The following is based on a Hesped given by Chaskel Bennett at the Kevurah of his longtime Rebbe, Rav Dovid Trenk Zt”l: We first met when I was a boisterous
Democrats gathering in Detroit for a pivotal presidential debate will have to decide, once again, how to respond to President Donald Trump while presenting their own vision for the country.
The Shabbos before Lag B’omer, Moshe Eliezer Ilovitz was at the kever of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. He davened shacharis and has not been seen since. Later that week, during the festivities of Lag B’omer, the Ilovitz home burned to the ground along with the entire Moshav Mevo Modiim. The Ilovitz family, children ranging in […]
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri has recently expressed concern with the high prices of tickets for those wishing to fly from Tel Aviv to Uman, to the Kever of Rav Nachman
Before a 19-year-old gunman opened fire on a famed garlic festival in his California hometown, he urged his Instagram followers to read a 19th century book popular with white supremacists
Urgent 48 Hour Campaign! CLICK HERE TO DONATE We cried. We davened. We moved on. But Rabbi Bauman’s family still needs our help. By: Shimmy Blum The tragic disappearance and passing of Rabbi Reuven Bauman zt”l gripped us all. This young, vibrant and loving husband, father, rebbi and friend made the ultimate sacrifice. At the […]
Taha Shakouri keeps finding remote corners to play in at a Tehran children’s charity hospital, unaware that his doctors are running out of chemo medicine needed to treat the eight-year-old
New York City’s Board of Elections has officially certified Queens Borough President Melinda Katz as the winner of the hotly contested Democratic primary for Queens district attorney. The board said Monday that Katz beat public defender Tiffany Cabán by 60 votes. But Cabán is continuing with a legal challenge to get invalidated ballots counted. Cabán’s […]
The second set of Democratic presidential debates will be held Tuesday and Wednesday in Detroit, with 20 candidates spread evenly over two nights. Here’s a look at who is appearing on each night of the debates: NIGHT 1: TUESDAY Steve Bullock, Montana governor Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana John Delaney, former congressman from […]
There’s little dispute that the Federal Reserve this week will do something it hasn’t done since 2008, when the U.S. economy was gripped by the Great Recession: Cut its benchmark interest rate. This time, by contrast, the economy is solid by most measures. Consumers are spending. Unemployment is close to a half-century low. A recession […]
A shootout that left one man dead and 11 people wounded at a Brooklyn community festival over the weekend may have been gang related, the New York Police Department said
Federal officials say they’ve found a missile launcher in a man’s luggage at the airport in Baltimore. The Transportation Security Administration said in a statement that the military grade weapon was located in the man’s checked luggage at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. TSA officers called airport police who found the man and detained him […]
MK Uri Maklev responded immediately following the latest tragedy of a child left alone in a parked car. In this case, in Modi’in Illit, an infant R”L died as a
Uber is laying off 400 employees in marketing, about a quarter of the marketing team’s global workforce of 1,200 people. The move, announced Monday, follows a leadership shake-up in June when CEO Dara Khosrowshahi combined the company’s marketing, communications and policy teams. The ride-hailing company has struggled to prove it can become profitable and its […]
It’s beginning to sink in. What a loss! Our beloved Rebbe, Rav Dovid Trenk ztz”l, was the most vibrant, lively, loving person that we ever encountered. His boundless energy, constant
At least 52 prisoners were killed by other inmates during clashes between organized crime groups at the Altamira prison in northern Brazil on Monday, according to prison officials. Para state
The Treasury Department said Monday it expects to borrow $433 billion in the current July-September quarter. That would be the largest quarterly borrowing total since early 2018, as the government
Masked persons entered the community of Elad during the predawn hours of Shabbos morning and they succeeded in removing the ATM from its place in the commercial center and stealing
A stormy atmosphere exists in Arad following the decision to evict Gerrer Chassidim from a bomb shelter converted into a shul. On motzei Shabbos, swastikas and obscene graffiti were painted
President Donald Trump emphasized his personal connections to the World Trade Center site as he signed legislation Monday to ensure the Sept. 11 victims’ compensation fund never runs out of money. Trump said: “I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first responder.” Trump praised the first responders as “selfless patriots,” adding: […]
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