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Another week, another front-page attack on Orthodox Jews – this time targeting children with special needs and their families. The New York Times confirms, for the 13th time in just three and half months, its obsession with spreading misinformation and demonizing Orthodox and Hasidic Jews. At the same time, antisemitic attacks specifically targeting the visibly Jewish in New York City – the ones targeted by the New York Times – have risen exponentially. Why is the New York Times using its enormous megaphone to spread hate and misinformation?

Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn into office Thursday, taking the helm of the most right-wing and religiously conservative government in Israel’s history. Netanyahu promised that his sixth stint as prime minister will deliver political stability after five back-to-back elections rocked the country since 2019. Having served for 15 years as prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu is already the country’s longest-serving prime minister. The coalition is comprised of 64 Knesset seats from six political parties – Likud, UTJ, Shas, Noam, Otzma Yehudit, and Religious Zionism. Netanyahu took the oath of office moments after parliament passed a vote of confidence in his new government. His return marks his sixth term in office, continuing his more than decade-long dominance over Israeli politics.

A new report from Americans Against Antisemitism found that a stunning majority – 94% – of anti-Jewish assaults in New York City between 2018 and 2022 specifically targeted Orthodox Jews, and that 97% of those attacks were perpetrated by other minorities. The statistics come from the Hate Crimes Accountability Project, created to give additional data on hate crimes beyond what the NYPD and FBI collect and report and to determine if there are consequences for the perpetrators. The project documented 194 cases of anti-Jewish assaults in NYC between April 2018 and August 2022, with the perps’ group identities documented in 99 of those assaults.

Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday defended his decision to take an unannounced vacation last week to the U.S. Virgin Islands, just as a winter storm bore down on the city. The mayor’s two-day trip on Thursday and Friday was kept under wraps by his staff and came as the storm caused major flooding in coastal areas, including Howard Beach and the Rockaways. “I was in the U.S. Virgin Islands,” Adams revealed to reporters on Tuesday at his first news conference since returning from the trip Saturday. The mayor said the trip was for his own mental health and to help him reflect on his late mother, Dorothy Mae Adams-Streeter, who died in March 2021.

When a critically ill infant was in urgent need of a flight from Israel to Florida for a life-saving surgery, Kanfei Chaim and Hatzalah of South Florida teamed up for an almost unbelievable act of chesed that resulted in the child’s ability to survive. The one-month-old baby, born with a rare, life-threatening birth defect that prevents her from breathing on her own, required a transfer from Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Tel Aviv to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, where doctors were waiting to provide her the procedure Israeli doctors said they couldn’t do, warning that the child would die if she wasn’t provided doctors who could save her.

The township of Forestburgh in Sullivan County has been slapped with a federal discrimination lawsuit over an alleged conspiracy to block Lost Lake Resort – a sprawling development whose developer is gearing it to Jewish families. A 3.3 square mile tract of land was bought for $9.5 million by a group that planned to build 2,627 homes on it, but those plans sputtered after the town denied initial applications to begin construction. The project – if it gets done – will consist of 2,557 single family homes, 30 cottages, 40 condominiums, as well as an 18-hole golf course, among other amenities.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s incoming government put West Bank settlement expansion at the top of its list of priorities on Wednesday, vowing to legalize dozens of outposts and annex the territory as part of its coalition deal with its right-wing allies. The coalition agreements, released a day before the government is to be sworn into office, included contentious judicial reforms, as well as generous stipends for charedim who prefer to learn instead of work. The package laid the groundwork for what is expected to be a stormy beginning for Netanyahu’s government and could put it at odds with large parts of the Israeli public and Israel’s closest allies abroad.

Israel Police on Tuesday arrested a second person suspected of being involved in overturning a dumpster that careened out of control and severely injured a Chareidi mother of 11 almost two weeks ago. The first suspect was arrested on Sunday. The second suspect was arrested on Tuesday in Elad after fleeing from Jerusalem following the incident. The police are bringing him to a Jerusalem court on Wednesday to request an extension of his arrest. Meanwhile, the injured woman, Mirel Duzlovosky, has regained consciousness and is communicating with those around her. However, she is still ventilated and is in serious condition and her family has requested that the public continue to daven for a refuah sheleimah for Mirel bas Rochel Leah b’toch shaar cholei Yisrael.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis invited frum wife and mother Chaya Raichik to stay at the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee after she was doxed and threatened on Twitter. Raichik runs the Twitter account @libsoftiktok, which posts videos and stories about leftists promoting radical ideologies, including most prominently gender-changing surgeries for children and inappropriate entertainment and content kids across the country are being exposed to. The Twitter account’s popularity has made Raichik a target of the left, and Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz inexplicably doxed her, unleashing a tidal wave of hate, vitriol – and death threats – directed at her. Raichik was a guest on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, where she revealed that after she was doxed, Florida Gov.