Following his Chief Rabbinate election victory, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau on Thursday morning, 18 Menachem Av 5773 traveled to Bnei Brak to speak with HaGaon HaRav Aaron Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita. Rav Lau visited with the Gadol Hador before the election receiving the gadol Hadors bracha and endorsement. Rav Shteinman called on those who […]
Attorney General Eric Holder has told the Russian government that the U.S. will not seek the death penalty for former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden. In a letter
Speaking to the media on Thursday, 18 Menachem Av 5773, the day after the election for new Chief Rabbis of Israel Rabbi David Stav spoke to the media. Following is
A six-week-old infant became the latest statistic in Israel, forgotten in a vehicle in Beit El in Shomron. Bchasdei Hashem the parents realized they forgot the baby in their vehicle after 20 minutes. They ran to open the vehicle as Magen David Adom was called. Baruch Hashem the child was in good condition when they […]
The House Ethics Committee is continuing an investigation of Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota. The committee announced on Friday it had received a referral from the Office of Congressional
An El Al Boeing 737 with 138 passengers on board landed in Ben-Gurion International Airport on Wednesday evening 17 Menachem Av 5773 without incident Bchasdei Hashem. The flight was already in its landing pattern when an engine shut off. The pilot notified the control tower and the flight received immediate clearance to land. Emergency procedures […]
Council Member Stephen Levin is announcing that the Department of Transportation (DOT) has agreed to install traffic signals on Kent Avenue. This follows a request from Levin that the DOT
Suffern mayor Dagan Lacorte, who’s running a fierce campaign against the establishment, in the race for Rockland County Executive, was thrown off the September ballot by the Democratic Party’s Election
Protesters will be turning up at Borough Hall today in a fight to save two Brooklyn hospitals on the brink of closure. The rally will call on the state to
Elad rabbonim and askanim are working to have a bus line that travels to the Tel Aviv Sheraton Beach cancelled. According to the weekly BaKehilla, Gedolei Yisrael Shlita including HaGaon
Shortly after dawn, Kestenbaum & Company chairman, Mr. Daniel Kestenbaum along with his family set out for Washington DC. Meanwhile, other Kestenbaum & Company employees throughout the tri-state area greeted the dawn and they too pointed their cars toward the Nations Capitol. The reason for the trip to Washington was in order to attend a […]
So much for democracy — at least in the eyes of Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid. Following the victory of chareidi rabbonim in the Chief Rabbinate race he posted on his Facebook page The institute that was irrelevant to the lives and world view of so many Israelis will continue to remain irrelevant. Lapid continues, […]
Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri spoke with Israel Radio on Thursday morning 18 Menachem Av 5773. Deri was asked to comment on the candidacy of Moshe Leon, who announced he
Drivers now have more reason to put down their cellphones, as the state is raising the maximum fine for using a hand-held electronic device behind the wheel. The old maximum
A man wanted in connection with the July Fourth shooting of a rookie New York City police officer has been captured in Maine. Federal, Maine and New York law enforcement
Egyptian prosecutors accused ousted President Mohammed Morsi on Friday of conspiring with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and murder in his 2011 escape from prison that left 14 guards dead.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says it’s “not very helpful” to New York City’s economy when Eliot Spitzer badmouths Wall Street while campaigning. The Daily News says Bloomberg’s remarks were made at
Moscow A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin says Russia has not budged from its refusal to extradite U.S. leaker Edward Snowden, who has applied for asylum. Snowden, who is believed
12:28AM (Friday): Sources confirm to YWN Catskills that the boys have all been found, and are in good condition. 11:00M (Thursday): A search is underway for 13 missing Yeshiva boys,
The following is a Fox News article. A Wisconsin-based atheist group has expressed its opposition to a Holocaust memorial set to be built on the ground of the Ohio statehouse,
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