Eliot Spitzer’s fledgling bid to return to politics is hours away from a key deadline. Thousands of petition signatures are due only four days after he launched his New York
It’s election year in the Russian community, and the two power brokers are out at it – over dominance in the first Russian represented council district. While the Democratic Party
Heads of dati leumi yeshivot report that Finance Minister Yair Lapid has cut the operating budget of their mosdos significantly and a growing number of the Zionist yeshivos are collapsing
The stock market surged to all-time highs Thursday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank would keep supporting the economy for the foreseeable future. Bernanke said the
[TWO VIDEOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita on Thursday morning, 4 Menachem Av 5773, called on the tzibur at large to continue being mispallel on his
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Tzfas Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu is campaigning for chareidi support in his bid to become Israel’s next Rishon L’Tzion. In recent days, Rav Eliyahu visited with a number of admorim, Kikar Shabbat reports, including the Gerrer, Sanzer and Vishnitzer Rebbes. Rav Eliyahu already enjoys support for the dati leumi community, including Bayit Yehudi party […]
US Secretary of State John Kerry has announced he is indefinitely pushing off his next visit to Israel. Kerry has been making frequent visits, during which he engages in shuttle
The $600 million destination resort project planned by EPR Properties and Empire Resorts Wednesday night won the unanimous approval of the Thompson Town Planning Board. Town Supervisor Anthony Cellini said afterwards that the approval is “monumental,” given the statewide casino gaming referendum to come before the general public in November. “They will have to come […]
It was 1943 when Vienna’s Nazi overlords gave the order to destroy the city’s oldest Jewish cemetery, demanding it be leveled and the tombstones attesting to centuries of Jewish existence
Oday Aboushi has been touted as being the first Palestinian-American player in the National Football League (NFL), but his radical behavior since being drafted by the New York Jets less
Confined to the basement of a CIA secret prison in Romania about a decade ago, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, asked his jailers whether
The fact that renting an apartment in New York City is expensive is as obvious to most people as the fact that the sky is blue. But a new report by the real estate research firm Reis Inc. said rental prices just went up. The average rent for an apartment in New York City – […]
A promise of $12 billion in aid from wealthy Arab Gulf nations would give Egypt’s new military-backed leadership breathing room by paying for vital food and fuel imports. But the
Police and city leaders in Florida say they have taken precautionary steps for the possibility of mass protests or even civil unrest if George Zimmerman is acquitted in the killing
Passengers who called 911 minutes after a Boeing 777 crashed at San Francisco International Airport said not enough help had arrived and they were doing their best to keep the
Survivors of the Boston Marathon bombings got little satisfaction from surviving suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s first public appearance since the deadly attacks. “Not guilty,” was all he said, over and over.
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] The 11th Annual Legislative Breakfast hosted by Shema Kolainu- Hear Our Voices, school and center for children with autism servicing all boroughs of New York, was
Some chareidi camps are advertising that they are teaching campers English. Is this an effort to satisfy demands that yeshivos teach ‘core subjects’, albeit via a back door? The Avnei Shlomo chareidi talmid torah is advertising such a camp in Yerushalayim. The talmid torah is named after HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach ZT”L. The camp […]
Deputy Minister of Transportation (Likud) Tzipi Hotevely is working to increase fines for drivers who text while operating a vehicle. If she has her way, the fine will be increased
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