Hourly Roundup 00:00 Israel · 21 Oct 2026
Stories in this hour
- Jewish public school students who face harassment should seek police, legal help, attorney saysSarah Golabek-Goldman, an attorney for an Orthodox Jewish student who allegedly faced antisemitic harassment, including a bomb threat, while attending a public high school in a heavily Jewish county in Maryland, wants students to know…
- At a Georgetown College Republicans event, member of Germany’s far-right party tells students the Holocaust is ‘used as a weapon’Marc Bernhard, a member of Germany’s far-right AfD party, told Georgetown students Monday night at an event hosted by the university’s College Republicans that the Holocaust is “used as a weapon against Germany.” The Forward…
- Trump and Republicans show a more female-friendly side of the story with new E.O. on women's health:…Trump and Republicans show a more female-friendly side of the story with new E.O. on women's health:
- Overflow crowds greet President Trump as he urges Kansans to reelect Sen. Marshall:…Overflow crowds greet President Trump as he urges Kansans to reelect Sen. Marshall:
- Melania Trump Announces White House Women’s Health Initiative:
- Right-wing Comedian Explodes: "You're Not Someone Any Normal Woman Would Want"Comedian Manny Aseig sharply attacked a user on X who boasted about a conversation with a woman after discovering she votes for Likud. "This whole disgusting tweet is just to lift yourself up," Aseig wrote,…
Torah perspective
When a child is threatened in a public school and the institution shrugs, the Torah's instinct is not quiet endurance. The law of the pursued and the pursuer (rodef v'nirdaf) teaches that the one being hunted is not obligated to wait for the system to wake up. A parent who calls 911 is not being aggressive; they are being a shomer, a guardian, which is precisely what the verse demands when blood is at stake. The school's silence does not transfer responsibility away from the family. It transfers it back. Protecting a Jewish child from a bomb threat is not politics. It is the oldest obligation we have.