HaGaon HaRav Adin Even Yisrael Steinsaltz was transported to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning 7 Kislev, apparently after suffering a stroke. The rav, 79, was very

[VIDEOS AND PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Border police found four storage facilities used for illegal egg storage in the Ras al-Amud area of the capital. The report states there were “Tens of thousands of illegal eggs kept in unsanitary conditions”. They also found a number of cages which contained parrots and pigeons. Officials from the […]

The OU Advocacy Center, the public policy arm of the Orthodox Union, has launched a petition on Change.org asking President-Elect Donald Trump to act upon his pledge to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — Israel’s capital city — soon after Mr. Trump takes office. Congress ratified this policy and […]

President-elect Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he would cancel Boeing’s contract to build a new fleet of presidential aircraft to replace the aging Reagan-era models that currently shuttle the president

The good news for Chris Christie is that his Worst Year Ever is almost over. The bad news: It’s not over yet. And two new polls out Tuesday serve as

Bnei Brak Mayor Chanoch Zeibert is not having an easy time with representative of the Histadrut national labor federation, with the latter recently announcing a planned strike in the city

New York’s governor has launched an investigation into racial bias in the state prison system following an investigation by The New York Times. The newspaper reports that black prisoners were

[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] A festive ceremony was hosted by Rabbi Arthur Schneier and the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan last week to mark the consultative status recently awarded to

The Navy and U.S. Department of Energy have announced that they’ll build a $1.65 billion facility at a nuclear site in eastern Idaho that will handle fuel waste from the

[VIDEO AND PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Firefighters fought a blaze during the night on 6 Kislev (Monday to Tuesday) on Shmuel HaNavi Street in Yerushalayim. United Hatzalah and MDA were

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times One of the 39 categories of forbidden activities on Shabbos is carrying in a public area. The Rabbis extended the prohibition to include carrying in certain other areas as well. It is possible to permit carrying in these other areas that are Rabbinically forbidden – […]

Just a few months ago, German Chancellor Angela Merkel brought together the leaders of the U.S., Britain, France and Italy to discuss the world’s crises, a moment captured in a

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is co-hosting an early Hanukkah party next week at President-elect Donald Trump’s newly opened hotel blocks away from the White House.

In the next few weeks, Instagram is going to look even more like its parent company, Facebook. The social network announced Tuesday that it will let users like individual comments

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotevely visited Netiv Avot, the neighborhood in the Gush Etzion region community of Elazar slated for destruction. Hotevely arrived on Tuesday, 6 Kislev, viewing the memorial in the community for IDF Lt.-Colonel Emanuel Moreno HY”D and commented on the destruction order for a memorial to a fallen officer while there is […]

A Jewish organization has launched a database aimed at helping thousands of Holocaust survivors or their heirs regain property lost in Warsaw due to World War II and communism. Under