The New York State Senate and Assembly Republican Conferences conducted a press conference this week to call attention to a series of proposed bills dubbed “Hate Has Consequences.”
“Amidst a dramatic rise in antisemitism, and the increase of hateful speech and rhetoric on college campuses here in New York and throughout the nation, it is imperative that the legislature act to protect Jewish New Yorkers,” Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt said on Wednesday.
Potential new laws could stop state funding for colleges that fail to ban pro-terrorist student groups; create new crimes for those wearing masks while committing assaults; and sanction schools that fail to stop professors from supporting terrorist groups.

It happens all the time that we hear about a specific store selling produce from Eretz Yisroel. Most of us stay away from that produce to avoid problems with Trumos and Maasros. Well not anymore! Rabbi Dovid Cohen – Administrative Rabbinical Coordinator at the cRc, walks us through the Mitzvah of separating Trumos and Maasros clearly and concisely.
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Former President Donald Trump urged gun owners to vote in the 2024 election as he addressed thousands of members of the National Rifle Association, which officially endorsed him just before Trump took the stage at their annual meeting in Texas on Saturday. “We’ve got to get gun owners to vote,” Trump said a day after […]

Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s three-member War Cabinet, threatened on Motzei Shabbos to resign from the government if it doesn’t adopt a new plan in three weeks’ time for the war in Gaza. His announcement escalates a divide within Israel’s leadership more than seven months into a war in which it has yet to […]

A divisive mobilization law in Ukraine came into force on Saturday, as Kyiv struggles to boost troop numbers after Russia launched a new offensive that some fear could close in on Ukraine’s second-largest city. The legislation, which was watered down from its original draft, will make it easier to identify every conscript in the country. […]

In Lag BaOmer: The Fire and the Soul, Rabbi Daniel Glatstein reveals the inner meaning of this hallowed day and why it has gained almost supernatural momentum in our times. As a Rav and Mara D’asra, Rabbi Daniel Glatstein is one of the contemporary Jewish world’s most popular speakers. His more than 10,000 recorded shiurim have […]

The Jewish-Iranian man who was slated to be executed by the Islamic Republic on Shabbos was identified as Arvin Netanel Ghahremani, 20. For unknown reasons, his execution was postponed until Monday. Two years ago, when Arvin was 18, he lent money to an Iranian man. When he asked for the money back, the man attacked […]

Agudath Israel of America has been monitoring and speaking to various stakeholders regarding the serious situation of the young Jewish man in Iran who has been sentenced to execution.
The execution was initially scheduled for Shabbos (tomorrow) but has reportedly been delayed to Monday.
We ask the community to have in mind Arvin Netanel ben Sonia Tziyona for rachamei Shamayim.
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Barron Trump, son of Donald and Melania Trump and the former first son, towered over officials at his South Florida high school Friday morning while he picked up his diploma, with both his parents proudly looking on from the bleachers.
Former President Trump, looked every bit the proud papa — grinning alongside wife Melania at the graduation ceremony for Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump was permitted to attend the ceremony by Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Juan Merchan. The judge called off the day’s planned court proceedings in the “hush money” trial of the former president.
Later on Friday, Trump was scheduled to fly to Minnesota to be the headline speaker at the state GOP’s Lincoln-Reagan dinner.