The federal government filed two lawsuits Thursday against Southern California Edison, alleging the utility’s equipment sparked fires including January’s Eaton Fire in the Los Angeles area, which destroyed more than 9,400 structures and killed 17 people. “The lawsuits filed today allege a troubling pattern of negligence resulting in death, destruction, and tens of millions of […]
The Shin Bet has privately warned top political leaders that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is unraveling, creating a volatile situation that could ignite a new wave of unrest in the West Bank, according to a Channel 12 report. In a series of recent closed-door briefings, senior Shin Bet officials sounded the alarm over the PA’s […]
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The Boro Park Jewish Community Council (BPJCC) has introduced a new financial literacy initiative designed to help local families build stronger financial futures. This free program responds to a growing
New York’s attorney general moved Thursday to have the state’s highest court reinstate President Donald Trump’s staggering civil fraud penalty, appealing a lower-court decision that slashed the potential half-billion-dollar fine to $0. Attorney General Letitia James’ office filed a notice of appeal with the state’s Court of Appeals, seeking to reverse the mid-level Appellate Division’s […]
At least 19 U.N. employees were detained by the Iranian-backed Houthis during raids on U.N. offices in Yemen’s capital, the United Nations said Tuesday, a higher number than originally reported. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said 18 of those being held are Yemeni staffers and one is an international employee. He called for all to be […]
Israel issued a sharp warning to Paris on Thursday, with Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar telling his French counterpart that President Emmanuel Macron will not be welcome in Israel if France proceeds with its plan to unilaterally recognize Palestinian statehood this month. In a phone call with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, Sa’ar urged France to […]
An eight-year-old Gaza boy once claimed to have been killed by Israeli forces has been found alive, safe, and under protection after a weeks-long search led by the Gaza Humanitarian
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., facing pointed bipartisan questioning at a rancorous three-hour Senate committee hearing on Thursday, tried to defend his efforts to pull back COVID-19 vaccine recommendations and explain the turmoil he has created at federal health agencies. Kennedy said the fired CDC director was untrustworthy, stood by his past anti-vaccine rhetoric, and […]
The Arab man who said that he and his fellow Arab workers intentionally spit in the ice cream at the Israeli factory they work at was arrested on Thursday, according
The District of Columbia on Thursday challenged President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard in Washington, asking a federal court to intervene even as he plans to send troops to other cities in the name of driving down crime. Brian Schwalb, the district’s elected attorney general, said in a lawsuit that the deployment, which […]
Major crime in New York City fell again last month, with shootings and gunshot victims hitting all-time lows — even as murders rose, according to new NYPD data. Citywide crime dropped 6.7 percent in August compared to the same month in 2024, driven by an 8.2 percent decline in robberies and a nearly 19 percent […]
By Rabbis Moshe & Yitzchok Fingerer Who is the gentleman who showed up in the middle of davening with a big ponytail and was fervently shuckeling away with such Kavanah?
The number of Americans seeking jobless benefits rose modestly last week, suggesting that employers are still retaining workers even as the economy has showed signs of slowing. Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 30 rose by 8,000 to 237,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s more than the 231,000 new applications economists […]
District of Columbia National Guard troops who are deployed as part of President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement intervention in the nation’s capital have had their orders extended through December, a National Guard official said. The main purpose of the extension is to ensure that any D.C. Guard members out on the streets of Washington […]
The man accused of ramming his car into a parade of Liverpool soccer fans in May as the team was celebrating its Premier League triumph pleaded not guilty Thursday to
(By: Sandy Eller) He was a one-man chesed machine, a relentless individual whose passion for helping others drove him to spend full days and many sleepless nights easing the pain of those facing the most difficult moments of their lives. It’s been three years since Misaskim founder Yankie Meyer left this world, and even now, […]
Earlier today, Albany Supreme Court rejected the State Education Department’s latest attempt to control yeshiva education. SED had declared students at three Brooklyn yeshivas ineligible for special education, busing and other services, because it determined this past March that those schools did not provide a substantially equivalent education. The Court rejected SED’s attempt to penalize […]
The Haifa District Attorney’s Office on Thursday filed an indictment against a resident of Baqa al-Gharbiyye, an Arab town in northern Israel, for pledging allegiance to Islamic State (ISIS) and planning an attack on Israeli security forces. In a joint statement, the Israel Police and Shin Bet warned that the case highlights a “worrying rise […]
Hundreds of bodies have been recovered from houses destroyed by a major earthquake in Afghanistan last week, pushing the death toll to over 2,200, a Taliban government spokesman said Thursday.
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