Khalil Yusef Ali Jabarin, the Arab terrorist who murdered Ari Fuld, h’yd, in Gush Etzion two years ago was sentenced to life in prison by the Judea military court on
Republican Chris Jacobs of western New York became the newest House member on Tuesday, taking the oath of office to fill the unexpired term of a lawmaker who left Congress
At least nine people were shot Tuesday evening near the Rhodes Funeral Home at 79th and Carpenter streets in the South Side. Police confirmed multiple people were shot, but the
Israeli drones will patrol the glaciers and fjords in the Arctic Circle of northern Norway and assist rescuers in saving lives. After a year of trials, Israeli manufacturer Atlas Dynamics has signed a contract to provide its drones to the Norwegian Search and Rescue Service, the world’s leading arctic rescue unit. The drones are designed […]
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said he is putting Russia and other foreign governments “on notice” that he would act aggressively as president to counter any interference in U.S. elections. The statement came hours after Democratic leaders issued a new warning that Congress appears to be the target of a foreign interference campaign. Biden said […]
A Syrian war monitoring group said Tuesday that Israeli airstrikes the previous day on military posts south of the capital city of Damascus killed five militants and wounded eleven. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it wasn’t immediately clear if the dead were Iranians or members of Iran-backed groups but they were not […]
The swarm of jellyfish which appear every year off the coast of Haifa took Haifa University marine researchers by surprise this year – the jellyfish are “monster-sized,” researchers at the University of Haifa’s Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences said last week. “Overall, this is the summer bloom of jellyfish that we anticipate, but […]
Imagine a yeshiva that makes every single Talmid feel comfortable and wanted. Imagine a place that no matter what your background is or your history was, you are now part of
Coca-Cola’s revenue plunged 28% in the second quarter, but the company thinks the worst could be behind it. Coke Chairman and CEO James Quincey said sales improved sequentially in May, June and July despite surging cases in key markets like the U.S., Iran and Australia. While the path forward is unclear and the global economic […]
Following a statement by the Israel Airports Authority on Monday that Israel’s borders will be closed to non-citizens until September, a Maariv report on Monday said that it’s possible that
Figures released Thursday by the Military Intelligence Directorate show that the number of epidemiological investigators in Israel is dramatically lower than any other country in the Western world. The current
President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer sued Attorney General William Barr and the Bureau of Prisons director Monday, saying he’s being unjustly held behind bars to stop him from finishing a book that criticizes Trump. The lawsuit on behalf of Michael Cohen was filed late Monday in Manhattan federal court, alleging his First Amendment rights […]
President Donald Trump’s threat to send federal law enforcers to patrol the city is likely not serious but if he did follow through, New York City would take legal action, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday. “I have to start by saying this president blusters and bluffs and says he’s going to do things and […]
50,000 Yeshivah Bachurim Will Participate in Dirshu’s International Program The special Bizchus Hatorah program will unite yeshivah bachurim worldover in joint learning. Roshei yeshivos in Eretz Yisroel and parts of Europe, where the second wave of coronavirus is disrupting sedorim, welcomed the revolutionary program which will create a daily schedule for tens of thousands of […]
Astronauts squeezed in one last spacewalk Tuesday before turning their attention to the all-important end to SpaceX’s first crew flight. NASA’s Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy floated out of the International Space Station on their fourth and final spacewalk in under a month. Instead of swapping batteries, they had to route cables, hook up a […]
Yesterday the United States Department of Justice authorized the filing of a lawsuit against the Village of Airmont for actions that “unreasonably limits the practice of religion by the village’s Orthodox Jewish Community.” In a letter to the Village, Acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Audrey Strauss writes, “we have determined […]
LinkedIn is laying off nearly 1,000 employees, approximately 6% of its workforce globally, with unemployment in the U.S. above 13% and national economies from Europe and Asia, to the Americas,
As the entire world shut down, the Hanhala of Yeshiva Gedolah Be’er Hatorah increased their dedication to the spiritual and emotional needs of their talmidim and alumni. Whether it was for virtual sedarim/shiurim,
Florida’s skyrocketing coronavirus death rate is now higher than any other state, edging out Texas, which has about 25% more people. Florida recorded another 134 deaths Tuesday, bringing its daily average for the past week to 115, topping the 112 deaths a day Texas has reported during that time, Associated Press statistics show. A month […]
Twitter has deemed the Star of David, a symbol of Judaism and Jewish pride, to be “hateful imagery”, and is locking the accounts of users who display it. Several Twitter users have contacted Campaign Against Antisemitism in recent days reporting that their accounts have been locked, and Twitter has provided the following rationale: “What happened? […]
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