Olja Ivanic looked forward to welcoming some cousins from Sweden to her Denver home in June. Ivanic and the four travelers were planning to go hiking in Colorado and then visit Los Angeles and San Francisco. But then President Donald Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a February meeting at the White House. Ivanic’s […]
As Pesach approaches, thousands of families cannot afford holiday provisions. The Gedolei Hador, aware of the situation and Kupat Ha’ir’s Kimcha D’Pischa project, have issued an unprecedented letter: Maran Rabbi
Israel’s Supreme Court convened on Tuesday morning to discuss the petitions filed against the dismissal of the Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar. The fact that the court has even agreed
President Donald Trump’s sharp tariff hikes last week have sent the stock market into a tailspin, raised alarm bells among Wall Street executives, and heightened many economists’ worries that the U.S. could tip into recession. The tariffs, set to take effect Wednesday, include a 10% blanket duty on nearly all countries and additional import taxes on 60 nations. The […]
An Israeli political source admitted on Tuesday morning that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did not receive advance notice of the step announced by President Trump during the joint press conference on Monday—the initiation of direct talks with Iran on its nuclear program. The source noted that while the possibility that Trump would renew contacts with […]
Adirei HaTorah on Monday evening announced the upcoming Maamad Adirei HaTorah, the fourth in this extraordinary series of events celebrating the true kavod haTorah and the eternal mesorah passed from
An appeals court on Monday cleared the way for billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to once again access people’s private data at three federal agencies, a win for the Trump administration as the underlying lawsuit plays out. In a split ruling, the three-judge panel blocked a lower court decision that halted DOGE access […]
Wall Street could soon be in the claws of another bear market as the Trump administration’s tariff blitz fuels fears that the added taxes on imported goods from around the world will sink the global economy. The last bear market happened in 2022, but this decline feels more like the sudden, turbulent bear market of 2020, when the benchmark S&P […]
A Gaza-based news outlet tied to Hamas found itself the butt of global mockery recently after it tried to spotlight a humanitarian mission — and instead highlighted its inability to tell fiction from reality. The Palestinian Information Center, an advocacy arm linked to Gaza’s terrorist rulers, posted a breathless update about a heroic “French doctor” […]
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention soon to stop recommending fluoridation in communities nationwide. Kennedy also said he’s assembling a task force to focus on the issue. Also on Monday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it is reviewing “new […]
If we read one more article offering some brilliant, sweeping solution to the shidduch crisis that no actual individual can implement, we might just scream. You know the type: “Stop all 19-year-old girls from dating!” “Force all 21-year-old boys to start dating!” “Get tall girls to marry short boys!” “Get younger boys to marry older […]
The heads of the authorities in the Yesha (Yehudah and Shomron) Council on Sunday evening sent a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu demanding that he urgently convene a government meeting
The Flatbush Jewish Community Coalition (FJCC), under the leadership of Josh Mehlman, hosted a pre-Pesach meeting Thursday afternoon, bringing together key community leaders and representatives from emergency and volunteer organizations
Interior Minister Moshe Arbel on Monday stated that the initiative to evacuate civilians from the Gaza Strip is ongoing and 16 evacuation flights have already departed from Israel’s Ramon Airport.
The Army has reenlisted more than 23 soldiers who were discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, officials said Monday, rushing to implement President Donald Trump’s order that troops be rehired
The Auschwitz Jewish Center (AJC) is bringing kosher food back to this once-flourishing Jewish community and adding tefillos to its program in time for the annual March of the Living
The National Weather Service is no longer providing language translations of its products, a change that experts say could put non-English speakers at risk of missing potentially life-saving warnings about extreme weather. The weather service has “paused” the translations because its contract with the provider has lapsed, NWS spokesman Michael Musher said. He declined further […]
Maran Rosh HaYeshiva Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch shlit”a issued a rare, personal plea to help a talmid chacham from Bnei Brak facing severe financial hardship, entirely innocent of any wrongdoing.
Ten elected officials who once demanded Andrew Cuomo’s resignation from the governorship over harassment allegations are now endorsing his political comeback. The reversal includes several female lawmakers, sparking criticism from advocates who say the move undermines the Me Too movement and the fight against workplace harassment in government. “Electeds’ support for Cuomo is a slap-in-the-face […]
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