Tensions are running high in the Shas community as the party faction members await the final words from Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita regarding Aryeh Deri and Eli Yisrael. Reports from Har Nof signal the party’s Moetzas Gedolei HaTorah is going to convene and a decision will be announced within 48 hours. Most feel […]
I am disturbed by the seven-minute videotape showing two New York City police officers repeatedly striking an unarmed young man inside a Brooklyn Jewish community center, during a 5 a.m.
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According to a Yisrael HaYom report quoting aides to former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, if he returns to the political arena to head a party, he would earn 24-26 mandates
There are reports that even if Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s Independence party does not earn enough votes to enter the next Knesset he will be appointed as defense minister again if Binyamin Netanyahu is reelected. When asked to comment on these reports Barak called them “speculation” and told the media “one should not pay attention […]
Syrian government warplanes unleashed deadly airstrikes on rebel strongholds in the country’s north on Tuesday, activists reported. The barrage came as the U.N. food agency warned that more and more
Deputy Health Minister (Yahadut HaTorah) Yaakov Litzman on Sunday, 29 Tishrei 5773 ousted Chief Pathologist Prof. Yehuda Hiss from his post. Hiss has been in the post for over two
According to reports released by Kikar Shabbat, Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita on Monday 29 Tishrei 5773 summoned Shas leader Eli Yishai, offering him a compromise regarding the party
Newspaper publisher Tom Allon has switched to the Republican Party for his long-shot bid for mayor of New York City. Allon announced Monday that he would leave the Democratic Party
More than 56 million Social Security recipients will see their monthly payments go up by 1.7 percent next year. The increase, which starts in January, is tied to a measure
Authorities are looking into a video that shows two police officers repeatedly pummeling a man inside a Jewish community center in Brooklyn. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said the allegations of
The New York State Police has 133 new troopers in the first class to graduate from its academy since 2009. Their graduation ceremony is set for Tuesday at Empire State
Disgraced ex-New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik choked up as he testified at the perjury trial of two former friends. He appeared in a Bronx courtroom Monday much thinner and
Mitt Romney would love another debate like the last one. President Barack Obama most certainly would not. Twenty-one days before Election Day, Debate Two comes as both candidates seek to
An elderly passenger on board an El Al flight from Ben-Gurion International Airport to New York City died. According to reports, resuscitation was attempted by the medical professionals on board
President Barack Obama won’t be posing for any photos in the voting booth on Election Day — he’s casting his ballot early. Obama and first lady Michelle Obama said Monday they are both voting early, a nod to the campaign’s efforts to encourage supporters to vote absentee by mail or cast their ballot at an […]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking responsibility for security at the U.S. consulate in Libya where an attack by extremists last month killed the U.S. ambassador and
The White House has put special operations strike forces on standby and moved drones into the skies above Africa, ready to strike militant targets from Libya to Mali — if investigators can find the al-Qaida-linked group responsible for the death of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya. But officials say the administration, […]
The Knesset on Monday, 29 Tishrei 5773 opened the winter session and as was expected, voted to disband in preparation for general elections. Speakers included President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister
The mainstream Israeli media and the chareidi media are one when it comes to the ongoing police investigation against Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto and his wife, alleged to have bribed a
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