On Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took part in a special first-night Chanukah candle-lighting ceremony alongside Chabad emissaries and rabbis in his presidential bunker. The event, which was organized by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine (FJCU), upheld its long-standing tradition, despite the heightened security measures in place due to ongoing conflict. The FJCU oversees Jewish life across 169 communities throughout Ukraine.

A taxi driver who may have experienced a medical emergency drove into several pedestrians, including a 9-year-old boy, in Herald Square on Wednesday afternoon, according to law enforcement and witnesses.
The incident occurred outside Macy’s, located at 34th Street and 6th Avenue, shortly after 4 pm, authorities reported.
A total of six individuals were hurt, with two of them being transported to Weill Cornell Medical Center. The young boy was rushed to Bellevue Hospital.

All of the victims sustained injuries that were not life-threatening, sources confirmed.
Three additional people received treatment at the scene of the accident.
Authorities are still investigating the crash, though it appears to have been unintentional.

Rav Moshe Weinberger is a Mashpia at Yeshiva University and is the founding mara d’asra of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, NY. He related the following story.
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Disturbing new video has surfaced showing the moment a plane from Azerbaijan crashed today in Kazakhstan, with additional footage revealing the horrific aftermath as the injured emerged from the wreckage.

O’Leary Ventures Chairman Kevin O’Leary on the future of control of the Panama Canal, potential China tariffs and a trade showdown.
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., shares his annual ‘Festivus’ report spotlighting wasteful government spending on ‘Fox & Friends.’
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A NASA spacecraft has made a lightning-fast pass through the sun’s outer atmosphere.
The Parker Solar Probe, protected by a powerful heat shield, ventured closer to the sun than any spacecraft before it, coming within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface—seven times closer than any other probe has managed. This mission aims to explore the sun’s corona, the outermost part of its atmosphere, which plays a significant role in generating solar storms and weather patterns that can affect Earth.
In order to gain insights into the sun’s behavior, a spacecraft had to venture where none had gone before.

The IDF’s investigation into the tragic killing of six hostages—Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, and MSG Ori Danino—was finalized by Chief of the General Staff LTG Herzi Halevi and shared with the families of the victims on Tuesday. This probe was carried out by various divisions, including the Southern Command, the Hostages and Missing Persons Headquarters, the 162nd Division, and Shayetet 13. The goal was to assess the IDF’s actions during the battle to eliminate Hamas’s Tel al-Sultan Battalion and examine the circumstances that led to the brutal deaths of the six hostages by Hamas militants.

OutKick founder Clay Travis joined ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s new criticism of Elon Musk and his political influence as he pledges to cut the $2 trillion from the federal budget.
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