In early March, Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas approached Cuban leader Raul Castro with an unusual request. According to the veteran Israeli negotiator who set up the call, Abbas wanted Castro to free Alan Gross, a Jewish American contractor jailed by Havana since late 2009. The intermediary, peace activist Gershon Baskin, says Gross “is being held […]

The Orthodox Union, in partnership with the Secure Community Network (SCN) — the national non-profit homeland security initiative of the Jewish Federations of North America — and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, will host its first annual “Security Awareness Week” from Monday, July 23-Thursday, July 26 for synagogues and schools. Registration […]

Workers are already busy planning and constructing the dais that will accommodate 1,000 rabbonim and magidei shiurim for the upcoming siyum shas at Teddy Stadium in Yerushalayim. There will be a separate “mizrach” for the gedolei yisrael shlita, headed by Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita. Police have announced that attendance will be limited to […]

HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein Shlita in a recent drasha told talmidim at Ponevezh that there is no room in the beis medrash for today’s newfound curiosity regarding worldly events and one’s curiosity must be focused entirely on matters of torah, nothing else. The rosh yeshiva spoke of the enormous amount of time being wasted by […]

Minister of Science (HaBayit HaYehudi) Rabbi Professor Daniel Hershkowitz was a guest at a function in Gordon College in Haifa. When asked to respond to the issue of “sharing the burden” the rav stated he feels that non-frum draft eligible teens should also have the option of not entering the IDF, permitting them the option […]

Israel Police on Wednesday, 21 Tammuz 5772 permitted an event to celebrate the release of Arabs from Israeli prison by Israel on Har HaBayis. A number of Arabs released earlier

Baruch Marzel, a veteran Hebron resident and head of the Eretz Yisrael Shelanu Party sent an automated voice message to 10,000 homes in Nazareth, announcing he and his colleagues will be arriving on Sunday to enlist them into a national service program. He reminds the Israeli Arab residents that “without sharing the load there can […]

Over recent months there have been a number of attacks against young women in Bnei Brak, primarily in the area of simcha halls. The victims described a male attacked dressed

On Monday 26 Tammuz 5772, Yad Vashem will hold a ceremony marking 70 years since the roundup of French Jewry during the Shoah. The event will begin with a ceremony

A three-month construction project is expected to create major backups for New Jersey drivers crossing the George Washington Bridge. The project on the Alexander Hamilton Bridge on the New York

Toldos Aaron appears heading for the next chareidi city, Charish, situated in the Nachal I’ron area of northern Israel. The chassidus was a pioneer in Beit Shemesh and now seems to be taking a practical approach again, seeking the next community under construction, thereby setting the stage for young couples to acquire affordable homes. HaRav […]

A number of weeks after the split between the new and old directors of the Israel Hebrew Yated Ne’eman, the first edition of HaPeles appeared on newsstands on erev shabbos, 23 Tammuz 5772. (Peles in Hebrew is a level, like the tool used by carpenters and other craftsman). The first edition is 16 pages and […]

With the threat of the government passing a new draft law rabbonim around the world are growing increasingly concerned regarding the fate of yeshivos in Eretz Yisrael. HaGaon HaRav Shmuel

Fort Lauderdale, FL – Deepening the mystery of missing millionaire Guma Aguiar’s disappearance, experts examining newly released GPS data from Aguiar’s boat say it could suggest a scenario in which he jumped ship and boarded a waiting boat mid-sea. “The pattern is very identifiable. It just sort of fits as a scenario,” boat expert Henry […]

The German government wants to ensure Jewish and Muslim parents can continue circumcising their sons despite a local court’s ruling that the practice amounts to criminal bodily harm. A spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the government is committed to protecting religious freedom including the ancient practice of circumcision, provided it is carried out […]

A D.C. police officer who worked as a motorcycle escort for White House officials and other dignitaries was moved to administrative duty Wednesday after he allegedly was overheard making threatening comments toward Michelle Obama, according to several police officials. The police department’s Internal Affairs Division is investigating the alleged comments and notified the U.S. Secret […]

The United States on Thursday placed additional sanctions on what it called Iran’s nuclear proliferation network. The Treasury Department said 11 companies and four individuals were being from barred doing

A Delta flight headed to Madrid returned to JFK after takeoff Thursday night after suspicious wires were noticed on board by Federal Air Marshals. No device was found on the