Stressing that there’s no need to panic, New York officials are bracing for a gale-force storm expected to hit most of the U.S. East Coast next week. Forecasters say there’s a 90 percent chance that the East will get high winds, heavy rain, flooding and maybe snow starting Sunday. While it’s too early for precise […]
Senior Israeli officials accused Sudan on Thursday of playing a key role in an Iranian-backed network of arms shipments to hostile Arab militant groups across the Middle East, a day
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said this week it is accepting comments on a petition to keep spam off cellphones by having Internet-to-phone text messaging declared a type of illegal
The Toldos Aaron Rebbe Shlita has announced a new takona, prohibiting bochrim in yeshiva gvoha from participating in weddings, Chadrei Chareidim reports. Roshei yeshiva in the chassidus have spread the word to their talmidim. The rebbe explained in recent months there were many weddings in which many talmidim took part, and now, it’s the winter […]
The window of opportunity to act to save the Jewish mom and her newborn son along with her 1-year-old daughter from her life of physical and emotional abuse was small. The woman gave birth on Simchas Torah, and Yad L’Achim officials, who were quite familiar with her case, knew that had to act fast or […]
Police have arrested a psychiatrist, a Jerusalem resident, who allegedly provided chareidim seeking to avoid military service a medical opinion stating they are not mentally competent to serve. The doctor
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday toured an Iron Dome battery near Ashkelon. During the tour he made the following remarks: “We neither chose nor initiated this escalation but if
The 2012 presidential campaign was expected Thursday to pass the $2 billion mark in fundraising, according to accounting statements submitted to the government, thanks to an outpouring of cash from
Israel Police on Thursday cut itself off from the civilian internet in response to cyber authority intelligence reports of a planned cyber attack. Israel Radio reports that the warning indicated a virus would infiltrate the department’s main computer system via a flash drive inserted in one of the computers. Officials decided to act on the […]
Mayor Mike Bloomberg was interviewed by the Atlantic this week about his accomplishments during his tenure as Mayor of NYC. One of the items that Bloomberg is proud of, is
Life for chareidi lawmakers is difficult enough when things are good. They are subjected to harsh criticism from their colleagues, voters, and of course, the secular parties who accuse them from being “parasites” and blame everything that’s wrong with the world on their lifestyle. Making things significantly worse is the lack of achdus, now seen […]
As a result of the case in which parents are trying to get their daughter back after she became a member of the ‘shawl women’ community, the Jerusalem Family Court has directed social workers and other agencies to probe their lifestyle towards determining if they will be categorized a ‘cult’. Such a ruling would have […]
A scratchy-voiced President Barack Obama powered through a marathon drive to get his supporters to vote Thursday and planned to set an example by becoming the first president to cast
Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday 8 Cheshvan 5773 toured the south of Israel in the wake of the barrage of over 80 rockets and mortars that have been fired
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he was merging his Likud party with that of his ultra nationalist coalition ally Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in a hard-right tack ahead
[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Ichud Hatzalah has completed preparations for a busy weekend, one that includes the responsibility for manning Kever Rochel over the yahrzeit shabbos. Beginning on Thursday night
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yonah Yechiel Metzger has called upon mispallalim planning to visit Kever Rochel on motzei shabbos not to arrive for at least three hours after shabbos ends. In his letter, the rav writes that “since Kever Rochel is located in a security sensitive area”, security agencies must prepare for the large tzibur expected […]
For weeks we’ve been hearing rumors that Assemblyman Dov Hikind is considering stepping down in middle of his upcoming term to give his son Yoni a better chance of winning
Give ’em an inch, and they’ll take a mile. That appears to be the case in Chicago, where for decades the Transit Authority has been misreporting the mileage for its
The Washington Free Beacon has obtained a report soon to be released by the United Nations that calls for an international campaign of legal attacks and economic warfare on a group of American companies that do business in Israel, including Hewlett-Packard, Caterpillar Inc., and Motorola Solutions Inc. The Human Rights Council (HRC), a body dominated by Islamic countries and known […]
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