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
Three young British Muslim men went on trial in London on Monday, accused of plotting to set off multiple bombs in terrorist strikes that prosecutors say could have been deadlier
As former Shas leader Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai seeks to digest the events of last week, being unseated as the undisputed leader of the party, persons affiliated with the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Kisei Rachamim, HaGaon HaRav Meir Mazuz are saying “We warned you”. Rav Mazuz is viewed as the mora d’atra of Jews […]
An Arab male who was employed in Jerusalem’s Tel Arza area is believed responsible for the burglary last month in the home of the Dushinsky Rebbe Shlita in which a significant amount of property was stolen. The suspect was employed in a nearby fruits and vegetable store and made deliveries to the admor’s home in […]
In the shadow of a White House denial of a New York Times report that the United States and Iran are planning to enter into a dialogue surrounding Tehran’s nuclear program, retired Mossad Chief Ephraim Halevy is calling on Western nations to do just that. The 78-year-old intelligence community expert told the Al-Monitor Website “The […]
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday during a visit to Jerusalem that the prospect of an Israel-Palestinian peace accord is “vanishing,” blaming Israeli settlement of the West Bank. Carter,
The IDF annual Homefront Command “Turning Point 6” continues today, Monday, 6 Cheshvan 5773, as emergency services continue the simulation involving an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale. Today, the drill focuses numerous scenarios including firefighters addressing a ammonia leak from a chemical factory in the Atlit area beginning at 10:00. At 11:00, rescue […]
Authorities announce arrests in the recent vandalism attack against a Jewish cemetery in Auckland, New Zealand. Local police officials told the media they spared no effort in the apprehension of those believed responsible for the hate attack which left about 20 tombstones damaged in the Symonds Street Cemetery. The two “young suspects” in custody have […]
While political parties are campaigning for the upcoming general election set for 11 Shevat 5773, the Ashkenazi chareidim are facing a split due to infighting in Degel HaTorah. The dispute between the litvish Degel HaTorah factions known as the Yated Ne’eman and HaPeles factions appears to be widening and if they run as two parties, […]
Shas’ Aryeh Deri has spoken out against the “discriminatory policies” of the Ashkenazi girls schools, vowing to work to end it once and for all. In the Monday 6 Cheshvan 5773 edition of Hamodia (Israel), affiliated with Agudas Yisrael, the counter attack appears. The headline reads “Call of the Hour, Achdus and Not Dispute” as […]
A Moroccan man, one of the three suspects in custody in the murder of Lviv, Ukraine trauma surgeon Prof. Leon Friefeld may have been under the influence of drugs and/or
A group was assembled in front of the Shomrei Shabbos Shul in Borough Park, Brooklyn. The debate was heated and intriguing; at talk was the formation of a new third party. “School Choice Party” read the top of the petition a young man entreated me to sign. “Third parties in the United States are not […]
Five things to watch for when President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney debate foreign policy Monday night: 1. THE TIEBREAKER: Romney ran away with the first. Obama edged
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer talked about politics during his first public appearance in New York’s capital since a scandal forced him from office in 2008. Spitzer told a public radio
Egged officials announced that in keeping with its new policy established a number of months ago in the capital not to permit bus ads showing the faces of women, it
Alzheimer’s research has focused primarily on efforts to identify and treat the factors that contribute to familial (genetic) dementia, which is caused by known mutations. This new research sought to understand the mechanisms in the development of Alzheimer’s that are linked to molecular response to the metabolic distress that increases with age. * A link […]
Residents in southern Israel were awakened to the Red Alert sirens as terrorists in Gaza fired rockets into the region. Rockets landed close to 06:30, and B’chasdei Hashem there were no injuries. After five rockets pounded the area the air force retaliated against terrorists leading to additional mortar attack against an IDF patrol in the […]
Hamas terrorists in Gaza held a parade on Thursday, marking the first anniversary since the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal which resulting in Israel’s release of 1,027 terrorists. The organizers praised the deal and vowed in future prison exchange deals; those terrorists who were not released in the last deal due to Israel’s refusal would […]
3,374 residents of eastern Yerushalayim have received Israeli citizenship over the last decade, the daily Haaretz reports. This represents a sharp increase in the number of Arabs being granted Israeli
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