As the Obama administration defended its widespread collection of U.S. phone records and internet traffic, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Friday that the programs helped disrupt a 2009 plot
If there’s one blog that has a record of predicting elections outcome ahead of time, it is the NY Times Five Thirty Eight Blog. In 2012 during the presidential elections, Nate Silver was the only pundit that confidently predicted the election outcome based on analysis of public opinion polls. In this year’s mayoral election, while […]
Weeks after the left-wing expressed outrage over a sefer being distributed in the IDF by the IDF Rabbinate addressing the Halachos of mezuzah, the sefer is out of circulation. YWN-ISRAEL
MKs (Yahadut Hatorah) Yaakov Litzman and Meir Porush on Thursday morning, 28 Sivan 5773 met with President Shimon Peres in the President’s Residence in Yerushalayim. The MKs asked for the meeting to discuss the government cuts to yeshiva budgets and the planned draft of bnei yeshivos into the IDF. The beginning of the meeting was […]
The Movement for Quality Government is turning to the Supreme Court in an effort to compel the government to draft bnei yeshivos immediately. The movement states “the matter demands immediate attention” since the draft law is being decided upon at present. The Peri Share the Burden Committee has already approved the draft law, which is […]
President Barack Obama vigorously defended sweeping secret surveillance into America’s phone records and foreigners’ Internet use, declaring “we have to make choices as a society.” Taking questions Friday from reporters
The U.K. has been secretly gathering communications data from American Internet giants with the help of fellow spooks at the U.S. National Security Agency, the Guardian newspaper reported Friday, a
DALLAS (AP) — A pregnant Texas actress who told FBI agents her husband had sent ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been arrested for orchestrating the scheme herself, a law enforcement official said Friday. It was not immediately clear what charges would be filed against Shannon Guess Richardson […]
A member of Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s campaign staff says Booker is planning to enter the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat previously held by Frank Lautenberg. The staff member says Booker plans to announce his entry into the race Saturday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to […]
The Finance Ministry is looking to cut spending and it appears one of the favored targets is funding for yeshivos. In his Knesset address on Wednesday, 27 Sivan 5773, MK
During a forum on Jewish Issues hosted by the ‘Flatbush Jewish Community Coalition’ and COJO of Flatbush, Mr. Weiner seemed to portray himself as Heimish enough to the Orthodox community
The U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in May, a gain that shows employers are hiring at a still-modest but steady pace despite government spending cuts and higher taxes. The unemployment
With IDF forces on heightened alert along the Golan Heights, a mortar shell landed in the area Thursday afternoon, along the border. Two mortars landed in Israel on Wednesday afternoon
[COMMUNICATED CONTENT] Ramat Givat Zeev neighborhood is accelerating: after the development work has begun in the area, and after impressive marketing of dozens of residential units to the best of
Perhaps the cuts to chareidi yeshivos is a prime example of the ‘snowball effect’, for when the Bayit Yehudi dati leumi party joined forces with Yesh Atid, Naftali Bennett failed to look too far ahead. Some believe it is his political naiveté while others feel his disdain for chareidim blinded him and yet others do […]
The debate over whether the government is violating citizens’ privacy rights while trying to protect them from terrorism escalated dramatically on Thursday amid reports that authorities have collected data on
The Torah world held its breath on Sunday night when the news spread that Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita had fallen and was being transported to a hospital by
Fire officials admit there may have been a problem with the 911 system that caused a more than 4-minute delay in dispatching an ambulance to help a 4-year-old girl who
The Café Shalom restaurant on Queen Mary Rd., just west of Décarie Blvd., was firebombed early Friday by two “incendiary devices,” Montreal police said. Damage inside the restaurant from the Molotov-style attack was light, Constable Danny Richer added. Two Molotovs were thrown into the business, Constable Daniel Lacoursière subsequently specified. Firefighters were called shortly after […]
One of the major achievements of former Housing Minister (Shas) Ariel Atias was a housing subsidy for people buying an apartment in an outlying community. This perk is being eliminated
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