The Sanzer Rebbe Shlita attending a yahrzeit of Rav Shimon Gabbai ZT”L of Netanya instructed Sephardim to adhere to the word of Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita. The rebbe told participants that this is the correct path for them to follow, to adhere to the words of the Gadol Hador. HaRav HaGaon Yitzchok Dovid […]
U.S. builders started work on homes in December at the fastest pace in 4 ½ years and finished 2012 as their best year for residential construction since the early stages of the housing crisis. The Commerce Department said Thursday that builders broke ground on houses and apartments last month at a seasonally adjusted annual rate […]
The Ramat Beit Shemesh community is invited to a unique Kinos for the English speaking public, this Motzei Shabbos Parshas Bo. For the purpose of raising awareness regarding the situation
Though Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty in 1994, relations between the countries have been minimal. And this makes the first-ever Jordan-Israel Academic Emergency Medicine Collaboration, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), all the more notable. “I would like our graduates to feel very proud to have had their education at this noble, […]
After months of meticulous planning on both sides of the Atlantic, the Satmar Grand Rabbi, Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum, will travel to Israel on Saturday night, January 19th, in order to
Yahadut MK Moshe Gafne, who heads the Knesset Finance Committee, has turned to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and Central Election Committee Chairman Justice Elyakim Rubinstein demanding legal action. Gafne is angered over the use of the word “bloodsucker” in the description of the chareidi tzibur in a non-frum publication. “The newspaper publishes and advert encouraging […]
New York City’s school bus strike enters its third day Friday. It pits the city’s need to rein in spiraling costs against the bus drivers’ goal of preserving their jobs.
After back-to-back presidential losses, Republicans in key states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win. From Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, GOP officials who control legislatures
In the middle of a bitter fight over a Republican president’s nominee for defense secretary, a former White House occupant pleaded with senators to give the president his choice for
A Dialogue Institute poll commissioned by Channel 10 TV News, released on Wednesday night the eve of 6 Shevat 5773, Likud/Beitenu receives 32 votes. The poll questioned 756 respondents. 1.
A report by a panel of experts released on Thursday questioned whether the U.S. government’s food stamp program adequately provides for healthy diets for the more than 47 million low-income
That innocent question, posed by a woman who had just moved to Beersheva, set off a chain of events that led to Yad L’Achim’s intervention. It all began with an
Non-U.S. pension funds and mutual funds were spared the full brunt of new U.S. information-reporting rules on overseas accounts meant to catch Americans who dodge U.S. taxes by keeping their
U.S. Mint has suspended sales of its 2013 American Eagle silver bullion coins after running out of stock due to soaring investor demand for the newly minted coins in the
Iran responded to a 2010 cyber attack on its nuclear facilities by beefing up its own cyber capabilities, and will be a “force to be reckoned with” in the future,
U.S. scientists have discovered a new deer tick-borne disease in humans, with the viral-like illness sharing similarities both with Lyme disease and relapsing fever infections. The as-yet unnamed ailment is
There is a new and apparently growing concept in the dati leumi community, yeshivot ketanot leumiyot. According to a Ladaat report, of late, the Igud Yeshivot opened five yeshivot to
A U.S. soldier charged with capital murder in the slayings of 16 civilians near his military post in Afghanistan was diagnosed as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain
The U.S. drought that crippled many communities across the nation last year shows little sign of retreating, and the threat of persistent water scarcity is spurring efforts to preserve every
Ayelet Shaked, number five on the Bayit HaYehudi list released a statement that her party will work to advance civil marriages for “those ineligible to get married in the Chief Rabbinate system to avoid having to travel abroad” as many couples are compelled to do today. According to the Kippa report, Shaked plans to work […]
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