“The best way to understand how “Jewish” Surfside is is simply to stroll along Collins Avenue and count the shuls,” Rav Leibel Groner, the head of the Chevra Kadisha in
The U.S. government’s highway safety agency has ordered automakers to report any crashes involving fully autonomous vehicles or partially automated driver assist systems. The move Tuesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicates the agency is taking a tougher stance on automated vehicle safety than in the past. It has been reluctant to issue […]
Israel and the US are holding talks on arranging a visit by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to Washington in July to meet US President Joe Biden. White House Press Secretary
The death toll for the Surfside building collapse rose to 12, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Tuesday. The total number of people unaccounted for is now 149 and
The U.S.’s top general in Afghanistan on Tuesday gave a sobering assessment of the country’s deteriorating security situation as America winds down its so-called “forever war.” Gen. Austin S. Miller said the rapid loss of districts around the country to the Taliban — several with significant strategic value — is worrisome. He also cautioned that […]
Dovid Chaim Shram is only eight years old. As a baby, he was diagnosed with Leukemia and spent his life going in and out of the hospital. CLICK HERE
After the petira of the legendary Mir Mashgiach HaGaon HaRav Aharon Chodosh, z’tl, this past winter, HaGaon HaTzaddik Rav Binyamin Finkel was appointed to replace him but the loss of
Heartbroken North Koreans have been worrying tearfully about leader Kim Jong Un’s “emaciated looks,” state media quoted a local resident as saying, in a rare acknowledgement of foreign speculation about his weight loss. The comments were seen as an effort to boost domestic support for Kim’s efforts as he grapples with deepening economic hardships caused […]
As Israel grapples with a new outbreak of the coronavirus spurred by the Delta variant, health officials say that 30% to 50% of new cases are among those who have
Search and rescue teams from Miami-Dade are considered among the best and most experienced in the world, dispatched to epic disaster scenes far beyond their Florida base — from the rubble of the World Trade Center to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, Mexico and the Philippines. This time disaster struck at home. The rescuers are searching urgently for […]
The commander of the Israeli National Rescue Unit said Tuesday the collapsed bedrooms from the Champlain Towers South building are under 13 to 16 feet of concrete. “This building collapsed very, very badly, if I can use this word, because it collapsed into itself. And the bedrooms that we are looking for, because the people […]
In the past week alone, Nikki Haley regaled activists in Iowa, Mike Pence courted donors in California and Donald Trump returned to the rally stage, teasing a third campaign for
Eric Adams held onto his lead as the latest vote tallies were released on Tuesday, with Kathryn Garcia a few percentage points behind. Adams garnered 51.1% of the votes in the city’s 11th round of ranked-choice voting, while Garcia’s tally stood at 48.9%, data released by the city’s Board of Elections shows. The remaining Democratic […]
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid landed in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday morning in the first official visit to the Gulf state by an Israeli minister. Lapid met with senior
The unprecedented Northwest U.S. heat wave that slammed Seattle and Portland, Oregon, moved inland Tuesday — prompting a electrical utility in Spokane, Washington to warn that people will face more rolling blackouts amid heavy power demand. The intense weather that gave Seattle and Portland consecutive days of record high temperatures far exceeding 100 degrees (37.7 […]
Prosecutors in Florida will pursue a grand jury investigation into the deadly collapse of an oceanfront condominium building, officials said Tuesday. Miami-Dade County Daniella Levine Cava said at a news conference that she fully supports such an investigation. State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said she would bring the matter before grand jurors soon. “I am […]
Florida Governor DeSantis met on Tuesday with family members of victims missing in the Surfside condo collapse. Among those that the Governor met was the Rosenberg family, who are R”L
New York City plans to resume counting votes Tuesday in its Democratic mayoral primary, which went into a state of suspended animation a week ago with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams enjoying an early lead. The city’s Board of Elections planned to announce the latest vote tallies sometime in the afternoon, and it will be […]
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Surfside, Florida, on Thursday to visit with the families of victims of the collapsed Miami-area condominium tower, the White House said. Biden has offered federal help and extended his concerns to the community as people “grieve their lost loved ones and wait anxiously as […]
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez has announced that two Brooklyn teenagers have been arraigned on an indictment in which they are charged with second-degree murder for fatally shooting a 17-year-old boy in an ambush outside the victim’s Midwood charter school shortly after school dismissal. District Attorney Gonzalez said, “This is a tragic and shocking case […]
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