WASHINGTON (AP) – Rep. Ilhan Omar has officially divorced from her husband in Minnesota, just a month after she filed a petition saying there was an “irretrievable breakdown” in their marriage. Omar and Ahmed Hirsi had been married since January 2018 but were longtime partners. Omar says Hirsi is the father of her three children. […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the country’s police commissioner to investigate a murder threat against him on social media, police arrested a suspect. The Israel Police’s Lahav 433 cyber unit launched an investigation on Monday after this Facebook post: “Israel Police, prepare to direct traffic for the funerals […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — House investigators Tuesday asked President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff to appear before the impeachment inquiry , reaching to the highest levels of the White House as they prepare to release more transcripts from the closed-door proceedings. Investigators say Mick Mulvaney’s news conference last month amounted to “nothing less than a […]

NEW YORK (VosIzNeias) — NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill submitted his resignation on Monday with a smile. Publicly he stated that he was moving on to accept a position in public sector that he couldn’t pass off. Privately he wore a different face. According to a report by the New York Post Commissioner O’Neill fumed while […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. health officials say millions of cases of heart disease and other illnesses are linked to physical and psychological harm suffered early in life. In a report released Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at child abuse, divorce and other potentially traumatic events that happen to kids. The study […]

MONTANA (JTA) — White supremacist Richard Spencer rails against Jews and blacks in an expletive-laden audio that was leaked online. The 2017 recording of Spencer, who is credited with coining the term “alt-right” and has tried to put a more palatable face on white nationalism, was first uploaded on Saturday by fellow alt-right leader Milo […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A transit supervisor is being hailed as a hero after pulling a man off train tracks when he fell from a crowded platform following an Oakland Raiders football game. The rescue happened moments before a speeding train entered the station. The Bay Area Rapid Transit released surveillance video showing supervisor John […]

TEL AVIV (VosIzNeias) — A Belgian Jewish businessman who used his company’s airplanes to secretly transport thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel has passed away. He was 81 years old. The story of Georges Gutelman began in 1938 when he was born to Polish immigrant parents. He survived WWII by being hidden with a Catholic […]

CAIRO (AP) – Egypt’s president has lavished praise on President Donald Trump on social media, calling him a “man with unique power to confront crises.” Abdel-Fatah el-Sisi’s comments are the latest public example of the two leaders’ closeness. El-Sissi thanked Trump late Monday for his “generous concern” for helping revive Egypt’s deadlocked dispute with Ethiopia […]

Many people are so quick to put on their Tefillin and start davening, that they may not be wearing Tefillin at all! Every Yid must wear tefillin every weekday while saying Kriyas Shma and Shmone Esre. And the Halacha is, that if the Tefillin Shel Rosh are in the wrong spot, it’s as though you […]