The Environmental Protection Agency has displayed a lack of urgency in the wake of a deadly Texas fertilizer plant explosion and must regulate potentially explosive chemicals immediately, legislators said Thursday.
Customs officials in Ben-Gurion International Airport apprehended an unemployed 66-year-old man trying to smuggle 24 high end Cuban cigars into Israel. The man flew from Cuba to Budapest, then to Tel Aviv. The experts report the value of the cigars in the “tens of thousands of NIS”. They add the man receives unemployment from Bituach […]
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Federal regulators have accused former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine of misusing customer money while he was CEO of brokerage firm MF Global, which collapsed in 2011. A civil lawsuit
Background: About ten days ago, YWN-ISRAEL reported that Dayan HaGaon HaRav Tzion Boaron (??????), a member of the Chief Rabbinate Supreme Court, appears to be heading for the Chief Rabbinate race to become the next Rishon L’Tzion. Earlier this week, YWN-ISRAEL reported that Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita has selected one of his sons […]
The Obama administration gathered U.S. citizens’ Internet data until 2011, continuing a spying program started under President George W. Bush that revealed whom Americans exchanged emails with and the Internet
As a result of the ongoing thefts and break-ins that plague Jerusalem’s Ramat Shlomo neighborhood, rabbonim of the community have decided that a private security company must be brought in, Hamodia reports. During recent weeks, there have been break-ins every Shabbos, as well as during the week and as a result, families fear leaving their […]
Anthony Foxx, the mayor of Charlotte, N.C., and a political ally of President Barack Obama, was unanimously confirmed by the Senate Thursday to be transportation secretary. The Senate voted 100-0
The National Religious Party years ago pushed a bill that would give Israelis a day off monthly, working its plan around rosh chodesh. It was defeated. As a result, the only day off in Israel is Shabbos and many feel that the result is increased chilul Shabbos. The late MK Rabbi Meir Kahane HY”D was […]
Driven to reduce a huge backlog of disability claims, Social Security is pushing judges to award benefits to people who may not deserve them, several current and former judges told
According to a report in a Kuwaiti newspaper, National Security Council Director Yaakov Amidror is involved in a power struggle with Minister of Intelligence & Strategic Affairs Dr. Yuval Steinitz. The report cites that Steinitz enjoys the support of Mrs. Sara Netanyahu, and the controversy created by her intervention has led to Amidror’s decision. The […]
The National Council of Young Israel issued the following statement today regarding the United States Supreme Court’s decision to strike down key portions of the federal Defense of Marriage Act,
Deputy Minister of Religious Services (Bayit Yehudi) Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan told Knesset TV that the party has yet to make a decision as to which candidate it will back in the race to become the next Rishon L’Tzion. Ben-Dahan admits that “we are under enormous pressure” to still push through the bill that would permit […]
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev downloaded bomb-making instructions from an al-Qaida magazine, gathered online material on Islamic jihad and martyrdom, and later scribbled anti-American messages inside the boat where
Seven Cheshvan 5774 will mark the 80th anniversary of the petira of Rabbi Yehuda Meir Shapira of Lublin ZT”VL, the father of daf yomi. The international council to perpetuate his name is quite busy preparing for the special yahrzeit. Jerusalem askan Rav Chaim Miller has informed the council that efforts are underway to perpetuate the […]
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling erasing part of a federal anti-gay marriage law was a “bad decision” and an example of “judicial supremacy.” In January, the Republican governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate vetoed a New Jersey same-gender marriage bill. On a radio program Wednesday, he said he’d do […]
The Jerusalem District Court on Thursday, 19 Tammuz 5773 sentenced Muhmad Shuish, a resident of the eastern capital, to five years imprisonment. Shuish was convicted of a stabbing attack that occurred last April in which a chareidi male was targeted near Herod’s Gate. The attacked was an act of terror, and the conviction was the […]
According to a report in the daily Haaretz on Thursday, 19 Tammuz 5773, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is willing to hand over most of Yehuda and Shomron to the PA
Average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages surged this week to their highest levels in two years, and the rate on the 30-year loan jumped by the most in 26 years. The increase is evidence that the Federal Reserve’s comments about possibly reducing its bond purchases are already affecting consumers. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday […]
The Senate has passed historic immigration legislation offering the hope of American citizenship to millions, while promising a military-style surge to secure the border. The vote was 68-32, eight more
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