Yahadut Hatorah officials attended an election rally in Beit Chelkiyeh and Rav Yisrael Eichler used the forum to express his concerns. For Eichler, the issue of the imminent drafting of avreichim into the IDF represents an “existential threat” and he is calling on the chareidim to come out and vote on 11 Shevat 5773. Eichler […]
People who lived in the two states that saw the most deadly U.S. mass shootings in 2012 were less enthusiastic about buying new guns at the end of the year
HaBayit HaYehudi leader Naftali Bennett announced that it is clear the next prime minister will be Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, explaining the left-wing simply cannot enlist enough support to block
A 69-year-old Jewish taxi driver became another victim of Arab terror as he was beaten and dumped on the side of a Shomron road on Monday morning 25 Teves 5773.
A New York state commission on Monday recommended privatizing the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), which was slow to restore power to customers on Long Island following Superstorm Sandy in
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has called for a police investigation against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who allegedly received tens of thousands of NIS illegally from chareidi singer and businessman, Dedi Graucher. It is alleged that Graucher would give cash to the prime minister’s personal driver to hand to him. The information was gathered as part […]
President Barack Obama’s nomination of Chuck Hagel as the next U.S. secretary of defense is causing jitters in Israel, where some circles view the former Nebraska senator as unsympathetic or even hostile. Hagel’s positions on Israel’s two most pressing foreign policy issues — Iran’s nuclear program and relations with the Palestinians — appear to be […]
It is now being reported that the agreement between the Likud and Yisrael Beitenu parties is going to be terminated immediately following elections on 11 Shevat 5773. The two parties
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a challenge to federal regulators’ method for determining which political groups need to register as political action committees and reveal their
New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and City Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick today unveiled newly designed and simplified parking regulation signs in Midtown’s commercial parking areas, making it easier to see and read signs while reducing their size. The initial rollout replaces 6,300 parking regulation […]
After the audio tape of the visit to HaGaon HaRav Aaron Leib Shteinman Shlita by Rav Shalom Cohen made the rounds in the chareidi media, Rav Amnon Yitzchak announced “I am not dropping out of the race”, stating his Koach L’Hashpiah Party will run to the end. Rav Amnon mentioned Rav Cohen by name, using […]
City Councilman David G. Greenfield will join City Council colleagues, advocacy groups, educational leaders and others on Wednesday at 10:15 a.m. on the steps of City Hall to call on New York City government to end its use of the outdated and offensive term “mentally retarded” in all official documents and instead use the term […]
The Supreme Court has turned away a challenge from former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and other Social Security recipients who say they have the right to reject Medicare in
As the chassidic community marked the 200th yahrzeit of the Bal HaTanya ZY”A on 24 Teves, the Sefer was just released in Arabic in a ceremony held this week in Haifa, in the Netzach Yisrael Shul in the city’s German Colony. City officials were on hand for the event along with the Chabad shluchim to […]
A ceiling collapsed in Ponevezh Yeshiva dormitory during morning seder on Monday 25 Teves 5773 as a result of the winter storm. The strong wind gusts seem to have resulted in the top story ceiling giving in. B’chasdei Hashem, the debris fell on an adjacent structure and there were no injuries. Laadat.info quotes a rosh […]
The Obama administration spent more money on immigration enforcement in the last fiscal year than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined, according to a report on the government’s enforcement
A Pakistani man accused of taking part in an international al Qaeda plot to attack targets in the United States and Europe is expected to make his first U.S. court
The major election asifa set to take place in the Jerusalem Convention Center this week with the participation of Gedolei Hador Shlita is being postponed due to the inclement weather.
Health officials say this flu season is shaping up to be one of the more severe in recent years. Earlier reports indicated that this could be a bad flu season,
parked Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner aircraft with no passengers on board caught fire at Boston’s Logan International Airport while parked at a gate on Monday morning, an airport spokesman said.
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