For weeks, President Donald Trump was promising the world economy would change on Friday with his new tariffs in place. It was an ironclad deadline, administration officials assured the public. But when Trump signed the order Thursday night imposing new tariffs, the start date of the punishing import taxes was pushed back seven days so the tariff schedule […]
The United States and Ecuador on Thursday signed a bilateral agreement aimed at strengthening their collaboration against transnational criminal networks. The agreement, signed during a visit of U.S. Homeland Security
A serious crash involving a van carrying bochurim from Camp Lehachyos Chaim, a Lakewood-based summer program, occurred just before 6 p.m. Thursday on a Texas highway near Marble Falls. According
With President Donald Trump’s dramatic tariff hikes on the cusp of starting, countries around the world scrambled on Thursday to finalize their trade frameworks with the United States, figure out
U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Thursday. The fraction of
An imam in the Bronx turned the solemn funeral of slain NYPD Officer Islam Diller into a stage for his own political soapbox, and it’s left a sour taste. On Wednesday, as thousands of police officers, elected officials, and community members gathered to honor a devout Muslim officer killed in the line of duty, this […]
The FBI has opened a federal hate crime investigation following a savage assault on multiple Jewish diners at a kosher restaurant in Queens, as shocking new details emerge about the attackers’ antisemitic threats and the extent of the violence. The incident, which took place on July 20 at Sezam, a kosher eatery in the Forest […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren, a program created in 1966 to help interest young people in following healthy, active lifestyles. Children had
Slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that Black people face “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of discrimination in the United States, according to a poll. That’s a decline from the solid majority, 60%, who thought Black Americans faced high levels of discrimination in the spring of 2021, months after racial reckoning […]
Tisha B’av is almost here and we are grieving. Collectively grieving the loss of the Beis Hamikdash, our connection to the Shechina, and the wholeness we once knew. Grieving the hostages still unreturned, the loss of life and innocence, the loss of clarity and hope. The grief is both collective and personal, as we mourn […]
The United States will enter a 90-day negotiating period with Mexico over trade as 25% tariff rates stay in place, President Donald Trump said Thursday. Trump, posting on his Truth Social platform, said a phone conversation he had with Mexican leader Claudia Sheinbaum was “very successful in that, more and more, we are getting to […]
This Thursday evening, July 31 (6 B’Av) at 8:30 PM, the Monsey community is invited to Beis Yosef Meir (19 Olympia Lane, Monsey – lower Beis Medrash) for an inspiring event featuring Reb Moshe Meir Engelson shlita. Reb Moshe Meir, who survived the Holocaust as a hidden child, will share his extraordinary story of survival, […]
Newly declassified intelligence documents allege that Hillary Clinton personally approved a covert plan to smear then-candidate Donald Trump with fabricated claims of Russian collusion — all to divert attention from her own spiraling email scandal. The files, declassified Thursday by Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel at the request of Senator Chuck […]
Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) have reintroduced legislation that would cut off federal funding to universities that engage in boycotts of Israel. The Protect Economic and Academic
The political fallout from Monday’s deadly mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan has ignited a fierce war of words between New York’s two most prominent mayoral contenders, pitting law-and-order rhetoric against progressive reform in a high-stakes showdown that could reshape the race. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent after losing the Democratic nomination, came […]
Appellate court judges expressed broad skepticism Thursday over President Donald Trump’s legal rationale for his most expansive round of tariffs. Members of the 11-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington appeared unconvinced by the Trump administration’s insistence that the president could impose tariffs without congressional approval, and it […]
In an inspiring and emotional event, a Siyum Mishnayos was held along with the dedication of the “Taharos” branch of the Mishnas Yaakov Eliezer Kollel, which will now bear the name of Reb Yaakov Eliezer Rajchenbach Zt”l — one of the foremost builders of Torah, who devoted his life to supporting Torah and incredible Chesed […]
The Trump administration is canceling plans to use large areas of federal waters for new offshore wind development, the latest step to suppress the industry in the United States. More
Last night, the Lakewood kehilla came together for a powerful atzeres tefillah and asifas chizuk at Ateres Chana (Bais Faiga). The event was organized in response to growing concern over
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