Federal investigators pulled one of the black box recorders from the wrecked commuter train at the Hoboken station and struggled to extract the second one Friday as they tried to
U.S. authorities twice tried to deport a black man who was fatally shot by police in a San Diego suburb this week but his native Uganda refused to take him.
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] After years without meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shook hands and briefly chatted at the funeral of former president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Friday. The two exchanged polite greetings as world leaders gathered on Mount Herzl to pay their final respects to Israel’s Nobel […]
Federal investigators are trying to determine what happened before a New Jersey commuter train barreled through a station and crashed into a barrier, causing a young mother to be killed
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] PRESIDENT OBAMA: Zvia, Yoni, Chemi and generations of the Peres family; President Rivlin; Prime Minister Netanyahu; members of the Israeli government and the Knesset; heads of
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] I want to thank you all for coming today. That so many leaders came from around the world to bid farewell to Shimon, is a testament
Government, business and community leaders gathered on 25 Elul, at Emek Medical Center to break ground on a much needed $25-million project to build a state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly, comprehensive cancer
The Obama administration failed to follow the president’s health care law in a $5 billion dispute over compensating insurers for high costs from seriously ill patients, Congress’ investigative arm said
MKs (Yahadut Hatorah) Moshe Gafne, Uri Maklev and Asher Weiss visited Elad ahead of Rosh Hashanah, met in City Hall by Deputy Mayor Menachem Shapira. The MKs were taken for
With Rosh Hashana just days away, I find myself oddly at a loss for words. Those of you who know me well understand how rarely I find myself speechless, but
It was back in 2015 when the IDF already announced that due to budgetary constraints, it was shutting down the ‘Netiv’ giyur program that permits soldiers to convert in the framework of the IDF. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has announced he is allocating NIS 17 million to keep the program operational, Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) […]
Flu season is about to start, and public health officials are worried that their recommendation earlier this year to avoid using the nasal spray version of the annual vaccine will
The response of the Director-General of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel is that the Finance Ministry’s report on the cost of kashrus in Israel “is cut off from reality”. The report claims that kashrus costs NIS 2.8 billion annually. The words headline of the report is “The Effect of kashrus on the cost of living […]
The White House lashed out at Congress on Thursday, a day after Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly overrode President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill to allow families of the 9/11
When New Yorkers were interrupted this month by a cellphone alert urging them to keep a lookout for a dangerous bombing suspect, some may have found the message confusing. Why
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel is doing his utmost to encourage the continuation of the minhag of kaporos, albeit without Chickens. Ariel said “Kaporos have been done for generations and the minhag of part of our tradition before Yom Kippur. In recent years we have made an effort to encourage the […]
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