Israel will switch from standard time to daylight time overnight Thursday-Friday, moving its clocks from 2 a.m to 3 a.m. The time difference between Israel and the east coast of the US will once again be seven hours. Daylight savings time will continue until October 27, 2024. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
A judge has recommended that conservative attorney John Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep former President Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election. Eastman, a former law school dean, faced 11 disciplinary charges in the state bar court stemming from his development of a legal strategy to have then-Vice […]
A recent report by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) has revealed alarming examples of anti-Israel incitement and glorification of violent jihad in textbooks used in schools run by the UN Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, in Gaza. Examples include a map of the Middle East that erases Israel’s existence, […]
A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said. The eye-popping amount was a major show of Democratic support for Biden at a time […]
Roshei Yeshivos Slabodka HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau and HaGaon HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch were attending a kenes in Bnei Brak on Thursday evening when the Supreme Court issued a ruling to freeze funding to yeshivos as of Sunday morning HaRav Landau spoke at the kenes and issued a sharp message to the Court: “The yeshivos […]
In a bombshell ruling on Thursday evening, Supreme Court judges Uzi Fogelman, Yitzchak Amit and Noam Sohlberg issued an interim ruling to the government to freeze funding to yeshivos as of April 1 as the army exemptions for yeshiva bochurim are no longer legal. The judges adopted an even stricter view than Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara, […]
Former President Donald Trump attended the wake of slain NYPD officer Jonathan Diller Thursday afternoon at a Massapequa Park funeral home, while calling for law and order. “Such a sad, sad event. Such a horrible thing. And it’s happening all too often and we’re just not going to let it happen,” Trump said. “We need […]
Sam Bankman-Fried went from cryptocurrency golden boy to the face of the industry’s collapse. The founder and former CEO of the massive cryptocurrency exchange FTX was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday after being convicted of fraud for stealing at least $10 billion from customers and investors. The collapse of one of the largest […]
The U.S. on Wednesday imposed sanctions on online media site Gaza Now and its founder Mustafa Ayash for allegedly supporting Hamas. U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control says that after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas against Israel — the online entity began a fundraising effort in support of the militant organization. Gaza Now’s […]
Three members of the infamous Lev Tahor cult – Yoel Weingarten, Yakov Weingarten, and Shmiel Weingarten – have been found guilty of kidnapping a 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, and then spiriting the girl outside the United States to continue an illegal and forced marriage with her adult “husband.” The kidnapping occurred on a […]
You’re driving along, and without warning, the roadway drops from beneath you. There are a few seconds of falling, with thoughts possibly racing about family or loved ones, followed by a jarring impact, and most likely injury. Tuesday’s collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore following a ship strike brought back jarring memories […]
Rosh Yeshivas Porat Yosef, HaGaon HaRav Moshe Tzadka, the leading Rosh Yeshivah of the Sefardi yeshivah world in Israel who said that yeshivah bochurim will not serve in the IDF even if they have to go to prison, reiterated his message on Tuesday and added to it. A group of avreichim visited the Rosh HaYeshivah […]