A new analysis released Thursday by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) claims that federal regulations under the Biden administration cost Americans a staggering $2.16 trillion in 2024, effectively saddling households with what the think tank calls a “hidden regulatory tax” of over $16,000.
In its annual report, Ten Thousand Commandments, CEI concluded that these regulatory burdens equate to $16,016 per household. The study estimated that such costs consume roughly 16% of the average household’s income and make up 21% of overall household expenditures.

During a visit that the Rebbe of Toldos Aharon paid to the home of the senior posek, Rav Moshe Sternbuch, in the Har Nof neighborhood of Yerushalayim, the meeting quickly turned into a weighty and emotional discussion on the looming threat of the Israeli military draft of bnei yeshivah.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump said in an interview published on Friday that “Crimea

Finding Time for Real Torah Learning Is Hard. Finding Time for Deep Halachic Mastery? Even Harder. It’s a challenge that many thoughtful bnei Torah quietly struggle with. You miss learning. Not just a quick podcast or a fast-paced shiur — but deep, thoughtful learning.The kind that gives you meaning. That fills you with satisfaction. That makes you feel connected — to Torah, to halacha, to yourself. Learning that brings Torah back to being a central part of your life. You want to learn halacha seriously — not just the bottom line, but the background. You want to understand the why, not just the what. You want to feel confident when a shaila comes up at home. But summary books feel too superficial. The information doesn’t stick. You try to learn, but it feels scattered. Disconnected.

During an appearance on NewsNation’s Cuomo Thursday night, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) offered insight into why Congress has failed to reach an agreement on border security legislation. According to Smith, one of the major sticking points is the belief among many Democrats that millions of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. deserve a chance to remain.

In a notable political development, the Palestine Liberation Organization on Thursday introduced a new leadership position beneath its aging leader Mahmoud Abbas, who at 89 has yet to name an heir.
The PLO Central Council approved the creation of a vice president role, a move seen as part of Abbas’s effort to maintain influence and carve out a leadership stake in future governance of Gaza. The Palestinian Authority has been largely excluded from current developments as the war between Israel and Hamas continues.

In a major win for Israel, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court on Thursday unanimously ruled to reconsider an Israeli challenge against the court’s jurisdiction to try Israeli citizens for war crimes. The judges wrote in their decision that the pretrial panel “committed an error of law by failing to sufficiently address Israel’s argument that it was entitled to make a jurisdictional challenge” under the court’s founding treaty, the Rome Statute.

The mayor of Amsterdam apologized Thursday for the role the Dutch capital played in the persecution of its Jewish citizens during World War II, saying the government at the time “let its Jewish residents down terribly.” Speaking at an event marking Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, Mayor Femke Halsema said that civil servants in Amsterdam played an active role in the murder of some thousands of Jewish citizens of the city. Three-quarters of Dutch Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, a much higher percentage than in other Western European countries such as Belgium and France. Of the estimated 80,000 Jews who lived in Amsterdam at the outbreak of World War II, only some 20,000 survived, the highest number of victims in Western Europe.

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