Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will meet French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris in early December to discuss threats against Israel from Hezbollah and Iran and “ideas to
For all the lingering tensions between President Donald Trump and former President George W. Bush, Trump’s White House shares one thing in common with his Republican predecessor’s: People. Trump has
A New Jersey realtor was forced to resign after hateful comments aimed at the increasing Orthodox Jewish population in Ocean County surfaced online. “Not so bad maybe they’ll all move back to New York, ” wrote Tony Sloane, whose Facebook profile lists him as a Realtor at Weichert Realtors’s Long Beach Island Office, located some […]
(VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein responds to social media posts against President Reuven Rivlin after the latter refused to pardon former IDF soldier Elor Azariya. Postings against the president include photos with him wearing a kafia, as well as with a PLO flag backdrop saying, “You are not my president”. Edelstein explains […]
The landlocked East African country of Uganda is making Jewish history this year: It is the 100th country to welcome a permanent Chabad-Lubavitch presence in its midst. In October, Rabbi Moishe and Yocheved Raskin, along with their young son Menachem Mendel, moved to the country’s capital city of Kampala, where they established Chabad of Uganda. […]
Jury selection for a trial surrounding a conspiracy to help Iran evade economic sanctions was postponed Monday, after lawyers in the case held a closed-door meeting with the judge and
Indictments were filed against five youths in the Jerusalem Youth Magistrate Court on Monday, 2 Kislev, youths who attended the so-called ‘hate chasunah’. A short time later, the court dismissed the very same indictments. The Jerusalem Youth Magistrate’s Court recently canceled the indictment of the hate chasenah. The indictment attributes five minors to offenses of […]
The Justice Department is suing AT&T to stop its $85 billion purchase of Time Warner, setting the stage for an epic legal battle with the telecom giant. The government claims
Turkish media reports are quoting an adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying it’s time for Turkey to review its membership in the NATO military alliance. Yalcin Topcu’s comments,
Rishon L’Tzion Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef Shlita released a letter on Sunday, Rosh Chodesh Kislev, regarding missionary activities around Israel. Rav Yosef calls on the tzibur at large to be aware of the threat that exists, as they distribute CDs and literature, which on the service appears innocent. In the letter to his Bureau Chief Rav […]
Assembly Member Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) applauded the U.S. Department of Justice after the Department committed to pursue every avenue to remove Nazi Jakiw Palij from the United States. The Department of Justice was responding to Hikind’s relentless effort to bring justice to Palij, a known Nazi War Criminal who continues to live comfortably in Queens, […]
(VIDEO AND PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) A Jerusalem Fire Department spokesman reports a fire broke out in the Russian Compound Detention Center in downtown Jerusalem on Monday afternoon 2 Kislev.
Authorities were scouring West Texas on Monday for those behind an apparent attack that killed one U.S. border agent and injured another. U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a statement
The publication of every volume in the Schottenstein Edition Yerushalmi is a cause for celebration, but next week’s release of Yerushalmi Chagigah is particularly special, as it marks the triumphant conclusion of a campaign by the Baltimore Jewish community to dedicate a volume in the Yerushalmi. The project began two months ago, when a group […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times FIRST TRIP TO AMERICA Rav Aharon came to the United States in 1935 to raise funds for the Yeshiva. He
Cleared for release: On 25 Cheshvan, the Shin Bet operated in the PA (Palestinian Authority) village of Anata, near Yerushalayim, arriving with IDF soldiers, arrested Baraa Issi, a local resident,
After endless hours of planning and months of preparation, the eagerly awaited 95th annual convention of Agudath Israel of America is about to unfold with a full schedule of programming
Girls and women gathered together in the Binyanei HaUma Conference center in Jerusalem last year, for what was promised to be an inspirational evening: Mrs. Devorah Ben-Dovid told the moving
Iran on Monday rejected a harsh statement by Arab League foreign ministers condemning the Islamic Republic and its proxy Hezbollah, saying the tirade was “full of lies” and the product
Gedolei Roshei Yeshivos gathered on Sunday evening in the home of Ponevezh Rosh Yeshiva HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein Shlita for a gathering to provide a chizuk and direction as well
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