An Interview with Reb Dan Waldman with the Five Towns Jewish Times Reb Dan Waldman’s remarkable life is a microcosm of much of modern Jewish history. He was born in Galicia to a family of Belzer Chassidim. They soon moved to Poland. On Sept. 1, 1939, the Nazis Y”S invaded Poland, and miraculously the Waldman […]

Israel’s National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) reported on Sunday 11 Kislev during the morning hours that 350 persons were killed in road accidents in 299 fatal MVAs during the year as compared to 340 road deaths in 2015 in a total of 304 fatal MVAs. The number of road fatalities dropped in November and December […]

John Bolton, a former U.N. ambassador reportedly being considered for deputy secretary of state in the Trump administration, said Sunday that reports of Russian interference in the presidential election may

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Monday FBI Director James Comey was “heavily involved as a partisan” in the weeks leading up to the election and that Comey’s actions handed

The Monday issue of Yated Neeman carries a call to halt the growing chilul Shabbos in the capital under the title “G-d’s city is disgraced”. Yated points out that some seventy bars, pubs and restaurants operate on Shabbos in Jerusalem, some, according to the newspaper, have only recently started opening on Shabbos and with the […]

Isaac Yedid, Esq. & Raymond Zeitoune, Esq. With careful Medicaid planning, you may be able to preserve some or all of your estate assets for your children or other heirs while meeting the Medicaid asset limit. The problem with directly transferring assets to another person’s name is that you immediately give away these assets “today” as opposed […]

Facing uphill battles to find jurors willing to convict police officers, prosecutors in two states say they will try again to win guilty verdicts against white officers in the fatal

Bayit Yehudi party leader Naftali Bennet announced on Monday afternoon 12 Kislev that agreement has been reached that will permit Amona to remain on the mountaintop and most importantly, prevent

The Senate’s new top Democrat is vowing to keep any congressional investigation into Russia’s suspected election interference from devolving into partisan warfare. “Just the facts,” is what incoming Senate minority

Shares of Lockheed Martin fell as President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that making F-35 fighter planes is too costly and that he will cut “billions” in costs for military purchases. Lockheed

Turkey’s ambassador to Israel has submitted his credentials as part of reconciliation efforts following a five-year spat. Mekin Mustafa Kemal Okem met President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem on Monday, where

The top Senate Republican said Monday that Congress will investigate a CIA assessment that Russia interfered in the November election on behalf of Donald Trump, an intelligence conclusion that the

President-elect Trump said he doesn’t need presidential intelligence briefings every day because he is “a smart person” and doesn’t “have to be told the same thing in the same words”

A federal judge on Monday issued a stinging rejection of a Green Party-backed request to recount paper ballots in Pennsylvania’s presidential election, won by Republican Donald Trump, and scan some

With two decades of deal-making in Russia’s vital oil industry under his belt, Rex Tillerson is Vladimir Putin’s kind of man. The Exxon Mobil chief is also in Donald Trump’s