A tragedy unfolded Friday morning at the Tisch Family Zoological Gardens—commonly known as the Biblical Zoo—when a staff member was fatally attacked by a Persian tiger that escaped its enclosure. The victim, identified as 36-year-old Uriel Nuri, was reportedly preparing enrichment activities ahead of a scheduled visitor tour when the tiger broke loose. The attack […]
A convicted al-Qaeda operative who once boasted about helping Osama bin Laden orchestrate the September 11 terror attacks may be released from a UK psychiatric facility within days. Haroon Aswat,
Dozens of Federal, State and local elected officials and community leaders came together at Camp HASC in a bi-partisan show of support for an informative and uplifting day of education, conversation, networking and action for individuals with special needs and developmental disabilities. HASC’s long time Chairman, Mr. Abe Eisner, shared opening remarks that framed the […]
As negotiations with Hamas hit a wall, Israel and the United States are pivoting away from piecemeal agreements and are now jointly backing a comprehensive framework aimed at ending the war in Gaza, securing the release of all remaining hostages, and disarming Hamas. “There will be no more partial deals,” a senior Israeli official told […]
On Wednesday, top officials from the NYPD Highway Division—including Inspector Connor Wynne, Commanding Officer of the Highway District, and Inspector Daniel Shouldis, Commanding Officer of Highway 2—joined NYPD Chief Richie Taylor and other NYPD officials for a day-long tour meeting with key Brooklyn-based volunteer safety organizations. The visit began at Misaskim headquarters in Boro Park, […]
Palestinian Islamic Jihad on Thursday released a video of Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski, showing the 21-year-old in a state of severe physical and emotional distress — gaunt, crying, and barely recognizable. The terror group claimed the footage was filmed days before they “lost contact” with his captors earlier this month. Braslavski was abducted from the […]
President Donald Trump on Friday called for the Federal Reserve’s board of governors to usurp the power of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, criticizing the head of the U.S. central bank for not cutting short-term interest rates. Posting on his Truth Social platform, Trump called Powell “stubborn.” The Fed chair has been subjected to vicious verbal […]
A 13-year-old boy died after he was trapped in a storm drain in Maryland during heavy rainfall and flooding on the East Coast, officials said. Kids were playing in the
Rabbi Paysach Krohn shares his story of surviving a terrifying stroke and the faith that carried him through. Elchanan Danino speaks about his son, Ori, who was killed in Gaza
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 […]
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