This election, he has warned, is about the economy. Freedom. Stopping Project 2025 and the MAGA extremes. And, after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, it’s about democracy. And yet, Hakeem Jeffries, in line to make history...
100% of all fallen Israeli soldiers have been identified. By comparison, to date only 56 percent of all the casualties from 9/11 have been positively identified.
Yishai Fleisher is in the fields of Israel's coastal plain working on tractors - and shares Israel's defiant mood. First, the Knesset stops UNESCO from operating in Israel and then blocks fake consulates from being established in...
(New York Jewish Week) — Sid Rosenberg was anxious, despite his decades speaking to the public, as he prepared to take the stage at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday. “I was nervous, 100%, when I was about halfway down...
Struggling to feel in control of your finances? Sometimes, investments can take unexpected turns, especially if you’re dealing with cross-border accounts or unfamiliar tax rules. This episode dives into how to recognize when your...
(JTA) — As Orthodox Jews, Chaya and Jonathan Loffman were deeply committed to having their 3-year-old son educated at a religious school. But when he was diagnosed with autism, they discovered that California law bars religious schools...
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will extend a waiver allowing Israeli banks to do business with their Palestinian Authority counterparts for one month only.
Germany ordered the closure of all three Iranian Consulates in the country on Thursday in response to the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who lived in the United States and was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian...
An aging TV star takes an injection called The Substance to allow her to experience life as her younger self for seven days at a time. When the Hollywood star starts abusing the drug to maximize the time she spends in her younger body,...
America’s employers added just 12,000 jobs in October, a total that economists say was held down by the effects of strikes and hurricanes that left many workers temporarily off payrolls. The report provided a somewhat blurry view of the...
Can any rational person compare what Hitler did when he initiated the most disastrous war in history to what former president Trump accomplished during his four years in office?
In the past, anxiety treatment patterns were location specific, but after the October 7 terror attacks, the KSM study found that the entire nation was adversely affected, with women being 81 percent more likely than men to start taking...
It’s Time to Replace the Many Extraordinarily Hostile-to-Israel Officials in the Biden Administration Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: ZOA strongly criticizes the...
(JTA) — In Jesse Eisenberg’s new film, a pair of American Jewish cousins on a heritage tour of Poland sneak back onto a train they already had tickets for, after getting off at the wrong stop. “It’s the principle of the thing,” says...
The bill strips entities that transfer funds associated with terror — including the Palestinian Authority’s stipends to imprisoned terrorists and their families — from approaching the High Court.
Hezbollah agrees to withdraw beyond Litani River as US pushes for pre-election deal, but Israeli officials remain skeptical Despite Hezbollah’s declarations throughout the war, the… Read More ›
(JTA) In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, where Jews were killed and their neighborhood razed during World War II, a Jewish community has never recovered — but a museum has for a decade drawn visitors to learn about their history....
Abigail Green is nervous about Jewish Country Houses, the book she co-edited. And her concern is understandable: At first glance, the book could be perceived as an ode to wealthy Jews in a bygone European era, along with their art and...
Donald Trump is calling former Rep. Liz Cheney, one of his most prominent Republican critics, a “war hawk” and suggesting she might not be as willing to send troops to fight if she had guns pointed at her. Cheney responded by branding...
President Joe Biden tried to explain this week that he doesn’t really think Donald Trump’s supporters are “garbage,” but that doesn’t mean that other people don’t believe the label occasionally fits. “I would say that some of...
Hong Kong — The winner of the US presidential election could have a sweeping impact on the contentious relationship between the world’s two largest economies and rival… Read More ›
(JNS) More than 1,000 high-profile individuals from the literary and entertainment worlds have signed a letter condemning calls from colleagues to boycott Israeli cultural institutions. The letter was a response to another, organized by...
Boeing overcharged the Air Force nearly $1 million for spare parts on C-17 cargo planes, including an 8,000% markup for simple lavatory soap dispensers, according to the Pentagon’s inspector general. The Defense Department’s...
A national campaign is backing ballot measures in six states to end partisan primaries, seeking to turn down the temperature in a polarized country by removing a process that gives the most active members of both major parties an outsize...
Rev. Mitchell Johnson has resigned from his position as president of the Chicago Board of Education following backlash over past social media posts with antisemitic and conspiratorial content. His resignation was requested by Chicago...
Never before in a presidential election cycle has there been so much discussion of the child tax credit — a tool many Democrats and Republicans have endorsed as a way to lift children and young families out of poverty. Just three years...
Practically, denial of the mitzvah means that one will never come to fulfill it. Even tzaddikim make mistakes from time to time, but because they recognize their sin as such, they eventually repent and repair their ways.
(JTA) — Last week the Brooklyn rabbi Andrue Kahn received a request from a group of Jewish students at New York University: Would he come to lead prayers at their sukkah? It wasn’t an unusual request for a rabbi during the holiday of...
When I started covering the 2004 presidential election for The New York Times, the great political writer Adam Nagourney summed up the beat this way: Help readers understand how the candidate makes decisions. Don’t get too caught up in...
Los Angeles County is taking on Pepsi and Coke for their role in plastic pollution. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the county alleged PepsiCo and Coca-Cola companies have misled the public about the recyclability of their plastic bottles...
Palestine Action claims responsibility for act on 107th anniversary of Balfour Declaration; group also marks anniversary with vandalism at Jewish National Fund's London offices and other pro-Israel institutions across UK
Donald Trump is planning to cast his vote on Election Day despite having previously said he would vote early. In a radio interview with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade that aired last week, Trump had said that he intended to early vote —...
The Chofetz Chaim, zt”l, zy”a, remarked that the partnership between Sheker and Pachata is still thriving thousands of years later in our time so that any activity built upon falsehood, any business deal formulated through lies, is...
(JTA) — WASHINGTON — When Benjamin Netanyahu was contemplating how and when to retaliate for a missile barrage from Iran, his government was, unsurprisingly, in constant consultation with the leadership of its closest ally — the Biden...
The news rippled through Treasure Island, Florida, almost like a third storm: The mayor planned to move off the barrier island a month after Hurricane Helene flooded tens of thousands of homes along the Gulf Coast and two weeks...
As the Los Angeles Dodgers mounted an improbable, at-times bewildering comeback against the Yankees in Wednesday’s Game 5, sealing World Series victory over their famous rivals, Fox broadcaster Joe Davis wondered aloud whether the...
The presidential campaigns are making last-ditch efforts to win over Jewish and Arab American voters — a tricky proposition since the constituencies, both of which have traditionally favored Democrats, tend to take disparate views of the...
Disharmony. Discord. Animus. No! We were created to be so much more, in His image as purveyors of holiness, gratitude and joy. The year is still fresh. We can BE the "Goodness"!