Pakistan’s government has ordered the U.S. to “vacate” an air base used for suspected drone attacks, in retaliation for a NATO strike that allegedly killed two-dozen Pakistani soldiers, Fox News
The string of anti-Semitic crimes in Brooklyn continues. The New York City Police Department is now investigating an incident in which a swastika was scratched into an elevator on Ross
[AUDIO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Montreal – Approximetly 2,000 people attended a rally to support Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, Wednesday night. Amongst those addressing the audience, was Sholom Rubashkin himself. Attorney Mark
While the intelligence community has been carefully monitoring the bloody violence in Syria, there is another component that is now rapidly becoming a priority for the IDF. As the international
The following is a NY1 article: More than 4,000 Hasidic rabbis from around the world are gathering in the city this weekend. Today they are paying tribute to spiritual leader
The relationship between President Obama and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has taken a turn for the worse. In the wake of the supercommittee’s failure and both parties already jockeying for the 2012 election, the rapport between the commander-in-chief and the nation�s top Republican is not good. And it�s not expected to improve any time soon. […]
A nationwide public-sector strike next Wednesday in Britain threatens to paralyze operations at Heathrow, Europe�s busiest airport. BAA, the airport�s operator, said Friday 12-hour delays for arriving passengers are likely because the Nov. 30 strike will hit the U.K. Border Agency�s ability to support normal operations. An estimated 2 million workers are expected to protest […]
Larger — and younger — crowds jammed the nation’s malls and big box stores on Black Friday, as a new generation got in on one of the biggest sales days
In an unusual step that comes on the heels of Iran’s threats and warnings to the US and Israel over the consequences of a possible strike on its nuclear facilities,
You�d expect George W. Bush�s library to be Texas-sized, and 43�s monument to his eight years as President won�t disappoint when it opens in the spring of 2013. But a solitary jagged, twisted reminder of New York City�s worst day will unquestionably become the centerpiece of the 43,000 artifacts available for display at the library […]
Prague – Seventy years ago this week, the Nazis began deporting Czech Jews to the garrison town of Terez�n (Theresienstadt) in nothern Bohemia; the oldest known survivor of that Gestapo �show camp� � and of the Holocaust � this Friday marks her 108th birthday. Alice Herz-Sommer was born in Prague on Nov. 26, 1903, along […]
The following is a Washington Post article: On a September afternoon, as the strains of Pachelbel�s Canon filled a flower-laden hotel ballroom, Melanie Lo and her father slowly proceeded past family and friends toward a huppah, the Jewish wedding canopy. Rabbi Kenneth Block stood waiting under the white canopy with Melanie�s husband-to-be, Michael Pezzula. Next […]
Republican presidential candidates are joining New Hampshire’s intensifying same-gender marriage debate — whether they like it or not. State lawmakers plan to take up a measure to repeal the law
The following is from the Patriot News: Sometime around midnight, deep inside Kesher Israel Congregation�s big old South Bend industrial gas stove, the fire went out. More than 130 pounds of turkey stopped roasting. About 20 volunteers had spent the evening before Thanksgiving cutting 40 pounds of sweet potatoes, baking dozens of pumpkin pies and […]
Students at St Andrews University in Scotland will reportedly write a letter of apology to President Obama after an incident last week in which they burned� him in effigy. The incident occurred the evening of Nov. 18, when members of the university�s conservative student association burned images of Obama on a beach bonfire, according to […]
Seeking to extricate its mosdos from the fiscal abyss, the Chernobyl chassidus is offering a Shabbos with the rebbe shlita in a private facility at the cost of $5,000 a
AT&T announced on Thursday that it withdrew its application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to buy T-Mobile, but the company said it had not given up on completing the
Last week, before the Toldos Aaron Rebbe Shlita left for North America, he spoke with chassidim explaining that for him, this is a trip to �golus�, but he excepts Hashem�s decree with love, realizing this is what must be. The rebbe explained that the financial situation of mosdos is critical, calling upon chassidim to daven […]
The internal-affairs honcho who headed the NYPD�s explosive ticket-fix investigation filed for retirement yesterday, The Post has learned. Internal Affairs Bureau Deputy Inspector John McDermott, 46 � in charge of a probe that led to the indictment last month of 16 cops for crimes including official misconduct and conspiracy � earned $146,364 in 2010, records […]
The former New York City mayor � who said in September that he’s “on board” with Barack Obama’s reelection campaign � tells Maggie in our story on the homepage that he hopes Michael Bloomberg will enter the 2012 race: Koch � a Democrat who endorsed George W. Bush in 2004 and has backed Obama for […]
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