It’s a second term for Michelle Obama, too, and she’s shifting her social-issues emphasis to kids and gun violence after spending four years stressing better physical fitness for the young.
A White House senior adviser is accusing the House GOP of “cruel hypocrisy” for contemplating legal status for unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children without also legalizing their parents. Dan Pfeiffer says over Twitter that the plan boils down to allowing some kids to stay while deporting their parents. Pfeiffer’s comment Tuesday […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] MK (Likud) Yariv Levin asked that Minister of Internal Security (Yisrael Beitenu) respond to the recent events in which MK (Likud) Moshe Feiglin and many others
A second Brooklyn hospital is facing possible closure. The Wall Street Journal reports that the state health department has rejected a restructuring plan designed to save Interfaith Medical Center. Deputy
The Israel Police investigation against MK (Bayit Yehudi) Nissim Slomiansky for alleged violation of election laws has been closed. The veteran dati leumi MK was under investigation for allegedly buying
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has held his first official voter meet-and-greet since getting on the ballot for New York City comptroller. Spitzer shook hands and handed out flyers Tuesday morning
Accompanied by rabbonim and entrepreneurs, Housing Minister (Bayit Yehudi) Uri Ariel visited a housing project designated for the chareidi tzibur in Givat Zeev. Promising to harness the resources of his office, the minister added This is an appropriate solution for the chareidi tzibur and I will work towards addressing the problems faced by my office. […]
Two of New Yorks top officials have made some waves in the Adirondacks. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg paddled down the Indian River in a whitewater rafting race Monday on the second day of Cuomos inaugural Adirondack Challenge in Indian Lake. The governors office says his team nosed out the […]
Bayit Yehudi Chairman Minister Naftali Bennett has made his position clear. For him and his party, support for the state budget will be contingent on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu moving
New York City’s LaGuardia Airport fully reopened Tuesday, a day after the collapse of a plane’s front landing gear sent it skidding along the tarmac and temporarily closed the airport.
Congress is considering a new series of hard-hitting Iran sanctions on everything from mining and construction to the Islamic republics already besieged oil industry, despite concern from the Obama administration that the measures could interfere with nuclear negotiations. House and Senate bills are both advancing at a time President Barack Obamas national security team is […]
The French interior minister has ordered police in western France to take action against a mayor and lawmaker who allegedly told a group of itinerant Roma, parked illegally near his
The Women of the Wall (WoW) organization is not permitting itself a bein hazmanim and organizers are working hard to bring many supporters to the Kosel for Rosh Chodesh Elul
Minister for Geriatric Affairs (Bayit Yehudi) Uri Orbach is building an army of volunteers, who will be wearing a purple garment to make themselves visible. These volunteers will be found
According to Minister of Public Security Yitzchak Aharonovich, while Israeli Arabs only comprise 20% of the population, that sector is responsible for 40% of the crime in Israel. Aharonovich was addressing a session of the Knesset Finance Committee on Wednesday, 10 Menachem Av 5773 as the session addressed violence in southern Israel against the states […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] As is too often the norm in Hebron, Israeli Police seem to have forgotten their job is to protect law-abiding citizens and not to act as
Another reason to eat breakfast: Skipping it may increase your chances of a heart attack. A study of older men found those who regularly skipped breakfast had a 27 percent
Marking 100 years since the birth of Menachem Begin, the cabinet on Sunday, 15 Menachem Av 5773 held its weekly cabinet meeting at the Begin Heritage Center in Yerushalayim. Prime
Former American Ambassador to Israel Dr. Martin Indyk has been tapped by the US administration to head the information dissemination effort to act as the go-between from the US, Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority) should negotiations resume. Indyk, viewed as being close to former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was a strong […]
800 housing units have been approved in Modiin Illit by the Civil Administrations High Building Committee, apparently the result of years of work by Mayor Rav Yaakov Gutterman with former Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Barak signed the necessary approval for the apartments in January 2013. Gutterman continues his efforts with current Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, […]
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