“Ray, thank you, and thank you for those kind words. Let me just start by saying my contributions as Mayor are not to run the Police Department, it is to pick the right people to do that, to make sure they have the resources and to have their backs when the going gets tough. “I […]
Shomron Regional Council leader Gershon Mesika spoke with Channel 2 News following the morning’s fatal terror attack at Tapuach Junction. Mesika blames the government for abandoning the security of area residents with the removal of the checkpoints. He pointed out that the terrorist who perpetrated the attack today came from Tulkarem, “Tens of kilometers away, […]
Russian agents placed the elder Boston bombing suspect under surveillance during a six-month visit to southern Russia last year, then scrambled to find him when he suddenly disappeared after police
An Arab League statement signals that for a first time, the Arab body is willing to negotiate final status boundaries in an agreement between Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority). The statement says that the pre-1967 Six Day War boundaries are negotiable, signaling a possible shift from the league’s position over the years. Justice Minister […]
President Shimon Peres on Tuesday 20 Iyar 5773, conducted a historic visit to the Vatican and held a first diplomatic meeting with Pope Francis. At the beginning of the meeting
Federal prosecutors have filed documents that say the deadly poison ricin was found on items dumped by the suspect charged in the investigation of poisoned letters sent to President Barack
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that no stone will be left unturned in reviewing whether any sensitive intelligence was missed that could have stopped the deadly attacks on the Boston
After the recent Jerusalem District Court ruling clearing the way for women to hold their own minyan while wearing tallis and tefilin at the Kosel, the Women of the Wall (WoW) organization released the following media statement. “In light of the District Court decision on April 24, 2013 and after 24 years of monthly prayers […]
Rabbinic alumni from Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) visited STAR-K Kosher Certification’s offices, during their Yarchei Kallah, held in Baltimore, Maryland, April 22-24. Participants traveled from as far away as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and Oakland, California, for this annual event for American and Canadian Rabbonim, coordinated by Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, University […]
The INS Rahav, the Israeli Navy’s 5th Dolphin-class submarine, was inaugurated today by the IDF and Ministry of Defense at a ceremony in Germany. Israel’s fifth Dolphin-class submarine, the INS
Superstorm Sandy released 11 billion gallons of sewage from East Coast treatment plants into bodies of water from Washington, D.C., to Connecticut. That’s according to a study by the nonprofit
Mazel tov to Yaakov Yosef Grunewald, one of the bochrim who was imprisoned in Japan on becoming a chosson. His kallah is a daughter of R’ Yudel Yaakov. The L’chaim was held in Bnei Brak this week, attended by many rabbonim including Rabbi Moshe Shaul Klein Shlita, rav of the Ohr Chaim neighborhood as well […]
President Barack Obama strongly suggested Tuesday he’d consider military action against Syria if it can be confirmed that President Bashar Assad’s government used chemical weapons in the two-year-old civil war.
MK (Yahadut Hatorah) used the Knesset plenum forum to express his outrage over the Lag B’Omer transportation fiasco in which so many visitors to Meron were stranded, some for hours. Eichler pointed out how women and children were among the many stranded, detailing the difficult situation on the unseasonably hot spring day. He reports that […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Despite three banquet rooms at Ateres Chaya Hall in Boro Park being filled to capacity with over 5,500 people for the Bonei Olam dinner Tuesday evening,
Russia has banned its airlines from flying over Syria, the aviation agency said on Tuesday, after a plane with 160 passengers detoured to avoid danger from fighting on the ground.
After being prohibited from visiting Har Habayis on Monday by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, MK (Likud) Moshe Feiglin explains that for him, this was a red line. Feiglin has stopped
When firemen and EMS personnel responded to a blaze in Meah Shearim on Monday night the eve of 20 Iyar 5773, they did not expect to have to defend themselves
The Yisrael Beitenu party on Monday 18 Iyar 5773 released a statement expressing support for a policy of imposing sanctions on yeshivos that fail to cooperate with the government’s new effort to compel yeshivos to introduce core subjects into the curriculum. The party also commented on its union with the Likud party, explaining the future […]
Iran said on Tuesday it regarded the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war as a “red line”, echoing major adversary the United States but saying Syrian rebels
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