After two weeks of discussions among Gedolei Yisrael, the Degel HaTorah party announced on Wednesday morning that the Roshei Yeshivos of Slabodka gave their final approval for the advancement of
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that Saudi Arabia will be formally recognized as a major non-NATO ally of the United States. “Tonight, I’m pleased to announce that we’re taking our military cooperation to even greater heights by formally designating Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally, which is something that is very important […]
A historic ocean liner will become the world’s largest artificial reef after it’s sunk off Florida’s Gulf Coast early next year. Okaloosa County officials announced Tuesday that they expect to sink the SS United States in early 2026 about 22 nautical miles (41 kilometers) southwest of Destin and 32 nautical miles (59 kilometers) southeast of Pensacola. The […]
A Washington state resident has been hospitalized in critical condition with a dangerous and “unpredictable” strain of bird flu never before detected in a human being — a development infectious-disease experts are calling deeply alarming. Health officials confirmed that the unidentified older man, who lives in rural Grays Harbor County on Washington’s Pacific coast, tested […]
A former aide to outgoing New York Mayor Eric Adams was sentenced Tuesday to three years’ probation, including a year of home confinement, for soliciting illegal campaign contributions for Adams. But as a federal judge announced the sentence for Mohamed Bahi, a liaison to the city’s Muslim communities, he also addressed the “elephant in the […]
Justice Minister Yariv Levin has appointed retired district court judge Yosef Ben-Hamo to oversee the criminal investigation into the Sde Teiman video leak, following a High Court ruling that cleared the way for him to make the selection. Levin’s original choice — State Ombudsman for Judges Asher Kula — was rejected by the High Court […]
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is slated to meet Wednesday in Istanbul with senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya to discuss efforts to uphold the current ceasefire in Gaza, an Arab diplomat tells The Times of Israel. This marks Witkoff’s second sit-down with al-Hayya. The first came on October 9 in Egypt, when Witkoff — alongside […]
What was once seen as a near-certain cut in interest rates next month now looks more like a coin flip as Federal Reserve officials sharply disagree over the economy’s health
MK Meir Porush spoke on Tuesday in the Knesset plenum, marking the special day for children’s rights—and attacked the violation of the rights of Chareidi children. “We gathered here today to mark Children’s Rights Day,” Porush said. “The question arises: why is there a need for a special day to mark children’s rights? In my […]
The Rav of Tzfas, HaRav Shmuel Eliyahu, published an article on the severe crimes of the disgraced Military Advocate General, apart from her role in the leak of the Sdei
The Orthodox Union (OU) has announced a major policy change regarding the kashrus status of beer beginning January 1, 2026. For decades, unflavored beer was widely assumed to be inherently kosher. The classic brewing process—built on simple ingredients such as water, hops, barley, and yeast—was traditionally viewed as straightforward and unlikely to involve non-kosher additives. […]
Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed “Swamp Sweep” that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and three people familiar with the operation. The deployment, which […]
The excitement is palpable. From Lakewood to London, Bnei Brak to Brooklyn, the kol Torah of tens of thousands of lomdim rises higher each day as Klal Yisrael prepares for
HURRY!! Sunday is Rachel Imeinu’s yahrtzeit, and Talmidei Chachamin, messengers of Yad L’Achim will be davening in Kever Rachel for all your names for tefillah! There is no cost
A significant majority of Israelis are opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state along the 1967 lines. The poll, released Monday by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign
A 22-year-old Georgian national, Michail Chkhikvishvili (aliases “Mishka,” “Michael,” “Commander Butcher,” “Butcher”) pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to soliciting hate crimes and distributing instructions to manufacture bombs and ricin, in what investigators say was a sprawling global neo-Nazi extremist operation. The chilling details laid out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York […]
In forceful and characteristically blunt remarks, Rav Yaakov Bender, the longtime rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Darchei Torah and one of the most influential chinuch voices in the U.S., issued a grim warning about what he called a “terrible, terrible problem” spreading through frum communities: a rapidly escalating culture of drinking that he says is fueling […]
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday paused a California law set to take effect in January requiring large companies to report every two years on how climate change could hurt
Okeechobee, Fl.—Wednesday of Parashas Chayei Sarah will go down in the annals of American Jewish history as the day in which the heimishe city of Lakefront in Okeechobee, Floriday, has been transformed from a dream and plan into a stunning reality—a turning point in the history of American Jewish life which has thus far been […]
The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department. It represents a major step forward for the administration’s dismantling of the department, which has mainly involved cutting jobs since President Donald Trump called for its […]
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