New York City is challenging a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide emergency housing to anyone who asks for it, as the city’s shelter system strains under a
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The Biden administration announced they waived 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction on Wednesday, marking the administration’s first use of a sweeping executive power employed often during the Trump presidency. The Department of Homeland Security posted the announcement on the U.S. Federal Registry with few details outlining the construction in […]
Splashy advertisements featuring football star Tom Brady and comedian Larry David were among the first evidence seen by jurors Wednesday as prosecutors launched a historic fraud case against cryptocurrency maven
The stunning removal of Kevin McCarthy as speaker has left the House adrift as Republicans struggle to bring order to their fractured majority and begin the difficult and potentially prolonged
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Yasam special forces officers, Border Police officers, and IDF soldiers carried out a counterterrorism operation in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday morning and arrested a
The fraud trial that could block former President Donald Trump from doing business in New York drilled down Wednesday into the question of who — his company or hired accountants — bore responsibility for financial statements that the state calls fraudulent. With accountants on the witness stand and Trump at the defense table for a […]
Google on Wednesday unveiled a next-generation Pixel smartphones lineup that will be infused with more with more artificial intelligence tools capable of writing captions about photos that can be altered by the technology, too. The injection of more artificial intelligence, or AI, into Google’s products marks another step in the company’s attempt to bring more […]
Three decades ago, the world held its breath as tanks blasted the Russian parliament building in central Moscow while the Kremlin moved to flush out rebellious lawmakers in a crisis
For much of the world, China’s Xinjiang region is notorious, a place where ethnic Uyghurs face forced labor and arbitrary detention. But a group of visiting foreign journalists was left with a decidedly different impression. On a tour in late September sponsored by Beijing, the 22 journalists from 17 countries visited bazaars and chatted with […]
Rep. Kevin McCarthy had support from 208 members of his conference to remain as House speaker. But it took only eight dissenters in his party to boot him from the
On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump launched a scathing critique on his Truth Social Website, targeting his former White House Chief-of-Staff, John Kelly. Kelly, who held the longest tenure in
Please enjoy the following video roundup of many Simchas Bais Hashoeva’s from around the world. Join the millions of Yidden in song and dance, as they celebrate – each in
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman One of the customs of Hoshana Rabba is to circle the Bima seven times. Generally, the circling of the Bima on Sukkos is to do so only once. On Hoshana Rabbah, however, we do it seven times. The Tur (OC 660) explains that it is done as a commemoration of what […]
Russian air defenses shot down 31 Ukrainian drones during a concerted nighttime attack by Kyiv’s forces on border regions, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday, as uncertainty grew over Ukraine’s future access to weapons and ammunition from Western allies. The drone attack appeared to be Kyiv’s largest single cross-border drone assault reported by Moscow since […]
For a long time, HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein has been pained by the Chillul Shabbos in Ramat Gan, prompting him to launch the party “Ramat Gan B’Emunah.” HaRav Zilberstein also supports the party founded by his son-in-law, HaGaon HaMekubal Dov Kook, in Tiveria, “Maaminim B’Tiveria” as well as the party founded by his talmidim in […]
A TikTok video in Israel featuring perhaps the largest sukkah in the world recently went viral. The video, narrated by a family member, features the sukkah of the Lapid family,
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman The Webster’s dictionary defines cat-napping as “a short period of sleep; a brief nap.” Is cat-napping outside of the Sukkah permitted on Sukkos? If so, how long may it last? There is a significant halachic difference between temporary sleeping and temporary eating. The Gemorah in Sukkah (26a) explains that even “Shinas […]
Some 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers walked off the job Wednesday in multiple states, kicking off a major health care strike in an extraordinary year for U.S. labor organizing and work stoppages. Kaiser Permanente is one of the country’s larger insurers and health care system operators, serving nearly 13 million people. The nonprofit company, based in […]
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