Just moments after the polls closed in South Carolina at 7 p.m., Fox News and MSNBC called Newt Gingrich as the projected winner. Fox said Mitt Romney will come in

According to a Kikar Shabbat report, at a meeting of the Eida Chareidis leaders in the Zupnik Building headquarters in Yerushalayim, the decision was made to allocate over $20,000 for

HaGaon HaRav Yaakov [Chai ben Margalit] Yosef Shlita stated on Thursday, “My chances for recovery are slim but in the zchus of tefilos I can recover”. The rav has been

Maran Posek HaDor HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita on Thursday (24 Teves 5772) was a sandek at a bris and immediately thereafter, was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center

Snow fell across the tri-state region and the first storm of 2012 brought between 2 and 4 inches Saturday before the bulk of the storm passed in the early afternoon.

New Yorkers awoke to their first genuine snowfall of the season on Saturday from a storm that deposited a little more than 4 inches before tapering off around midday. The

A group of about 50 chareidim landed on erev Shabbos in Ben-Gurion International Airport after a flight from London was delayed. The plane landed at 4:25PM officially, but they actually

Stock up on one-cent stamps; you might need them. Beginning Sunday, the price of first-class postage will increase from 44 cents to 45. The price change, the first postage markup

Egyptian authorities confirmed Saturday that a political coalition dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, the 84-year-old group that virtually invented political Islam, had won about 47 percent of the seats in

It is now official; Yair Lapid has announced his decision to enter Israeli politics, walking away from a most successful career as a journalist and TV host. Lapid made the

The New York area is getting ready for the first snow storm of the season. As much as six inches could fall in some places overnight and early Saturday. A

Law enforcement authorities have released a video of a man they think is responsible for the Jan. 11 firebombing of a Rutherford synagogue. The surveillance video shows a man leaving

Bichasdei Hashem, Maran Hagon Rav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita was released from the hospital in time for Shabbos. The Gadol Hador had been taken to Bnei Brak’s Maynei HaYeshua Hospital, Wednesday

President Barack Obama’s decision yesterday to reject a permit for TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL oil pipeline may prompt Canada to turn to China for oil exports. Prime Minister Stephen Harper,

New York has been named America’s rudest city in a survey by Time + Leisure magazine. The magazine has published its 2011 survey of favourite American cities with categories ranging

International inspectors have confirmed that late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi had an undeclared stockpile of chemical weapons, the organization that oversees a global ban on such armaments announced Friday. The

Rescue workers have suspended their search of the Costa Concordia after the cruise ship moved, making it too risky for divers to operate, the Italian coast guard said Friday. Sensors

Federal prosecutors have revealed that there was a fourth man in the United States connected to a 2009 al Qaeda-sanctioned plot to blow up subway lines in New York City.

This afternoon at 12:35 United Hatzalah volunteer Harel Magar was on his way back to Yerushalayim from Beitar Illit when he decided to stop off before Shabbos to Daven at