It’s been 20 hours since the horrific moment when two gunmen opened fire on a Kosher grocery in Jersey City, which left three civilians and a police officer dead. The Jersey City Mayor on Monday night tweeted that the store was “targeted”. On Wednesday morning, Mayor Steven Fulop doubled down on his claim and tweeted: “Last night after extensive review of our CCTV system it has now become clear from the cameras that these two individuals targeted the Kosher grocery location on MLK Dr – the 2 JCPD officers that were on a foot post one block away immediately responded/engaged and prevented the perpetrators from leaving that location and harming any further civilians.

Facebook is rebuffing efforts by U.S. Attorney General William Barr to give authorities a way to read encrypted messages. The heads of Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Messenger services told Barr and his U.K. and Australian counterparts that Facebook is moving forward with plans to enable end-to-end encryption on all of its messaging services. End-to-end encryption locks up messages so that not even Facebook can read their contents. WhatsApp already uses end-to-end encryption. Facebook plans to extend that protection to Messenger and Instagram Direct. Barr and other officials had asked the company in October to hold off. In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, they insisted that precluding access by law enforcement could hinder efforts to prevent or investigate crimes.

Making a true Kiddush Hashem, a Bat Yam taxi driver, Moshe Barkat, known locally as ‘Barkat’, drove an elderly non-Jewish woman to Ichilov Hospital and later realized she forgot her bag – a bag containing a large sum of cash. Barkat drove the elderly woman along with a young couple to Ichilov from Tel Aviv. […]

During his weekly shiur, Harav Meir Mazuz, Rosh Yeshivas Kisei Rachamim, expressed his pain on the recent chillul Shabbos [involving public transportation being provided on Shabbos] and praised the mayor of Herzliya, Moshe Fadlon, who refused to let buses enter his city on Shabbos, a “Charedim 10” report said. “We have one tzaddik in S’dom […]

For the House progressives: a pair of impeachment articles against President Donald Trump. For the vulnerable Democratic freshmen: charges that are narrowly focused on Ukraine. And for the whole House Democratic majority — and, however backhandedly, Trump himself: a sweeping new trade deal. In the span of 90 minutes Tuesday, Pelosi unveiled historic legislation in […]

Jerusalem Chief Sephardi Rabbi HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Moshe Amar Shlita participated in an interfaith religious conference held in Bahrain. The former Rishon L’Tzion, who arrived under heavy security, spoke to religious leaders and criticized the Jewish community. Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa hosted the interfaith conference, which brought many clerics from all over […]

The Pentagon on Tuesday ordered a broad review of vetting procedures for international students who participate in training on U.S. military installations and demanded the process be strengthened, in direct reaction to last week’s deadly shooting at a Pensacola Navy base by a Saudi aviation student. The memo signed by Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist […]

Everywhere you go, people are gearing up for The Siyum. It’s on our minds, the topic of our conversations, and in our newsfeeds. Ok, maybe it’s in our newsfeeds a little too much, sorry. What will the weather be like? Who cares about the weather? Who will be speaking? Who will be singing? I can’t […]

An Israeli man, Yogev Borstein, was beaten unconscious on the Patris metro on Monday evening after he was heard speaking Hebrew on his phone. Borstein, a 31-year-old exchange student, boarded a crowded metro train at 6.55 a.m. on Monday morning at the Château d’Eau station as he was leaving a Whatsapp message for his father […]