As the Eida Chareidis tzibur is arming for the battle following the arrest of Asra Kadisha director HaRav Dovid Smeidal by police in Beersheva on Tuesday 20 Kislev 5773, additional information becomes available surrounding the arrest of the rav. HaMevaser reports the arrest was “brutal”, citing that almost immediately after the rav and his supporters […]

Likud coalition chairman MK Ze’ev Elkin was quoted on Tuesday afternoon 20 Kislev 5773 as stating it is entirely possible the government coalition following the general elections will not contain chareidi parties. He explained that chances of building a coalition that does not include chareidim is not out of the question, Globes reports. Elkin feels […]

The United States is worried that an increasingly desperate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could resort to the use of chemical weapons, or lose control of them, U.S. Secretary of State

A Shas Asifa held in the Beis Yisrael Hall in Yerushalayim on Tuesday night the eve of 21 Kislev 5773 did not pass peacefully as there were jeers and shouts

Gunmen loyal to opposite sides in neighboring Syria’s civil war battled in the streets of northern Lebanon on Wednesday, and the death toll from two days of fighting was at

While the Degel HaTorah faction of Yahadut HaTorah envisions a rotation agreement for the sixth slot on the joint ticket, Agudas Yisrael has a different vision, that it will receive

President Shimon Peres on Tuesday welcomed Pope Benedict XVI to Twitter with a special Tweet which read; “Your holiness, welcome to Twitter. Our relations with the Vatican are at their

Former President George W. Bush on Tuesday called on lawmakers to debate immigration reform “with a benevolent spirit” and bear in mind the contribution of immigrants in building the country.

Police held a suspect for questioning Tuesday to see if he may be the person who pushed a 58-year-old man onto a New York City subway track where he was

The leader of the Likud’s Manhigut Yehudit faction, Moshe Feiglin finally landed a realistic slot ahead of the general elections for the 19th Knesset. On Monday, Feiglin visited Har HaBayis, as is his custom to do every month, accompanied by many supporters. He began the visit with a dvar Torah, and he told those accompanying […]

Egyptian police battled thousands of protesters outside President Mohamed Mursi’s palace in Cairo on Tuesday, prompting the Islamist leader to leave the building, presidency sources said. Officers fired teargas at

President Barack Obama dangled the possibility on Tuesday of lowering tax rates in 2013 with a broad U.S. tax code revamp, but he stood firm on insisting rates for the

Central Election Committee officials report that in the last general election, in 2009, hundreds of students faked being disabled so they could vote in their school as opposed to making