The president of the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, Justice Shulamit Dotan agreed to a state prosecution request to have three justices assigned to the fraud trial of former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Dotan will head the panel, which the state feels is required due to the status of the defendant and the possible ramifications in the […]

The U.S. Senate on Monday approved a $50.5 billion disaster aid package for victims of Superstorm Sandy, three months after the storm destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of homes

In a rare move, the Belzer Rebbe Shlita released a letter directed at chareidi MKs which was published in the chassidus’ HaMachane HaChareidi affiliated newspaper. The letter is entitled “You are our shluchim”, and while it is attributed to the rebbe, it is signed “one of the rabbonim”. Kikar Shabbat reports with certainty that the […]

Is Washington’s backroom dealing dead? House Speaker John Boehner says he no longer wants to negotiate deficit reduction with President Barack Obama. The president says he won’t negotiate raising the

The IDF prosecutor on Sunday, 16 Shevat 5773 handed down indictments against three PA (Palestinian Authority) residents allegedly involved in a shooting attack in 2007. The charges include murder and

Back in February 2011, almost two years ago, the government decided there was an urgency, a need to add 960 beds to Israel’s national hospitals. It was reported that due to population growth there was a need to add beds to the hospital system, which is stretched to capacity every year during the winter flu […]

World Jewish groups denounced plans by Argentina and Iran to form a truth commission to investigate the deadly 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center that Argentine courts

President Obama spoke today by telephone with Prime Minister Netanyahu to congratulate him on his party’s success in winning a plurality of Knesset seats in Israel’s recent election. The President indicated that the United States looks forward to working with the next government. He also reiterated his commitment to the deep and enduring bonds between […]

It is no secret that concerns in Israel regarding Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal are increasing as that country appears heading for total anarchy. The civil war appears to be escalating and Israeli experts warn Damascus’ vast cache of weapons, including chemical weaponry, may fall in the hands of terrorists, i.e. Hizbullah. It appears that Hizbullah […]

An avreich seeking lower alimony payments tried his luck in court. He explained that his kollel payment doesn’t permit him to pay his ex-wife the alimony she seeks but he can manage 1,400 NIS monthly. The court said “you are young, health and able, so get a job, even at minimum wage”. The avreichim explained […]

President Barack Obama begins his second term straining to maintain a good relationship with Egypt, an important U.S. ally whose president is a conservative Islamist walking a fine line between

Rav Mordechai Blau, a known name in the Degel Hatorah community and chareidi education addressed the growing share the burden call as efforts are underway to establish a new coalition government. Realizing that Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid did his IDF service serving in “BaMachane”, the military’s weekly magazine, Blau announced “My son will serve […]

The Belzer Rebbe Shlita has instructed heads of the chassidus to make a $300 payment to anyone making a shidduch for older bachurim in the community. The sum is in

Deputy Health Minister (Yahadut Hatorah) Yaakov Litzman announced there is no room for compromise on the issue of drafting Bnei Torah into the IDF or national service. Taking part in an Agudas Yisrael assembly in Modi’in Illit, members of the chassidish faction of Yahadut Hatorah have turned up the volume so to speak, sending a […]

Two Sept. 11 defendants delayed the start of their hearing Monday at Guantanamo when they refused to respond to questions from their judge in the case. Defense lawyers didn’t say

According to a report filed by Channel 2 at Six’s Rena Matzliach, the likelihood of seeing Shas or other chareidim in the new coalition government is slim at present, for the issue of sharing the burden dominates coalition talks and she does not see how the chareidim will be able to join such an arrangement. […]

Lawyers for five alleged 9/11 conspirators who claim they were tortured in secret CIA prisons have asked a U.S. military judge to order that the prisons be preserved as evidence.