The U.S. government’s foray into the car business is slowly coming to an end. The Treasury Department said Wednesday that it will sell its remaining stake in General Motors in
New York City bus, subway and commuter rail passengers will soon have to pay more to ride. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board approved a slate of fare hikes Wednesday. They’ll take effect March 1. Base subway and bus fares will rise by 25 cents, to $2.50, though some paper single-ride tickets will cost $2.75. A […]
The White House was set to reveal the first steps of a gun-control plan on Wednesday as the United States grieved for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer released the statement below, following news that a Bolivian judge released Jacob Ostreicher, a New Yorker, and granted him house arrest. Jacob has been unjustly imprisoned in Bolivia since June 4, 2011. “This long overdue move is finally a step in the right direction for Jacob Ostreicher, who should have […]
President Barack Obama would veto the House Republican “Plan B” tax proposal designed to avert Jan. 1 tax hikes, the White House said on Wednesday, saying the plan does not
The chairman of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Joseph Lhota, said on Wednesday he will step down at the end of the year and is considering a run for mayor
Israel charged an Israeli Arab citizen on Wednesday over a bomb explosion on a Tel Aviv bus during Israel’s November military offensive in the Gaza Strip, the Justice Ministry said. The bus was driving close to Israel’s defense ministry complex when the bomb went off on November 21, wounding 15 people. Mohammed Mafarja, 18, is […]
TIME has tapped U.S. President Barack Obama for its Person of the Year for the second time, citing his historic re-election last month as symbolic of the nation’s shifting demographics
The new Syrian rebel military commander said he is “very afraid” a cornered Syrian President Bashar Assad will unleash chemical weapons on his own people but the opposition does not
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is scheduled to vote on its latest fare and toll hike proposal Wednesday morning. The plan calls for raising the base subway and bus fare 25
Security guards at John F. Kennedy International Airport who had been threatening a strike around the holidays have decided to hold off pending meetings with their employers. The employees of
Vice President Joe Biden will lead an effort to craft policies to reduce gun violence in a plan President Barack Obama was to lay out Wednesday amid calls for action
The Pentagon says its top intelligence official, who has been mentioned as a possible candidate to be the next CIA director, is under investigation in connection with information he provided
Pro-Israel groups, neoconservatives and even some former colleagues on Capitol Hill are confronting President Barack Obama with a growing backlash against Chuck Hagel, the ex-Republican senator tipped as his leading
An independent panel charged with investigating the deadly Sept. 11 attack in Libya that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans has concluded that systematic management and leadership failures
President Barack Obama has put Democrats in Congress in a tough spot politically after he conceded to Republican demands in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations that the government use a lower
The Haifa District Court has ordered state officials to enter into negotiations with Ibrahim Kozli, a 26-year-old resident of Dalyat el-Carmel and his attorney Wajdi Ka’abiyeh regarding the reward money offered for finding the body of IDF soldier Majdy Halabi. Ibrahim ultimately provided authorities with the information that led to the discovery of the soldier’s […]
An uplifting Chanukah celebration was held Thursday night at the residence of the UK Prime Minister David Cameron joined by MP’S and Jewish leaders from the orthodox and non-Orthodox communities. Among the guests were Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Rabbi Hershel Gluck, and Jewish community advocate Osher Schapiro of Stamford Hill. The event started with some […]
A Pakistani-born man plotted to detonate a bomb in New York City to avenge the deaths of people killed by drone attacks in Afghanistan but failed to raise enough money
[VIDEO & PHOTO LINK IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Marking the end of the shiva of HaRav Mendel Weinbach ZT”L, the Rosh Yeshiva of Ohr Somayach, hespedim were delivered at Ohr Somayach by HaRav Nota Schiller, HaRav Zev Leff, HaRav Yonasan Shmuel Wiener, HaRav Avraham Reisman, and HaRav Avi Weinbach. Rav Mendel Weinbach was one of the fathers […]
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