Unlike her Democratic rivals, Christine Quinn has always stopped short of calling for Anthony Weiner to bow out. Truth is, she may not want him to go anywhere, the Huffington
The House approved tough new sanctions Wednesday on Irans oil sector and other industries, brushing aside the Obama administrations concern about undercutting the Islamic republics incoming president ahead of new nuclear negotiations. The bill makes no mention at all of relative moderate Hasan Rouhanis recent election win or his pledge to improve Irans relations with […]
Assembly Speaker Silver has appointed a former Manhattan judge to the state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics. Renee R. Roth will replace Patrick Bulgaro, who resigned on Tuesday after serving
Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn has sent layoff notices to its more than 1,500 employees. The New York Times says the hospital asked a bankruptcy court on Tuesday to approve
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso has retracted comments suggesting Japan should follow the Nazi example of how to change the countrys constitution, following protests by neighboring countries and human rights activists. Aso drew outrage for saying Japan should learn from how the Nazi party stealthily changed Germanys constitution before World War II before anyone realized […]
A measure awarding generous funding to road and bridge projects, community development grants and housing help for the poor is running into stiff Republican opposition in the Senate. The bill
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left transit zone of a Moscow airport and entered Russia after authorities granted him temporary asylum, his lawyer said Thursday. Anatoly Kucherena said that
The Jewish organizations that did not succeed in preventing the legislation banning on kosher slaughtering in Poland continue to try and sabotage the efforts to changing the law The European
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon reports the induction of chareidim will not take place until December 2013 at the earliest, referring to 608 chareidim who were slated for induction in the summer induction between August and October. The senior cabinet minister was responding to Supreme Court Chief Justice Asher Grunis who was hearing a petition seeking […]
An indictment was filed on Thursday, 25 Menachem Av 5773 in the Jerusalem District Court against a chareidi resident for allegedly maintaining contact with a foreign agent and expressing a
For anyone who has recently been in southern Tel Aviv, particularly the area of the old central bus station, it is clear that that area of the city has been
Security officials report IDF Central District Commander Major-General Nitzan Alon and his family have received threatening letters, phone calls at home and on the commanders cellular telephone, as well as flyers circulated in his home community depicting him in an unfavorable light and using disparaging language. Alon has been viewed as an enemy of the […]
A few dozen graduates of Al-Quds Medical School on Tuesday, 23 Menachem Av 5773 demonstrated outside the Ministry of Health and Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital demanding they be permitted to
With the camp season winding down in Israel, many families are heading for the airport to begin their family vacation abroad. Officials at Ben-Gurion International Airport report that no less
Following five months of sanctions, employees of the Israel Foreign Ministry are returning to their jobs on Thursday morning, 25 Menachem Av 5773, at least for the time being. The
Finance Minister Yair Lapid announced on Wednesday, 24 Menachem Av 5773 that despite demands from Bayit Yehudi, the planned cut to yeshivos funding stands as planned. Yeshivos, both chareidi and
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Rabbi Shlomo Aviner and Rabbi Tzvi Tau, leading rabbinical authorities in the dati leumi camp have expressed opposition to a national referendum on any agreement reached between Israel and the
As Congress increasingly scrutinizes U.S. surveillance programs, the government on Wednesday released declassified documents on the mass collection of telephone data in a rare glimpse into the world of intelligence
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