The Obama administration is rethinking its opposition to arming the rebels who have been locked in a civil war with the Syrian regime for more than two years, Defense Secretary
In an effort to assist young couples in buying their first apartment, MK (Yahadut Hatorah) proposed a bill that would permit a couple to buy a first apartment without paying
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that there was enough evidence for a grand jury to consider indicting a Mississippi man accused of mailing poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, 21 Iyar 5773 met with a delegation of senior members of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, led by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA.) At the start of the meeting, Prime Minister Netanyahu said: “We’re engaged right now in an effort that we appreciate led by President Obama […]
The average U.S. rate on the 15-year fixed mortgage fell to a new record low last week, and the rate on the 30-year fixed loan declined. Cheaper mortgages have encouraged more home-buying and refinancing. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate for the 15-year fixed mortgage slipped to 2.56 percent. That’s the […]
Police and politicians across the U.S. are pointing to the example of surveillance video that was used to help identify the Boston Marathon bombing suspects as a reason to get
Crane operators hoisted the final pieces of the spire atop One World Trade Center on Thursday, helping to fill the void in the New York City skyline that was left
Minister of Science (Yesh Atid) Yaakov Peri, who heads the Knesset Share the Burden Committee, has announced he wishes to conduct a “discreet dialogue” with roshei yeshiva towards reaching an understanding on the issues involved with government plans to draft bnei Torah. In his letter sent to the roshei yeshiva published in the Thursday 22 […]
A St. Louis Park teenager who began lobbying for tighter gun controls after his father was killed in a workplace shooting says he’s disappointed that nothing will change this year in the Legislature. But Sami Rahamim says he wasn’t shocked to hear that House Speaker Paul Thissen had ruled out any votes in that chamber […]
Justice Minister (The Movement) Tzipi Livni is scheduled to meet with Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington on Thursday, 22 Iyar 5773. Accompanying Livni is attorney David Molcho, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s special emissary. The minister will be discussing Kerry’s efforts to advance the diplomatic process between Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority), particularly […]
Together with millions of Dutch people celebrating the coronation of Willem-Alexander as Holland’s new king, the nation’s Jews celebrated this historic day in their own way: with a special tefilla and recitation of the bracha. The tefilla, which has been distributed among the Jewish communities of Holland in recent days, states, “May He Who grants […]
The Thursday 22 Iyar 5773 issue of Yated Neeman speaks out loud and clear against a new kollel that plans to include high tech studies in its limudim. Referring to the concept as “???? ?????” (serious breach) the newspaper quotes Maranan V’Rabbanan Shlita, headed by HaGaon HaRav Aaron Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita as opposing the […]
MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Rav Meir Porush in a query to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein seeks to inquire into the legality of the law being formulated towards drafting chareidim while ignoring the entire Arab sector. Porush reports receiving a response from Weinstein’s aide, attorney Oren Phono, explaining the court has already been petitioned in the matter […]
The rise of far-right movements and anti-Semitism across Europe, notably in Hungary, where more than half a million Jews were killed in the Nazi Holocaust, will preoccupy Jewish leaders from
The Village of Lawrence will have its first contested election since 2010 and only the second one since 2003 as David Seidemann and Alex Edelman will challenge incumbent trustee Michael
Leopold Engleitner, the oldest known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, has died at the age of 107, his biographer said. Engleitner, a conscientious objector whose life was documented in
Bomb threats at two different Houston synagogues have the Department of Homeland Security, Houston police department, the Anti-Defamation League, and the FBI on alert. The threats were made to Congregation
14:12 IL: Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita has completed his consultations with Shas’ Moetzas Gedolei Yisrael, appointing MK Aryeh Deri as the party’s leader. Deri will replace Eli Yishai, who led the party prior to the general elections. Actually, upon Deri’s return ahead of the elections, Rav Ovadia tried to avoid machlokes and appointed […]
The family of missing IDF soldier Rimon Sadeh, 19, from Modi’in on Thursday morning 22 Iyar 5773 made an appeal to the tzibur to assist. They ask anyone with any information to please contact the authorities involved in the search for their son, who disappeared from his base on Tuesday morning, 20 Iyar. It is […]
A tragic accident R”L claimed the life of a Modi’in Illit toddler on Wednesday evening 21 Iyar 5773. The child, 2.5-years-old, fell from a fifth floor balcony on Rav U’Shmuel Street. EMS responders began CPR on the scene and the child was flown in an IDF chopper to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. […]
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