Residents in one Brooklyn neighborhood say their streets are overrun with raccoons that are creating a health hazard by spreading trash across entire city blocks and leaving behind piles of droppings that host parasitic roundworms, according to a published report. Now the Greenwood Heights community wants the city to intervene. “You go outside expecting to […]
A number of avreichim traveling home before neitz on eretz shabbos, from Betar Illit to Beit Shemesh were involved in a motor vehicle accident near Nes Harim. Some of the
Egyptian media sources report that Hamas terrorists in Gaza successfully test fired a rocket into Sinai about two weeks ago. The rocket fired from the Rafiach area was described as
[VIDEO & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Thousands of children gathered by Kikar Shabbos to protest the planned mandatory induction into the IDF. Organized by the Eidah HaCharedis, the protest, which
A toddler was pulled out of a swimming pool in the town of Fallsburg, Monday afternoon, and miraculously, is reported to be in stable condition. The incident happened around 5:30PM, at “Central Park Estates”, located on Route 42 just opposite the Irvington Estates. Catskills Hatzolah was expedited to the scene, following reports of a two-year-old child found […]
Deputy Education Minister (Yahadut HaTorah) Menachem Eliezer Moses on Monday morning addressed a chareidi forum in Elad, directors of mosdos addressing the coming school year. Moses explained the new reality which includes dissolving the ministry’s section of schools that are “recognized” yet outside the system. Most chareidi mosdos fall in this category. The mosdos will […]
Israel Police seems to have a political agenda and that agenda dictates the actions of the department, or in this case, the inaction of Jerusalem police, the failure to respond
The pool is closed in Warrenton, Missouri. Cattle ponds are drying up in Arkansas. Illinois is in danger of losing its corn crop. Even the mighty Mississippi River is feeling
As the 13th Daf Yomi cycle approaches, to run from August 3, 2012 until January 4, 2020, the Orthodox Union has announced a number of indispensable resources to enhance the daily study of Talmud on www.outorah.org, a website referred to by the Orthodox Union as “The World’s Greatest Resource for Learning Daf Yomi.” Orthodox Union […]
Wireless carriers are urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to impose aggressive new regulations aimed at protecting the privacy of cellphone users. In filings with the FCC on Friday,
Part of the agreement signed between the Israel Prison Authority and hunger striking “security prisoners” was to renew visits from their family members, visits that were halted in 2007 with the closure of Erez Crossing. As such, the visits were renewed today, involving the International Red Cross, which bused Gazans to Israel to meet with […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Misaskim was called on Motzei Shabbos to assist in maintaining Kavod Hames in the aftermath of tragic and sudden mudslides that hit Johnsons Landing in British
When social justice protestor Moshe Silman poured a flammable liquid over his body and set himself ablaze at the motzei shabbos social justice protest in Tel Aviv, in all likelihood he did not believe his actions would shock the nation – but he did just that. While Silman remains in Tel Hashomer Hospital in critical […]
President Obama, in a speech to supporters, suggested business owners owe their success to government investment in infrastructure and other projects — saying “if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.” Obama’s comment Friday during a campaign stop in Roanoke, Va., came just days after he urged Congress to extend tax cuts enacted during […]
Customs inspectors at Ben-Gurion International Airport last week apprehended a Jerusalem resident with a British passport who tried smuggling 51 Samsung Galaxy s3 phones into the country. MML arrived in
Bart Lorang calls it a “paid, paid vacation.” The CEO and co-founder of Denver-based software provider company FullContact is offering his employees a $7,500 bonus to go on vacation, on
Meah Shearim residents were somewhat surprised to see IDF soldiers arrive in their community, for a training scenario no less. Trainees of an elite unit arrived on Sunday night, to take part in a training exercise in the streets of the community. The dozens of Duvdevan soldiers were in Meah Shearim, Bucharim and N’vei Tzvi […]
Mayor Bloomberg finally called the city’s rash of recent violence “unconscionable” as an aide said the NYPD is flooding crime-plagued neighborhoods with cops. “As safe as our city is today, it is not safe enough. One shooting is one too many,” Bloomberg said at the Greater Allen AME Cathedral in Jamaica, Queens, as eight more […]
HaRav Shlomo Elyashiv Shlita, 82, a son of Maran Posek HaDor HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita was transported to Shaare Zedek Medical Center from a nursing home on Sunday,
MK (Likud) Ze’ev Elkin announced his party is working to reach a mutually agreeable solution to drafting chareidim explaining Likud does not support imposing ultimatums and the party will not support a plan that harms the torah community. Meeting with chareidi representatives last week, Elkin explained that he will not permit anyone to harm the […]
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