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Miami Jews, Christians Protest Target’s Pride Merchandise For Children

By: Sergio Carmona

By Sergio Carmona MIAMI — Crowds of some 30 Jews and Christians gathered across the street from a Target store in Midtown Miami on June 1 to protest the retail corporation’s LGBTQIA+ Pride merchandise for children. There were also counter protesters and a police presence outside the Target store in Southern...

Wildfire Smoke Shrouds NYC And Northeast, Turning Skies Orange

By: Safia Azizi

By Safia Azizi New York was covered in a dense, smoky haze as hundreds of wildfires burned in northern Quebec, leading to air quality warnings in Canada and the U.S. Videos show the Manhattan skyline obscured by smoke, with the George Washington Bridge and Keuka Lake, shrouded in orange smog....

Teenage Girl’s Vape Started Fire That Burned Down Her Family Home

By: Eleanor Wood Bowyer

By Eleanor Wood Bowyer A guilt-stricken teen was forced to confess she’d been vaping after a vape she’d thrown away set the house ablaze – and left the family homeless. Mom Heidi Johnson was downstairs with her four-year-old son and a friend when the smoke alarms began to go off...

Israeli Injured In Huwara Car-ramming Attack

By: JNS Reporter

By JNS Reporter An Israeli man was lightly injured on Sunday evening in a car-ramming attack in the Palestinian-controlled village of Huwara, located near Nablus in Samaria.  The Israel Defense Forces launched a manhunt for the terrorist, who fled the scene in his vehicle. The victim was evacuated in stable...

Israel TV Host Sparks Backlash After Calling Haredim ‘bloodsuckers’

By: Lennox Kalifungwa

By Lennox Kalifungwa TV host Galit Gutman was forced to apologize after making a harsh statement against Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews during a Channel 12 morning show on Friday. “I would like to apologize from the bottom of my heart if I offended an entire sector,” Gutman wrote on her Instagram...

Jerusalem Is Set To Become Israel’s First City Of A Million People

By: JNS Reporter

By JNS Reporter Jerusalem is on track to become Israel’s first city with more than one million residents, according to data published ahead of Thursday’s celebrations marking 56 years of the reunification of the capital following the Six Days War.  The Central Bureau of Statistics report published on Wednesday shows...

Little League Umpire Rescues Player From A Mini-Tornado

By: Allison Finch

By Allison Finch A scary scene unfolded at a Little League baseball game over the past weekend in Jacksonville, Florida, when a dust devil appeared out of thin air and engulfed a 7-year-old catcher in its spiraling vortex. Within seconds, a quick-thinking umpire jumped into action to rescue the boy....

New Book Considers Forgotten Black Soldiers In South Africa’s Wars

By: Joseph Hammond

By Joseph Hammond The Cold War in Southern Africa produced some odd bed fellows. At one point during the Angolan Civil some 2,000 Cuban soldiers were assigned to defend the operations of an American oil company. The irony of Communist internationalists defending an American oil company whose revenues were providing for...

A Mother Walks Away From A Regular Job To Making A Six Figure Income

By: Bibhu Pattnaik

By Bibhu Pattnaik Anyone going from a regular nine to five job to self-employment is always a boom or bust when leaving a stable job. Earning passive income from a side hustle is a great way to boost your personal finances. Passive income refers to money earned without requiring continuous...

After Six Years, Israel Razes Illegal PA Structure At Ancient Jewish Site

By: David Isaac

By David Isaac Israel’s Civil Administration demolished a Palestinian Authority school on Sunday morning that had been built illegally in Herodian National Park, an ancient Jewish fortress and town located about 7.5 miles south of Jerusalem.  Ne’eman to head Yesha Council pledges to work for West Bank sovereignty – Image...