The head of the Brussels-based European Jewish Association Rabbi Menachem Margolin – which represents thousands of Jews from communities across Europe –welcomed the election of Antonio Tajani as the new President of the European Parliament, urging him to devote time and resources to properly tackle anti-Semitism. In a statement from Brussels, Rabbi Margolin said, “We […]
A group of NASA-funded researchers are poised to enter an isolated geodesic dome on a remote Hawaii volcano to study human behavior in long-term space exploration, including a planned voyage
On Friday 22 Teves, inauguration day for President-Elect Donald Trump in the USA, seventy heads of municipalities in Israel will hold a special gathering with Housing Minister (Kulanu) Yoav Galant
Teach Florida, a project of the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center, hails the Florida Supreme Court’s decision today to dismiss the Florida Education Association’s lawsuit against the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship. The scholarship program helps 98,000 low-income students, including 2,400 Jewish day school students, learn in the schools of their choice. “Today’s decision affirms our state’s […]
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Mexico’s most notorious cartel kingpin who twice made brazen prison escapes and spent years on the run as the country’s most wanted man, was extradited to
Earth sizzled to a third-straight record hot year in 2016, with scientists mostly blaming man-made global warming with help from a natural El Nino that’s now gone. Two U.S. agencies
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times It is now a yearly event, and it is time that a line be drawn. It is wrong to take
[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Many mispallalim arrived at the tziyun of the Rambam in Tiveria for the yahrzeit, which was 20 Teves despite renovations at the holy site. (YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem/Photo Credit: Tiveria News)
Long-term US mortgage rates marked their third week of declines this week, after snapping a nine-week run of increases. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the rate on 30-year fixed-rate
Twitter says it has suspended 360,000 user accounts in the past 18 months for threatening or promoting acts of terrorism. Lawyers for the families of terror victims, including a brother
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has come out strongly with a clear message to US President-Elect Donald Trump, calling upon him to make good on his word and move the US Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Barkat announces that Jerusalem must remain the “undivided capital of the Jews” and moving the embassy with […]
It did not take long for Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) host Chen Elmaliach to be docked by station Director Yaron Dekel. Following the fatal terrorist attack in the Bedouin community of Um Chiran, which claimed the life of policeman Erez Levi HY”D, Galei Tzahal Radio personality Elmaliach expressed solidarity with the attacker. Elmaliach used his […]
Juggling work and play on Inauguration Eve, Donald Trump filled his final Cabinet slot Thursday and headed to Washington for three days of festivities. The president-elect was trading in his
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Northern district police reported a vehicular accident occurred on Rt. 75 between Migdal HaEmek and Yafia on Wednesday morning 20 Teves. A bus and private vehicle
Uber and Lyft are cheering Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to allow the ride-hailing businesses to expand into upstate New York. The Democratic governor included a provision in his budget that
A small number of Women of the Wall (WoW) arrived at the Kosel on Thursday morning 21 Teves as promised to attend a ‘tefilla hisorarus’ as they labeled it. They several dozen women passed through the metal detectors and permitted guards to pat them down but they refused to remove their outer garments when asked […]
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