The billion-dollar sale of navigation company Waze to Google may finally be putting Israel on the map as a major player in consumer Internet innovation. Israel’s high-tech sector has been
Nothing’s ever easy with President Barack Obama’s health care law. The latest hitch gives employers an additional year before they must offer medical coverage to their workers or pay a
In his Knesset plenum address on Wednesday, 25 Tammuz 5773, MK Meir Porush announced that if the order is given for chareidi males to enter the IDF, his sons will
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview published Thursday that his government had fended off everything his enemies had thrown at him and that the only remaining threat to his rule was a far-off — and improbable — foreign intervention. In comments to the state-run Al-Thawra newspaper, Assad rejected the idea that what has […]
The High Court of Justice on Wednesday, 25 Tammuz 5773 rejected a petition filed by a number of chareidi families against government plans to cut monthly child assistance payments. Justices
Bolivian President Evo Morales said Thursday that the rerouting of his plane over suspicions that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden was on board was a plot by the U.S.
When the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights act last week, it handed Republicans tough questions with no easy answers over how, and where, to attract voters even GOP
A criminal indictment was filed by the Jerusalem prosecutor in the Jerusalem District Court on Thursday, 26 Tammuz 5773 against the Kosel guard who shot and killed Doron Ben-Shalush. Hadi
Edward Snowden should find another country to seek refuge, a Russian official said on Thursday, signaling Moscow’s growing impatience over the former U.S. agency spy contractor’s lengthening stay at a Moscow airport. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia had received no request for political asylum from Snowden and he had to solve his problems […]
Former Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin appeared as a speaker in the eighth annual Hamodia Conference in Binyanei Ha’uma in Yerushalayim on Wednesday, 25 Tammuz 5773. He told participants that “chareidim cannot be excluded from the decision-making table for the chareidi sector is not a minority. The chareidi sector plays an integral role in shaping the […]
State Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein is being called upon to evaluate the merit of yet another candidate seeking to become Israel’s next Rishon L’Tzion. YWN-ISRAEL reported that Weinstein is summoning Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu for a meeting to discuss his hashkafa, after which Weinstein will rule on his eligibility to remain a candidate in the race […]
Mohamed ElBaradei, a former U.N. nuclear agency chief, is favorite to head a transitional government in Egypt after the military overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Mursi, military, political and diplomatic sources
It’s no secret that the Yeshivos and Kollelim in Eretz Yisrael are under direr straits than ever, due to the new Gezeiros that were put into place by the new Government. The name Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz is well known. His support of Torah is the result of his huge heart, one that has made supporting […]
It would appear the cherem placed on the Ramot Yerushalayim Kenyon Ramot Shopping Center by prominent community rabbonim has persuaded management to talk a deal. The rabbonim felt the shopping center was not meeting basic community tznius and after dialogue failed to compel management to comply with the directives of rabbonim, the cherem was announced. The […]
The chief justice of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court was sworn in Thursday as the nation’s interim president, taking over hours after the military ousted the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Adly Mansour took the oath of office at the Nile-side Constitutional Court in a ceremony broadcast live on state television. According to military decree, Mansour will […]
Once again thieves have set their sights on the Erlau Beis Medrash in the Katamon neighborhood of Yerushalayim. In this latest break-in, the office of the Rebbe Shlita was targeted
The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (OU), the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization, praised the state of Pennsylvania as it nears passage of a bill (SB 10) that increases funding for school safety from $500,000 to $8.5 million. The law will expand the schools eligible for the school safety grant program to […]
A central hesped event for Rav Elyashiv ZT”L is scheduled to take place in Bnei Brak on Thursday night, the eve of 27 Tammuz 5773, in the Letterman Shul. The event, set to get underway at 20:30, will be attended by HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita. In addition, on Thursday night beginning at 20:00 until […]
Israeli intelligence officials are monitoring events in Egypt as they unfold. Amid the major fears is a terrorist takeover of Sinai which would create another hostile border for the IDF.
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