Tens of thousands of bicyclists are off to the races for the TD Five Boro Bike Tour. The race kicked off at 7:45 a.m. at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan,
President Barack Obama is defending the FBI’s handling of the Boston Marathon bombing investigation as Republicans ready for oversight hearings on the attack. Obama tells the Spanish-language television network Univision he doesn’t think it’s fair to say law enforcement “dropped the ball”. The president says “there are going to be times where individuals decide they […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday afternoon 25 Iyar 5773 departs for a state visit to China. Officials in the Prime Minister’s Office on Sunday morning announced the prime minister’s departure would be delayed by two hours. Israel Radio reported the delay was “due to the tensions in the north”. The Chinese leadership was recently […]
Israel has placed Iron Dome defense systems in both the cities of Haifa and Tzfas. Baruch Hashem to date, Syria has opted not to respond to reported IAF attacks against
On motzei Shabbos, dozens of residents of the Talmonim area of the Binyamin Council district in Shomron protested the sharp deterioration of security for motorists on area roads, referring to
Explosions shook Damascus early on Sunday and Syrian state television said Israeli rockets had struck a military research center on the outskirts of the capital. The blasts occurred a day
With a second airstrike against Syria in four months, Israel enforced its own red line of not allowing game-changing weapons to reach Lebanon’s Hezbollah, a heavily armed foe of the Jewish state and an ally of President Bashar Assad’s regime, Israeli officials said Saturday. But the strike, which one official said targeted a shipment of […]
Eastern Union’s free “Real Estate 101” course has been met with an overwhelming response from all corners of the globe in the few days since it was announced. People from
Google is de facto recognizing a state of Palestine. Google spokesman Nathan Tyler said on Friday that Google had decided to change the name of the Palestinian Territories to just “Palestine” in its products. He says Google consults with various sources and authorities when naming countries, and in this case is following the lead of […]
Customs officials are being ordered “effective immediately” to verify that every foreign student arriving in the U.S. has a valid student visa. It’s the first security change by the U.S. government directly related to the Boston bombings. According to an internal memorandum obtained by The Associated Press, the Homeland Security Department says every international student […]
Federal, state and local authorities are searching the woods near the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth campus as part of their investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing. Christina DiIorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for
While Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and others are euphoric of a recent Arab League peace overture to Israel, Hamas leader Haled Meshal is not having any part of it. The
It’s finally here. The winners will finally be chosen. This motzei Shabbos, May 4th, is the Oorah-thon, the culmination and absolutely final deadline to enter to win dozens of incredible prizes in the Oorah Auction, from a luxury cruise to hi-tech to a diamond necklace. Broadcasted on radio stations across the country including 770 AM, and streamed live […]
An IDF court has curtailed the sentences of two “security prisoners” held in administrative detention. The PA (Palestinian Authority) Ma’an news agency reports Attorney Jawad Boulos said the military court ordered the early release of Jaafar Izz al-Din and Tariq Kadan by two weeks and are due to leave Israeli custody on 8. May. Izz […]
U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in April, and hiring was much stronger in the previous two months than the government first estimated. The job increases reduced the unemployment rate from
The National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum has received a low-interest $15 million loan from Mayor Michael Bloomberg to help the nonprofit with a budget shortfall. The underground museum is
The lawyer overseeing the Boston Marathon bombings victims’ fund says the families of three people who died could each receive more than $1 million. Kenneth Feinberg says he plans to unveil a tentative compensation proposal on Monday in advance of meetings with victims. Feinberg, the Massachusetts native who oversaw the 9/11 compensation fund, tells The […]
A Hungarian court has given the go ahead for a far-right protest on Saturday before an international conference of Jewish leaders in Budapest, saying a police ruling that banned it
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, mora d’asra of Yishuv Har Bracha speaks out contradicting the position of Tekuma faction rabbonim, headed by Rabbi Dov Lior Shlita. The rav stands firmly behind Bayit Yehudi efforts to draft chareidim into the IDF. “It must be understood that chareidim sharing the burden is an integral part of the existence of […]
A solar-powered airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the world was due to take off early on Friday from San Francisco Bay on the first leg of an
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