Eli Simchayoff, the Shas deputy mayor of Yerushalayim who was suspended from his post earlier this week is telling the media that Mayor Nir Barkat is persecuting him. It has
Robert Jackson, a City Councilmember from Harlem and the only Muslim in the body, defended police commissioner Ray Kelly today against charges that he should resign. “There is a press
A West Haven man awaiting extradition to face charges of murdering the owner of a Westport jewelry store and stealing $300,000 worth of diamonds has killed himself in a Spanish
A two-man fight for Florida is emerging ahead of the state’s final Republican presidential debate Thursday, with polls showing the race neck and neck as Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich
A restaurant has opened in Tiveria near the tziyun of Rav Meir Baal HaNess, a restaurant that operates on Shabbos. The local chareidi community is alarmed by the move. In
The woman who earned the title “Israel’s Rosa Parks”, Tanya Rosenblit, is calling to bury the hatchet, seeking to bring the frum and chiloni communities together. It was Rosenblit who
An avreich traveling the number 340 bus from Jerusalem to Modi’in Illit with his four children, all under the age of 5, was assaulted by the driver. The driver spat
Among the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, there is concern that cell phones with certain features could lead to immodesty among its community members. In an effort to combat that, but make
HaGaon HaRav Nissim Karelitz Shlita testified in the Tel Aviv District Court, reportedly an unprecedented move, all towards saving a shul. The event occurred Thursday morning, 2 Shevat 5772, compelled
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday became the latest and most senior member of the Iranian government to publicly declare his readiness for nuclear talks amid tough new economic sanctions adopted
New regulations going into effect today are expected to help ensure that consumers are treated fairly when they travel by air. Among the new provisions are requirements that airlines and
It was more than your regular stormy day in Knesset on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 when MKs of the Yahadut HaTorah faction walked out in protest during the address of
If one reads the secular press and listens to the radio in Israel, one might believe that most Israelis wish to shed their Jewish roots and customs entirely. According to
Yehuda Meshi-Zahav wishes to understand just what the difference is if the stone-thrower is an Arab or a Jew, and why the sikrikim are regarded as a fringe faction of
U.S. Muslim civil rights groups demanded the resignation of New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly on Wednesday amid a controversy over the repeated screening of an offensive video. Kelly said
Misaskim received a phone call on its hotline from an individual who was calling in about a mes mitzvah situation. In fact, the niftar was already at a funeral establishment
It was a tense moment on the tarmac. President Obama, alighting from the stairs of Air Force One in Phoenix this afternoon, was greeted by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who
As the Sabbath evening approached on Jan. 13, Ehud Barak paced the wide living-room floor of his home high above a street in north Tel Aviv, its walls lined with
US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, became the first ambassador to attend a session of the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee. Shapiro was asked
Most of the suspects connected to Tuesday’s attack against a female in her 20s in Ramat Beit Shemesh have been released. The suspects were brought before the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court
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