The soldier on trial for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood rested his case Wednesday without calling any witnesses or testifying in his own defense. Maj. Nidal Hasan is acting as his own attorney but told the judge that he wouldn�t be putting up a defense. About five minutes after proceedings began, the judge […]

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison for giving hundreds of thousands of secret military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks in one of the nation’s

Former Director of Bituach Leumi Prof. Yochanan Stessman spoke with Israel Radio on Tuesday, 14 Elul 5773. The professor blasted Yair Lapid and his decision to cut monthly child allowance payments, rejecting Lapid�s attempt to portray chareidim as the primary recipient of these funds. Stessman explained that all families with children receive these funds, adding […]

It appears when Gedolim Shlita are involved in a machlokes L�Shem Shomayim it serves as a signal for extremists to act. The case in point is the machlokes between rabbonim of the Eida Chareidis, primarily the Eida Chareidis Gavaad HaGaon HaRav Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss Shlita and the Eida Chareidis Ravaad HaGaon HaRav Moshe Sternbuch Shlita. […]

As far as MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Meir Porush is concerned, the government is continuing with its anti-chareidi agenda �from the cuts in monthly child allowance payments to the cut in basic bread for avreichim.� Speaking to Kikar Shabbat, Porush is quoted saying �it�s being impervious to an extreme� regarding the cruelty displayed to the nation�s […]

The National Security Agency�s surveillance network has the capacity to reach around 75 percent of all U.S. Internet communications in the hunt for foreign intelligence, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Citing current and former NSA officials, the newspaper said the 75 percent coverage is more of Americans� Internet communications than officials have publicly […]

Civil liberties advocates said Wednesday they have uncovered a government program to screen immigrants for national security concerns that has blacklisted some Muslims and put their U.S. citizenship applications on

Officials say an Egyptian court has ordered the release of ex-President Hosni Mubarak, but it�s not immediately clear whether the prosecutors will appeal the order. The Wednesday decision comes in a hearing on charges against Mubarak of accepting gifts from a state-owned newspaper, the last case that has kept the ailing leader in detention. It […]

The chief of a U.N. inspectors’ team visiting Syria says he wants to look into claims from this morning of an alleged chemical weapons attack near Damascus. Swedish chemical weapons

The Obama administration is opposed to even limited U.S. military intervention in Syria because it believes rebels fighting the Assad regime wouldn’t support American interests if they were to seize

Syrian regime forces fired intense artillery and rocket barrages Wednesday on the eastern suburbs of the capital, Damascus, in what two pro-opposition groups claimed was a “poisonous gas” attack that

Shas leader Aryeh Deri refers to Finance Minister Yair Lapid as �cruel� after the latter�s cuts in monthly child allowance payments became reality this week. Deri described that being chareidi in Israel today is not easy, and being the leader of a party whose constituents are mostly chareidi is tenfold more difficult. After years of […]

A poll commissioned by the Ohr Yarok road safety non-profit organization based on data accumulated in March 2013 shows that 28% of Israeli youths admit to have driven a vehicle

Minister of Senior Citizens Affairs (Bayit Yehudi) Uri Orbach has come out against the candidacy of Moshe Leon in the Jerusalem mayoral race. At present, Leon enjoys support from Shas, Likud and the Yisrael Beitenu parties. Speaking to the public via his Facebook page, Orbach explains that he does not believe that Leon�s campaign will […]

Four State Department officials have been cleared of security failures that led to an attack last year on a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens,

The United States and China agreed on Monday to expand military exchanges and exercises as part of efforts to build more stable ties, despite tensions over cyber security and East

With the new reality setting into place, the drastic cut in monthly child welfare payments, former Minister of Welfare, MK (Labor) Yitzchak Herzog spoke with Israel Radio�s Reshet Bet on Tuesday, 14 Elul 5773. Herzog explained that Lapid is simply using populist means to promote his agenda and his actions are not backed in fact. […]

A federal judge has endorsed a broad interpretation of a savings-and-loan era law that the Justice Department is trying to use in cases against Wall Street banks. U.S. District Judge