The 20th Yahrtzeit of HaRav Dovid Lifshitz zt’l, a preeminent Talmid of HaRav Shimon Shkop zt’l and HaRav Yeruchem Levovitz zt’l, will take place in just under two weeks, on the Ninth of Tammuz (June 17).  Known as the Suvalker Rav, HaRav Lifshitz served as Rosh Yeshiva in RIETS for nearly half a century, as […]

Internal Revenue Service staff have a long history of discouraging applications for tax-exempt status from controversial groups by burying them in complicated questionnaires, according to former IRS officials. Among other

[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Some 30 young rabbis from all across the continent participated in the Young European Rabbis’ Forum, a two-day seminar organized by the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE). The forum covered topics such as chinuch, marriage, counseling and fundraising. Among the speakers were: Harav Menachem Mendel Gluckowsky, rabbi of the Chabad community […]

President Vladimir Putin defended on Tuesday Russia’s right to sell arms to the Syrian government but said Moscow had not yet delivered advanced S-300 air defense systems to Damascus. Although

Israel is 10th among the 15 countries in the world with the most millionaires as a percentage of the number of households, according to The Boston Consulting Group, in its

The last person hospitalized with injuries from the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings was discharged on Monday, still facing a long recovery from the loss of her left leg and

It was clear to most that after the Amar Bill was passed by the Ministerial Legislative Committee it was going to be vetoed along the way. The Movement party did not disappoint, doing just that. MK Meir Sheetrit announced the veto, which now blocks the bill which would permit Rishon L’Tzion Rabbi Moshe Amar to […]

Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett announced on Monday, 25 Sivan 5773 that party MK Ayelet Shaked will lead the committee dealing with the Peri Committee Share the Burden Law to

A New York high school senior class and an airline agree on one thing: 101 students and eight chaperones were kicked off an early-morning flight from New York to Atlanta

More than any elected official before him, it appears Finance Minister Yair Lapid favorite forum for reaching his constituents is Facebook. This however does not appears to find favor in the eyes of all of his colleagues, including Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon. Ya’alon took a poke at Lapid, telling him “one cannot run the nation […]

Conservative groups who were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service are getting their say on Capitol Hill just as the details of another IRS controversy are being made public. The

In filling a vacant Senate seat, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie faces a significant choice fraught with political implications for his re-election campaign and, perhaps, a future presidential run. Democratic

Setting up a new fiscal showdown with Congress, the White House issued a veto threat on Monday for any spending bill that attempts to implement “draconian” budget cuts prescribed by

It may seem obvious to some but apparently many Israeli Jerusalem light rail commuters don’t get it. First, permit passengers on board the train to exit and then begin boarding.

A ten-year-old Palestinian boy on Sunday, 24 Sivan 5773, received new life thanks to a kidney transplant. The operation was carried out at the Schneider Children’s Hospital on a boy