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San Francisco Reparations to Cost $100 Billion

Photo Caption: The state of California and the cities of Boston and San Francisco are among jurisdictions trying to atone not just for chattel slavery

San Francisco’s proposed reparations plan could cost the city over $100 billion, the New York Times reports. The plan, backed by San Francisco supervisors in March, would dole out $5 million to each Black resident, eliminate all personal debt, guarantee annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years and homes for Black residents for […]

San Francisco Reparations to Cost $100 Billion

Photo Caption: The state of California and the cities of Boston and San Francisco are among jurisdictions trying to atone not just for chattel slavery

San Francisco's proposed reparations plan could cost the city over $100 billion, the New York Times reports. The plan, backed by San Francisco supervisors in March, would dole out $5 million to each Black resident, eliminate all personal debt, guarantee annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years and homes for Black residents for […]

Postal Thefts Surge in 2023

Photo Caption: The U.S. Postal Service reports that postal thefts dramatically rose in the first half of this fiscal year

The U.S. Postal Service reports that postal thefts dramatically rose in the first half of this fiscal year, including an increase in “high volume” mail thefts, The Washington Post reports. Statistics from the Postal Service show that 305 thefts from letter carriers were reported in the first six months of fiscal year 2023. In fiscal […]

Postal Thefts Surge in 2023

Photo Caption: The U.S. Postal Service reports that postal thefts dramatically rose in the first half of this fiscal year

The U.S. Postal Service reports that postal thefts dramatically rose in the first half of this fiscal year, including an increase in “high volume” mail thefts, The Washington Post reports. Statistics from the Postal Service show that 305 thefts from letter carriers were reported in the first six months of fiscal year 2023. In fiscal […]

Budget Disagreements Threaten To Topple Israel's Coalition

Photo Caption: Housing Minister Goldknopf says he will resign position

The United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party is demanding that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu transfer 627 million NIS which were promised in the coalition agreement, and warning that its patience is wearing thin. If the disagreements are not solved by Sunday, the party warned, Construction and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf will resign his position in the government […]

Budget Disagreements Threaten To Topple Israel's Coalition

Photo Caption: Housing Minister Goldknopf says he will resign position

The United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party is demanding that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu transfer 627 million NIS which were promised in the coalition agreement, and warning that its patience is wearing thin. If the disagreements are not solved by Sunday, the party warned, Construction and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf will resign his position in the government […]

IDF Commander Signs Order Allowing Jews To Visit Destroyed Town in Shomron

Photo Caption: Two months after bill passes in the Knesset

Yehuda Fuchs, Commander of the IDF's Central Command, signed an order allowing Israelis to visit the site of the destroyed town of Homesh in northern Samaria. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism) praised the move, saying, “We promised to recognize the continuation of Torah study in the Yeshiva in Homesh and we are keeping it.” […]

IDF Commander Signs Order Allowing Jews To Visit Destroyed Town in Shomron

Photo Caption: Two months after bill passes in the Knesset

Yehuda Fuchs, Commander of the IDF’s Central Command, signed an order allowing Israelis to visit the site of the destroyed town of Homesh in northern Samaria. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism) praised the move, saying, “We promised to recognize the continuation of Torah study in the Yeshiva in Homesh and we are keeping it.” […]

Parshas Bamidbar – In The Middle Of It All

Photo Caption: Reb Eliezer Bulka

In the beginning of this week’s parsha, at the beginning of the second month of the second year since yetzias Mitzrayim, B’nei Yisrael are split into their respective camps. These formations were a way of organizing the travel and resting throughout the sojourn in the midbar. Why then, asks R’ Yaakov Kamenetsky, in Emes l’Yaakov, did it take an […]

Parshas Bamidbar – In The Middle Of It All

Photo Caption: Reb Eliezer Bulka

In the beginning of this week's parsha, at the beginning of the second month of the second year since yetzias Mitzrayim, B'nei Yisrael are split into their respective camps. These formations were a way of organizing the travel and resting throughout the sojourn in the midbar. Why then, asks R' Yaakov Kamenetsky, in Emes l'Yaakov, did it take an […]

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