By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Join our WhatsApp group Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email THE CASE It was a Pesach getaway to be remembered. The guests were told of outstanding food service – the finest in glatt kosher for Passover cuisine. The guests are all very excited. When they arrive, however, things are not what
For five days, almost no humanitarian aid has gotten into Gaza. Israel’s military operation in Rafah has displaced another 110,000 people and closed both main border crossings. That means no food, no water, no medicine, no fuel. And now Israel is threatening to expand that operation. Hundreds of thousands of children were starving and famine More
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Adam Higginbotham explains why he thinks the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger is a subject that hasn't been fully explored yet, something he seeks to address with his new book, "Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space."
Less than a year after a massive wildfire ravaged Lahaina with shocking lethal ferocity, a federal agency is predicting that Hawaii over the next few months will face similar conditions that could lead to more wildfires.
When wildfires began erupting in the Texas Panhandle in February, Laurie Ezzell Brown, the editor and publisher of the Canadian Record, was in Houston on a panel discussing ways in which losing local newspapers represents a danger to democracy. Running the once-a-week Record from the Panhandle town of Canadian, she certainly knew something about the rise of “news More
John Swinney is facing the 'shortest honeymoon in political history' after two polls put the SNP on course for catastrophic back-to-back defeats.
HaGaon HaRav Dov Landua spoke words of hesped at Ponevezh Yeshivah on Thursday night on the yartzheit of Rosh HaYeshivah HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein z’tl. After the hesped, HaRav Landau spoke about the draft law hanging over the heads of the Chareidi sector. “At this opportunity, I’m turning to all those who are considering legislating […]
CHOIBALSAN, Mongolia — Exercise Gobi Wolf 2024 culminated with resounding success during a Closing Ceremony held in Choibalsan, Mongolia, May 10, marking another significant stride in disaster preparedness and global collaboration.
“Let them eat cake,” Marie Antoinette once famously said, disdaining the immiseration of peasants in pre-revolutionary France. Joe Biden didn’t use those exact words last week during his interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, but his tone-deafness about the suffering of millions of Americans grappling with high food and gas prices and unaffordable rents was palpable. Burnett More
The funding is available to individuals who suffered losses during severe storms and flooding from Sept.11-13, 2023.
Norwegian startup 7Analytics has secured €4mn to help predict the next big flood or landslide. The Bergen-based outfit trains machine learning algorithms on vast quantities of data on everything from weather to land use. The AI then learns to predict how natural disasters will unfold with metre-scale accuracy. Whereas the weather forecast tells you when a storm is approaching, 7Analytics will tell you exactly how the water from this storm will travel through your community. These...