Following the theft of his vehicle and classified laptop from his home, IDF Chief of Personnel Branch Major-General Chaggai Tupolinsky has submitted his resignation to IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-General

Uber is riding its self-driving cars into a legal showdown with California regulators. The ride-hailing company is refusing to obey demands by the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles that it

Yahoo has become the worst-case example of an unnerving but increasingly common phenomenon — massive hacks that steal secrets and other potentially revealing information from our personal digital accounts, or from big organizations that hold sensitive data on our behalf. On Wednesday, Yahoo disclosed a gargantuan breach affecting more than a billion user accounts, the […]

Taxpayers will fork over nearly $10 billion more next year to cover double-digit premium hikes for subsidized health insurance under President Barack Obama’s law, according to a study being released

Traces of explosives have been found on some of the victims of an EgyptAir flight from Paris that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea in May, Egypt’s government said Thursday, a

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times You may be wondering about the eggplant. We will get to it. It happens occasionally in shuls. Someone approaches the Amud to daven. The problem is that he profoundly mispronounces words. The last line of Tachanun reads, “Azreinu elokei yisheinu al dvar kvod shmecha vehatzileinu […]

A convoy of ambulances carrying the first group of wounded and other civilians began leaving eastern Aleppo on Thursday, marking the start of the long-awaited pullout from the last rebel

Dayan Rabbi Avraham Sherman has come out against modern Orthodox rabbonim in the United States including Rabbi Yechiel Lookstein and Rabbi Avi Weiss. Speaking to Kol Chai Radio, Rabbi Sherman referred to them as “kofrim” and refuses to accept their giyorim. His interview comes at a time during which the Chief Rabbinate Council is discussing […]

IDF Chief of Personnel Branch Major-General Chaggai Tupolinsky was questioned by military police ‘under warning’ after a break-in into his home in which a highly-classified laptop was stolen among other items. The break-in occurred on Tuesday, 13 Kislev, at the senior officer’s home in the Be’er Tuvia Regional Council district. Five apartments were broken into […]

[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, who heads the Kulanu party, visited the ziyun of the Rashbi in Meron. (YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem/Photo Credit: ?????? ??? ????”?)

The Czech Republic’s defense minister says the country’s military has decided to purchase Israeli-made radars for its military. Martin Stropnicky says the army will pay 2.9 billion koruna ($114 million)

Sisters Henia and Rywka Borenstein went through life believing they were alone. Their parents had died when they were young, and they were told that their extended family had been

[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Jerusalem Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi HaGaon HaRav Aryeh Stern Shlita is visiting in Sao Paulo, Brazil. On Tuesday, 13 Kislev, Rabbi Stern accompanied by shaliach Rabbi Tzvi Aryeh Begun visited the temimim in the local talmid torah under the leadership of Rabbi Mordechai Begun. (YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)

Amona residents have rejected the deal brokered by Bayit Yehudi leaders Naftali Bennet and Ayelet Shaked and all that remains now, is the force eviction of the forty families by

For the 170 talmidim attending the Bnei Avreichim Sephardi talmid torah in N’vei Yaakov, things are literally looking brighter as generators were brought in to provide electricity. The generators were arranged by Shas party leader Aryeh Deri and Jerusalem Councilman (Shas) Tzvika Cohen, who is responsible for the city’s chareidi education. The talmid torah is […]

As the season’s first bitter cold spell gripped the Upper Midwest on Wednesday, schools and officials farther east braced for the icy blast to spread their way as early as

MK (Yesh Atid) Elazar Stern lashed out against Rishon L’Tzion Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef Shlita in Knesset for canceling a psak permitting an agunah, adding “HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef ZT”L is turning over in his grave over what he has done to agunos”. Minister of Religious Services David Azoulai got up and called on Stern to […]

If there’s one thing Republicans and Democrats have agreed on in foreign policy, it’s the power of sanctions. But Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of state has seen things differently.