The NYPD’s 101st Precinct is investigating after a safe containing a Sefer Torah was stolen from a yeshiva in Far Rockaway. The burglary occurred in the wee hours of Tuesday morning when a pair of thieves broke into the yeshiva before making off with the safe. Rockaway Nassau Safety Patrol (Shomrim) released the video below […]

Ohio’s top lawyer has advised the state’s public universities that a law written to deter Ku Klux Klan demonstrations could be used to impose felony charges on students who wear face coverings while protesting the war in Gaza. In a letter sent Monday, after weeks of pro-Palestinian campus protests around the country, Republican Attorney General […]

United Airlines announced on Wednesday that it will be canceling its daily flights to Tel Aviv, Israel, through June 5. The airline made the decision after closely monitoring the situation and will continue to assess upcoming flights with the safety of its customers and crew members in mind. According to the airline’s statement, the cancellation […]

United Airlines has cancelled its daily flights to Tel Aviv in Israel through June 5, the carrier said today.
“We continue to closely monitor the situation and will make decisions on upcoming flights with a focus on the safety of our customers and crews,” United said in a statement.
United also said that its second daily Tel Aviv flight would be canceled through June 19.
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House Republicans accused leaders of three large school districts Wednesday of doing too little to confront antisemitism in their schools amid a number of incidents and comments targeted at Jewish students, saying they had failed in their duty to protect all children in their care.
Antisemitism on college campuses has received enormous national attention, and the House education committee held two fiery hearings with aggressive questioning of university leaders that contributed to the resignations of the presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. But a number of antisemitic incidents have been reported in K-12 schools across the country since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the war in Gaza that followed.

Pfizer Inc. has agreed to settle more than 10,000 cases accusing it of hiding the cancer risks of its Zantac heartburn drug, according to people familiar with the deal, the biggest of the litigation.
The agreements cover cases in state courts across the US but don’t completely resolve the company’s exposure to Zantac claims, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the settlement publicly. Financial details of the accords weren’t immediately available.

The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history and will become Scouting America. It’s a significant shift as the organization emerges from bankruptcy following a flood of abuse claims and seeks to focus on inclusion. The organization steeped in tradition has made seismic changes after decades […]

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate who has marketed himself to voters as a younger, healthier alternative to the two major contenders, contracted a parasitic worm that got into his brain years ago and ate a portion of it before dying, his campaign confirmed Wednesday.

Joe Biden was once an ardent supporter of Israel. But on Wednesday, he joined the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, and Bernie Sanders, as he announced on CNN that he would halt shipments of American weapons to Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major ground invasion of the city of […]

A Tel Aviv-based startup that supplies a drone operating system to the US Defense Department and the Israeli army has raised $40 million to expand its civilian business, after its technology was deployed in the battlefield in the Gaza Strip.
The funding round for Xtend was led by Chartered Group and included existing investors NFX, TAU Ventures as well as strategic investors like Clal-Tech, according to the company.

A pro-Hamas student at Florida International University let the cat out of the bag and admitted that the protests are “anti-Jewish” and not just anti-Israel. In a classic case of the perpetrator playing the victim, the student complained that the pro-Hamas protesters are not being protected from counterprotesters. “Are we as Arab, Palestinian, Muslim, and […]

Kim Ki Nam, a North Korean propaganda chief who helped build personality cults around the country’s three dynastic leaders, has died at 94, the North’s state media said. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said the country’s current leader, Kim Jong Un, visited the body of Kim Ki Nam at a funeral hall in […]

Cryptocurrency exchange FTX has amassed billions of dollars more than it needs to cover what customers lost in its November 2022 collapse, setting them up to receive full recoveries, plus interest, a rare outcome in US bankruptcy proceedings.
Lower-ranking creditors typically receive just pennies on the dollar for their holdings, but FTX benefitted from a strong rally in cryptocurrencies including Solana, a token heavily backed by convicted fraudster and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. The company has also sold dozens of other assets, including various venture-capital projects like a stake in the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic.

Hardline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called Wednesday for a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, pressing ahead with her long-shot effort despite pushback from Republicans at the highest levels tired of the political chaos. Greene, who is one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress, stood on the House floor and read a long list […]

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