Month August 2023
I It is with deep pain that we are writing about the passing of a singular gaon and tzaddik, the Rachmastrivka Rebbe, zecher tzaddik v’kadosh livrachah. Anyone who ever had the privilege to get even a distant glimpse at his… Continue Reading →
“I said al-Qaeda wouldn’t be there. I said we’d get help from the Taliban. What’s happening now? What’s going on? Read your press. I was right.” —President Joe Biden, speaking in June and defending his decision to pull out of… Continue Reading →
Bruce (Baruch Meir) Gurfein makes his home in Dubai and has established dozens of startups throughout his career, with many based in the UAE (United Arab Emirates). Bruce’s first exposure to the region was when he was in his 20s—when… Continue Reading →
Tishah B’Av and the Yomim Nora’im—in 1942, that approximately 265,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest in German-occupied Europe, were transported to their deaths. An additional 35,000 were killed inside the ghetto. The Jews rounded up in the Grossaktion… Continue Reading →
New York City Mayor Eric Adams emphasized during his visit to Israel this week that he does not believe that it is his place to interfere in matters of internal Israeli politics. “I think the people of Israel will determine… Continue Reading →
Regeneron and Johnson & Johnson will receive millions of dollars in U.S. government funding as part of a $5 billion initiative to develop next-generation vaccines and treatments for Covid-19. Some $1.4 billion in funding will target projects including trials to… Continue Reading →
A revelation has emerged regarding six officials from the Obama administration who made use of email aliases, with notable figures including former Vice President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama adopting such practices. The adoption of email aliases by… Continue Reading →
Whether you drink your tequila straight, or you do the whole ritual with the lime and salt, it’s worth finding out the kashrus of tequila. Rabbi Akiva Niehaus – Director of Kashrus Operations at the cRc and the Rabbinic Coordinator… Continue Reading →
Law enforcement authorities were searching this weekend for a Proud Boys member who had been scheduled to appear in federal court in Washington on Friday for sentencing after he was convicted in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on… Continue Reading →
According to a report from The Daily Wire, Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams and Empire State Governor Kathy Hochul are pointing fingers over who’s to blame for the state of the city in the wake of record-breaking migrant arrivals. From The Daily… Continue Reading →
When The New York Times recently ran a series of disparaging articles about New York’s Orthodox Jewish community and its yeshivah system, it seemed to have incredibly fortuitous timing, with the first article in the series coming out the day… Continue Reading →
“Saudis Agree with US on Path to Normalize Kingdom’s Ties with Israel” —A headline from the Wall Street Journal last week, on an article claiming that the basic contours of a peace plan between Saudi Arabia and Israel had been… Continue Reading →
A fun product makes for a serious business. When I first heard about Sockrates, Shmuel Moses’ custom socks business, I was intrigued. After learning how Shmuel built a seemingly niche business from scratch to millions of dollars in sales a… Continue Reading →
I always look forward to feedback on columns, whether the responses are positive or critical. The former keep me writing; the latter help me learn. On occasion, though, a response is just…well…odious. My column of two weeks ago about the… Continue Reading →
SEOUL – North Korea said Wednesday that a U.S. soldier who fled into its territory across the heavily fortified border did so because he was disillusioned with the “unequal American society.” It is the first time North Korea has publicly… Continue Reading →
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The Argentine peso plunged Monday after an anti-establishment candidate came first in primary elections that will help determine the country’s next president. Javier Milei rocked Argentina’s political establishment by receiving the biggest share of primary… Continue Reading →
(AP) – Federal officials are investigating an incident in which a private plane was told to abort its landing and narrowly avoided crashing into a Southwest Airlines jet that was using the same runway to take off in the latest… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush-money criminal case has rejected the former president’s demand to step aside, denying defense claims that he’s biased against the Republican front-runner because he’s given cash to Democrats and his… Continue Reading →
ATLANTA (AP) — A list of criminal charges in Georgia against former President Donald Trump briefly appeared Monday on a Fulton County website, but prosecutors said Trump had not been indicted in a long-running investigation of the 2020 presidential election…. Continue Reading →
Ukraine is considering canceling its visa-free travel agreement with Israel and plans to request that the country be excluded from the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meetings due to its alleged “unfriendly actions toward Ukraine and pro-Russian position on the international… Continue Reading →
Special counsel Jack Smith secretly obtained a search warrant of Donald Trump’s Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, in the investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to a newly unveiled court filing. In January 2023, Smith’s office sought a warrant… Continue Reading →