Mexico City – Tomato exporter Sergio Esquer Peiro spent much of Friday in hastily called meetings with other stunned growers, trying to evaluate the potential fallout of U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to slap coercive tariffs on all imports from Mexico. The sudden announcement caught observers on both sides of the border by surprise and [...]

Washington – The Pentagon has told the White House to stop politicizing the military, amid a furor over a Trump administration order to have the Navy ship named for the late Sen. John McCain hidden from view during a presidential visit. A defense official said Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan is also considering sending out [...]

Some may read this as the story of Chortkov. In truth, this is the story of Klal Yisroel. 191 years ago this Shevuos, the first Chortkover Rebbe, Rabbi Duvid Moshe Friedman, was born in Galicia. His father, the Heiliker Ruzhiner, exclaimed that he was “kodshei Kodshim” and that people would consult him in the same [...]

Fort Lauderdale, FL – A Jordanian-American is suing a Florida hotel after he says he and his fiancée were kicked out because he is of Arab descent. The Miami Herald reports that Rami Ziyadat of Chicago filed suit against The Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach. Ziyadat in his lawsuit says that on May 24 a hotel [...]

Washington – A top White House official said Sunday that President Donald Trump is “deadly serious” about slapping tariffs on imports from Mexico but acknowledged there are no concrete benchmarks being set to assess whether the U.S. ally was stemming the flow of migrants enough to satisfy the administration. “We intentionally left the declaration sort [...]

Brooklyn, NY – A well known and respected voice in the world of at risk behavior is calling for a drastic change to the religious education system, observing that the one-size-fits-all approach taken by many yeshivos is failing a substantial number of students. In an 18 minute video, Avi Fishoff of TWiSTED PARENTiNG noted that [...]

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Dubai – The U.S. military says a B-52 bomber and an aircraft carrier dispatched to the Mideast over a perceived threat from Iran have conducted a joint exercise together in the Arabian Sea. The Air Force said in a statement Sunday that the exercise saw F/A-18 Super Hornets, MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters and E-2D Growlers [...]

Jerusalem – Thousands of Yeshiva students from all over the country arrived for a festive prayer at the Western Wall plaza to mark Jerusalem Day on Sunday. The Chief Rabbi of Israel, David Lau, and the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Aryeh Stern, participated in the prayer. Jerusalem Day marks Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six [...]

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