An informant recruited by the New York Police Department to collect information on suspected Islamic militants has quit and denounced his police handlers, according to a law enforcement source familiar

It appears for Yair Lapid and his Yesh Atid (There is a Future) Party, it’s more about satisfying the polls then acting out of principle. After championing the struggle to correct chareidi injustices in Israel, Lapid appears to be breaking from this battlefront to launch an attack against Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Pollsters have informed […]

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with Quartet envoy Tony Blair. The two discussed regional developments. Mr. Netanyahu told the envoy “The real thing we have is rockets. We’ve got Hamas, supported by Iran, firing rockets at us. They’ve fired again. We’re not going to let anyone arm themselves and fire rockets on us and think […]

A cadre of thieves is stealing luxury cars from Newark Airport when the owners leave the keys in the ignition while picking up or dropping off their family and friends,

The oldest known survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp — a teacher who gave lessons in defiance of his native Poland’s Nazi occupiers — has died at the age of 108, an official said Monday. Antoni Dobrowolski died Sunday in the northwestern Polish town of Debno, according to Jaroslaw Mensfelt, a spokesman at the Auschwitz-Birkenau […]

Local governments in fiscal crisis lobbying for a sympathetic ear from Gov. Andrew Cuomo are getting a cold shoulder instead. To local governments seeking relief from unfunded state mandates, Cuomo

The cost of the upcoming general elections on 11 Shevat 5773 is being placed at approximately 247 million NIS ($65 million), about 40 million NIS more than the elections in

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney face off in front of the cameras for a final time on Monday as opinion polls show their battle for the White

Beit Shemesh Mayor (Shas) Rabbi Shlomo Abutbul responds to the recent resignation of the Tov Party (The New Chareidim) from the city’s coalition. Abutbul told Kikar Shabbat that the city is more or less the same as others in the nation, and the representation of Tov in the city is nothing unusual as Beit Shemesh […]

Some feel the social-economic gap existing in Eretz Yisrael has reached unprecedented levels, perhaps backed by the recently released statistics. The average monthly expenditure per person is 4,177 NIS. The area with the highest monthly expenditure per person is in Tel Aviv/Jaffa, 6,841 NIS, a far cry from the nation’s lowest, Bnei Brak, 2,620 NIS. […]

Younger Americans in their late 30s are now the group most likely to doubt they will be financially secure after retirement, a major shift from three years ago when baby

Five children were injured, some seriously, when a van jumped the curb and crashed into them as they stood on a sidewalk Monday afternoon, officials said. The crash occurred shortly

In his comments during a visit to observe Turning Point 6, Prime Minister Netanyahu stressed one important difference between an earthquake and a missile attack is in an earthquake, whenever

Councilman David G. Greenfield today praised Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes for dropping all charges against Ehud Halevy, who was the victim of an incident of police brutality captured on

After more than 60 years, the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel today will be officially renamed the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel after the former governor who died last year at the age of

A very advanced IDF drone pilotless aircraft crashed in northern Israel on Sunday 5 Cheshvan 5772, the daily Yediot Achronot reports. The report explains that this case did not involved “the simple drones that crash from time-to-time”, like the one a number of days ago which crashed near PA-occupied Shechem. That was a drone of […]

The following statement was just released by Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes, in regards to Ehud Halevy, who was facing charges of resisitng arrest: “After review of all available evidence I have decided to dismiss the charges against Ehud Halevy.” The video, posted online last week, shows Officer Vega punching the head and […]

An Italian court convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter on Monday for failing to adequately warn citizens before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300

Many are looking at Rav Yehoshua Pollack to save the chareidi tzibur from disaster as a split in Degel HaTorah appears increasingly likely. Efforts are underway to place Pollack in

The Cabinet on Sunday, 5 Cheshvan 5773 approved a decision to implement the recommendations of the team that evaluated prices and the level of competitiveness in the food sector. The

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