JTA reports that Michelle Farber and other women have, for the past 7 1/2 years, studied a page of Gemara a day with a small group of women at her home in the Tel Aviv suburb of Raanana. Some 250 more listen to the class online.
On January  5, Farber – who uses the title “rabbanit” – is holding the first large-scale Daf Yomi Siyum Hashas for women at the Binyanei Ha’Uma convention center in Yerushalayim.
Women generally do not study Gemara.
Gedolei Torah have not supported the study of Gemara by women.
But Farber – a Long Island, New York, native – and other rogue women are doing their own thing, a project of Hadran, an organization founded by Farber ostensibly to “encourage women’s Talmud study,” JTA reports.

The White House Chanuka party Wednesday night will feature a first for America’s chassidishe community — it will mark the first time a chassid will light the menorah at the annual event, Yochonon Donn reports for Boro Park 24.
Mr. Moshe Margareten, who first conceived the idea of prison reform which culminated in President Donald Trump signing the bill into law last year, will be honored with the kindling, although it will be without a bracha, because the White House is hosting the Chanukah party two weeks early due to the year-end vacation season.

The mayor of Jersey City, N.J. said early Wednesday that gunmen likely targeted the kosher market where a deadly shooting occurred on Tuesday.
“After extensive review of our CCTV system it has now become clear from the cameras that these two individuals targeted the Kosher grocery location,” Mayor Steven Fulop tweeted.
He did not elaborate as to why he believed the JC Kosher Supermarket was targeted.
The police shootout with two men armed with high-powered rifles erupted after midday on Tuesday in Jersey City, New Jersey‘s second-largest municipality directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan. The six dead included three civilians, one police officer and both gunmen, authorities said.

The police-detective son of former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik helped fatally shoot the cop-killing suspects in Tuesday’s Jersey City rampage, the NY Post reports.
Joseph Kerik, a Newark, NJ, officer and member of a federal task force, was among the officers who rolled down a street in the New Jersey city’s Greenville neighborhood in an armored truck as bullets flew, a well-placed source said.

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A Queens man is under arrest for an apparent anti-Semitic incident that took place at the Five Towns Costco. Nassau County Police said Justin Pichizaca, 20, threatened two men and an 11-year-old with violence and yelled slurs at them based on their religion.
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President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Wednesday that defines the Jewish people as a nationality for purposes of federal civil rights law, an effort to step up enforcement against episodes of anti-Semitism on college campuses, two administration officials said.
Defining Jewish people as an ethnic group and not just a religious one allows the government to consider discrimination against the group as a violation of a key civil rights law. That means schools could lose federal funding if they fail to combat discrimination against Jewish students.
Trump’s plan to sign the order was first reported by the New York Times.

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President Donald Trump has paid $2 million in court-ordered damages for misusing funds in a tax-exempt charity he controlled, the New York Attorney General said Tuesday.
The payment was ordered last month by a New York state judge, in an extraordinary rebuke to a sitting president. Trump had been sued in 2018 by the New York Attorney General, who alleged that Trump had illegally used funds from the Donald J. Trump Foundation to buy portraits of himself, pay off his businesses’ legal obligations, and help his 2016 campaign.