A 71-year-old man has been charged after a woman in her 70s was brutally stabbed inside a kosher grocery store in Ottawa on Wednesday afternoon, in an attack now under review by the Hate and Bias Crime Unit. Police said the assault unfolded just after 1:30 p.m. at the Loblaws supermarket that houses the city’s […]
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has opened a sweeping investigation into alleged manipulation of Wikipedia, citing mounting evidence that coordinated groups—including hostile foreign actors and U.S.-based operatives—have used the world’s largest online encyclopedia to shape public opinion on politically sensitive issues. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the committee, and Rep. Nancy […]
A missing 12-year-old boy with autism, whose body was discovered in a New Orleans canal following a nearly two-week-long search, died from “blunt force due to an alligator” and drowning,
The nation’s top public health agency was left reeling Thursday as the White House worked to expel the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and replace her with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s current deputy. The turmoil triggered rare bipartisan alarm as Kennedy tries to advance anti-vaccine policies that are contradicted by decades of scientific research. Two administration officials said Jim O’Neill, […]
Former Major League Baseball star Mark Teixeira announced Thursday that he’s running for the Republican nomination for a House seat in Texas. The former slugger for the Texas Rangers and
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is urging Democrats to take a page from mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s playbook, arguing that the socialist’s focus on affordability and cost-of-living issues could be the key to electoral success across the country. In an interview Tuesday on Fox News’s Hannity, de Blasio praised Mamdani’s communication style, […]
President Donald Trump has fired one of two Democratic members of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board to break a 2-2 tie before the body considers the largest railroad merger ever
The Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition that sought to cancel enlistment orders sent to approximately 5,500 yeshiva bochurim. The petition had been filed by the organization Emes
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has announced the discovery of a massive dam dating back nearly 2,800 years, to the days of Malchei Yehudah. The dam, unearthed just outside the
Several dozen Jewish activists rallied outside the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) headquarters in lower Manhattan, accusing the city’s most powerful teachers union of ignoring antisemitism in public schools and abandoning Jewish educators, parents, and students. Protesters, some of them UFT members themselves, carried signs reading “UFT leadership: Failing Jewish students. Failing New York” and […]
President Donald Trump’s recent focus on crime in Washington and other big cities came as views of his handling of immigration — the early focus of his second term — had been souring, a new analysis by The Associated Press shows. Trump’s approach to crime is now a clear strength for him, according to a new poll from The AP-NORC Center for Public […]
It was supposed to be Tehran’s covert strike on Australia’s Jewish community. Instead, the scheme spiraled into a mix of gangland farce and fiery tragedy, with petty criminals fumbling the job until one blaze finally roared through a kosher deli and another torched a synagogue in Melbourne. At the center of it all: Sayed Moosawi, […]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will stop providing a print edition at the end of the year and go completely digital, marking a dramatic change for a storied newspaper that was founded
A Minnesota man has been sentenced to life in federal prison for the killing of a Jewish inmate in what prosecutors described as a brutal, antisemitic attack carried out to
Yeshiva World News is proud to congratulate the launch of Jewish Ad Group (JAG) — a new full-service Jewish advertising agency. JAG’s sales team is led by two of the most trusted names in Jewish advertising: David Altshuler and Hadassah Bennett. With over 20 years of combined experience in the industry, they are known for […]
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Thursday to terminate the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon at the end of next year after nearly five decades, bowing to demands from the United States and its close ally Israel. The United States, which initially demanded the force be ended in six months and later sought a one-year final extension, […]
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday sketched out his vision for Israel’s endgame in Gaza, aligning himself with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pledge to bring the war to a close by year’s end while making clear he expects nothing short of permanent Israeli control of the territory. Speaking at a press conference, Smotrich said the […]
Robin Westman, the gunman behind Wednesday’s deadly school shooting in Minneapolis, had long displayed disturbing behavior and open admiration for Adolf Hitler, according to a former classmate. Josefina Sanchez, who briefly befriended Westman in seventh grade at a St. Paul school, said she vividly remembers him making antisemitic remarks and raising his hand in a […]
They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the
The Rev. Al Sharpton led a protest march Thursday through Manhattan’s Financial District to urge corporate America to resist the Trump administration’s campaign to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The New York civil rights leader was joined by clergy, labor and community leaders in a demonstration dubbed the “March on Wall Street” that […]
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