(Worthy Insights) – One-third of American Jews said they were a target of an antisemitic incident in 2024, and 77 percent said they feel less safe as Jews in the United States, according to a survey released Wednesday by the American Jewish Committee (AJC).

The survey of 1,732 Jews, taken between October 8 and November 29, showed that perceptions of the threat of antisemitism had gotten worse in almost every category compared to 2023, the report’s authors noted. This was the sixth such annual survey conducted by the AJC.

Reports of antisemitic incidents have soared in the US and countries around the world since Hamas launched its war on Israel on October 7, 2023. The findings of the AJC report are in line with those of studies published by the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish organizations. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Collectively, Americans now owe a record $1.21 trillion on their credit cards, according to a new quarterly report on household debt from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Credit card balances jumped by $45 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024, driven in part by holiday spending, and are now 7.3% higher than a year ago.

At the same time, credit card delinquency rates “remained elevated,” the New York Fed researchers found — with 7.18% of balances transitioning to delinquency over the last year. That uptick could indicate “borrowers are having some difficulty repaying,” the researchers said on a press call Wednesday. [ Source: NBC (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – A U.S. Army Reserve chaplain is asking for the newly appointed Secretary of Veterans Affairs under the Trump administration to revoke the censorship of sermons–a policy adopted by the V.A.– after the chaplain shared a text from Romans 1, where the Apostle Paul addresses homosexuality.

Rusty Trubey, a veteran chaplain at the Coatesville V.A. Medical Center, came under fire after he “felt that God was leading him to preach a two-part sermon series on the first chapter of Romans.”

Trubey preached the second installment of the series, entitled “When a Culture Excludes God,” in June and read Romans 1:23–32. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Ten years ago, ISIS terrorists marched 21 Christian men to their deaths on a Libyan beach. Their story of faith, sacrifice, and eternal hope is now being memorialized in a new animated film.

February, 2015. Twenty-one men stood on the edge of eternity. On a Mediterranean beach. Dressed in orange. Hands bound. They were given one choice: deny their faith or die. They chose death.

Nermien Riad, founder of the group, Coptic Orphans, who worked with orphans in the village where the men were from and later worked with the martyrs’ families, recalled, “We heard about it as soon as it happened to basically once the video was broadcast, it spread like wildfire.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Mark Francey of Oceans Church in San Juan Capistrano, California, is gearing up for Baptize America, a one-day event on June 8 that he hopes will become the “world’s largest synchronized water baptism.”

It’s an ambitious effort that follows two previous events: Baptize SoCal and Baptize California. The former, held in 2023, saw nearly 4,200 baptisms, while the latter, which unfolded last year, saw more than 12,200 people be immersed.

Now, Francey wants to up the ante and take these local and state events national. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – President Trump’s border buildup has been so successful that America’s southern neighbors are dealing with a startling new problem: migrants streaming south, trying to return home after realizing they wouldn’t make it to the U.S.

Panama and Costa Rica officials met this week to discuss details for handling the flow. The steady stream could become a flood as people waiting in Mexico for a shot at the U.S. give up.

The U.S. is trying to help by orchestrating flights to get the migrants out of Central America and back to their home countries. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Over the last two years, USAID doled out $2.3 billion in “humanitarian assistance” to Omar’s native Somalia. Last year it reported a request for $1.6 billion in aid and even in December 2024, with the Biden administration on the way out the door, it sent an additional $29 million.

USAID support for Somalia had doubled under the Biden administration and with $3.3 billion from USAID allocated in the last 5 years. the threatened withdrawal of funding must have been a painful blow for Omar, who is very close to the Somali regime. Former Somali Prime Minister Hassan Khaire had stated “the interest of Ilhan are not Ilhan’s, it’s not the interest of Minnesota, nor is it the interest of the American people, the interest of Ilhan is that of the Somalian people and Somalia.”

Somalia, along with other Islamic terrorist entities, including the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Houthis in Yemen, and Hamas in Gaza, were among the top beneficiaries of USAID cash. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The unmatched love of Jesus Christ has reached “a place filled with men the world has given up on” and changed them forever, a non-profit prison ministry reports.

God Behind Bars is a ministry that works to restore the lives of inmates through faith-building outreach programs.

The ministry reports the gospel message was recently shared with nearly 800 inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, in Angola, Louisiana. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Two judges who have issued injunctions against a series of President Donald Trump’s clearly legal executive orders both have records of extremism.

U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr. on Thursday temporarily blocked Trump’s federal employee buyout program that originally gave federal workers the option to decide by Thursday to leave their current role with full pay and benefits until September 30, 2025. The memo was issued in accordance with Trump’s goal of shrinking the federal workforce. Several unions sued, arguing the order “violates federal law.” O’Toole issued a ruling Thursday delaying the deadline until at least Monday, though O’Toole “did not express an opinion on the legality of Trump’s buyback program,” according to Fox News.

But former federal prosecutor and current criminal defense attorney Andrew Cherkasky tells The Federalist “historically, buyout programs have been a standard tool for managing federal workforce reductions efficiently and voluntarily … There is no constitutional or statutory prohibition against modifying the terms under which employees receive buyouts.” [ Source: The Federalist (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Newly published emails show the Biden White House cooperated with the National Archives in the Justice Department’s classified documents case against Donald Trump – which allowed the White House to build a predicate for the federal case against Trump that was ultimately dismissed, America First Legal says.

The emails, which were obtained in a lawsuit and released by the nonprofit conservative public interest group, show then-Deputy White House Counsel Jonathan Su took a phone call with National Archives and Records Administration officials to discuss the missing boxes allegedly retained illicitly by Trump in September 2021, delaying the agency’s referral to the Department of Justice until after the White House filed a “special access request” the following year.

“New NARA emails further confirm that the classified documents case against President Trump was a sham prosecution that involved the Biden White House from the start – long before NARA’s official referral of classified documents to DOJ for investigation,” America First Legal posted to X. [ Source (Read More…) ]