The Ministry of Education on Wednesday, was compelled to respond to a petition challenging ministry funding for chareidi mosdos that do not include “core subjects”, referring to math, English, and the sciences. In the response to the High Court of Justice the ministry attorneys explained that in the coming school year, mosdos that received state […]
Prior to the Jerusalem District Court announcing the verdict in a number of criminal cases against former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert earlier this week, Shas leader R’ Eli Yishai telephoned Olmert to tell him that Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita was davening for him. “We remember all the good you did and maran is […]
Vice Premier Moshe Ya’alon was interviewed on Wednesday night, the eve of 22 Tammuz 5772 to discuss the reported breakdown in talks between him and Kadima MK Yochanan Plesner. The two were working during the week to complete the draft bill that would be presented at the next cabinet meeting, this Sunday, 25 Tammuz, but […]
Israel Electric Company (IEC) Chairman of the Board Yiftach Ron-Tal announced this morning, 22 Tammuz 5772 that the sweltering heat is bringing nationwide demand to an unprecedented level. He announced that he expects today’s demand to exceed 11,500 megawatts and the utility company simply cannot meet this demand. On Wednesday, 21 Tammuz, the utility company […]
The issue of army service for avreichim has become the focus of public discussion in Israel. The Israel State Archives released four documents [all in Hebrew] from the personal collection
Due to the sharp increase in the price of wheat, bread and other wheat products are expected to go up in price at the end of July. Wheat has risen
The Department of Homeland Security will soon be using a laser at airports that can detect everything about you from over 160-feet away. Gizmodo reports a scanner that could read people at the molecular level has been invented. This laser-based scanner – which can be used 164-feet away — could read everything from a person’s […]
Hebrew University computer science engineering student Yinon Galia has developed a smart phone application that reads upcoming road signs and signals verbally and on the device screen the area speed
Five people were taken to a hospital and others were treated at an airport after an Aruba-to-Miami flight encountered turbulence while making its initial descent into Miami, an American Airlines
The Levy Committee report addressing the legality of yishuvim and outposts in Yehuda and Shomron is being called “a joke” by PA (Palestinian Authority) officials. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to halt all construction in yishuvim and to release prisoners to permit a return to the negotiating table. Abu […]
The New York State Court Officers Association has announced its endorsement of Charles Finkelstein for Brooklyn Civil Court Judge. The announcement came from Dennis W. Quirk, president of the NYS Court Officers Association. Finkelstein, a graduate of Yeshiva Toras Emes and Yeshiva University, was a felony prosecutor in the Brooklyn D.A.’s office and an assistant […]
This year’s Sept. 11 anniversary will be the first in which politicians are excluded from speaking at the commemoration ceremony at ground zero. The memorial foundation sent a letter to
MK David Azoulay requested that Civil Service Commissioner Moshe Dayan include Purim on the list of authorized holidays. Dayan turned down the request explaining that since the different areas of
[FROM THIS WEEKS YATED] New evidence indicates that a recent infant death the NYC Department of Health claimed was caused by metzitzah b’peh (circumcision with oral suction) was most likely an accident caused by the newborn’s 2-year old brother. In an exclusive interview given to Debbie Maimon of Yated Ne’eman, the infant’s mother, Mrs. K […]
Health Ministry Director-General Prof. Roni Gamzu told members of the Knesset Health Committee that 700 Israelis are waiting for an organ donor to have a kidney transplant. The professor cited
It’s an overrun, seemingly neglected Jewish cemetery in Ozone Park owned by an Upper East Side congregation, Shaare Zedek. In the midst of finger pointing and outrage the cemetery has quietly been getting some much needed assistance from a most unusual source. “I’m just trying to give these people some dignity back,” Anthony Pisciotta told […]
The Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association are warning parents about the danger of cords used for audio and video baby monitors. CPSC chairman Inez Tennenbaum
The city’s payphones are about to start pulling double-duty as wireless hotspots. Officials unveiled a pilot program Wednesday that will transform some of the city’s thousands of aging payphone kiosks
A late morning fire Wednesday damaged several apartments in the Raymond Castle Apartments at 500 East Funston Avenue in the Village of Spring Valley. Police said 40 people were displaced by the “major structure fire” which was reported at 10:37 a.m. Firefighters didn’t extinguish it until 1 p.m. One firefighter and one elderly female resident […]
Mitt Romney was booed on Wednesday at the NAACP for vowing to repeal President Obama’s signature healthcare law. “I will reduce government spending,” Romney told the civil rights group during
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