The commander of the IDF’s Givati Brigade, Colonel Ofir Levy, has ordered his subordinates to instruct soldiers to shave, explaining they may not have a beard in his brigade, Arutz-7 reports. Family members of soldiers and rabbonim have filed complaints on behalf of frum soldiers serving in the infantry brigade. According to the information available […]
The firebomb attack against a French kosher supermarket occurred just hours after a French weekly satirical publication printed a cartoon that is offensive to Islam. According to an eyewitness report, at about noon on Wednesday, 3 Tishrei 5773, two anonymous men entered the supermarket and threw “an object” which is being described as a homemade […]
A taxi driver became the latest victim to carjackers on Highway 443 during the night, the Jerusalem-Modi’in Highway. The driver was beaten and thrown from his vehicle and the Arab assailants made off with his car. Carjackers generally head to the closet PA (Palestinian Authority) autonomous area, which have become Cities of Refuge. In most […]
Jerusalem District Court Judge Miriam Mizrachi on Thursday, declined to honor a request from MK Talab el-Sana, who was seeking to have the court compel Google to block access to
On Motzei Shabbos, Israel will move from daylight savings time to standard time at 2:00am, moving clocks one hour back. This is the annual practice, on the eve of Yom
If one child’s pure prayer is a heaven-piercing arrow, then a minyan of children’s tefillos is an invincible army. How much more so, then, is the awesome power of tens of thousands of tefillos emanating from the innocent mouths of tinokos shel bais raban and ascending heavenward! For the past seventeen years, Klal Yisroel has […]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told local media that Israel a number of months ago sent ‘the world’s richest Jew’ to broker a deal towards renewed diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey. He added that he has been under pressure from President Putin of Russia, British PM Cameron and the United States to mend […]
Breaking from past tradition, Israel has announced it welcomes an inspection of its nuclear facility by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Dr. Shaul Chorev, who heads Israel’s Atomic Energy Agency made the announcement during an address that the IAEA Conference in Vienna, as he also used the forum to condemn both Iran and Syria. In […]
The deal finalizing the sale of Israel’s daily Maariv newspaper was completed on Thursday. The newspaper was sold to publisher Shlomo Ben-Tzvi for 45 million NIS. The newspaper currently has debts amounting to 408 million NIS, 95 million NIS to its employees. According to Globe’s Financial, Ben-Tzvi will be keeping 300 of the newspaper’s current […]
The following is via the NY Times: Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg have had their differences. But on Wednesday, 130 miles apart, they rued the same
300 flights will be canceled this week by American Airlines and American Eagle due to increasing maintenance reports that were filed by crews as well as numerous sick pilots. 249
An audit released Wednesday says last year’s Port Authority toll increases were necessary to fund critical transportation projects and they must raise them again. The independent audit was ordered by
An “expensive” Sefer Torah was stolen from the Erlau Beis Medrash in Yerushalayim’s Katamon neighborhood on the night between the first and second days of Rosh Hashanah. The Sefer Torah was on the street level of the beis medrash, where a minyan was being held on yomtov for the youth, towards alleviating some of the […]
MK (Yahadut HaTorah) Rav Yisrael Eichler feels “We must ask forgiveness from the babies born in storage rooms and attics, from those born in rented apartments in abandoned areas due to the impermeability of welfare officials, whose policies reflect those of Sodom”. Eichler is quoted by the Shas-affiliated Yom L’Yom saying “we did our best […]
Mispallalim arriving in shul erev Rosh Hashanah were surprised and pleased to see that the shtender which was taken from the beis medrash shortly following the petira of Maran Rav Elyashiv ZT”L had been returned. It was the shtender the posek hador used during the years prior to his petira, and it simply disappeared shortly […]
Ichud Hatzalah and Zaka officials in Uman report the closure of their emergency room/ first aid station following Rosh Hashanah. They report treating about 2,000 people during yomtov and the
The annual ‘Shabbos Tshuva’ drasha of the Shevet Halevy, HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Halevy Wosner Shlita, will take place on Thursday night the eve of 5 Tishrei 5773 at 20:15 in the main Chachmei Luban Beis Medrash in Bnei Brak, located at 17 Dessler Street. A speaker system is going to be in place to accommodate […]
The Justice Department’s inspector general (IG) on Wednesday cleared Attorney General Eric Holder in the controversial “Fast and Furious” operation but faulted several other federal officials for acting irresponsibly. The 471-page IG report was issued after an 18-month investigation and recommends 14 agency officials receive administrative or disciplinary action for their role in the botched […]
The United States is beginning to react, to enact a price for the widespread Islamic violence directed against America following the release of the anti-Islamic film. The White House announced that “Egypt was not an ally” in response to the growing anti-American violence in Cairo, followed by a statement to clarify America’s position by Secretary […]
When the families of Migron agreed to leave and avoid a confrontation, one of the motivating factors was a promise they received, that despite the court order to raze their homes the shul in the community would not be among the buildings destroyed. Despite a personal appeal from Rishon L’Tzion HaRav Shlomo Amar Shlita, both […]
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