A hachnasas Sefer Torah was held in the Nahariya ??? ??? Hesder Yeshiva in memory of abducted and slain IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser HY”D and Eldad Regev HY”D. Taking part in the emotional event was Justice Minister Dr. Yaakov Ne’eman. Hundreds of others were on hand, marking four years since their deaths were confirmed and […]
As former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert awaits sentencing, the state has announced it is seeking community service and waves the ‘moral turpitude’ clause which is expected in the case. Olmert’s attorney on Tuesday 17 Elul 5772 announced that his client voluntarily waves all the perks he receives as a former prime minister, which includes a […]
MK (Ichud HaLeumi) Prof. Aryeh Eldad commented on the so-called “Jewish terrorists”, Jews imprisoned in Israel for murdering Arabs. Eldad spoke with the Knesset Channel, stating “We should not release Yonah Avrushmi, Ami Popper, or Yoram Skulnick. There is much contempt against those murderers in Israel. They say sit for 30 years and you have […]
It is shofar season around the world, but no place more than Eretz Yisrael. Many of the shofars manufactured and imported to Israel come from Tunisia and Morocco as well as other ‘Arab’ countries. One of the shofar makers explains that in Islamic countries, many sheep are slaughtered for the Feast of the Sacrifice as […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday 17 Elul 5772 convened his 14-member Security Cabinet in special session, to permit them to hear the annual security/intelligence summation from the leaders of the prominent agencies. Addressing the forum were the head of military intelligence, as well as the directors of the ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin […]
The Kiryat Malachi recently married Chabad woman arrested after being listed as AWOL from the IDF will not be spending Rosh Hashanah in 770 in NYC,as she and her husband
Educational Ministry officials have unfrozen kollel stipends for 54,000 avreichim ahead of the yomim tovim. Earlier it was reported that the funds were halted as a result of a High
Following a summer of price hikes, members of the City Council want to make sure service stations are not raising their gas prices too quickly. The council’s Consumer Affairs Committee
The supposed retzuos scandal has put the Torah world on edge, as various claims about the kashrus of retzuos have been bandied about during recent days. But several sofrim who have been involved with the question for months have denied the claim that there is any “scandal” involved. Rabbi Shmiel Aharon Traube, the proprietor of […]
One claim Republicans make to support their proposition that the country’s worse off than it was “four years ago” is that there are fewer jobs in America today than there were when President Obama took office. “[H]e hasn’t created one single net new job since he’s been president,” Mitt Romney’s spokeswoman Andrea Saul said on […]
Hackers have posted online the unique ID numbers for more than 1 million Apple devices like iPhones and iPads, saying they stole the data from an FBI laptop, a claim
The chareidi reserve duty soldier who was ousted from a Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Beis Medrash in Beit Shemesh received and aliyah in the shul. The soldier, a 27-year-old father of
As parents of chareidi special needs children continue protests and applying pressure on askanim, the decision-makers have been meeting and it appears they have found a source of funding for
Today, the leadership of the Orthodox Union expressed its deep disappointment over the Democratic Party’s platform’s shift of language with regard to the status of the holy city of Jerusalem.
Back in June 2012, Yaakov Yosef Greenwald signed the papers that cleared the way for his return to Eretz Yisrael, to hopefully bring his ordeal to an end. The chareidi
Barack Obama approaches his nomination for a second term with the lowest pre-convention personal popularity of an incumbent president in ABC News/Washington Post polls since the 1980s. He’s also at
Thieves broke into the Schneerson honey factory in Kfar Chabad earlier in the week in the hope of making off with the goods. The community’s local security patrol arrived in time to prevent the thieves from driving away with the honey, worth a significant sum. ‘HaShmira’ member Yoel Balnitzky reports he received a confused phone […]
Newly-elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi could not have hoped for better. The United States has decided to eliminate Cairo’s dept with a $1 billion debt-relief payment. The economic good-will by the White House is critical for Morsi at this time as he continues working to shed his image of being closely connected to the Islamic […]
On Wednesday morning 18 Elul 5772, a group of roshei yeshiva will leave Eretz Yisrael for Lithuania under the Kupat Ha’Ir banner. Taking part will be HaRav Aryeh Finkel (Rosh Yeshivas Mir Brachfeld), HaRav Dov Yafeh (Mashgiach Yeshiva Kfar Chassidim), HaRav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi (Rosh Yeshivas Ateret Yisrael), HaRav Moshe Yehuda Schlesinger (Rosh Yeshivas Kol […]
HaRav Yitzchok Dovid Grossman, chief rabbi of Migdal Ha’emek is teaming up with former Israeli pop music star Yoram Gaon and others to ensure the character of the content on Israel’s new TV channel. With the closure of the dedicated Heritage TV Channel, Moti Sklar, a former CEO of IBA (Israel Broadcasting Authority) has won […]
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