[PAID ADVERTISEMENT] What would you do with one million dollars? That’s the million dollar question that Oorah has donors around the world asking this year with the introduction of their

Israel is making good on threats to strike back at the PA (Palestinian Authority) following their successful bid to the UN General Assembly, seeking non-member observer status. Finance Minister Dr.

Minister of Housing (Shas) Ariel Atias announced to the media last week that the current administration agreed to a construction freeze throughout Yehuda and Shomron in the interest of advancing

HaRav Amram Zachs Shlita, 87, who is among the prominent Slobodka roshei yeshiva in Bnei Brak, is in need of Rachmei Shomayim. The rosh yeshiva’s condition took a turn for

Motorists will pay more as the next phase of toll increases kick in at Port Authority bridges and tunnels on Sunday. Cash tolls on the George Washington Bridge, Holland Tunnel,

Long Island Power Authority chairman Howard Steinberg has resigned from the board of directors. His exit Friday is the latest in a string of departures following criticism of LIPA’s performance

Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard was hospitalized on Saturday after collapsing in his jail cell. His condition was unknown. Pollard, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 for spying on

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thanked his Czech counterpart for Prague’s vote at the U.N. against recognizing a Palestinian state. Netanyahu’s office on Saturday called the Czech vote “courageous”

Mitt Romney’s shadow looms over a Republican Party in disarray. The face of the GOP for much of the last year, the failed presidential candidate has been a virtual ghost

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Friday said Republicans and President Barack Obama are locked in a stalemate, a month before a $600 billion “fiscal cliff” of tax

Cindy Hill, a laid-off office manager who lives in a small town in Missouri, called her husband Thursday with urgent news that would change everything: “We won the lottery.” “What?”

Almost three years after her husband was arrested and jailed in Cuba, Judy Gross still talks to Americans who haven’t heard his story. Now she is speaking more openly than

President Barack Obama accused a “handful of Republicans” in the House of Representatives on Friday of holding up legislation to extend tax cuts for middle-class Americans in order to try

When Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, the Senior Rabbi of Kehilath Israel (KI) Congregation in Overland Park, KS, wanted to donate a Torah scroll to a congregation devastated by Hurricane Sandy, he

Jerusalem City Hall has given approval to the refurbishing of the Tifferes Yisrael Shul in the Old City, a 19th century three-story shul that was destroyed in the War of

According to the Bituach Leumi (National Insurance Institute) annual poverty report released on Thursday, 15 Kislev 5773, 23,000 children joined the ranks of the nation’s poor during 2011, bringing the

While the nation focuses on the national elections set for 11 Shevat 5773, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is busy working, not just running the capital but looking ahead to the