In a powerful Shabbos HaGadol drasha to hundreds of his followers in Elad, the noted Chassidishe rov, Rav Naftali Glanz, turned his focus to a growing and deeply troubling phenomenon within the Torah world: what he calls counterfeit kannaus, or zealotry. Rav Glanz, known for his work in shalom bayis and guiding families with children who have strayed from the derech, did not mince words as he decried the violent actions and misguided fervor displayed by some members of the community.

A day at Uranus just got a little longer. Scientists reported Monday that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed it takes Uranus 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a full rotation. That’s 28 seconds longer than estimates by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in the 1980s. A French-led team studied a decade’s worth of aurora observations at the ice giant to track its magnetic poles. That long-term tracking provided a more precise rotation period for Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. From that distance, it takes about 84 Earth years for Uranus to orbit the sun. “The continuous observations from Hubble were crucial,” lead author Laurent Lamy of the Paris Observatory said in a statement.

WATCH: This is the scene inside the Whitehouse Press Room as Israeli reporters are reporting on the Trump Netanyahu meeting.

Interior Committee chairman MK Yakov Asher of United Torah Judaism gave an interview to the Israeli Yated, addressing the escalating Draft Law crisis and what it could mean for both the chareidi community and the governing coalition.
Opening the discussion, Asher spoke of the comfort and assurance he receives from the guidance of gedolei Torah.
“Every time I visit the homes of Israel’s gedolei Torah, may they live long, there is not just the knowledge but the feeling that there is someone who takes responsibility for what happens, and that Israel is not widowed,” he shared.
Touching on the tension with the Religious Zionist party, Asher clarified the nature of their alliance.

AD MEAH V’… Marcelino “Mashico” Abad Tolentino — who is just 4’3″ tall — is believed to be the world’s oldest person after he turned 125 on Saturday. Tolentino’s government-issued photo ID lists his year of birth as 1900, though the Guinness Book of World Records says they have not received an application to confirm him as the world’s oldest person.  

CENTCOM releases footage of soldiers arming aircraft aboard USS Harry S. Truman for operations against Iran-backed Houthis.

Dozens of reporters await entry into the Netanyahu-Trump meeting at the White House.

LONDON (AP) — There a stink rising over the Unit