[VIDEO & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] The smoke could be seen on Ben-Yehuda Street in downtown Yerushalayim on Sunday, 2 Rosh Chodesh Elul 5772 as a fire erupted in the
Operation Reliant Mermaid is the name of the military exercise that took place in the Mediterranean between Israel and the United States last week. The major training event focused on
A senior defense community official was escorted in to meet with Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita on erev shabbos by Shas leader Deputy Prime Minister/Interior Minister Eli Yishai, Kikar Shabbat reports. The senior unnamed official was brought into the rav’s Har Nof home under a veil of secrecy, meeting with the gadol hador for […]
Menachem Carmel is a well-known figure in Degel HaTorah, heading the housing committee of the party. He is next on Degel’s Knesset list but he may quickly find himself outside the inner circle. HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita has called for a boycott of ads from the new HaPeles newspaper that was launched to compete […]
President Barack Obama could lose his home state of Illinois in November, a new poll shows. A poll conducted by Illinois-based pollster and political strategist Michael McKeon found Obama leading
Jordan’s King Abdullah II is calling upon the international community to intervene, accusing Israel of compromising “Islamic holy sites in East Jerusalem and Har HaBayis”. The Jordanian state-run Petra news agency reports that Abdullah blames Israel for creating religious conflict surrounding holy sites, warning of the ramifications of Jerusalem’s actions in the region. The Jordanian […]
Fearing increased rocket attacks from Sinai into Eilat, an Iron Dome System used to intercept short-range missiles has been deployed in Eilat. The decision was made after Grad rockets were
As an avreich was heading to the Friday night tisch of HaRav Meilech Biderman in the Kiryat HaChareidi area of Beit Shemesh, he was attacked by delinquent youths from the
By Niall Ferguson for Newsweek Magazine: I was a good loser four years ago. “In the grand scheme of history,” I wrote the day after Barack Obama’s election as president, “four decades is not an especially long time. Yet in that brief period America has gone from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to […]
Just 13 hours after an engine fire forced United Airlines to abort a flight out of Newark on Saturday night, another United flight from Newark was forced to turn around
A dispute over the future resting place of thousands of unidentified remains of Sept. 11 victims is going back to court. A group of family members of 9/11 victims who
The number of mosquito pools testing positive for West Nile virus in New York state doubled since last year, a surge being seen around the country. More than 600 pools of the insects tested positive through Aug. 14, with 206 in New York City, according to the state Department of Health. There have been only […]
Iraq has been helping Iran get around economic sanctions imposed on Tehran because of its nuclear program, The New York Times reported. Involved is a network of financial institutions and
The White House invigorated the international row over Lebanese Hezbollah’s links to terrorism last week as US Treasury and State Department officials accused the group of working in league with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to train and advise Syrian government forces. The US has become increasingly concerned about the European Union’s reluctance to challenge Hezbollah, after […]
IDF military police tried to arrest an 18-year-old chareidi girl for not reporting to military service. According to a Ladaat.net report, the story is confirmed but the parents, members of
A protestor was arrested during Shabbos’ anti-chilul shabbos protest near the Karta parking lot in Yerushalayim after he became unruly. A few dozen protestors arrived at Shivtei Yisrael Street at about 18:00 and began shouting “Shabbes” and “Nazis” at police. Some of the protestors ignored police and began trying to close down the street. One […]
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz confirmed the details of a Channel 2 report released by Roni Daniel concerning the drafting of chareidim into the IDF. According to the
Mr Assange, 41, was due to make his first public statement this afternoon, two months after he walked into the central London building seeking asylum. Australian–born Mr Assange is facing extradition to Sweden. Mr Assange remains at the centre of a diplomatic row involving six countries on five continents, having skipped bail to avoid extradition. […]
Amid a rash of shootings in New York City this summer, officials in Queens sponsored a gun buyback initiative on Saturday that collected 509 firearms. Anyone who handed in a
The following is a Politico report: The Boston Globe is calling on Vice President Joe Biden to apologize for telling an audience at a campaign rally, made up largely of African Americans, that Republicans “want to put ya’ll back in chains.” “[I]magine if Republican Paul Ryan uttered comments like that. Mitt Romney’s pick for vice […]
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