[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
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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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Councilman David G. Greenfield is inviting all Midwood residents to join him this evening, Thursday, October 25th, as he continues his participatory budgeting initiative, which allows his district’s residents to
Rachel Imainu’s yartzeit is this Shabbos on the Eleventh of Cheshvon (October 27 2012). Jews have always visited Kever Rachel on the yartzeit, because tefillos recited on that day are especially effective. Mosdos Kever Rachel keeps the tradition alive, by hosting the influx of visitors. The turnout is tremendous. In 2011, over 100,000 Jews visited […]
Their lives on hold for years, young adults are now making big moves in the fledgling economic recovery, leaving college towns or parents’ homes and heading out of state at
So you wake up one fine morning, open the newspaper and it suddenly hits you right between the eyes: there’s a full-page ad announcing the grand opening of a new competitor. This does not sound like good news. An emergency meeting hastily takes place at the office and the gloomy faces of your fellow workers […]
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Microsoft Corp launches its new Windows 8 operating system and Surface tablet in New York Thursday, hoping to revive interest in its flagship product and regain ground lost to Apple
A scratchy-voiced President Barack Obama powered through a sleepless drive to get his supporters to vote Thursday and planned to set an example by becoming the first president to cast
Hurricane Sandy rumbled across mountainous eastern Cuba and headed toward the Bahamas on Thursday as a Category 2 storm, bringing heavy rains and blistering winds that ripped the roofs off
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday endorsed Barack Obama in his bid for re-election, citing the Democratic president’s efforts to wind down the war in Afghanistan and
Iran’s most powerful authority, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Thursday accused the United States and Israel of fomenting divisions among Muslims to undermine “Islamic uprisings” across the Middle East. “By exploiting
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U.S. consumers will have to dig deeper into their pockets next year to pay for costlier healthcare, more expensive grocery bills and higher taxes, an extra drag on the country’s
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