The Trump administration announced on Monday that it would carry out a “comprehensive review” of $9 billion in federal grants and contracts at Harvard University over the school’s failure to protect Jewish students.
As part of the joint task force to combat antisemitism, the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, and the U.S. General Services Administration, said they would audit “more than $255.6 million in contracts between Harvard University, its affiliates and the federal government,” as well as “more than $8.7 billion in multi-year grant commitments.”

I saw in the YWN Live Blog that a man whose daughter was getting married tonight was spotted wearing a sweatshirt that, instead of saying “Father of the Bride,” read “American Express of the Bride – Expires 3/31/25.” Cute? Sure. Funny? Absolutely. But behind the humor lies a serious problem that’s spiraling out of control. Parents, hear me out—because what starts as a joke is turning into a financial disaster for an entire generation. Let’s talk about the disaster unfolding in too many homes today: parents handing their newly married kids a credit card like it’s some kind of chesed trophy, only to watch them spend like drunken sailors on shore leave. No restraint, no sense, no chinuch—just a free-for-all with Mommy and Daddy’s plastic.

Ali Larijani, a senior advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a stark warning on Monday, stating that any military aggression by the United States or Israel could push Iran to pursue nuclear weapons.
Although Larijani noted that Iran currently abides by a fatwa—a religious ruling issued by Khamenei—forbidding the use of nuclear arms, he cautioned that external attacks could change the situation dramatically. “If the US or Israel make a mistake and bomb Iran, it would force Iran to develop them due to public pressure,” he said.
Larijani also advised Washington to reconsider its stance, urging the U.S. government to “choose a different course rather than hostility.”

Just after sunrise on Saturday, a satellite set its long-range camera on the city of Mandalay in Myanmar, not far from the epicenter of Friday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake that devastated the Southeast Asian country’s second-largest city. The mission was to capture images that, combined with artificial intelligence technology, could help relief organizations quickly assess how many buildings had collapsed or were heavily damaged and where helpers most needed to go. At first, the high-tech computer vision approach wasn’t working. “The biggest challenge in this particular case was the clouds,” said Microsoft’s chief data scientist, Juan Lavista Ferres.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is turning his attention to the mystery of Congressional wealth, vowing to investigate how lawmakers have accumulated millions of dollars despite their relatively modest public salaries. Speaking at a town hall in Wisconsin on Sunday night, Musk said that his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will follow the money to uncover how certain members of Congress have achieved generational fortunes while serving in public office. Responding to a question about whether USAID funds had been wired to Rep. Maxine Waters, Sen. Adam Schiff, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Musk outlined his theory.

NASA’s celebrity astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Monday that they hold themselves partly responsible for what went wrong on their space sprint-turned-marathon and would fly on Boeing’s Starliner again. SpaceX recently ferried the duo home after more than nine months at the International Space Station, filling in for Boeing that returned to Earth without them last year. In their first news conference since coming home, the pair said they were taken aback by all the interest and insisted they were only doing their job and putting the mission ahead of themselves and even their families. Wilmore didn’t shy from accepting some of the blame for Boeing’s bungled test flight. “I’ll start and point the finger and I’ll blame me.

Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, accompanied by his gabbai Rabbi Mordechai Tzion, made a special visit on Monday to Israeli reservists stationed at Tel Kudna in Syria to give them chizzuk. “The goal of the visit was to strengthen the morale of our holy soldiers,” Rabbi Tzion told Arutz Sheva-Israel National News. During the visit, Rabbi Aviner addressed the soldiers, offering both inspiration and historical perspective on the land where they were stationed. He noted that from a Torah perspective, it is not entirely clear whether Tel Kudna is considered part of Syria or the land of Eretz Yisroel, but suggested that it is likely the latter.

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rav Yitzchok Isaac Prag zt”l, who Rosh Yeshiva of Mercaz HaTorah in Yerushalayim for more than three decades and as the rov of the Izby Shul in the Mattersdorf neighborhood. He was 92 years old and had just returned from his granddaughter’s wedding in Yerushalayim when he was niftar.
A true Yerushalmi and a scion of a distinguished rabbinic dynasty, Rav Prag descended from generations of towering Torah personalities, including Rav Moshe Nachum Wallenstein, Av Beis Din of Yerushalayim, the Nesivos, Rav Yaakov M’Lisa Loberbaum, the Chacham Tzvi, and the Shaar Efraim.