Education Minister (Yesh Atid) Shai Piron has canceled his planned participation in a kenos of school directors that will take place this week in Bnei Brak. The kenos is an annual event, intended to improve dialogue and working relations between schools, chareidi mosdos categorized and �recognized� by the ministry while not officially part of the […]

Incoming Governor of the Bank of Israel Prof. Leo Leiderman informed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he was stepping down ahead of final approval for the senior post. Leiderman was not the prime minister�s first choice for the post, but he selected after Prof. Yaakov Frenkel announced that he was bowing out of the race. […]

Dreamers hoping to strike it rich quick plunked down $2 a ticket hoping to win a Powerball jackpot estimated to be at least $300 million. The winning numbers for Saturday’s

Iran’s media says the new president has appointed a U.S.-educated businessman as his chief of staff, his first appointment after taking office. A Sunday report by the official IRNA news

Marking the 34th yahrzeit of the Satmar Rebbe ZT�L, the Divrei Yoel on erev Shabbos Parshas Re�eh 5773, the Rebbe Shlita of Kiryas Yoel held a yahrzeit tisch. The rebbe addressed the situation in Eretz Yisrael, the ongoing effort to compel bnei yeshivos to serve in the IDF, quoting the late tzaddik who stated �The […]

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on erev Shabbos Parshas Re�eh 5773, responded to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani remarks in which he was cited as saying that Israel ‘has been a wound on the body of the Islamic world for years and should be removed’: “Rouhani’s true face has been revealed earlier than expected. Even if they […]

The top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee calls it the “most serious threat I’ve seen in a number of years.” Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia is describing “the chatter” detected by U.S. intelligence agencies that led the Obama administration to order�the weekend closure of 21 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Muslim world, and […]

President Barack Obama kicked off his birthday weekend Saturday with a round of golf with friends and a getaway to Camp David. Obama, who turns 52 on Sunday, left the White House just after 8 a.m. EDT � that�s unusually early for the half-hour motorcade ride to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland � to […]

[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] According to preliminary reports, the accident involves a passenger bus and a truck. There appears to be many injured. A mass casualty incident has been declared. MDA has activated responders from the Negev, Ayalon and other districts. Ditto for Ichud Hatzalah. 13:05:�It appears the accident is a number of kilometers after […]

According to the biannual TGI survey on chareidi newspaper market penetration, the newspapers are dropping in their market share. The survey released covers the period from July 2012 to June

The following unedited message was released by the US Embassy on Friday, 26 Menachem Av 5773, citing the international alert based on an al-Qaeda threat.� Emergency Message for U.S. Citizens � August 2, 2013 UPDATE The Department of State has instructed certain U.S. Embassies and Consulates to remain closed or to suspend operations on Sunday, […]

Florida lawmakers will hold hearings this fall on the state�s �Stand Your Ground� self-defense law, which has become a lightning rod for criticism following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. The announcement on Friday by Will Weatherford, the speaker of Florida�s House of Representatives, marked the […]

Interpol issued a global security alert on Saturday advising its members to increase their vigilance against attacks after a series of prison breaks in Iraq, Libya and Pakistan that the

[VIDEO & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] One of America’s best known doctors, TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz from the ‘Dr Oz Show’ visited the United Hatzalah headquarters on Monday, July

Hassan Rouhani took office as Iran�s president on Saturday promising �constructive interaction with the world� after eight years under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marked by diplomatic confrontation and damaging sanctions. The politically moderate 64-year-old cleric�s resounding victory at June�s election raised hopes of a negotiated end to the dispute over Iran�s nuclear program and an easing of […]

Companies vying for a stake in the fast-growing electronic cigarette business are reviving the decades-old marketing tactics the tobacco industry used to hook generations of Americans on regular smokes. They’re

According to a recent study conducted at the University of Haifa and Leiden University that examined over 55-thousand Polish Jews who immigrated to Israel before and after World War II. �These results give us hope and teach us of the strength and resilience of the human spirit�, said Prof. Avi Sagi-Schwartz, who led the research. […]

Southwest Airlines is facing its first lawsuit over a hard landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport last month that injured 16 people. Jonesville, S.C., resident Jacqueline Young was on the

Businessman John Henry, the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, has entered into an agreement to buy The Boston Globe for $70 million, a massive drop from its record