[By Tevi Troy] The Jewish High Holidays are upon us, so naturally it’s time for the White House to feed political talking points to rabbis. As has become its annual
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Stocks came off their worst levels, but still finished sharply lower Thursday in heavy-volume trading as a gloomy outlook from the Federal Reserve in addition to ongoing economic jitters fueled
The Rechovot City Council on Wednesday (22 Elul) approved beginning the process to appoint a Sephardi chief rabbi of the city, to work alongside the city’s veteran Ashkenazi chief rabbi,
The following is a Fox News report: The FBI arrested two alleged members of the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous on Thursday morning in San Francisco and Phoenix, FoxNews.com has
American diplomats walked out of the U.N. General Assembly as Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a fiercely anti-American speech. More than a dozen diplomats from other countries, including France, left
The Hesder Yeshiva Association is working to find a solution following the recent incident which resulted in the ousting of a number of Shomer Shabbat officer cadets from the IDF’s
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, predicted Thursday President Barack Obama would win the Jewish vote and her home state of Florida in the 2012 election.
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