Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged Wednesday that his “special military operation” in Ukraine is taking longer than expected but said it has succeeded in seizing new territory and added that his country’s nuclear weapons are deterring escalation of the conflict. “Of course, it could be a lengthy process,” Putin said of the more than 9-month-old […]
UTJ chairman Yitzchak Goldknopf, who is slated to be the Construction and Housing Minister in the next government, said on Wednesday that he will represent all sectors, not just Chareidim.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed skeptical of making a broad ruling that would leave state legislatures virtually unchecked in making rules for congressional and presidential elections. In nearly three
A new report by the Spanish human rights organization Safeguard Defenders revealed on Wednesday that the Chinese police operate a secret mission in Israel to monitor regime opponents. Thousands of
The Chabad house in Abuja, Nigeria, led by Rabbi Israel and Haya Ozan, held an event celebrating its tenth anniversary, dedicating a new wing of its Beis Chabad modeled on
Reb Dovid is a brand new biography published by ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications depicting the life and legacy of Rav Dovid Feinstein zt”l. Born to one of the greatest poskei hador
“Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa explained the significance of the Chicxulub impact crater to actor Domhnall Gleeson over a drink of negroni sbagliato in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia,” is the kind of sentence that just might tie your tongue up in knots. It contains five examples from this year’s list of the most mispronounced […]
Maryland is banning the use of TikTok and certain China and Russia-based platforms in the state’s executive branch of government, Gov. Larry Hogan said Tuesday, the latest state to address cybersecurity risks presented by the platforms. The Republican governor announced an emergency cybersecurity directive to prohibit the platforms’ use, saying they could be involved in […]
A senior Israeli intelligence official said earlier this week that the terror in Yehudah and Shomron is likely to get worse in the coming year. Speaking at a military think
The trend of antisemitic hate crimes and attacks in New York City is getting worse, with NYPD statistics showing a stunning 125% increase in such incidents in November, according to
Robinhood, the company that blazed onto Wall Street after turning millions of novices into investors by making trading fun, is now setting its sights on a more staid corner of
At least two dozen people are on hunger strike over conditions at a maximum-security prison in rural eastern Nevada, prison officials and an advocacy organization said Tuesday. The strike was
Time Magazine on Wednesday named Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy its person of the year, awarding him the accolade “for proving that courage can be as contagious as fear.” Editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said the choice of Zelenskyy — alongside “the spirit of Ukraine” — was “the most clear-cut in memory.” “Whether the battle for Ukraine fills […]
UTJ leaders Yitchak Goldknopf, chairman of Agudas Yisrael, and Moshe Gafni, chairman of Degel HaTorah, signed an interim agreement with the head of the Likud negotiations team Yariv Levin late
Expedited drug approvals slowed this year as the Food and Drug Administration’s controversial accelerated pathway came under new scrutiny from Congress, government watchdogs and some of the agency’s own leaders. With less than a month remaining in the year, the FDA’s drug center has granted 10 accelerated approvals — fewer than the tally in each […]
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, bowing to the Biden administration’s insistence that the prince was legally immune in the case. District of Columbia U.S. District Judge John D. Bates heeded the U.S. government’s motion to shield […]
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday, ensuring Democrats an outright majority in the Senate for the rest of President Joe Biden’s current term and capping an underwhelming midterm cycle for the GOP in the last major vote of the year. With Warnock’s second runoff victory in […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman A reminder: This past December 5th – we started saying vesain tal umatar in the bracha of Baraich Aleinu. In Eretz Yisroel, it began on the 7th of Cheshvan. Generally speaking, the actions of leaders of foreign religions do not affect what Orthodox Jews do, but here, one Pope’s actions did. […]
Thousands of police officers carried out raids across much of Germany on Wednesday against suspected far-right extremists who allegedly sought to overthrow the government in an armed coup. Officials said 25 people were detained. Federal prosecutors said some 3,000 officers conducted searches at 130 sites in 11 of Germany’s 16 states against adherents of the […]
In what was perhaps the coldest Hachnasas Sefer Torah in history, Jews gathered last week in Novosibirsk, a Siberian city in southern Russia to rejoice with a new Torah. The festive event began when Rav Shneur Zalman Zaklos, the Chief Rabbi of Novosibirsk, wrote the last letters in the Sefer Torah. Afterward, despite the -18°F […]
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