Three firefighters were injured and at least 14 businesses were destroyed when a massive blaze ripped through a row of stores in Queens Friday evening. FDNY received a call about
Avi Gabbai was the Minister of Environmental Affairs until Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appointed Avigdor Lieberman to the post of Foreign Minister. He left his cabinet post in an act
[COMMUNICATED CONTENT] The crowdfunding by talmidim and friends of Harav Nissan Kaplan to build a new shul for the renowned Magid Shir and mechanech is still $250,000 short of the $1 million necessary to build the Bais Medrash. In a remarkable show of support and affection for the Magid Shir in Yeshivas Mir in Yerushalayim, over $500,000 was […]
Republicans’ grip on all levers of power stands as a mandate to the GOP-led Congress, which will move swiftly to try to undo eight years of outgoing President Barack Obama’s
Malware code linked to Russian hackers and found on a Vermont electric utility’s computer is further evidence of “predatory” steps taken by that country against the U.S., a Vermont Democratic
President-elect Donald Trump ditched his press pool once again, traveling to play golf at one of his clubs without a pool of journalists on hand to ensure the public has
According to reports from Bnei Brak’s Mayanei HaYeshua Hospital on motzei Shabbos, there is little change in the condition of HaGaon HaRav Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita, who is listed in worrisome/stable. In line with instructions from Gedolei Yisrael Shlita, tehillim were recited on Shabbos after his condition took a turn for the worse on […]
President Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers will strategize next week about how to prevent Republicans from destroying “Obamacare.” The president also plans to give a major valedictory speech next month
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times According to a release from Agudath Yisroel, in light of Rav Shteinman’s condition’s sudden turn to the worse – Maran Harav Chaim Kanievsky shlita, has requested that Klal Yisroel daven and say Tehillim, even on Shabbos and b’tzibur. Women should daven at the time of […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] There were some interesting scenes at a concert this week, which was attended by various high ranking government officials, in Jerusalem’s Pais Arena. Chassidic singer, Mordechai
Deena, Noa and Rachel, college students and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, were three of 70 participants on LivingLinks, Chabad on Campus International’s first heritage trip to Poland. In a trip filled with emotional and poignant moments, the most riveting was when they lit the first candle of Chanukah in Auschwitz lI-Birkenau concentration camp. Students from […]
Following the announcement made earlier by Magen David Adom Ambulance Services (MDA), regarding the diminishing of their services to Judea and Samaria, United Hatzalah will be increasing services to the
To kick off 2017, which he has dubbed “The Year of the Parks,” Councilman David Greenfield has launched an ambitious new initiative that will clean parks in his district. “I
Britain scolded US Secretary of State John Kerry for describing the Israeli government as the most right-wing in Israeli history, a move that aligns Prime Minister Theresa May more closely
The Obama administration is shutting access to a New York retreat and a swanky Maryland riverfront compound where Russian diplomats played tennis, sailed and escaped the political bustle, saying those
Ambushes in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and other shootings around the country led to a sharp increase in the number of police killed in the line of duty this
I’d like to share this story with you. It happened last Chanukah. A family down the block was mourning the loss of a young mother and wife. One of their
On Chanukah, we recite the prayer of “Al HaNissim”, wherein we say that after the Maccabees defeated the Greeks, they purified the Bais HaMikdash and lit the Menorah in the courtyard of the Bais HaMikdash. But why was the Menorah lit in the courtyard if its usual location was inside the Bais HaMikdash? To better […]
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