New sanctions aimed at reducing global trade with Iran in the energy, shipping and metals sectors may soon be considered by the U.S. Senate as part of an annual defense

Bolivia�s interior minister says authorities have now arrested six government officials suspected of involvement in a scheme to rob and extort a New York businessman jailed in a money-laundering probe. The minister, Carlos Romero, told reporters Tuesday that those arrested included the judge who first ordered American Jacob Ostreicher jailed and officials working in the […]

A number of Israelis who also maintain American citizenship have filed a lawsuit against United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the US Department of State. The lawsuit claims

Poland’s top court Tuesday ruled that the ritual slaughter of animals, a key tenet of the Jewish and Muslim faiths, was illegal, but the government insisted that new EU rules

One of the issues faced by IDF reservists called up for military service, miluim or emergency duty as was the case in Operation Pillar of Defense, is completing school work.

A six-year-old boy underwent surgery to remove a growth from his head in Schneider Children�s Hospital in Petach Tikvah. The child�s mother, an American citizen living in the center of the country, objected to chemotherapy and as such she �abducted� him from the hospital to prevent the treatment. On Monday 12 Kislev 5773, following the […]

State education officials are concerned over the numbers, showing over the past decade; state secular public schools show almost no increase in students. Religious public schools increased by 11%. Chareidim

The oldest Jewish cemetery in America is found in Curacao in the Caribbean Islands. According to HaMevaser, the kevarim are in danger of total collapse primarily due to the operation

Hungarian Jews have asked Russia to return scrolls and valuable religious items looted by Nazis and the Red Army in World War Two and their claim has been backed by

MK (Yahadut HaTorah) MK Rav Moshe Gafne is aware that the IDF has won round one in the battle to enlist talmidim and avreichim into the IDF as thousands are

Last Thursday, 8 Kislev 5773, a number of parents, Ashkenazim and Sephardim whose daughters were not accepted to a Beis Yaakov appealed the decision. Following the appeal, the Ashkenazi girls were accepted while the Sephardim were not. Ladaat.net reports it spoke with a �senior official�, a member of the Beis Yaakov acceptance committee that places […]

PA (Palestinian Authority) media reports that the military wing of the Islamic Jihad organization claims to have amassed information on at least 100 IDF soldiers, including their rank, position in

Chabad shaliach Rabbi Baruch Sharf, who was seriously injured in a Hamas rocket attack in Kiryat Malachi, was released from the hospital on Monday 12 Kislev 5773. His rebitzen, Mrs. Mira Sharf HY�D was among those killed in that attack. Sharf was treated in Tel Hashomer Hospital in Tel Aviv, where he underwent surgery on […]

The Sanz Laniado Hospital was given the Beautiful Hospital in a Beautiful Israel Award from the Council for a Beautiful Israel, recognizing the hospital�s efforts on behalf of our environment, aesthetics, cleanliness, and maintaining this high standard for five consecutive years. The hospital received the organization�s five-star rating for the past five years consecutively, earning […]

The Vaad HaYeshivos is calling on all talmidim who receive their first induction notification �not to sign anything from the IDF�. The rabbonim are instructing talmidim and avreichim to simply sign the vaad�s form stating they will continue learning and nothing else. According to a HaMevaser report, the vaad is acting in response to numerous […]

At 4 p.m. on Oct. 29, as heavy winds battered the East Coast ahead of Superstorm Sandy’s landfall, the Coast Guard’s regional command center on Staten Island lost power and

Yasser Arafat’s political heirs on Tuesday opened his grave and foreign experts took samples of the iconic Palestinian leader’s remains as part of a long-shot attempt � eight years after his mysterious death � to determine whether he was poisoned. Arafat YM”S died in November 2004 at a French military hospital, a month after suddenly […]

A Hungarian far-right politician urged the government to draw up lists of Jews who pose a “national security risk”, stirring outrage among Jewish leaders who saw echoes of fascist policies