[VIDEO & LARGE PHOTO ALBUM IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Thanks to the fast response and heroic work by the NYPD & FDNY, four people were rescued from yesterday’s helicopter crash into
There is much speculation in the media surrounding the comments release by US Vice President Joe Biden regarding efforts to gain the release of Jonathan Pollard. According to a NY
Amjad Awad, 19, on Tuesday (6 Tishrei) pleaded guilty to his part in the murders of the Fogel family of Itamar HY”D last year, together with his cousin Hakim, who
There was much disappointment among rabbonim and talmidim in the Chevron Yeshiva in Givat Mordechai as they waited for the arrival of the Rosh Yeshiva, HaGaon HaRav Aaron Yehuda Leib
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is working overtime in his ongoing efforts to delegitimize Israel in the international community while simultaneously seeking to gain position as a regional leader
Amazingly, Israel does not only receive Katyusha and Kassam rockets from Hamas-controlled Gaza, but now, lulavim for the fulfillment of the Sukkos mitzvos too. With the realization that this year
Technion Prof Daniel Shechtman, 70, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals, becoming the 10th Israeli Nobel Prize laureate. Shechtman is a professor at
After nine months of contentious battles on Capitol Hill, Americans have reached a new level of disgust toward Congress that has left nearly all voters angry at their leaders and
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A group of people arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests last week filed a suit against New York City on Tuesday, alleging that
It’s d�j� vu all over again. Just three months into the new fiscal year, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is ordering a hiring freeze and asking all agency heads to figure out how they can cut spending by $500 million this year and 1.5 billion next year because of the looming budget gap. The mayor wants those […]
Posek HaDor Maran HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita was taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center on Wednesday morning (7 Tishrei) to undergo additional tests in light of his
[LARGE PHOTO ALBUM OF RESCUE OPERATION IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] The following are Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s remarks as delivered today at 34th Street and the FDR Drive. “Good afternoon. I’m
A nine justice panel of Israel’s Supreme Court convened on Tuesday, 6 Tishrei, to hear a petition brought by former minister Prof. Amnon Rubinstein and retired IDF major-general, Elazar Stern.
The cottage boycott that began during the summer has snowballed and it has expanded. First, activists targeted Tnuva, the nation’s largest dairy, but have not included Strauss, Osem, and Unilever,
Recently Yad Vashem signed a breakthrough agreement with the national archives of Lithuania, and will soon sign new agreements with the national archives in Ukraine and Belarus. Under the agreements,
Police in the northern community of Tuba el-Zangaria, near Rosh HaNikra, remain on heightened alert Tuesday morning, 6 Tishrei, following the predawn arson attack against a mosque on Monday morning.
House Republicans are calling for a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Eric Holder misled Congress during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Operation Fast and Furious,
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