Month September 2022
If anything positive can be said about the New York Times, it is that its reporters sent out an email last week to various community outlets forewarning them that a negative article in the “paper of record” about chasidic yeshivos… Continue Reading →
The entirety of the UK was in suspense as the news trickled in that the queen’s health was deteriorating. Liz Truss, the new prime minister, who had just met the queen two days earlier and had been appointed to form… Continue Reading →
Dr. Noam Wasserman, who heads the Sy Syms School of Business for Yeshiva University, has studied the successes and failures of thousands of startups. It took a while to pin him down for our conversation, but it was well worth… Continue Reading →
“Refreshing,” somehow, doesn’t seem quite the right word. But with so much contemporary resentment of Jews expressed in oh-so-subtle ways, dressed up as genteel, high-minded criticism of “Zionists,” “globalists” or “bearers of white privilege,” it’s sort of, I guess you… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell said Tuesday that federal agents seized his cellphone and questioned him about a Colorado clerk who has been charged in what prosecutors say was a “deceptive scheme” to breach voting system technology… Continue Reading →
BOSTON (AP) — A package exploded on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston late Tuesday, and the college said a staff member suffered minor injuries. Authorities said another suspicious package was found near a prominent art museum and the… Continue Reading →
A package exploded on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston late Tuesday, and the college said a staff member suffered minor injuries. Authorities said another suspicious package was found near a prominent art museum and the FBI was assisting… Continue Reading →
Russia has covertly spent more than $300 million since 2014 to try to influence politicians and other officials in more than two dozen countries, the State Department alleges in a newly released cable. The cable released Tuesday cites a new… Continue Reading →
Mrs. Shaindel Simes: Teacher and author of The Rolling Rabbi: When life throws us punches, we can make a conscious decision: will we bow to them or roll with them? The Simes family chose to roll with them. On that… Continue Reading →
As news reports focused on the political drama surrounding the dispute between Degel HaTorah and Agudas Yisrael, with a split having the potential to thwart Binyamin Netanyahu from gaining enough mandates to form a coalition, Channel 13 News published a report… Continue Reading →
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A third person has been arrested as part of the investigation into the assassination attempt on Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández — a move that suggests the incident could have involved a network of people…. Continue Reading →
In events dominated by the pressing issue of New York State’s wishes to impose new requirements on Yeshivos and Bais Yaakovs, GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. Lee Zeldin on Tuesday visited various frum institutions and businesses. Zeldin was joined on his… Continue Reading →
Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel announced on Tuesday evening that he will not be running for the 25th Knesset following the dissolution of his partnership with Ayelet Shaked. The announcement wasn’t surprising considering that Hendel has no supporters, with polls showing… Continue Reading →
Stocks tumbled to their worst day in more than two years Tuesday, knocking the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 1,250 points, following Wall Street’s humbling realization that inflation is not slowing as much as hoped. The S&P 500… Continue Reading →
Terrorists opened fire on Tuesday morning at a team of Israeli engineers from the Defense Ministry carrying out maintenance work along the security fence in the Jenin area in the Shomron. B’chasdei Hashem, no one was injured in the incident… Continue Reading →
Biden gathered a crowd of thousands at the White House Tuesday to celebrate last month’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, even as a new government report showed how hard it could be to bring surging prices down near prepandemic… Continue Reading →
A 21-year-old sailor will be laid to rest on Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War… Continue Reading →
A horrifying tragedy occurred in Beis Shemesh on Sunday evening when an Arab truck driver ran over Reb Avraham Chaim Anshin, z’l, a 33-year-old Breslover chassid and father of eight. What can ever console the 8 little kids who just… Continue Reading →
Ken Starr, a former federal appellate judge and a prominent attorney whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president’s impeachment, has died at age 76, his family said Tuesday. Starr died at a hospital Tuesday of complications from… Continue Reading →
NY Republican gubernatorial Rep. Lee Zeldin on Tuesday blasted the New York Board of Regents for voting to approve new “substantial equivalency” regulations that target yeshivas and other private schools. Speaking outside the Vizhnitz Yeshiva in Monsey, Zeldin asserted that… Continue Reading →
Upending the political debate, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a nationwide abortion ban Tuesday, sending shockwaves through both parties and igniting fresh debate on a fraught issue weeks before the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress. Graham’s own… Continue Reading →