Elad Mayor Yitzchak Edan and other city officials were arrested as a result of an ongoing undercover investigation which connects them to illegal activities. Edan was released to house arrest, officials reported on Tuesday, 19 Sivan 5773. He will spend the next two weeks in his mother’s home, after which it appears he may return […]
U.S. congressmen will meet security officials in Moscow this week to find out whether the FBI could have done more with Russian intelligence on the Boston bombing suspect to prevent
Machlokes can lead to strange coalition partners and perhaps seeing MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Moshe Gafne and MK (Meretz) Zahava Gal-On working together might qualify as such a partnership. While the
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] At a session titled “Waze Under the Hood” at the Second Jerusalem Tourism Summit at Binyanei Ha’Uma, Waze gps navigation app co-founder Uri Levine delivered a
Two letters addressed to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his gun control group contained material believed to be the deadly poison ricin, and referenced the debate on gun
Rosh Yeshivas Kol Yaakov HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Addas Shlita has announced he is stepping down from the Degel Hatorah Moetzas Gedolei Hatorah due to “weakness and his ailing condition”. The rav sent a letter of resignation to the council’s secretary, Rabbi Avraham Rubinstein in which he explained that Maran HaGaon HaRav Elyashiv approached him to […]
Suffern Mayor Dagan Lacorte, one of the Democratic candidates for Rockland County Executive, sent the following letter today to leaders of the ultra-Orthodox community in Monsey and New Square: “After
The FDNY responded Wednesday to a fire with explosion and partial collapse at a Queens home that had work done through the city’s free program to fix Sandy-damaged properties. The
Hebron resident and activist Baruch Marzel announced on Tuesday, 19 Sivan 5773 that he sees the best way to combat efforts to eliminate limud Torah is by doubling his limud Torah, which he is committing to do. In a Facebook post Marzel explains increasing limud is the most efficient way of “removing the darkness”. Marzel […]
While Finance Minister (Yesh Atid) Yair Lapid continues threatening to topple the coalition over the share the burden issue; the induction of chareidim into the military, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon continues to warn Lapid and his colleagues. Lapid is tenacious in demands that draft violators, namely bnei yeshivos failing to report for service, will be […]
There is a considerable amount of anger and frustration directed at the Bayit Yehudi party after the latter absented itself from the preliminary Knesset vote on the Stern Bill, the
Bill Thompson, pushed away from second place, doesn’t think much of the most recent public polls that show him stuck in the middle of the crowded Democratic field. The 2009
Facebook Inc admitted its systems to remove hate speech haven’t worked as well as the company had hoped, amid reports that advertisers were pulling their brands off the social network
A 30-month-old Yerushalayim toddler from the Beis Yisrael neighborhood was niftar on Tuesday, 19 Sivan 5773 in the hospital. EMS officials responded to the family’s home on Yosef Karo Street. Ichud Hatzalah EMTs reported upon their arrival the girl was in an altered mental state and her condition deteriorated rapidly. MDA EMTs added that when […]
The European Jewish Congress is carefully considering the possibility of taking legal action over a cartoon in Dagbladet, one of Norway’s leading papers, which depicted Bris Milah in a blood-thirsty-demonic manner. “This cartoon has crossed all lines of decency and is dripping with hate and Antisemitism,” Dr. Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress, […]
Democrats in NYC have expressed, throughout the current mayoral race, their eagerness of retaining control of the city after 20 years of Republican control. However, there is one guy that
Two Republican lawmakers asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday to clarify testimony he gave Congress this month about his role in the targeting of journalists in a leak
[COMMUNICATED CONTENT] If you want to see a picture of pure joy, you only have to go as far as the nearest print or online copy of Mesamche Lev’s Bringing Simcha to Life auction booklet. The children that grace its pages are so charming; so pure; their joy radiates off the glossy pages. Their joy […]
About a month after being removed as the leader of the Shas party, Eli Yishai broke his self-imposed media ban. On Tuesday evening the eve of 20 Sivan 5773, Yishai granted an interview with Channel 2 TV News’ Sivan Rahav Meir. When asked about the difficulties of his sharp drop in status, from a senior […]
Speaking on a Channel 10 TV morning news program on Wednesday, 20 Sivan 5773, MK (Likud) Moshe Feiglin addressed a number of issues, including the sharing the burden matter, the effort to compel bnei yeshivos to serve in the IDF. Feiglin feels “the entire share the burden issue is nothing more than a farce, for […]
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