It was a rough day at the office for White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who lost her cool when a reporter tried to ask a question to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who will be retiring at the end of the year. In the press briefing, Fauci – who serves as the chief medical adviser to President Biden – urged everyone to remain vigilant of Covid-19. The Daily Caller’s Diana Glebova asked Fauci several times what he had done to investigate the origins of Covid-19, but was ignored and scolded by Jean-Pierre. “She’s asking a good question, she’s asking a very good question,” said Simon Ateba of Africa News Today, defending Glebova. That’s when Jean-Pierre snapped. “I’m done! I’m not getting into a back-and-forth with you!” Jean-Pierre exclaimed.

Well, this is certainly not something you see every day. With more than 1,400 people in attendance, the British Royal Guard marched to MBD’s “Moshiach.” The event, at which British Chief Rabbi Ephrayim Mirvis was in attendance and led the service, commemorated the World War II military service of Jewish men and women. It also marked the 101st anniversary of the first wreath-laying by Jewish veterans at the Cenotaph – a central London memorial. The costumed parading guard from Horse Guards Parade marched down Whitehall to the Cenotaph, where a wreath was laid in honor of those who served. This year’s event also commemorated Queen Elizabeth, who passed away earlier this year. Watch this video below! (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

The famed and revered rosh yeshiva from Ger, HaGaon HaRav Shaul Alter shlit”a, graced his kehilla and yidden on the East Coast at large with a visit to the United States that spanned from Thursday until Monday evening. Throughout the trip, the rosh yeshiva met one-on-one with literally thousands of his chasidim and admirers, and inspiring tens of thousands of others who came to Boro Park to hear his wisdom. Thursday: Rav Shaul shlit”a landed at JFK Airport early Thursday morning and was immediately greeted by throngs of chasidim at the airport’s Terminal 4, before heading to Boro Park for shacharis in the massive tent erected ahead of his arrival on 18th Avenue.

Former Trump VP Mike Pence told NBC’s Meet the Press that he was “disappointed” by the performance of Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, “particularly at the end.” “From very early on, when it was clear that he had talked the president out of White House coronavirus press briefings, in a very real sense I think his tenure as chief of staff did not serve the president well,” Pence said. Pence said he thought it was important to continue to Covid-19 briefings, which Meadows talked Trump out of. “But once we went through that early difficult period with COVID and the new chief of staff started his tenure, the pressure began a month or so into the pandemic to move away from the briefings. I objected to that, but obviously it was the president’s decision,” he said.

The lights dimmed on the 6,500 rabbis and guests at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries (Kinus Hashluchim), and the haunting cry of a violin filled the silence of the 150,000-square-foot New Jersey Convention Center. Then, 11-year-old Yitzchak Aizik Levitansky began singing an old Chassidic song: Nye Bayus Ya Nekogo—I fear no one, ee nye vyeru nikamu—and believe in no one, tolka B-ga adnavo—except G‑d alone. Levitansky is the son of Rabbi Yechiel Shlomo and Rochi Levitansky, directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Sumy, Ukraine, a city on the northeastern border of that war-torn country and a place hard hit in the fighting of this past year.

Adam Schiff, one of the more vocal members of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, said Sunday that Elon Musk’s decision to reinstate Donald Trump’s Twitter account was a “terrible mistake.” “The president used that platform to incite that attack on the Capitol,” Schiff said on ABC’s This Week program. “It contradicts what Elon Musk said, that he was going to establish a council to evaluate this,” he added. “It just underscores the the erratic leadership of Twitter now under Musk, but also the security concerns with security people fleeing Twitter and what that means for the protection of Americans private data.” “His comments about the vice president, his own vice president, put Mike Pence’s life in danger,” Schiff asserted.

Speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s leadership event in Las Vegas, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended the rights of Jews to live in Israel and said he doesn’t consider Yehuda and Shomron to be “occupied,” but rather disputed territories. “I don’t care what the State Department said, they are not occupied territory; it is disputed territory,” DeSantis said. “If you look at our record on issues related to Israel and supporting the Jewish community, it is second to none,” DeSantis boasted of his first term as Florida governor, noting proudly that he received the highest percentage of Jewish votes of any Republican in Florida history in his recent reelection.

CNN’s Jake Tapper didn’t go light on President Joe Biden on Sunday morning, telling his audience that the president is choosing to let Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “get away with murder” after his administration said it determined that the prince is immune from legal ramifications over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. It was reported late last week that the Justice Department came to a conclusion that a lawsuit the wife of Khashoggi wants to bring against the prince is inadmissible because he is immune from any responsibility for the killing.

Former President Donald Trump, now running for president in 2024, told the annual gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition that Jews don’t appreciate Israel enough and should be at least as grateful for it as evangelical Christians are. “Some people in the United States — Jewish people — don’t appreciate Israel the way they should,’ Trump said. ‘I’ll tell you who does appreciate Israel very much are the evangelicals, because evangelicals are on your side. Evangelical Christians, they’re really on your side.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the frontrunner to become the House Speaker in January, told the Republican Jewish Coalition that he will kick Rep. Ilhan Omar off the House Foreign Affairs Committee over antisemitic comments she has made. “We watch antisemitism grow, not just on our campuses, but we watched it grow in the halls of Congress,” McCarthy told the RJC’s leadership meeting in Las Vegas. “I promised you last year that as speaker she will no longer be on Foreign Affairs, and I’m keeping that promise,” McCarthy told the cheering crowd.