WASHINGTON (AP) — Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday that the Federal Reserve

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — One of the senior Gedolim in Israel expressed a strong, emotional message to hostage families.

The Iranian leadership decided to postpone a third direct attack on Israel following last week’s U.S. presidential election, won by Republican candidate Donald Trump, officials in Yerushalayim familiar with the matter told Yisroel Hayom on Thursday.
The Israeli report came a day after Iranian sources told Sky News that Trump’s impending return to the White House led the Tehran regime to delay the attack.
According to Yisroel Hayom, the Islamic Republic shelved its plans in the hope of kick-starting negotiations with the Trump administration, which will take charge at noon on Jan. 20.

An American Israeli who visited a Lego store in Manhattan with his son, was denied the ability to make a custom figurine featuring a yellow hostage ribbon, due to the hostages being a “political issue.”

Shai Davidai, a professor and Columbia University and outspoken Israel supporter, visited the fifth avenue Lego store in Manhattan with his eight-year old son, and requested to make a Lego figurine matching his shirt, which featured a yellow ribbon in support of the hostages, and the words “Bring them home” on the back.  However, Davidai says the store manager intervened, and did not allow the figurine to be made, saying “The hostages are a political issue.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal investigation into C

IMPACT-se, a non-profit monitoring Palestinian school curriculum, has released a new report exposing 12 UNRWA school principals and deputy principals who are active members of terrorist organizations, including many who hold command positions in terror units.
The latest findings are just the latest in a series of findings about how UNRWA has essentially become a front for Hamas.
IMPACT-se’s investigation focused on five UNRWA schools, all of which are led confirmed Hamas terrorists.  At the Al Zaytun Preparatory and Elementary Schools for example, principal Mohammad Juma Shuwaideh served as a Squad Commander in Hamas’s military wing’s Gaza Brigade.

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NEW YORK – President-elect Donald Trump expressed his opposition to Governor Kathy Hochul’s updated congestion pricing plan, which aims to charge vehicles driving into certain parts of New York City.