Month March 2024

The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice, and is warning that the world’s efforts to reverse… Continue Reading →

The top two U.S. generals who oversaw the evacuation of Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban in August 2021 blamed the Biden administration for the chaotic departure, telling lawmakers Tuesday that it inadequately planned for the evacuation and did… Continue Reading →

JetBlue Airways will end service at several cities and reduce flying out of Los Angeles in a move to retrench and focus on stronger markets after years of losing money. The changes will also help the airline cope with the… Continue Reading →

The IDF confirmed on Tuesday evening that a long-range cruise missile launched by the Houthis in Yemen penetrated Israeli terrority for the first time on Sunday night. “Following the incident on Sunday night of a suspicious aerial target that fell… Continue Reading →

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s former White House adviser and his son-in-law, praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property,” suggesting that Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the area. “Gaza’s waterfront property, it could be very valuable,… Continue Reading →

Over seventy Flatbush Rabbonim and Roshei Yeshiva came together this week to discuss communal and halachic issues. The meeting organized by the FJCC hosted Rabbonim from all segments and kehilos of the Flatbush community. The kinus l’shem shomayim personifies the… Continue Reading →

Yeshivah bochurim all over the world collect funds for their yeshivos in the days before Purim and on Purim itself. This year, due to the war in Israel, HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau instructed yeshivah bochurim ahead of Purim to collect… Continue Reading →

How are you doing today? I’m all right. I’m having a very long day today because it’s Ramadan and I don’t have anyone else helping me tonight. I’d also like to go visit an inmate who is dying in the… Continue Reading →

Throughout the centuries, Jewish communities all over the world have put on plays associated with various Yomim Tovim. These performances were quite popular in the Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam and among the Jews of Italy during the Renaissance. But the… Continue Reading →

I interviewed Shimon Blinker recently, but I held off on publishing the interview until now. Shimon is a watch reseller and earns several million dollars a year in profit from selling watches. However, Shimon is unique, as you will soon… Continue Reading →

Okay, there’s little use carrying on our little charade anymore. We Jews have been exposed. And widely, not only by current Middle-Eastern media and personalities but even by a social-media-exhumed Osama bin Laden—as well as by venerable clergymen and great… Continue Reading →

Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno won Ohio’s Republican Senate primary on Tuesday, just days after former President Donald Trump visited the state to boost his endorsed candidate in a three-way race that remained competitive to the end. Moreno prevailed after a… Continue Reading →

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen blew up a house Tuesday in a town southeast of the capital, Sanaa, killing at least nine people from the same family, officials and residents said. This came a day after two Houthi fighters were… Continue Reading →

Lawyers for Donald Trump urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to dismiss an indictment charging the former president with conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election, renewing their arguments that he is immune from prosecution for official… Continue Reading →

Former President Donald Trump has taken a double-digit lead over President Joe Biden among independents, according to the latest Economist/YouGov survey. The poll, conducted among 1,559 U.S. adult citizens from March 10-12, 2024, shows Trump leading Biden by two points… Continue Reading →

The Mayor’s Jewish Advisory Council organized a community-wide pre-Purim safety meeting that was held at Touro College in Flatbush on Monday. This event featured presentations from NYPD officials and other local leaders, including NYPD Community Affairs Deputy Chief Richie Taylor,… Continue Reading →

New York University (NYU) has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by Jewish students alleging mistreatment and antisemitism on campus, stating that it has taken “decisive” action to address the issue. In a Monday night filing in Manhattan federal… Continue Reading →

A Newsweek article by John Spencer, the chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute (MWI) at West Point, asserts that “Israel has taken more measures to avoid needless civilian harm than virtually any other nation that’s fought… Continue Reading →