The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror organization released a propaganda video of hostage Sasha Trufanov on Thursday, following a previous video published on Tuesday. Unlike the previous video, Trufanov’s scripted statements, during which he spoke about Israel’s closure of Al Jazeera, indicate the video was filmed recently, in the past month. Trufanov, a resident of […]

The U.S. mission to the United Nations is skipping a United Nations tribute on Thursday for Ebrahim Raisi, the late president of Iran who died in a helicopter crash on May 19.
“The UN should be standing with the people of Iran,” said Nate Evans, spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations, who noted that Washington wouldn’t participate “in any capacity.”
“Raisi was involved in numerous, horrific human rights abuses, including the extrajudicial killings of thousands of political prisoners in 1988,” Evans said. “Some of the worst human rights abuses on record took place during his tenure.”
A U.S. envoy was one of many diplomats at the global body who stood during a moment of silence for Raisi, known as the “butcher of Tehran,” at the United Nations.

When a boy struggles with Kriah basics like blending nekudos – then “confidently opens a Siddur to daven” after years, it’s a big deal.  But it’s the kind of success the Confident Kriah Method has created for countless students in dozens of schools.  What is the Confident Kriah Method? How is it so “groundbreaking” and […]

Israeli War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz’s National Unity Party submitted a bill on Thursday to dissolve the Knesset, in an attempt to topple the government led by Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
The proposal to dissolve Israel’s parliament was submitted by National Unity lawmaker MK Pnina Tamano-Shata.
“October 7 is a disaster that obliges us to return and receive the trust of the nation; to establish a broad and stable unity government that can lead us with confidence in the face of major challenges in terms of security, the economy and especially in Israeli society,” said Tamano-Shata.

The Jewish state lacks a plan for the day after the war in Gaza, so Israel faces either an “enduring insurgency on its hands” or a vacuum that “jihadis” who are worse than Hamas will fill, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday.
Speaking alongside Maia Sandu, the Moldovan president, at a press conference in the East European nation’s capital city Chișinău, Blinken fielded several questions about the Jewish state.
The U.S. secretary called recent civilians deaths in Rafah “horrific” and said that Washington awaits what he hopes will be a “deliberate but also fast investigation” by Israel. He noted that the Jewish state has said that it used targeted munitions as it sought to kill Hamas terrorists.

Dov Brodkin began  preparing for a career in medicine even before he started college. He shadowed physicians during his summer breaks in Portland, Oregon, where he grew up to get a jump start on his chosen profession. “It may be cliche, but I’m interested in medicine because it allows me to combine my love of […]