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 […]
Chief Justice John Roberts agreed Monday to pause a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The
There a stink rising over the United Kingdom’s second-largest city. Garbage has piled up for a month in Birmingham during a dispute between the city and its trash collectors. It
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made an unannounced dash to Florida on Sunday, imploring President Donald Trump to recalibrate his combative rhetoric on tariffs — a plea driven by fears of a market meltdown, Politico reports. Two individuals familiar with the conversation described Bessent’s intervention as a dramatic turning point, with the Treasury Secretary all but […]
In a poignant tribute to one of the youngest victims of the October 7 Hamas-led massacre, the Academy of the Hebrew Language has officially renamed a species of butterfly in
As Pesach approaches, thousands of families in Eretz Yisrael are struggling to afford even the most basic necessities for Yom Tov. Kupat HaMarkazit, under the leadership of HaGaon HaRav Ezriel
Health care systems can reduce suicides through patient screening, safety planning and mental health counseling, a new study suggests, an important finding as the U.S. confronts it 11th leading cause of death. The “Zero Suicide Model” was developed in 2001 at Detroit-based Henry Ford Health, where the focus on people considering suicide included collaborating with […]
Bochurim, young couples, and families across the U.S. are scrambling to find flights back to Eretz Yisroel following Pesach—and many are finding themselves stuck. With El Al flights virtually booked solid on all the prime travel dates, travelers are facing mounting difficulty in securing affordable and direct options to return to yeshiva and their homes. […]
In a high-stakes Oval Office meeting on Monday that spanned diplomacy, defense, and economic reform, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump announced a sweeping commitment to deepen U.S.-Israel ties—starting with trade and extending into negotiations with Iran, the Gaza war, and the broader Middle East. Netanyahu began with a bold pledge: Israel […]
New York State Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein introduced legislation at the State Legislature that would amend a discriminatory NYC Department of Sanitation regulation that unfairly penalizes New York City’s Jewish community. Last year, the NYC Department of Sanitation enacted a rule requiring residents to place their trash on the curb after 8:00 PM in an effort […]
Shortly before he was forced to resign, the nation’s top vaccine regulator says he refused to grant Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s team unrestricted access to a tightly held vaccine safety database, fearing that the information might be manipulated or even deleted. In an interview with The Associated Press, former Food and Drug Administration vaccine chief Dr. […]
Millions of shekels will be distributed by Kupat Ha’ir on Erev Pesach this year, bez”H. Millions of shekels will arrive in different ways to needy families throughout Eretz Yisrael. Millions
A high-level White House investigation has revealed that The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly added to a confidential group chat about planned U.S. airstrikes on Yemen, after National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally saved the journalist’s phone number under a senior official’s contact, according to a report published Sunday by The Guardian. The mishap […]
A day at Uranus just got a little longer. Scientists reported Monday that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed it takes Uranus 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a full rotation. That’s 28 seconds longer than estimates by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in the 1980s. A French-led team studied a […]
Days of unrelenting heavy rain and storms that killed at least 18 people worsened flooding as some rivers rose to near-record levels and inundated towns across an already saturated U.S. South and parts of the Midwest. Cities ordered evacuations and rescue crews in inflatable boats checked on residents in Kentucky and Tennessee, while utilities shut off power and gas […]
Nearly 7,000 Jewish voters in New York City have newly registered as Democrats since January — a surge that could have a huge influence on the outcome of June’s high-stakes mayoral primary and pose a challenge for far-left candidates seen as soft on antisemitism. According to the Jewish Voters Action Network (JVAN), 6,695 Jewish voters […]
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