The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage shot his mother four times in the head before going to the school and gunning down 26, authorities said Sunday as details emerged
After challenging Kol Berama Radio in a discrimination lawsuit earlier this year, the Kolech organization is now seeking to have both Yahadut Hatorah and Shas disqualified in the upcoming general elections, citing that since they do not permit women on their lists. Kolech’s Ricky Shapira explains both parties are in violation of the basic laws of […]
According to the weekly HaEida Magazine, released on erev shabbos, a growing number of chareidim are moving to the Eida’s hashkafa and deciding not to vote in the general elections in Eretz Yisrael. The recent edition, Rosh Chodesh Teves 5773, addresses the machlokes in chareidi parties, with a focus on the split between Degel HaTorah […]
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Sunday he believed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would fall soon and that the new opposition coalition had to be supported to prevent extremists
In his brief statement to the media as he submitted his letter of resignation to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday morning 3 Teves 5773, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman expressed
The rumors spreading in Bnei Brak on Sunday morning proved to be reliable, for shortly after 3:00pm, HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Auerbach Shlita arrived in Bnei Brak, at 5 Chazon Ish
A week after a leader of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party called for lists of prominent Jews to be drawn up to protect national security, Janos Fonagy stepped forward. “My mother and father were Jewish, and so am I, whether you like it or not,” the state secretary of the Development Ministry told parliament, explaining he […]
Tens of thousands of PA (Palestinian Authority) residents took part in protests against Israel on Friday and shabbos, 2 and 3 Teves 5773. In Hebron, at least 3,000 Arabs protested
Mi K’Amcha Yisrael! YWN-ISRAEL reported in Kislev that an avreich lost 60,000 NIS in the Givat Shaul area of Yerushalayim. The distraught rosh kollel advertised his phone number in the hope that the finder would be honest and make an effort to return the sizable sum. That is just what occurred. Yossi Indor, of Ofrah […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on motzei shabbos the eve of 3 Teves 5773 visited the Kosel to take part in the candle lighting for the final night of Chanukah. He
Top elected officials in New York said Friday’s elementary school shooting massacre in neighboring Connecticut should be the final wake-up call to crack down on gun violence nationwide. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the innocent victims — many of whom were young children — whose lives were claimed by […]
Last week, YWN-ISRAEL quoted the head of the Koach L’Hashpiah Party, Rav Amnon Yitzchak as saying he asked HaGaon HaRav Aaron Leib Shteinman Shlita about running in the elections, telling the gadol hador the polls show he can get 8-9 seats in the 19th Knesset. Rav Amnon reported that Rav Shteinman responded that in such […]
The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage committed suicide as first responders closed in, the governor said Sunday, raising the specter that Ryan Lanza had planned an even more gruesome
The Hiddush organization on Thursday, December 13, 2012 filed with the chairman of the Central Election Committee Supreme Court Justice Elyakim Rubinstein against the Satmar Rebbe Shlita. Hiddush points out
Oklahoma police arrested a high school student on charges that he was plotting to carry out a shooting and bombing massacre at his school, the Tulsa World newspaper reported on
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Following the horrific shooting attack in a Connecticut elementary school that left close to 30 children and staff dead, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and President Shimon Peres sent letters of condolence to US President Barak Obama, and released a video statement. Following is the text of the Netanyahu letter: “Dear President Obama, […]
Over 15,000 people were on hand for a protest rally against anti-Semitism in Hungary a number of weeks ago. That event, attended by local elected officials, was sparked by anti-Semitic remarks made by Marton Gyongyosi of the extreme right-wing Jobbik party. Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi has since condemned the extremist party’s remarks as well […]
President Barack Obama is not ready to accept a new offer from the Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives to raise taxes on top earners in exchange for
The United States has declassified the “damage assessment” report pertaining to Jonathan Pollard, a 160-page document addressing the arrest of the American intelligence analyst, Yediot Achronot reported on Sunday, 3 Teves 5773. While some documents were released in the past, they were few in number and the major file remained tucked away in the National […]
On the eve of April 3, 2001, when Hamas began firing rockets into the Gush Katif area, Ariel Yered, 15-months-old at the time, was critically injured in an attack in Atzmona. Doctors did not think he would survive as he arrived in the trauma unit of Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center in cardiac arrest. B’chasdei Hashem, […]
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