Donald Trump won’t make his own closing argument after all in his New York civil business fraud trial after his lawyers objected to the judge’s insistence that the former president stick to “relevant” matters and “not deliver a campaign speech.” Judge Arthur Engoron nixed Trump’s unusual plan on Wednesday, a day ahead of closing arguments. […]
New York building officials have issued emergency work orders to stabilize Lubavitch headquarters and its neighboring structures in Crown Heights after an illicit underground tunnel was discovered earlier this week. An investigation by the city’s Department of Buildings uncovered a tunnel that was 60-foot-long, 8-foot-wide and 5-foot-high located underneath the global headquarters of Chabad Lubavitch. It […]
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has reported a significant surge in antisemitic incidents in the United States, coinciding with the onset of the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7. According
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to social media, tweeting in Hebrew about the “Zionist entity” and its alleged “crimes,” that the “crimes of the Zionist entity will remain
The IDF says it has concluded its operations in the southern Gaza town of Khuza’a, located on the outskirts of Khan Younis. Over the course of the military campaign, carried out by the 5th Reserve Brigade, a large number of Hamas operatives were killed and Hamas infrastructure targeted and destroyed. The IDF launched this operation […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Before you stop reading – these 500 words can save one of the 50,000 lives that are lost each year. And it will also give you a Torah Mitzvah. The Gemorah in Kesuvos (21a) talks about an “inesh delo maalei” – a bad person. The Gemorah’s reference is to a forger, […]
Former U.K. opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will join a South African delegation for this week’s hearings at the International Court of Justice, where the country accuses Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in the war in Gaza, the South African government said Tuesday. South Africa brought the case against Israel last month, accusing it of […]
Nearly 21 million children in the U.S. and its territories are expected to receive food benefits this summer through a newly permanent federal program, the United States Department of Agriculture
By Chaim Weber Needless to say, hiring a hitman is one of the worst things someone can do. The Gemara in Kiddushin (43a) says that for causing murder (gram retzichah), one is liable in the hands of Heaven. The Rambam (Rotzeach U’shmiras Hanefesh 2:2) adds that for hiring someone to kill someone else, one is […]
U.S. and Chinese military officers have resumed talks that were frozen after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in the summer of 2022, a development U.S. officials have said
A barrage of high-profile lawsuits in a New York federal court will test the future of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products that wouldn’t be so eloquent had they not ingested huge troves of copyrighted human works. But are AI chatbots — in this case, widely commercialized products made by OpenAI and its business partner […]
Meta said Tuesday it will start hiding inappropriate content from teenagers’ accounts on Instagram and Facebook, including posts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders. The social media giant based in Menlo Park, California, said in a blog post that while it already aims not to recommend such “age-inappropriate” material to teens, now it also won’t […]
A full day after a massive explosion at a historic Fort Worth hotel, fire inspectors were still working to determine what caused the blast that shattered windows, littered the streets
Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, revealed that Israeli forces raided a high-end property in the central Gaza Strip owned by Marwan Issa, the deputy chief of Hamas’s military wing. Adraee provided footage from Issa’s luxurious vacation home in Gaza’s Bureij, which boasts a swimming pool, expansive yard, and lavish furnishings. “This is […]
The Biden administration enacted a new labor rule Tuesday that aims to prevent the misclassification of workers as “independent contractors,” a step that could bolster both legal protections and compensation for millions in the U.S. workforce. Major app-based platforms including Uber, Lyft and DoorDash expressed confidence that the new rule would not force them to […]
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening outlined his country’s stance regarding the ongoing conflict in Gaza, emphasizing that Israel has no ambitions to permanently occupy Gaza or displace
The revelation that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had prostate cancer surgery and was later hospitalized in intensive care due to complications from that operation without President Joe Biden, Cabinet members
A new proposal from Qatar to end the Gaza war is set to be presented to the Israeli security cabinet this evening, according to sources close to officials in Doha.
The IDF’s initial investigation into the tragic incident in Gaza on Monday in which six soldiers were killed found that an IDF tank shelling accidentally caused the explosion. Soldiers from the Combat Engineering Corps’ Yahalom unit were in a Hamas tunnel system in al-Bureij preparing it for demolition. The investigation showed that while the soldiers […]
Former President Donald Trump has long vowed to prosecute President Joe Biden if Trump wins November’s election and the two trade places. He upped the stakes dramatically Tuesday, contending that if criminal charges against him aren’t dropped, any current and future ex-presidents also could be prosecuted. “I feel that as a president, you have to […]
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