In shockingly disgraceful conduct and due to its own error, a Moldovan airline on Sunday removed all the passengers, mostly frum Jews, from a flight to Israel and forcibly expelled them from the airport. The incident occurred due to an error by Air Moldova, which registered two passengers with the same name as one person. As a result, when the passengers boarded the plane, one was left without a seat. Arguments began and in the ensuing chaos, the pilot decided he was quitting and canceled the flight. At that point, all the passengers, most of them Israelis who had spent Shabbos Chanukah in Uman, were removed from the flight and then expelled from the airport. One of the passengers told B’Chadrei Chareidim: “They treated us like dogs.

Three buses of recent migrant families arrived from Texas near the home of Vice President Kamala Harris in record-setting cold on Saturday night. Texas authorities have not confirmed their involvement, but the bus drop-offs are in line with previous actions by border-state governors calling attention to the Biden administration’s immigration policies. The buses that arrived late Saturday outside the vice president’s residence were carrying around 110 to 130 people, according to Tatiana Laborde, managing director of SAMU First Response, a relief agency working with the city of Washington to serve thousands of migrants who have been dropped off in recent months.

While Russia has been made a pariah on the world stage over its invasion of Ukraine causing imports to be drastically limited, upon entering a kosher supermarket in Moscow, one might not get the whiff of war. The supermarket has an advantage – it relies on a fully frum slaughterhouse in Moscow. All of the meat is mehadrin min hamehadrin, allowing Jews in Moscow to have no lack for kosher meat despite other difficulties posed by the war. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A hotel in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, rented out for about 800 guests celebrating Shabbos Chanukah had to be evacuated after a pipe burst, leaving the guests outside in frigid temperatures motzei Shabbos. Rockland Hatzolah and Chaveirim rushed to the Hilton of Woodcliff Lake immediately after the zman on motzei Shabbos to assist the guests, with Chaveirim providing multiple school buses allowing guests to remain warm and out of the frigid weather. Woodcliff Lake had a RealFeel temperature below 0 degrees Fahrenheit motzei Shabbos. A Woodcliff Lake FD official said a burst pipe on the fourth floor of the Hilton hotel caused a massive leak, causing all heating in the structure to be turned off.

When your hatred for someone is so great, it takes up all your headspace and interferes in everything you do. This phenomenon was on full display as Nancy Pelosi gave her last-ever press conference as Democratic House Leader. With her Trump hatred always burning red-hot, Pelosi couldn’t help but take a shot at the former president. “I just want to ask you in this time of transition, have you had any conversations with Leader McCarthy or do you intend to? And if he prevails as Speaker, what advice would you give him?” a reporter asked Pelosi. Her lengthy answer showed her Trump Derangement Syndrome. “Well, I don’t think anybody needs any advice from anybody,” she said.

An emotional Hachnasas Sefer Torah for the zechus of Ukrainain soldiers took place in Kyiv with the participation of members of parliament, presidential advisers, army commanders, heads of Jewish kehillos, and Jewish soldiers. At the start of the event, the Rav of the Ukrainian army, HaRav Hillel Cohen, introduced the activities of a number of Jewish organizations that have been active in Ukraine since the start of the war – assisting Jewish and non-Jewish refugees, providing humanitarian aid, and rescuing the sick and elderly, among other activities. The event was attended by the mayor of Uman, who praised the use of Jewish hotels in Uman for streams of refugees from eastern Ukraine in the first months of the war – all free of charge.

A child in Boro Park is miraculously alive after his carriage was struck by a 24-foot truck and the youngster getting caught between the truck’s wheels, BORO PARK SCOOP reports. The terrifying incident occurred on 20th Avenue and 52nd Street at around 5:15 pm Thursday when the child was sitting in a stroller and was slammed into by the massive hauler. The carriage was mangled beyond recognition and the child thrown from it, landing underneath the truck. Hatzolah paramedics rushed to the scene fearing the worst, only to find that the child had suffered no more than minor scrapes and bruises. “This is a true neis Chanukah,” an astounded Boro Park Hatzolah paramedic remarked.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday published a video showing young Palestinian children “training” to become terrorists. The ministry issued a warning that the video contains “disturbing images.” But sadly, anyone familiar with Palestinian society will not be too shocked by the images of children being indoctrinated to hate and kill from a young age. “Children in Jenin were filmed carrying rifles during an ‘operational” exercise,” the foreign ministry wrote.

The FBI on Wednesday took a defensive position after being exposed in the Twitter Files which show that the agency worked hand-in-hand with Twitter executives to promote accounts that propagated propaganda that it liked and to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. Lee Fang of The Intercept released internal Twitter documents which show that Twitter “gave approval & special protection to the U.S. military’s online psychological influence ops” despite saying publicly that they working to fight such efforts. According to the documents, Twitter would amplify messages from fake accounts that promoted messages globally which the FBI favored. Also recently released were other Twitter files which showed the company suppressing the Hunter Biden story at the FBI’s behest.

Hakeem Jeffries, the new leader of the House Democratic caucus, poked fun at Republicans over their inability to get along. “And look at what is happening right now. Look at what’s happening right now. House Republicans are attacking Senate Republicans. Senate Republicans are calling House Republicans silly and immature,” Jeffries told reporters. “The leadership situation is in chaos. Marjorie Taylor Greene is fighting with Lauren Boebert. And George Santos appears to be starring in the sequel to Catch Me If You Can,” he said, referring to the House-elect who appears to have fabricated just about his entire life story. “And it’s not even January 3rd,” Jeffries gleefully noted. “The circus has already come to town. Chaos, crisis. Confusion and craziness.