State Assembly candidate Moshe Tischler is calling on New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to explore all legal options against Mayor Bloomberg’s attempt to regulate the millennia old religious practice of Bris Milah. Over the last couple of weeks, hundreds of Rabbis have signed a Kol Koreh (religious proclamation) that condemned the Department of […]
As the IDF prepares for Rosh Hashanah, the IDF Rabbinate reports it is buying 400 new shofarot that have been inspected and certified as ‘mehudar’. Officials in the military rabbinate explain they wish to be certain that all personnel will be permitted to fulfill the mitzvah. The shofarot will be distributed ahead of Rosh Hashanah […]
While many shoppers were worried about the price of beef and poultry this Rosh Hashanah season, they probably were not thinking about what apples and honey might set them back.
The investigation and trial into the theft of Judaica items from the Milano Great Synagogue about two years ago came to an end. The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Sunday 22 Elul 5772 sentenced the four yeshiva students, the defendants in the case. The four were taken into custody in February 2011, accused of stealing the […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is trying to persuade US President Barak Obama to set a red line into place regarding Iran but the latter appears uninterested in such a move. The latest effort by Israel to push the White House’s timetable forward appears to have joined the growing list of failures as the American leader […]
PA (Palestinian Authority) residents held social justice protests in autonomous areas on Monday morning, taking to the streets and demanding the lowering of prices. As is customary in PA areas,
With the opening of the new school year in Modi’in Illit, 2,300 children entered first grade. 2,600 three-year-olds entered kindergartens. According to a HaMevaser report quoting City Hall officials, there are a total of 27,000 students in the chareidi city’s educational system. Some other interesting figures include the addition of 125 new classrooms [including special […]
A talmid in the ???? ???? Yeshiva in Bnei Brak was shocked to see his chavrusa had an iPhone, aware the device has been banned by gedolei yisrael. He told
Baruch Hashem IDF troops were unharmed in an early morning firebomb attack against them in Hebron. Terrorists hurled firebombs at soldiers on Monday around 6:00AM. A soldier fired at the attacker(s), wounding him seriously. He was transported to the trauma unit of Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. (YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
According to a report in the UK’s Sunday Times, Israel has the ability to target Iran with an electromagnetic bomb that would destroy that country’s electric infrastructure and send Iran back to the “Stone Age”. Such a device would be detonated above ground, thereby creating a magnificent electromagnetic pulse that would disrupt all technological devices […]
HaGaon HaRav Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita visited Yerushalayim to attend a hesped for Zev Wolfson z”l, who was niftar last month. The gadol hador used the opportunity to make his annual visit to the Belzer Rebbe Shlita, where the two exchanged brochos and Shana Tova wishes. When R’ Shteinman arrived, he refused to be seated, […]
A woman on board an Egged bus traveling to the Kosel on Sunday evening was injured when rocks were hurled at the bus. The rocks smashed a window and one
The Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), the largest group of Orthodox rabbis in the world, in light of the pending directive of the New York City’s Health Department for parents
Education Minister Gideon Saar on Sunday signed the necessary paperwork to permit ministry funding to be passed to mosdos ahead of Rosh Hashanah. The delay is the result of the
The federal government is expected to recognize that rescue workers and people living near Ground Zero on 9/11 got cancer as a result, according to a published report. The National
We constantly hear about how the Internet can be turned into a positive tool for the Jewish community if it is used correctly. Few people have actually put that maxim into practice as successfully as Lakewood activist Reb Duvi Honig has with parnassahnetwork.com. Several months ago, Reb Duvi launched ParnassahNetwork.com, a first-of-its-kind website that serves as […]
Many employees at the Maariv newspaper appear less concerned over the fact the newspaper is halting its weekday paper publication, limiting itself to the electronic edition, than they do over
The following is from the New Yorker Magazine: Annals of war about Israel’s secret strike on a site believed to be a Syrian nuclear reactor named Al Kibar. In March, 2007, agents from the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, made a daring raid into the Vienna home of Ibrahim Othman, the head of the Syrian […]
A strip mall where arson destroyed a Judaica store last year became the site of a second fiery attack Friday, when two masked arsonists in hoodies broke into a kosher
HaGaon HaRav Aaron Leib Shteinman Shlita has called on the tzibur “to learn and daven as there are bad gezeiros ahead for Am Yisrael”. These are the words the gadol hador shared with talmidim of the ????? ????? yeshiva in Bnei Brak. Chadrei Chareidim quotes the rav as being very concerned over the impending gezeiros, […]
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