A fire broke out in an Ohr Yehuda shul on Wednesday morning 12 Shevat 5773. B’chasdei Hashem firefighters responded quickly and began working to bring the blaze under control. The blaze began at about 6:30am in the shul on Shlomo Dardashti Street. After it was declared under control firefighters entered and removed the four Sifrei […]

When asked if Yair Lapid will replace him as foreign minister, Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor Lieberman responded “perhaps he will become finance minister,” the daily Yated Ne’eman reports. Lieberman explained “Lapid’s main issues surround the economy, social economic issues, housing prices, the middle class, so it is natural that he would oversee the Finance Ministry.” […]

A new bill on the amendment to Poland’s animal rights law to make kosher and halal slaughter legal in Poland has been submitted for public consultation, a spokesperson for the Ministry of agriculture has announced. Spokeswoman Ma?gorzata Ksi??yk says the public consultation period will last one week, following a Constitutional Court ruling late last year […]

Yahadut Hatorah officials have turned to the Central Election Committee, citing they are certain that in a number of polling stations, Gimmel votes went to the Labor Party. Chareidi officials

Misaskim would once again like to make special mention of the incredible sensitivity shown by the NY Medical Examiner’s office towards the Kishik family who suffered the tragic loss of their daughter, Sara A”H. Sara A”H was tragically struck & killed by a vehicle on Tuesday at 4 p.m. and the family opted to catch the 11:50 […]

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Following are Central Election Committee results reflecting the voting breakdown in a number of cities with significant frum neighbors. BEIT SHEMESH: Yahadut Hatorah – 8,360 Likud/Beitenu – 6,741 Shas – 5,433 Bayit HaYehudi – 4,271 Yesh Atid – 1,273 Otzma Yisrael – 858 Labor – 753 Am Shalem – 404 Koach L’Hashpiah – 381 The […]

Shas leaders are all smiles and with good reason. No one knows more them just how fortunate the party is to have reached 11 seats, with many of the pre-election

Following is a listing of votes for Yahadut Hatorah as compared to the last elections in 2009. The information is furnished by HaMevaser. It is clear that the words of

[By Peter Bella] History was made. Not His-story, the saga of the messiah, Barack Obama, but real history. Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu was reelected to a third term as Israel’s prime minister. This election proved our president wrong. For months Obama has been privately saying that Israel, a sovereign nation, “does not know what its own best […]

Speaking with Israel Radio on Wednesday night 12 Shevat 5773, Yahadut Hatorah MK R’ Moshe Gafne expressed his delight over the election outcome, thanking voters and campaign workers alike. ISRAEL

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid announced he will not work to form a centrist/left-wing bloc against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. At present, it is too soon to know if the

Tri-state residents braced for a third straight day of single-digit temperatures and biting winds Thursday as meteorologists warned the dangerously frigid weather could be around at least through the weekend.

A small-time American drug dealer-turned-terrorist plotter who helped plan a brutal 2008 attack on Mumbai, India, learns Thursday whether his wide-ranging cooperation with U.S. investigators will earn him any leniency

On most construction projects, workers are discouraged from signing or otherwise scrawling on the iron and concrete. At the skyscraper rising at ground zero, though, they’re being invited to leave

Democratic Sen. John Kerry, on a smooth path to confirmation as secretary of state, is likely to face friendly questioning when he testifies before the committee that he’s served on

North Korea is warning that it is prepared to conduct a nuclear test and carry out more long-range rocket launches. In a statement carried Thursday by state media, the National

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Borough President Marty Markowitz waffled Wednesday over who has responsibility for overseeing the failure of some Brooklyn religious Jewish schools to teach their students basic English, math and science. As DNAinfo.com New York has been reporting this week, many Orthodox Jewish schools in Brooklyn — attended by more than 80,000 kids […]

Rabbi David Stav, a candidate for the post of Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi was a guest on Channel 2, addressing the issues of marriage and giyur in Israel. Rav Stav, a

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