Stamford Hill Shomrim helped bring eight convictions for anti-Semitic violence last year – thought to represent more than half the prosecutions for the offense in Britain. The figures come from Shomrim’s annual stats report, which also shows other crimes for which volunteers helped bring arrests. It also reveals Shomrim recorded hundreds of suspected anti-Semitic attacks, […]

President Trump’s cabinet continued to round into shape on Monday, as the Senate approved Representative Mike Pompeo of Kansas to lead the Central Intelligence Agency and Rex W. Tillerson, the secretary of state nominee, cleared a key Senate hurdle to all but assure his own confirmation.

Former President George H.W. Bush is still suffering from pneumonia, but is well enough to leave the intensive care unit at a Houston hospital, doctors said Monday. His wife, Barbara,

The Cabinet on Sunday morning 24 Teves, approved a national plan for smart transportation, for advancing and strengthening the smart transportation industry in Israel, in order to promote innovative solutions

The ship involved in the recently halted hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 returned to port in western Australia on Monday, where officials from the countries that funded the fruitless

Menachem Stauber, a 27-year-old chareidi resident of Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, is an attorney by profession. It was he who filed a complaint against those behind the ‘chardakim’ campaign and in recent months, he has begun defending chareidi arrested for failing to report for military service or register for military service. After Yeshivas Kol Torah he […]

Rex Tillerson’s bid to be secretary of state narrowly won approval Monday from the Republican-led Foreign Relations Committee, a move that all but assures the full Senate will confirm President

Monsey resident 29-year-old Refael Koenig was beaten was using his iPhone to record a Spring Valley chasenah he was attending last week when suddenly, he was attacked for being in possession of a smartphone, Channel 12 News reports. He explained to the media they began beating him up so badly that “I began seeing black […]

MK (Shas) Yaakov Margi, who chairs the Knesset Education Committee, announced on Monday 25 Teves during a committee session on discrimination against Sephardi girls in high schools, expressing sharp criticism

By Chaim Gold It was Mincha on Shabbos, a Shabbos that nearly 1,000 lomdei Torah in Dirshu’s myriad programs will never forget. During the Shabbos morning tefillah, aliyos are given to the attending Gedolei Yisrael. Only one aliyah is sold, shlishi on Mincha of Shabbos. That aliyah is not sold for money, because the only real “legal tender” […]

Iran is being cautious in its first comments on U.S. President Donald Trump. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi told reporters on Monday that the Islamic Republic has no immediate

Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority. GOP members of Congress had been holding up the

The annual yahrzeit event for the Baba Sali ZT”L, set to take place next Monday, may be canceled due to exorbitant security costs. According to a report filed by Yisrael Hayom correspondent Yehuda Schlesinger, police are organizers of the event are negotiations but police demands for security will add hundreds of thousands of shekels to […]

The mayor of Jerusalem says the Trump administration is “serious” and committed to moving the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Nir Barkat says that from conversations he’s had

[By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times] In a recent FaceBook post that was re-tweeted on a frum website, O’O-Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz falsely states that Rav Ovadia Yosef recommended praying in a mosque over praying alone. This is patently false. Rav Ovadia never made such a ruling. He never mentions it in […]

IDF military police have been busy in a number of chareidi areas seeking to arrest persons listed as missing from service. Police were detected in Betar Illit during the night

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on worked hard on Sunday, 24 Teves, to persuade the Bayit Yehudi party not to insist in discussing annexing Maale Adumim as planned. PM Netanyahu explained