The following is from Fox News: Mitt Romney gave his most expansive answer yet over questions about his tax returns, telling reporters Thursday he has “never paid less than 13
Air Force week officially returns to New York City this Sunday with a long list of events that are sure to be crowd-pleasers. The three-day event is a celebration of
President Obama has no intention of getting rid of Vice President Biden as his running mate, the White House said Thursday. Republicans are being “ridiculous” and are trying to “distract attention” with their focus on Vice President Biden and his controversial comments earlier this week, White House press secretary Jay Carney said. “They know that […]
A family from Brazil wished to do something special to mark the bar mitzvah of a son, and they did just that. The family came to Israel and donated a
Councilman David G. Greenfield is working closely with the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) to make sure that a number of street resurfacing projects underway across the district are completed in a timely manner with as few disruptions to the community as possible. This is part of Greenfield’s focus on ensuring that the 44th Council […]
Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday, in Knesset addressed the unprecedented threat to Israel from Iran. Barak made it very clear, stating that dealing with Iran has risks, and Israel
A Liberty man has been sentenced to prison for possessing a Sefer Torah stolen last December from Monticello’s Landfield Avenue Shul – a story first reported by YWN. Sullivan County
Six Arab villagers living next to Ramat Migron have petitioned the High Court of Justice calling upon the State of Israel to give them caravans due to their critical housing
Artur Davis, the former four-term Democratic congressman from Alabama, said Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden was propagating “racial viciousness” when he said Mitt Romney’s regulatory policies would “put y’all
Following a meeting of the Degel HaTorah Moetzas Gedolei Yisrael, a letter is being sent to kehillos around Eretz Yisrael, Litvish and Chassidish alike, instructing roshei yeshiva to instruct talmidim
A group of former special operations and intelligence members is sounding off against President Barack Obama in a documentary released Wednesday that accuses him of taking credit for the death
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday commented on the publication – by researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University– of the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities in which six Israeli universities are ranked , four of which (Hebrew University, the Technion, the Weizmann Institute of Science and Tel Aviv University) are ranked among the top […]
HaRav Yitzchok Dovid Grossman Shlita is quoted in the weekly BaKehilla, sharing a story about the late Zev Wolfson z”l. The story appears in the Belz weekly as follows. This occurred 42 years ago. I was a young avreich who was sent to the United States to collect money for Yad L’Achim. I spend shabbos […]
Ecuador has granted asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange because it believes he will be politically persecuted if extradited, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño announced Thursday. The UK, meanwhile, has said it is disappointed by the decision and will not grant safe passage out of the country to Assange, who has been holed up inside […]
According to American journalist Richard Silverstein, who spoke with the BBC, he received a classified document leaked by a senior IDF officer to a former senior minister, a document that
Just three years after announcing itself as a new mehadrin hechsher in the Israeli marketplace, the Hisachdus shechita is out of business. The hashgacha was launched on 21 Menachem Av
Airport security officials in Iceland have given the all clear to a Russian Airliner that was forced to make an emergency landing after taking off from John F. Kennedy International
Many Israelis are concerned over the expected significant price hikes in many basic food items, including bread, eggs, and milk. In September 2012, prices will be increasing and gasoline will
Israeli Ambassador to Washington DC Dr. Michael Oren told Bloomberg News that Israel would attack Iran’s nuclear program even if the result would only yield a delay of a number of years in Iran’s nuclear program. Oren explained that in this part of the world, a year or two is a long time. Oren was […]
On Thursday night, the eve of 29 Menachem Av 5772 Klal Yisrael will mark the shloshim for Maran Posek HaDor HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv ZATZAL. Many will visit the
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