Plans by Jerusalem City Hall to operate a Shabbos flea market at the old train station complex near the German Colony have resulted in protests from city councilmen from Shas and Yahadut Hatorah, who in addition to voicing their objections have been meeting to plan their response. Deputy Mayor (Yahadut Hatorah) R’ Yitzchak Pindrus decried […]

Hundreds of Arabs confronted border police soldiers near the Shomron community of Ofra on erev Shabbos afternoon 16 Iyar 5773. Border police used riot control adjuncts in an effort to

Sentenced to a draconian 27 years behind bars, Sholom Rubashkin’s case, which began in 2008, has had international support from hundreds of former Department of Justice officials, federal judges, law professors, congressmen, and senators, as well as tens of thousands of citizens across the country. He now faces one last chance to fight for justice […]

Internet shoppers are moving closer to paying sales taxes for their online purchases. But the fight is far from over. The Senate voted 63-30 Thursday to advance a bill that

The Meuchedet Kupat Cholim (HMO) working with Ichud (United) Hatzalah (UH) will be establishing a medical clinic in Meron ahead of the Lag B’Omer Shabbos. Over 250,000 visitors are expected to arrive in Meron over the Lag B’Omer weekend, with the highlight beginning on motzei Shabbos at 23:30 when the Boyaner Rebbe Shlita lights the […]

Three British Islamists were jailed on Friday for planning mass suicide attacks that had the blessing of al Qaeda and which prosecutors said could have been as deadly as the

A Jersey City man was charged with having explosives material at his home and on a train just days before the Boston Marathon bombings, but authorities said there was no

The ????? ????? organization promoting road safety is publicizing a psak Halacha from Gedolei Yisrael Shlita explaining cautious driving habits are compulsory on all drivers towards saving lives. The rabbonim

The proposed state budget will have an impact on many sectors of Israeli society, including chareidim. Following are some of the new realities facing the chareidi community if the current version of the state budget is approved. Chareidi schools that are ‘recognized’ by the Ministry of Education and therefore enjoy state funding will no longer […]

It appears that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s belief that a stable PA (Palestinian Authority) economy must precede final status peace efforts has been accepted by the United States, which is pouring enormous sums of money into the PA. Secretary of State John Kerry is involved in preparing a broad sweeping fiscal package that will infuse […]

According to a report in the daily Haaretz on Wednesday, 14 Iyar 5773, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was attending a Goldman Sachs function in London attended by 30 businessmen,

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been moved to a prison at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, from the hospital where he had been held since his arrest by police a

A Frenchman visiting Berlin probably couldn’t have picked a more dangerous spot to pull a pretend pistol. Police say the heavily drunk tourist kneeled down in front of Germany’s biggest synagogue Thursday and pointed what appeared to be a gun at officers guarding the building. Luckily for him, a quick-witted policewoman noticed that the weapon […]

The FBI has promised to allow the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings to see his parents, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s mother said on Thursday. “The FBI has promised to organize a meeting with our son when we arrive in Boston,” the suspect’s mother Zubeidat Tsarnaeva told journalists, speaking from Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s republic […]

Following an investigation, police are recommending a criminal indictment against Rabbi Avraham Chaim Sherman, a former dayan on the Chief Rabbinate Supreme Court. He is alleged to have interfered in

About 18 months after the fatal stone-throwing attacks near Hebron that resulted in the deaths of Asher (25) and Yonatan Palmer HY”D, the terrorist convicted in the case was sentenced to two life sentences plus 58 years by an IDF court. Waal al-Araja, a former member of PA (Palestinian Authority) security forces, was found guilty, […]

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has backed a security practice permitting agents at the airport to open the email accounts of arriving visitors for security purposes when such a move is

MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Yaakov Litzman feels that at the end of the day it is Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who approved the coalition and formed the government and therefore he is to blame for the current situation, no one else. “We expect Netanyahu to stop and correct the harsh blow to the yeshivos, education, mosdos […]

President Barack Obama, standing before a line of flag-draped coffins, consoled family and friends on Thursday at a memorial service for firefighters killed in a massive explosion last week at

For some hesder yeshiva students the bein hazmanim provided them with an opportunity to expand their knowledge in another area other than Torah, taking a course to improve their an