The Supreme Court on Thursday used the case of a Christian mailman who didn’t want to work Sundays to solidify protections for workers who ask for religious accommodations. In a unanimous decision the justices made clear that workers who ask for accommodations, such as taking the Sabbath off, should get them unless their employers show doing so would result in “substantial increased costs” to the business. The court made clear that businesses must cite more than minor costs — so-called “de minimis” costs — to reject requests for religious accommodations at work. Unlike most cases before the court, both sides in the case had agreed businesses needed to show more. The case before the court involved a mail carrier in rural Pennsylvania.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told The Wall Street Journal that he “threw out” the Override Clause, a crucial part of the judicial reform plan that would allow the Knesset to overturn Supreme Court rulings In a comprehensive interview published on Thursday, Netanyahu added that he would be advancing only the bills that he believes are supported by the majority of the people. “I’m attentive to the public pulse and to what I think will pass muster,” Netanyahu said. Legislation regarding changing the composition of the Judicial Selection Committee will be advanced but not in the “current structure.” The report caused an uproar among Netanyahu’s partners in the coalition who are furious about the concessions to the rioters who took to the streets and spread lies about the reform.

The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies. The court’s conservative majority overturned admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, the nation’s oldest private and public colleges, respectively. Chief Justice John Roberts said that for too long universities have “concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin.

For the past nine months, the New York Times has been on a crusade to criticize and undermine the yeshiva community. Story after story contained falsehoods, inaccuracies and half-truths and lacked basic context. Even groups such as the JCRC and Anti-Defamation league called out the Times for their obsession with yeshivas and yeshiva parents. But the Times persisted, hiding behind an underserved presumption of objectivity and legal protections that make it nearly impossible to make a newspaper pay for its journalistic sins. Those days will soon be over for the paper of record. An email that Times reporter Brian Rosenthal sent to the State Education Department makes it clear that he knew that the “facts” he reported about yeshivas were false.

Incitement against Chareidim has grown increasingly worse in recent months, with the latest occurrence in the heart of Jerusalem, only a week and a half after a Chareidi man was accosted by a woman on a bus in Hod HaSharon. A secular man got on the light rail in Jerusalem on Tuesday evening, sat opposite a Chareidi man, and completely unprovoked and without any prior interaction, told him: “It’s too bad Hitler didn’t finish the job with you.” Another Chareidi passenger on the light rail, shocked by what he heard, pulled out his phone and asked him to “repeat what you told the man.” The man began mumbling and cursing him but eventually repeated the sentence.

People around President Joe Biden were left scratching their heads for the millionth time in a series of gaffes and mistakes by the president that have added to concerns about his competence and mental acuity. During a state dinner with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, Biden referred to him as the prime minister of China. This incident came at a sensitive time, as a recent whistleblower alleged that Hunter Biden had invoked his father’s name in threatening Chinese business associates. Despite media attempts to downplay the significance of the whistleblower’s testimony, it has raised legitimate questions. Biden made another notable blunder by mistakenly referring to Ukraine as Iraq on two separate occasions within a span of two days.

A delegation of Roshei Yeshivos from the US landed in Eretz Yisrael on Wednesday in order to consult with Rosh Yeshivas Slabodka, HaGaon HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, about the shidduch crisis in the US, Kikar H’Shabbat reported on Wednesday. The report notes the fact that although there are shidduch issues in every country, including Israel, the US has the specific problem that bochurim start shidduchim at a later age than Israeli bochurim (who usually start around age 21) because most spend at least a year or two learning in an Israeli yeshivah. This results in the famous “age disparity” issue that places girls at a huge disadvantage. The administrator of a US yeshivah told Kikar: “We have a real problem here and we have to solve it.

A political earthquake erupted in Israel on Wednesday morning after former Israel Police Chief Roni Alsheich essentially admitted that the goal of the indictments against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was to cause him to resign. Alsheich was asked during an interview with Army Radio why Netanyahu’s cases became so complicated and he responded with the shocking statement: “No one could have guessed that he wouldn’t resign,” and then expanded his statement by adding that everyone expected the Likud party to realize that they needed to get rid of Netanyahu and find a new leader. Alsheich began by saying: “Everyone was very cautious and I’m including here of course the decision makers and the judicial side, everyone was very careful.

Former President Donald Trump has made a stunning admission regarding a recording in which he discussed classified information, stating that he was lying at the time. Trump’s statement came in response to an already infamous conversation captured on tape, where he can be heard saying, “This is secret information” as papers are handled in the background. According to the recording, Trump told a writer working on a memoir by Mark Meadows, his former chief of staff, that the papers were given to him by the military and referred to a potential battle plan for Iran. Despite no longer being in office, Trump claimed he couldn’t declassify the information but emphasized that it was still classified.

In the wake of a brutal Juneteenth celebration, Mayor Eric Adams delivered a reality check to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, expressing his disappointment over their silence in the face of the deadly violence that marred the day meant to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Juneteenth, historically observed as a day of freedom and liberty, tragically turned into one of the deadliest days in New York City so far this year. Rather than inspiring peace, the day resembled a scene from a Quentin Tarantino movie, with a shocking number of shootings and homicides taking place. “Juneteenth was our celebration of emancipation and the end of slavery.