Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski met on Tuesday, 7 Elul 5773 with a delegation of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE) headed by Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, Chief Rabbi of the
Hit by years of budget cuts, some U.S. public school boards are looking to avoid providing health benefits to substitute teachers and supporting staff under President Barack Obama’s reform law, education officials say. According to the law, employers will have to offer health coverage to all full-time employees, defined as those who work an average […]
The Jerusalem Magistrate Court on Tuesday, 7 Elul 5773 extended the remand of 20 of 29 chareidim arrested during stormy protests surrounding the controversial Binyan Shalem project in Beit Shemesh.
A UPS cargo plane crashed Wednesday morning in an open field just outside an airport in Birmingham, Ala. There were no homes in the immediate area of the crash, said
Rav Yeshayahu Shiffman z”l was niftar just thirty minutes after attending his son’s vort on Tuesday, 7 Elul 5773. The rav, known as a talmid chacham in his community of Ramat Shlomo was a rosh kollel in the community. The rav, who 57, was a son-in-law of Rehovot Chief Rabbi Simcha HaKohen Kook. The niftar […]
About 50 million people lost power Aug. 14, 2003, when a tree branch in Ohio started an outage that cascaded across a broad swath from Michigan to New England and
Israel wants to pay university students to post pro-Israel messages on social media networks, and officials say they won’t need to identify themselves as government -linked. The Israeli prime minister’s office said in a statement Wednesday that students would receive scholarships to engage international audiences online to combat anti-Semitism and calls to boycott Israel. It […]
Maj. Nidal Hasan hasn’t made disruptive outbursts while on trial for the worst mass shooting ever on a U.S. military base. When soldiers testify how the Army psychiatrist shot and
In the years of debate over New York City’s stop-and-frisk tactic, the idea of putting tiny cameras on police officers to record their interaction with the public was never seriously
New Yorkers have the longest commute in the nation. That’s according to a report by the Partnership for New York City. It says New Yorkers on average spend 48 minutes
Egyptian security forces, backed by armored cars and bulldozers, swept in Wednesday to clear two sit-in camps of supporters of the country’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi, showering protesters with tear gas as the sound of gunfire rang out at both sites. At least three members of the security forces were confirmed to have died in […]
New York City Comptroller John Liu is proposing a historic overhaul of the city’s marijuana laws, believing that legalizing medical marijuana and allowing adults to possess an ounce of pot
HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita appointed three dayanim to probe the controversial construction in Beit Shemesh Binyan Shalem homes. The Gadol Hador met with the contractor, Reb Aryeh Golovnititz, who
[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] It was a ceremonious completion of their training as 25 new EMTs joined the ranks of the over 2,000 nationwide volunteers of Ichud (United) Hatzalah. These new members are part of the EMS force serving Elad and the surrounding area. On hand for the event were the city’s mayor, deputy mayor, […]
A rising star in the Democratic Party and a Republican former mayor won their parties’ primaries on Tuesday to set up a campaign of political and stylistic contrasts as they
As the 5774 school year is about to begin, the director of Chinuch Atzmai in Eretz Yisrael Rabbi Avraham Lazerson has what to say. “I have been involved in chareidi chinuch for 34 years and I do not know what it means to rest. I see the serenity of the leadership which has concerned itself […]
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio warned Tuesday that if Congress doesn’t pass immigration overhaul legislation, President Barack Obama may act on his own to legalize the 11 million immigrants already
The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey is in Israel for top level talks with IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz and other senior
Police in the city of Newark, New Jersey, have enacted new, highly transparent “stop and frisk” procedures that civil libertarians have called a model for the country and an alternative to the New York City policy rejected by a U.S. judge. New Jersey’s largest city, about 10 miles west of New York City, will on […]
Israel customs officials report apprehending 600 smartphones being smuggled into the country, most originating from Central Asia. They were heading to residents of Tel Aviv and the southern areas under
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