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Applied to Jewish life, this model illuminates the Mamdani divide. The younger, Park Slope cohort embodies the individualizing moral style. Their Judaism is ethical universalism — a faith of empathy, repair, and inclusion. To them, Jewish history teaches solidarity with the marginalized, not tribal defense. Their political commitments — tenant rights, climate action, anti-racism, and Palestinian solidarity — feel like moral extensions of their Jewish conscience. Supporting Mamdani, in this light, is not an act of betrayal but an act of consistency. The Upper East Side cohort, by contrast, lives in the binding moral register. Their Judaism centers on loyalty...

Minn. Somali-run day care bizarrely reports all their important documents about child care were stolen in mysterious break-in A Somali-run day care in Minneapolis is claiming somebody broke in stole “important documents” as the national spotlight shines on the unfolding billion-dollar fraud scandal involving Minnesota human services. Nasrulah Mohamed, manager of Nakomis Day Care Center, told reporters that a suspect entered through the kitchen at the rear of the facility, damaging a wall and breaking into the building’s office sometime on Tuesday. He said the alleged prowler stole “important documentation” including children’s enrollment information, employee documentation and checkbooks.

By Dr. John BergsmaJanuary 1 is the Solemnity (Holy Day) of Mary, Mother of God. To call Mary the “Mother of God” must not be understood as a claim for Mary’s motherhood of divinity itself, but in the sense that Mary was mother of Jesus, who is truly God. The Council of Ephesus in 431—long before the schisms with the Eastern churches and other non-Catholic Christians—proclaimed “Mother of God” a theologically correct title for Mary. So far from being a cause of division, the common confession of Mary as “Mother of God” should unite all Christians, and distinguish Christian orthodoxy...

A common leftist canard, promoted by activists, foundations, Democrat politicians, Catholic bishops, Episcopalian bishops, and other open-borders advocates, holds that illegal aliens commit way fewer crimes than ordinary Americans.It's sugar-coated garbage, and not just because we look around and confront the evidence of our own eyes, or consider the incentive an open border offers to criminals who can't get into the states otherwise.Writing at the New York Post, John Lott has come up with a doozy of a report showing how data are skewed to conceal the fact that illegals commit at least three times the crime of ordinary Americans...

COBOL turned 66 this year and is still in use today. Major retail and commercial banks continue to run core account processing, ATM networks, credit card clearing, and batch end-of-day settlement. On top of that, many payment networks, stock exchanges, and clearinghouses rely on COBOL for high‑volume, high‑reliability batch and online transaction processing on mainframes. Which reminds me, mainframes are still alive and well too. Banking, insurance, governments, inventory management – all the same places you'll find COBOL, you'll find mainframes as well.None of that is as sexy as the latest AI program or the newest cloud-native computing release, but...

Move over, Tim Walz, because Joe Biden looks to be giving you a run for your money when it comes to fraud. In the final year of the Biden administration, federal officials sprayed billions of taxpayer dollars meant to keep struggling families in their homes around the country like confetti, sending a shocking slice of that money to dead people, ineligible non-citizens, and tenants collecting more than the law allows. “A US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report found more than $5 billion in taxpayer funds went to ‘questionable’ rental assistance recipients during the final year of the...

Tampa, Florida, is not simply experiencing immigration. It is being actively marketed abroad as an Islamic settlement hub, and newly uncovered Arabic-language footage shows exactly how.In promotional videos circulated to Arab and Muslim audiences overseas, Tampa is presented not as an American city to integrate into, but as a destination where incoming families can immediately plug into a fully Islamic parallel infrastructure—mosques, schools, markets, healthcare navigation, and social services—without meaningful interaction with broader American civic life.The footage is covert by design. Delivered entirely in Arabic and aimed at foreign audiences, it operates outside public scrutiny while providing step-by-step instruction on...

Ben Shapiro’s war on Tucker Carlson risks turning conservatism inward—smearing populist concerns as extremism instead of confronting the economic failures driving millions to revolt.Just as a “country without borders is not a country,” so it is that “the conservative movement also requires borders.” This was the general message delivered by conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro in a December 17 speech at the Heritage Foundation and again the next day in a speech at Turning Point USA’s Amerifest conference.Shapiro’s other main point was more specific: Conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson is no conservative and must forthwith be expelled from the conservative...

A woman was seen running along the street covered in blood amid a crowbar rampage in a hospital waiting room that left five people injured. A 20-year-old Afghan man allegedly launched the attack after he was refused an appointment, and was arrested at the scene at Newton Community Hospital in Newton-Le-Willows, Merseyside. The 'shaking' woman reportedly ran from the hospital into a local shop just after midday and begged staff to summon police. Sugedaran Shanmugaraja, who was working at Best One, opposite the hospital, told the Liverpool Echo: 'She had a lot of blood at the back of her head...

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told CNBC he's launching an investigation into state-level fraud after he endorsed a wealth tax...Khanna's support of a tax on billionaires set off a firestorm among the tech elite in his Silicon Valley district...The proposed levy in California still needs to obtain enough signatures to qualify for placement on the November ballot.

When Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as mayor of New York City on Jan. 1, he will represent a range of demographics the city has not seen before in top leadership: South Asian, millennial, Muslim. But for New York’s hundreds of thousands of Muslim residents who have taken pride in seeing one of their own rise to the mayoralty, his inauguration will bring another special first, rooted in tradition and piety. During both of his swearing-in ceremonies, he will put his hand on the Quran, Islam’s holiest book, making him the first mayor in New York City to do so.

A brave little girl jumped out of a second-floor window and begged strangers to save her from abuse, investigators say, but she was sent back home and murdered within months. Rebekah Baptiste, ten, was found unresponsive on a highway in Holbrook, Arizona, on July 27 after allegedly being abused and neglected for years. Her father, Richard Baptiste, 32, and his girlfriend Anicia Woods, 29, were subsequently arrested and charged with first–degree murder, aggravated assault, child abuse and kidnapping.

As Tucker Carlson, the worthy recipient of StopAntisemitism’s 2025 “Antisemite of the Year” award, sucks up public attention, I want to recognize the non-Jews whose words and actions this year defended Jews and Israel.President Donald Trump has to be at the top of the list. While Carlson earned his award by demonizing the Jewish state, Trump will be honored with the “Israel Award” for his steadfast defense of Israel and its people. Trump learned he was the recipient of Israel’s highest honor during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Mar-a-Lago this week, in a phone call with Education Minister Yoav...

It's not just Minnesota. Or just daycares. The deepest government honeypot is blue-state Medicaid. And nowhere does corruption run deeper than in New York State, where everyone wants a piece of a $120 billion honeypot. -- snip -- A few weeks ago, I received an email with the subject line, "Healthcare and the $2,100 Taxi Ride." The email began: "I have a friend who drives a taxi in XXX NY. He estimates that 80% of the cab fares are paid for by Medicaid… "Yesterday, he made a round tripper from XXX to Boston where a child had a two-hour appointment...

Harvard professor torches Ivy League school over woke anti-white, anti-male culture in blistering essay A professor who spent 40 years teaching at Harvard University torched the Ivy League institution over its “exclusion of white males” in a searing essay announcing his retirement. In the piece titled “Why I’m Leaving Harvard,” history professor James Hankins said his decision to retire “was not a sudden one” and was made back in 2021 after two volatile years on campus, marked by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and George Floyd riots — the latter of which he said dramatically changed the school’s graduate admissions process....

In the northeast corner of London’s Hyde Park, near the Marble Arch, is an area long known as Speaker’s Corner. Tradition holds that anyone is free to speak there on any subject for as much time as he pleases, “as long as the police consider their speeches lawful.” Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin would sometimes peddle their poisonous rhetoric there and yet go unmolested by the authorities, though in recent times the police seem to have drawn the “unlawful” line at anything uttered by a native Briton that offends the delicate sensibilities of Muhammadan immigrants. Before this turn to sectarian...

House Republican Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota accused the state’s Democratic Governor Tim Walz and leftist Attorney General Keith Ellison of covering up massive fraud committed by Somali immigrants so that they could retain that community’s vote in future elections. In an interview with The Daily Wire’s “Morning Wire” on Wednesday, Emmer said that the best way to address rampant fraud in Minnesota would be to remove Walz, Ellison, and Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from office. He argued that under Walz, the state government would continue to cover up fraud, a large percentage of which is allegedly committed by...

...awakening ancient roots, recovering water resources, restoring 43 hectares, and transforming dead lands into living ecosystems recognized by the UN. In the region most affected by drought, communities in Ethiopia are regenerating entire forests without machinery, seedlings, or virtually any money, simply by awakening ancient roots hidden beneath the soil and changing the way they use the land day after day. These communities in Ethiopia take areas considered dead land, devoid of vegetation and water, and transform them into hillsides covered with trees, shrubs, and crops, where streams flow again and the soil stops cracking. In just a few years,...

The powerful House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing next week to investigate the massive fraud scandal plaguing Minnesota, Chairman James Comer announced. Comer (R-Ky.) has invited three Republican Minnesota state representatives to testify on the growing scandal in which over $1 billion was allegedly swindled from taxpayers by various fraudsters targeting the state’s generous social safety net programs. “Next week, we will hear from Minnesota state lawmakers who sounded the alarm on this fraud — and whose warnings were ignored by the Walz administration,” Comer said in a statement. “This misconduct cannot be swept aside, and Congress will not...

“At the hearing, we will examine ongoing threats to free and fair elections posed by an out-of-control Trump administration, expose the election deniers who hold high-level positions of significance in the executive branch and detail the threats to public safety posed by the hundreds of violent felons who were pardoned on the President’s first day in office,” the New York Democrat wrote. “We will also present a panel of members who wish to share their personal experiences from that horrific day,” Jeffries said, calling on members "who wish to share their personal experiences from that horrific day."