Month August 2022

Elisheva always imagined that one day, she’d be engaged, and have a beautiful wedding with a beautiful dress. Most little girls do have such dreams. But when she met her chassan, she knew that God had other plans. Chananel Tzvi… Continue Reading →

Elisheva always imagined that one day, she’d be engaged, and have a beautiful wedding with a beautiful dress. Most little girls do have such dreams. But when she met her chassan, she knew that God had other plans. Chananel Tzvi… Continue Reading →

Menachem Pallas, a Lubavitcher chassid from Crown Heights who is visiting Israel, was shot in the shoulder on Motzei Shabbos in the terror attack near the Kosel. Baruch Hashem, he was only lightly injured and on Sunday morning, he was… Continue Reading →

New York has amended several state laws to remove the word “inmate” and replace it with “incarcerated person” to refer to people serving prison time. The changes, signed into law Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul, are intended to reduce the… Continue Reading →

Facing prison time and dire personal consequences for storming the U.S. Capitol, some Jan. 6 defendants are trying to profit from their participation in the deadly riot, using it as a platform to drum up cash, promote business endeavors and… Continue Reading →

The U.S. Justice Department has weighed in on a civil lawsuit against two conservative political operatives accused of using robocalls to dissuade Black voters from taking part in the 2020 election. The department said Friday that defense lawyers for the… Continue Reading →

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot announced on Sunday morning that he is running for the next Knesset together with Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Justice Minster Gideon Sa’ar’s merged parties. The move comes after weeks of speculation about which… Continue Reading →

The flagship climate change and health care bill passed by Democrats and soon to be signed by President Joe Biden will bring U.S. taxpayers one step closer to a government-operated electronic free-file tax return system. It’s something lawmakers and advocates… Continue Reading →

The World Health Organization says it’s holding an open forum to rename the disease monkeypox, after some critics raised concerns the name could be derogatory or have racist connotations. In a statement Friday, the U.N. health agency said it has… Continue Reading →

Donald Trump has hired a prominent Atlanta criminal defense attorney known for defending famous rappers to represent him in matters related to the special grand jury that’s investigating whether the former president illegally tried to interfere with the 2020 election… Continue Reading →

With inflation raging near its highest level in four decades, Congress is poised to approve President Joe Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act. Its title raises a tantalizing question: Will the measure actually tame the price spikes that have inflicted hardships… Continue Reading →

Arizona began moving in shipping containers to close a 1,000-foot gap in the border wall near the southern Arizona farming community of Yuma on Friday, with officials saying they were acting to stop migrants after repeated, unfulfilled promises from the… Continue Reading →

Two of the eight people who were wounded in the terror attack near the Kosel on Motzei Shabbos were brothers who both were hit by bullets in their shoulders, with the bullets entering from one side and emerging from the… Continue Reading →

One of the victims of the terror attack near the Kosel in the Old City of Jerusalem on Motzei Shabbos was a 35-year-old pregnant woman in her 30s who was shot in her abdomen. The woman underwent surgery at Shaarei… Continue Reading →

The life of Reb Hillel Paley’s daughter-in-law, who was severely injured in the Jerusalem bus accident on Thursday night, was saved via tzitzis and the quick thinking of United Hatzalah paramedic Shalom Klein. Klein was waiting at the bus stop… Continue Reading →

The Jewish manager of a kosher meat processing plant in Montreal was stabbed in the face/neck area with a pair of scissors by a Lebanese immigrant. The attacker, a recent immigrant from Lebanon named Maoulod Machochi, had been loitering on… Continue Reading →

What takes four years to make and costs more than $20,000? A trash can in San Francisco. That costly, boxy bin is among six trash cans hitting San Francisco’s streets this summer in the city’s long saga in search of… Continue Reading →

Russia’s military pounded residential areas across Ukraine overnight, claiming gains, as Ukrainian forces pressed a counteroffensive to try to take back an occupied southern region, striking the last working bridge over a river in the Russian-occupied Kherson region, Ukrainian authorities… Continue Reading →

Republicans in Congress who are relying on Donald Trump to excite voters in the fall elections are not only defending the former president against the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home but politically capitalizing on it with grave and potentially… Continue Reading →