Is Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Board Chairman, heading to Israel for a new job? At least that was the impression President Barack Obama hinted in an interview with Charlie Rose. Obama told Charlie Rose, in an interview that aired yesterday, that Federal Reserve Chairman �Ben Bernanke�s done an outstanding job,� but has stayed in his […]

The director of the National Security Agency said Tuesday the government’s sweeping surveillance programs have foiled some 50 terrorist plots worldwide, including one directed at the New York Stock Exchange,

[COMMUNICATED CONTENT] The Bar Ilan Judaic Library is the brain child of the famed Weizmann Institute, one of the world�s leading Science and Technology Centers based in Israel. The Project began in 1963 at the Weizmann Institute. Over the years it migrated to Bar Ilan University and had become known as the Bar Ilan Judaic […]

U.S. builders stepped up home construction in May and applied for permits to build single-family homes at the fastest pace in five years. The gains show housing remains a key

President Barack Obama is drawing a distinction between China�s alleged intellectual property theft and what he calls �standard fare� spying on other countries. Obama says every country engages in intelligence gathering, which he called an occasional source of tension. But the president says there�s a big difference between China trying to find out what he�s […]

An Orthodox Jewish family in Toronto woke up this week to a swastika and the words �watch your children� scrawled on their garage door, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a news release. The anti-Semitic vandals entered the family�s garage and added more graffiti on furniture inside, including a swastika on a baby�s […]

A list released by the U.S. government Monday identifies several dozen Guantanamo Bay prisoners who have been designated as too dangerous to release but who can’t be prosecuted. Those on

A commuter train shook on the tracks and then derailed in a tunnel under the East River shortly after leaving Penn Station on Monday night, forcing the hundreds of passengers

Fewer U.S. adults are smoking, a new government report says. Last year, about 18 percent of adults participating in a national health survey described themselves as current smokers. The nation’s

Revelations about the National Security Agency’s once-secret surveillance program suggests that the agency needs to get better at safeguarding data, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Monday. Kelly also told reporters

Thrifty Car Rental says it�s sorry, but many customers who were offered a free one-day rental won�t be getting that after all. The company says the offer was intended for a select group of top customers but was sent accidentally to many other people. �We�re very sorry for any confusion our eagerness may have caused,� […]

The FBI has reached a milestone in its 63-year-old program of pursuing its �Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.� It has added the 499th and 500th names of fugitives to have appeared over the years on its regularly updated list. The FBI says citizen cooperation has led to 155 of the fugitives being apprehended or their bodies […]

President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent � even though they are authorized in secret. “It is transparent,” Obama told PBS’ Charlie Rose in an interview broadcast Monday. “That’s why we set up the FISA court,” he added, referring to […]

In one of the biggest-ever showdowns between an automaker and the government, Chrysler on Tuesday is expected to file papers explaining its refusal to recall 2.7 million older Jeep SUVs

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. The rav began his carrier as a dayan in Tzfas and Tiveria, then becoming av beis din in Beersheva, then Petach Tikvah, until being appointed to […]