A YouTube video of Minister Louis Farrakhan taking President Obama to task over the war in Afghanistan and the bombing of Libya is making its way around the Web. In
President Barack Obama warned that new “tactical” disagreements loomed between Israel and Washington, but vowed to leverage his administration’s “creative powers” in the cause of peace. Obama, who has had
The European Union will postpone for at least two years any decision on banning shechita, according to Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yonah Metzger. Rav Metzger, who is attending the 10th convention
The Holocaust Memorial of Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, was vandalized with swastika and anti-Semitic slogans. Unidentified perpetrators daubed the bronze plaque in memory of the 50,000 Jews killed during the
Years after a Jewish couple in Houston were fined for displaying a mezuzah on the door frame of the condo they rented in the Heights, a new Texas law prohibits home owners� associations from banning such religious objects. The bill was one of the final pieces of legislation signed by Gov. Rick Perry at the […]
Police say a 19-year-old from New York City who died in a fall from the 10th floor of a Las Vegas Strip resort parking structure might have been trying to
Today, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America�joined with other major religious denominations in asking the United States Supreme Court to protect religious institutions, such as synagogues and parochial schools, from state interference with their hiring decisions. The Supreme Court has decided to examine this issue next term in the case of Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical […]
Four days after telling the world he was resigning from Congress, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) made it official in a letter Monday to officials in Albany and Washington. House Speaker
Hundreds of raucous demonstrators on both sides of the divisive same-gender marriage debate jammed the usually sedate halls of New York�s Capitol on Monday as Senate Republicans, who can determine the measure�s fate, consider whether to schedule a decisive vote on the issue. New York�s vote is seen as pivotal in the national question over […]
An investigation into the emergency landing of an El Al Boeing 777 a month ago revealed that the damage to the plane may have been caused while it was being
Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak is suffering from cancer, his defense lawyer said on Monday, citing a medical report to assess whether the former leader is fit enough to face
The trusty old Internet addresses we know and love — the .coms, .nets, .orgs — are about to get some new competition. Global Internet regulators met Monday in Singapore to
The Misaskim organization, most famous for the daily services that it provides to grieving families, has recently expanded its services by implementing a Shabbos Hotline, staffed by especially-trained non-Jews, to help coordinate any situations regarding k�vod hameis that should arise on Shabbos. This past weekend, true to the Misaskim slogan that reads �Im Hachaim �,� […]
A man from Queens, New York, leaves onlookers stunned as he hunts out bits of diamonds, rubies, platinum and gold from the sidewalk cracks of Midtown�s Diamond District. Raffi Stepanian, 43, of Whitestone, comes armed with tweezers and a butter knife, and pans� the precious particles like an old-fashioned prospector-by hand, in a small metal […]
A�plan to bring 1,000 missionaries to Israel, under the guise of newly converted Jews seeking to settle the Shomron, is picking up steam, Yad L’Achim has learned. The plan, which calls for the missionaries to undergo “conversion” to Judaism in the United States and then immigrate under the Law of Return, was hatched by Baruch […]
[PHOTOS & VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] The Levaya of Hagon Rav Yitzchok Dov Koppelman ZATZAL, Rosh Yeshiva of Lucerne Yeshiva in Switzerland, took place on Sunday evening at the Mir Yerushalayim, where tens of thousands of people gathered to give the proper Kavod to the Zekan Roshei HaYeshivos, (the world�s senior Rosh HaYeshiva). Rav Koppelman […]
With time ticking down on the legislative session in Albany, the Bloomberg administration made a new proposal on Sunday to accomplish one of its most highly publicized goals of the
Citizens voted to reject an expansion project for the Gate David synagogue at 5363 Hutchison in the Plateau borough of Montreal Sunday. The result of the referendum was 53.41 percent
A Brooklyn dad angry over a bunch of teen hoodlums hanging out on his stoop and terrorizing his quiet block snapped — opening fire on them with a military-style assault
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