In an appearance on Fox News on Sunday, Alina Habba, the legal spokesperson for former President Donald Trump, dismissed the notion that her client would require much preparation for his upcoming court trials. Anchor Shannon Bream questioned Habba about the logistical challenges of preparing a client for multiple trials while also considering Trump’s potential presidential ambitions. Habba countered that Trump should not be regarded as an ordinary individual, highlighting his intelligence and familiarity with legal proceedings. She suggested that Trump’s ability to “wing it” is a reflection of his unique qualities, including his perceived understanding of the situations he faces. “If it was a normal person, honestly, Shannon, I could understand the concern,” Habba responded.

Former prime minister Ehud Barak, one of the leaders of the incitement against the current government, shared a video on his Twitter account on Monday comparing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler Yemach Shemom. “Must watch!” Barak wrote. “Is Netanyahu mentally unfit to run a country? Yitzhak Adiges, a leading international consultant on leadership issues with a shocking opinion!” The Likud party responded by issuing a statement saying: “‘Hotheaded’ Ehud Barak, the accomplice of the pedophile Epstein, has finally lost it completely.

You know those N95 masks that people still afraid of Covid consider to be the most effective way to stop the spread of the virus? Yeah, well, they could be giving people cancer and other health problems. A new study suggests that wearing the masks risks the wearer of potential exposure to hazardous levels of toxic chemicals. Although the National Institutes of Health (NIH) re-shared the study earlier this year, concerns are now emerging anew over the safety of these masks. Researchers from Jeonbuk National University in South Korea conducted an investigation into disposable medical-grade masks, as well as reusable cotton masks.

A Chareidi tour guide told Kikar H’Shabbat about how he and the group he was leading narrowly missed being involved in the Ein Gedi disaster that occurred on Thursday morning. Nuriel Lasri, a resident of Telzstone, is a Chareidi tour guide who leads both religious and secular youth groups. “I’m still shaking from the magnitude of the neis that occurred to me and the group I was supposed to guide, all thanks to being makpid on hearing Kriyas HaTorah and davening with a minyan,” Lasri told Kikar on Thursday after the tragic incident. “The group I was supposed to guide arrived in the Dead Sea area on Wednesday and stayed in a hostel there.

During the Adirei Hatorah event at Wells Fargo Center in June, Beth Medrash Govoha rosh yeshiva Rav Malkiel Kotler shlit”a announced that plans were being set to raise the Kollel stipends of the yeshiva’s yungerleit. Lakewood Alerts subsequently reported that BMG was planning to raise Kollel checks by 5%, beginning this Elul zman. Now, BMG CEO Rabbi Yosef Heinemann is making the raise official. “With profound appreciation of being one of the Adirei Hatorah of Beth Medrash Govoha, we are pleased to inform you that the monthly Kollel check as of September will be raised 5% to $1,050 monthly,” a letter from the CEO to Kollel yungerleit reads, as first reported by the Lakewood Alerts status.

A man who served as a “Shabbos Goy” for 30 years on a religious yishuv was revealed as a Jew after his recent death, Arutz Sheva reported. HaRav Eliyahu Maimon, director of the Judaism Investigation Division at the Beis Din, explained. “The Chevra Kadisha contacted us and after investigating, we discovered that he indeed is a Jew.” “He was actually registered a Jew but in that particular community, for whatever reason, he claimed that he was a goy. The Chevra Kadisha didn’t want to bury him as a Jew because they thought he was, as stated, a goy. But his family insisted he was Jewish and we investigated, checking numerous documents. In this case, the documents showed quite clearly that he was Jewish and we didn’t need any more proof such as genetic tests or other evidence.

Right-wing activists organized a solidarity march in Bnei Brak to show support for the residents in the wake of the provocative women’s march that took place on Thursday. The “March of Brotherhood,” organized by the pro-judicial reform T’kuma 2023 headquarters, is scheduled to take place this Thursday evening on Rechov Rabbi Akiva.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has emerged as a formidable contender in the race for the White House, following his impressive showing in the recent GOP debate. The aftermath of the debate has seen DeSantis’s popularity soar, with a significant 8-point surge among Republicans, according to a new national poll. The highly regarded InsiderAdvantage survey, which gauged likely Republican primary and caucus voters, underscores DeSantis’s newfound momentum. The poll places the Florida governor at a notable 18% in the GOP presidential contest. This surge represents a sharp increase from the 10% support he garnered just days before the opening debate on Wednesday.

Former President Donald Trump has returned to X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, firing off his first message in more than 2 1/2 years shortly after he surrendered at an Atlanta jail on charges he conspired to overturn his election loss. He posted a photo of his mug shot and the words “Election interference. Never surrender!” along with a link to his website, which directs to a fundraising page. It was Trump’s first post since Jan. 8, 2021, when Twitter suspended his account indefinitely, citing fears he would incite additional violence following the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol building. His account was reinstated last November shortly after Elon Musk took over the company.

Former President Donald Trump arrived Thursday at a jail in Atlanta to surrender on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, a county jail booking expected to yield a historic first: a mug shot of a former American president. Trump’s surrender to law enforcement authorities has become by now a familiar election-season routine in a way that belies the unprecedented spectacle of a former president being booked, in four different cities, on felony criminal charges.