[VIDEO AND PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Hundreds of Yeshiva Bochrim affiliated with the PelegYerushalmi took to the streets around the country on Monday night, forcing the closure of roads, highways, stopping buses, and inconveniencing tens of thousands of people. They are protesting the arrest of a Yeshiva Bochur who was arrested at an anti-IDF protest […]
NY City residents are breathing a sigh of relief. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Simcha Felder in the Senate and Michael Cusick in the Assembly, residents can finally look forward to putting Mayor Bill de Blasios Bag Tax to rest. An agreement between the State Senate and Assembly, sponsored by Senate Cities Committee Chairman […]
President Vladimir Putin has put the Russian air force on high alert, the latest in a series of drills amid tensions with the West. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that
As the High Court of Justice is hearing petitions pertaining to the egalitarian prayer area near the Kosel, the government is going to ask to wait a number of weeks
Syrian authorities have killed as many as 13,000 people possibly more since the start of the 2011 uprising in mass hangings at a prison north of Damascus known to detainees as “the slaughterhouse,” Amnesty International said on Tuesday. In a new report covering the period from 2011 to 2015, Amnesty said 20-50 people […]
In his letter dated 9 Shevat, Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Aryeh Stern Shlita sent a letter to Rishon LTzion Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef Shlita and Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau Shlita in which he expresses concerns over continuous water company chilul Shabbos. Rabbi Stern makes reference to the so-called water companys fifth line, the digging that continues seven […]
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The Senate has confirmed school choice activist Betsy DeVos as Education secretary, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50-50 tie. The Senate historian says it was the first time
Agudath Israel of America congratulates Betsy DeVos on her confirmation today as the next U.S. Secretary of Education. Mrs. DeVos has spent the last three decades focused on giving parents
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Last Thursday, President Donald Trump attended the National Prayer Breakfast which is traditionally held every year in Washington on the first Thursday in February. The event,
State and federal lawyers will argue before a panel of federal appellate court judges Tuesday in the pitched fight over President Donald Trump’s travel and refugee ban that could reach
Uber and Lyft could be coming to upstate New York under legislation passed by the state Senate. The two ride-hailing companies are now prohibited from operating outside of the New
Buoyed by President Donald Trump’s pledge to rebuild the U.S. armed forces, senior Pentagon officials have delivered to Congress plans for increasing the defense budget by more than $30 billion
A Jerusalem talmid yeshiva was arrested at an anti-IDF protest. The young man is affiliated with the Yerushalmi branch, which follows HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Auerbach Shlita and do not report to induction centers to register as per the ravs instructions. According to the Tuesday 11 Shevat edition of HaPeles, the Yerushalmi branch newspaper, the young […]
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