According to Dr. Doron Dukler who heads the Saban Birth & Maternity Center at Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center, in 2016, the hospital brought over 16.500 newborns into the world, placing the exact number of births at 16.662. He explains there were record-breaking months during the summer that account for the high number. He reported that […]
Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer says he expects President-elect Donald Trump will boldly use Twitter to make major policy announcements. Trump was scolded by foreign policy experts last
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times Bar Mitzvahs are exciting. And everyone is so proud of the Bar Mitzvah boy, or rather, young man. “He davened maariv so beautifully on his ‘bo bayom.’ Now let’s hear him make Kiddush for the Shabbos Seudah..” “What’s that? He can’t?” “Really? Did you just […]
President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday morning 3 Teves addressed at his residence in Jerusalem, a meeting of Israel’s ambassadors to European countries. Before the meeting, the President was updated by Israel’s Ambassador to Turkey Eitan Na’eh who was attending the meeting, regarding the Israelis caught up in the terror attack in Turkey. “This is a […]
Barack Obama is under pressure during his final weeks as president to do something — anything — to secure the future of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children who could face deportation under the Trump administration. His options appear few. At least 50 congressional Democrats are pushing Obama to take […]
Israel’s National Road Safety Authority reports that 372 people were killed on the nation’s roadways in 2016 as compared to 356 in 2015. According to the report 225 of the deaths were Jews, a nine percent decline from the previous year and 121 were Arabs, a nineteen percent increase from the previous year. the remaining […]
New York lawmakers will return to Albany on Wednesday to begin their work for 2017, a session expected to include debates over voting laws, corruption, Uber’s proposal to expand upstate
The latest popularity poll places Health Minister Yaakov Litzman in first place again with a slight increase in popularity for the last poll conducted four months ago. The poll, which
President-elect Donald Trump says that “no computer is safe” when it comes to keeping information private, expressing new skepticism about the security of online communications his administration is likely to
During Kriyas HaTorah on Shabbos the bal korei collapsed and was in cardiac arrest in a shul on Brandshteter Street in Bnei Brak. Baruch Hashem a United Hatzalah unit responded
President-elect Donald Trump says that “no computer is safe” when it comes to keeping information private, expressing new skepticism about the security of online communications his administration is likely to
After his eldest son Ariel served in the Golani Brigade, Yehuda Meshi-Zahav proudly announces another son is entering the IDF, to become a paratrooper in the new chareidi company in
[COMMUNICATED CONTENT] Machon Yerushalayim, The Jerusalem Institute of Talmudic Research, which is renowned all over the world for being the leading publisher of rabbinical commentaries, is in the midst of their annual sale of its classic collection of seforim. The sale highlights an array of new releases including: Otzar Meforshei HaTorah, where most of the Rishonim and Achronim […]
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