U.S. Presidential Candidates Exchange Insults At Debate Without The Frontrunner
Former President Donald Trump continues to skip the primary debates, opting to meet auto industry workers in the highly contended state of Michigan Republican U.S. presidential candidates sparred at the second GOP primary debate on Wednesday night, all of whom slammed frontrunner and former president, Donald Trump, for another no-show. “You’re ducking these things, and […]
Netanyahu: Israel To Become Number Three Country In AI
Israel is creating a national plan to tackle the benefits and dangers posed by artificial intelligence, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “For several months now I have been formulating a national plan,” Netanyahu told the government at its weekly meeting on Wednesday. “Soon I will appoint a project manager on the subject and I will also submit […]
Judge Orders Shabbat Busses In Yerushalayim Discontinued
Jerusalem District Court Judge Aryeh Romanov has accepted the petition submitted about two weeks ago by the Me’uchadim municipal party led by Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Aryeh King against the system of free shuttles on Shabbat operated by the city’s Hitorerut party. The judge ordered an immediate end to the operation of the shuttles and […]
Daily Dvar Halacha – Sept. 28 /13 Tishrei – Sleeping in the Sukka. Rain situations (Video)
Watch: Rabbi Yonah Sklare Sukkos: Clouds of Glory and Finding Hashem in the Haziness of Life (Video)
Stop-Gap Measure Advances In The Senate As Government Shutdown Looms
A partial government shutdown is days away as lawmakers remain divided over how to manage out of control spending in Washington. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, (R) Tennessee, joined The National Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat to break it down. “There are some measures that we would want to see that are not included. What we need to realize […]
House Republicans To Hold First Biden Impeachment Hearing, Formally Make A Case
Republicans have insisted for months that they have the grounds to launch impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden. On Thursday, they will begin formally making their case to the public and their skeptical colleagues in the Senate. The chairmen of Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means will hold the opening hearing of their impeachment inquiry by reviewing the constitutional […]
Israel, Germany Sign Historic Agreement On Sale Of Arrow-3 System
Today (Thursday) the Ministries of Defense of Israel and Germany signed a historic agreement for the delivery of the “Arrow-3” system to Germany – an agreement that amounts to $3.5 billion – the greatest to date. On this occasion, a celebratory ceremony was held at the German Ministry of Defense in Berlin, hosted by Minister […]
Israel's Food Coupon Program Again Discriminates Against Non-Citizen Residents
In April 2021, then-Interior Minister Aryeh Deri initiated a program in which valuable coupons for food and other goods in supermarkets were distributed to underprivileged residents of Israel. Any resident receiving a discount on arnona (property tax) was automatically eligible for this program. At the time, Chaim V’Chessed reported that non-citizens who were residents of Israel and […]
Senate Unanimously Passes Resolution To Reinstate Formal Dress Code
The Senate unanimously passed a resolution late Wednesday formalizing business attire as the proper dress code while on the floor of the chamber following bipartisan backlash, after Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., quietly relaxed dress requirements last week that allowed Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., to continue to wear hooded sweatshirts and gym shorts. The bipartisan bill by Sen. […]
