Hasidic singer Shulem Lemmer met his cousin, top US attorney Alan Dershowitz, at a Hanukkah event at the White House. The two burst out in a Hasidic song.

<i>Fox News</i> reports the suspected shooter connected to the Brown University mass shooting was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

<p>Australian police said that seven men detained in Sydney's southwest on Thursday had ideological connections to the two terrorists who carried out the Hanukkah attack in Bondi Beach, killing 15 people.</p><p>"We don't have definitive links between the individuals who committed these atrocities on Sunday and this yesterday apart from potential commonality in some thinking, but no associations at this stage," New South Wales state Police Deputy Commissioner Dave Hudson told <i>ABC Radio</i>.</p>

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces Australia’s largest gun buyback since Port Arthur, targeting illegal and newly banned firearms after the antisemitic Bondi terror attack.

<p>The "Maariv" poll published this morning found that Likud, which last week reached a peak of 28 seats, is weakening by 3 seats this week. As a result, the coalition loses 2 seats.</p><p>Distribution of seats in the poll: Likud 25, Bennett 22, Democrats 10, Yashar! With Eisenkot 10, Yisrael Beiteinu 9, Shas 9, Otzma Yehudit 9, Yesh Atid 9, United Torah Judaism 7, Hadash-Ta'al 5, Ra'am 5. The reservists, Blue and White, Religious Zionism and Balad are below the threshold.</p><p>The opposition bloc has increased to 60 seats, and the Ra'am and Hadash-Ta'al parties receive 10 additional seats. The coalition bloc receives only 50 seats this week.</p>

US imposes new sanctions on Iran’s “shadow fleet,” blacklisting 29 vessels and firms accused of helping Tehran move illicit oil and fund its military and nuclear programs.

Belgium’s Interior Minister reverses a plan to pull federal police from Antwerp’s Jewish district after community pressure and intervention by Jewish leaders.

Former hostage Segev Kalfon recounts the harrowing moments in the tunnels - sewing kippahs for fellow captives from a torn galabiya - and his longing for his parents’ bakery during Hanukkah.