A year and seven months after they were evacuated in the wake of the October 7 assault, former residents of Gaza border communities up to four kilometers from the border
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Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein joined yeshiva leaders and administrators in a meeting to thank State Senate candidate Sam Sutton for his critical contributions to a bill supporting yeshiva education. The gathering focused on the legislation’s importance, which aims to bolster and protect a proud and esteemed education system within the yeshiva community—a priority for many stakeholders. […]
The federal agency tasked with protecting workers’ civil rights has moved to terminate a New York administrative judge who has resisted compliance with directives from the White House, including President Donald Trump’s executive order decreeing male and female as two “immutable” sexes. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in response to Trump’s order has moved […]
The U.S. government advised American travelers age 60 and older not get a chikungunya vaccine as it investigates possible side effects. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration posted notices late last week on the vaccine, Valneva’s Ixchiq. Chikungunya, spread by the bites of infected mosquitoes, is a debilitating […]
British police on Monday were investigating an overnight fire at the London house where Prime Minister Keir Starmer lived before he was elected to lead the country. Since taking office in July, Starmer has lived in the prime minister’s official Downing Street residence, renting out the family home in the Kentish Town neighborhood. London’s Metropolitan […]
In a major development for Orthodox Jewish families across the U.S., the House Ways and Means Committee has included the Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) in its section of
President Donald Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to electively lower the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. or face new limits down the road over what the government will pay. The order calls on the health department, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to broker new price tags […]
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday described as “unfair” the decision by the Trump administration to suspend imports of Mexican beef cattle for 15 days due to the detection of screwworm in shipments. Sheinbaum, who has spent the past few months scrambling to offset tariff threats by U.S. President Donald Trump, said she hoped the […]
On Monday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the emotional return of Israeli hostage Edan Alexander, who had been held in Gaza. In a heartfelt statement, Netanyahu said, “This is a very emotional moment – Edan Alexander has returned home. We embrace him and we embrace his family.” The Prime Minister attributed Alexander’s release to […]
Despite intensive Israeli military operations in Gaza, Hamas continues to rebuild and expand its subterranean terror infrastructure, Israeli defense officials said Sunday. According to a report by Kan Reshet Bet, the IDF has so far destroyed only about 25% of Hamas’s known tunnel network. The sprawling system of underground passages—used by Hamas to ambush troops, […]
In a signal of growing turbulence in U.S.-Israel relations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told lawmakers Sunday night that Israel may begin phasing out the $4 billion in annual military assistance it receives from the United States — a cornerstone of the strategic alliance between the two countries for decades. “I think we will need […]
Six Bulgarians convicted of carrying out a sophisticated spying operation for Russia were sentenced by a London judge Monday to prison terms up to nearly 11 years. The group that used Hollywood code names discussed kidnapping or killing Kremlin opponents as they targeted reporters, diplomats and Ukrainian troops in the U.K., Germany Austria, Spain and Montenegro between […]
Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old Israeli-American soldier, was freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza on Monday after 584 days. The release, facilitated by Israeli military operations and U.S. diplomatic support, was celebrated across Israel and in Alexander’s hometown of Tenafly, New Jersey. Alexander, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, was abducted by Hamas terrorist during the Oct. 7, […]
House Republicans unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s “ big, beautiful bill ” late Sunday, at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks. Tallying hundreds of pages, the legislation is touching off the biggest political fight over health care since Republicans […]
Residents jumped from the windows of a four-story apartment building in Milwaukee during a Mother’s Day fire that killed four people, critically injured four others and grew so intense that the blaze outmatched the first firefighters to arrive, authorities said. Ladder trucks were used to rescue other residents from windows while some firefighters inside the […]
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged Monday to cut immigration numbers and make it harder to settle in the U.K., confronting an issue that has bedeviled successive governments and fueled the rise of a new anti-immigrant party that could threaten the country’s political establishment. Starmer, whose center-left Labour Party won a landslide victory last July, […]
Admor Harav Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov (1908-2000) was the son of Harav Bentzion the Kedushas Tzion of Bobov — son of Harav Shlomo of Bobov
Russia launched more than 100 Shahed and decoy drones at Ukraine in nighttime attacks, the Ukrainian air force said Monday, after the Kremlin rejected an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the more than 3-year war. There was no response from the Kremlin, meanwhile, to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s challenge for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to meet […]
Israeli police arrested nine Jewish men on Monday after they attempted to bring a young goat onto Har HaBayis in what appears to have been an effort to bring a Korban Pesach on Pesach Sheini. The group, reportedly consisting of young men from Yerushalayim and Yehudah v’Shomron, was stopped near one of the entrances to […]
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