The Orthodox Union (OU) has announced a major policy change regarding the kashrus status of beer beginning January 1, 2026. For decades, unflavored beer was widely assumed to be inherently kosher. The classic brewing process—built on simple ingredients such as water, hops, barley, and yeast—was traditionally viewed as straightforward and unlikely to involve non-kosher additives. […]
Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed “Swamp Sweep” that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and three people familiar with the operation. The deployment, which […]
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A significant majority of Israelis are opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state along the 1967 lines. The poll, released Monday by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign
A 22-year-old Georgian national, Michail Chkhikvishvili (aliases “Mishka,” “Michael,” “Commander Butcher,” “Butcher”) pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to soliciting hate crimes and distributing instructions to manufacture bombs and ricin, in what investigators say was a sprawling global neo-Nazi extremist operation. The chilling details laid out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York […]
In forceful and characteristically blunt remarks, Rav Yaakov Bender, the longtime rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Darchei Torah and one of the most influential chinuch voices in the U.S., issued a grim warning about what he called a “terrible, terrible problem” spreading through frum communities: a rapidly escalating culture of drinking that he says is fueling […]
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday paused a California law set to take effect in January requiring large companies to report every two years on how climate change could hurt
Okeechobee, Fl.—Wednesday of Parashas Chayei Sarah will go down in the annals of American Jewish history as the day in which the heimishe city of Lakefront in Okeechobee, Floriday, has been transformed from a dream and plan into a stunning reality—a turning point in the history of American Jewish life which has thus far been […]
The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department. It represents a major step forward for the administration’s dismantling of the department, which has mainly involved cutting jobs since President Donald Trump called for its […]
J.D. Vance, Jr., a 67-year-old resident of Grand Rapids, Michigan – who shares his name with Vice President J.D. Vance – was sentenced to two years in federal prison on Monday after posting several threatening messages online, including threats to kill the President, the Vice President, and one of the President’s children. U.S. District Judge […]
The IDF carried out an airstrike this evening inside the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon, targeting what it says was a Hamas training facility used by operatives preparing attacks against Israel. Lebanon’s health ministry reports that 13 people were killed and four others wounded in the strike. According to the IDF, the site […]
A judge has dismissed a Trump administration legal challenge to New York policies that block immigration officials from arresting people at state courthouses, saying the federal government can’t force states
For a quarter century, Mikvah Yisroel of Flatbush has been the quiet heart of our community, a place of kedusha, beauty, and care. Hundreds of thousands of tevilos have taken
Jewish women are hiring doulas to protect them and their babies from NHS antisemitism, the Jewish Chronicle reported earlier this month. London-based doula Shoshana Maurer said that since the October
The Israeli Police have finished the investigation into the “Qatargate” affair, and the case file is expected to be transferred to state prosecutors within about 60 days for possible indictments. A key delay is that Jay Footlik an American lobbyist described as acting on behalf of Qatar has still not been questioned, and the U.S. […]
Robert P. George, a prominent conservative legal scholar, has resigned from the Heritage Foundation’s board in protest of its president Kevin Roberts’ defense of Tucker Carlson’s interview with far-right white nationalist Nick Fuentes. George, who holds one of Princeton University’s top academic chairs and is considered a leading figure in conservative constitutional thought, cited Roberts’ […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he will travel to Turkey this week in an attempt to jump-start negotiations on ending Russia’s full-scale invasion, which began nearly four years ago. The Kremlin said that Russia would not be sending anyone to Turkey, and it was not immediately clear if there would be U.S. participation in […]
Meta has prevailed over an existential challenge to its business that could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp after a judge ruled that the company
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