The U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission wants to turn America’s 250th birthday celebration into the country’s single biggest year for volunteering. But America Gives, the program unveiled Wednesday just before the U.S.
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In rare remarks directed at fellow Supreme Court justices Yitzchak Amit and other left-wing justices, justice Alex Stein slammed the Court’s increasing political intervention, saying that a judge who invents
More than a decade ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished without a trace, sparking one of aviation’s most baffling mysteries. Despite years of multinational searches, investigators still do not know exactly what happened to the plane or its 239 passengers and crew. On Wednesday, the Malaysian government said a vessel began a new search operation for the […]
For many Holocaust survivors, the past is never far away, but neither is extraordinary resilience. Every survivor carries a story of survival and, just as powerfully, a story of rebuilding
A record share of Israelis say they are struggling psychologically after two years of near-continuous war, with 32% reporting they need professional mental health support, according to a new end-of-year
Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week with layoffs remaining low despite a weakening labor market. U.S. applications for jobless claims for the week ending Dec. 27 fell by 16,000 to 199,000 from the previous week’s 215,000, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. Analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet forecast 208,000 new applications. Unemployment […]
Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams is leaving office with historically low approval ratings, according to a new poll released Tuesday that found widespread voter dissatisfaction with his four-year term. The survey, conducted by the Honan Strategy Group, found that 69% of likely voters disapprove of Adams’ job performance, while just 31% approve. An […]
The Jerusalem District Court sentenced two terrorists from Chevron to 28 years of imprisonment each for carrying out a ramming and an attempted shooting and stabbing attack near a shul
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has tapped longtime anti-Israel activist Ramzi Kassem as his chief counsel. The appointment, announced roughly a day before Mamdani’s inauguration, elevates Kassem—who served on the mayor-elect’s transition team—into one of the most powerful legal roles in City Hall. As chief counsel, Kassem will serve as the mayor’s top legal […]
Russian drones blasted apartment buildings and the power grid in the southern Ukraine city of Odesa in an overnight attack that injured six people, including a toddler and two other children, officials said Wednesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed confidence in his country’s eventual victory in the nearly four-year war against its neighbor. Four apartment buildings were damaged in […]
Justice Minister Yariv Levin sent a sharply worded letter on Wednesday morning to the Courts Administration, demanding the cancellation of a conference set to take place at the Supreme Court under the title “Education for Democracy.” His request followed reports that the event would feature former Supreme Court president Esther Hayut and Justice Yitzchak Amit, […]
President Donald Trump is not the first president to want more room at the White House for entertaining, says the longest-serving top aide in the executive residence, offering some backup for the reason Trump has cited for his ballroom construction project. Gary Walters spent more than two decades as White House chief usher to presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, […]
For more than fifty years, Machon Yerushalayim has been doing something extraordinary: taking the world of classic Torah manuscripts, rare seforim, and complex texts, and making them come alive
Auckland was the first major city to ring in 2026 with a fireworks display launched from New Zealand’s tallest structure, Sky Tower, followed by a defiant celebration in Australia in the aftermath of its worst mass shooting. South Pacific countries were the first to bid farewell to 2025. Clocks stuck midnight in Auckland 18 hours […]
A major milestone has been achieved in the Gaza border area two years after the October 7 massacre, with data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics showing that the Gaza border area is now home to roughly 65,000 residents—an increase of about 3,000 people from before the October 7 massacre. Most of the communities […]
In overnight acts of arson, Bedouin-Israelis set fire to five vehicles in the yishuv of Lehavim, located near the Bedouin town of Tirabin al-Sana in the Negev. Police determined that the incident was a Bedouin “price tag” act following the launch of a large-scale police operation that began this week in Tirabin. A senior police […]
Israel’s Supreme Court issued a dramatic decision on Wednesday morning, ordering State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman to suspend his ongoing probe into the failures surrounding the October 7 massacre. The decision
U.S. and partner forces have killed or captured nearly 25 Islamic State operatives in Syria following a wave of retaliatory strikes launched earlier this month, the U.S. military said, underscoring an intensified campaign to degrade the terror group’s remaining networks. According to a statement from U.S. Central Command, American and partner forces carried out 11 […]
The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Monday on Israel’s recognition of Somaliland. US Deputy Ambassador to the UN Tammy Bruce slammed the convening of the meeting, calling the Council out for its double standards. “Israel has the same right to conduct diplomatic relations as any other sovereign state,” she asserted. “Earlier this […]
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