’re a permanent addition to the company’s Oreo lineup. It’s the first time Mondelez has sold sugar-free Oreos in the U.S. They’re already […]
In an unusually coordinated cross-parliamentary move, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and U.S. House Majority Leader Mike Johnson unveiled a new joint initiative aimed at mobilizing legislative leaders across the world
Brad Lander, the outgoing New York City comptroller and close ally of Rep. Zohran Mamdani, will challenge two-term Rep. Dan Goldman in the Democratic primary in 2026, injecting a volatile
Israeli President Isaac Herzog is forcefully denying a bombshell Channel 12 report that he once explored a pre-arranged political deal to grant Benjamin Netanyahu a pardon — years before becoming president — in exchange for Netanyahu’s support for his eventual rise to the office. The report, aired Tuesday night, centers on a confidential 17-page legal […]
A fire ripped through an office building in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, on Tuesday, killing at least 22 people, including a pregnant woman, police said. Flames engulfed the seven-story building, sending
A leading antisemitism-monitoring organization is warning that a dangerous new wave of coded hate speech is spreading across major social media platforms by hiding behind emojis. CyberWell, a nonprofit that works directly with Meta, TikTok and YouTube to identify and curb online antisemitism, says its analysts have uncovered a rapidly expanding trend of “algospeak” targeting […]
A new blast of Arctic air is barreling toward the central and northeastern United States, and it could bring the region’s first bona fide snowstorm of the winter, setting up a volatile weekend across one of the country’s most densely populated corridors. Meteorologists say a weakening Polar Vortex — the high-altitude cold-air system that typically […]
Britain announced sanctions against Russian media and ideas outlets on Tuesday as the U.K’s top diplomat warned Western nations must raise their game to combat information warfare from “malign foreign states.” Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the U.K. was imposing sanctions on the microblogging Telegram channel Rybar, the Foundation for the Support and Protection of […]
Conservative Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared to back a Republican-led drive, supported by President Donald Trump’s administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president. A day after the justices indicated they would overturn a 90-year-old decision limiting the […]
Last year, around the end of the school year, one of my children asked what I thought was an appropriate way to show hakaras hatov to a child’s rebbi or morah. That question turned into a letter. So, as we approach Chanukah, I want to follow up. Chanukah is a time of light — ner […]
President Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to pull federal funding for public transportation in Chicago unless the city tightens security after a man allegedly set a woman on fire inside
The endless stream of AI-generated sludge — the jump-cut memes, the flashing edits, the weaponized dopamine loops — has become the default soundtrack of childhood. Now, scientists say the digital noise flooding kids’ phones, laptops, and TVs may be doing far worse than shortening attention spans: it may be contributing to a measurable rise in […]
President Donald Trump issued his most direct threat yet against Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, declaring in a newly released Politico interview that the dictator’s “days are numbered” and pointedly refusing to rule out deploying American ground forces to remove him. The hard-edged warning comes as the Trump administration intensifies its campaign against South American drug […]
A U.S.-based Palestinian activist says Hamas deliberately hid tons of infant formula and children’s nutritional shakes in secret warehouses, even as Gazans faced some of the worst hunger conditions in years. Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a longtime critic of Hamas and an advocate for a two-state solution, posted footage on social media showing floor-to-ceiling stacks of […]
Amid a steady decline in K-12 enrollment, nearly 2,000 apartments were created from former school buildings across the U.S. in 2024, according to a new report by RentCafe. The report
Amid a national housing crisis, the Biden administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development produced guidelines encouraging property owners to forgo some fair housing practices to favor Afghan refugees, the Trump administration argues in a new directive terminating previous guidelines. The Center Square obtained a HUD directive from the Office of Fair Housing and Equal […]
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