Israel’s new smoking law goes into effect today, a law intended to protect non-smokers from second hand smoke. The new law prohibits smoking in public spaces around Israel, including central bus stations, covered bus stops, train platforms, government offices, hospital entrances and doorways, places of worship, swimming pools, theaters, restaurants and cafes. The litmus test regarding […]

A fire department training exercise in the southern resort city of Eilat went sour, with officials blaming the large blaze that erupted on the “change in wind direction”. The training event simulated a plane crashing into a residential area. Twenty minutes into the event the fires were ablaze and the event was proceeding without incident. […]

Hizbullah suspects three senior officials in the terrorist organization have been spying for Israel’s Mossad Intelligence Agency. According to an el-Arabia report, Muhmad el-Husseini, Jihad Jalul, and Muhmad al-Sebaa are in custody and stand accused for spying for Israel. A local Lebanese newspaper reports that Jalul and al-Sebaa have not been in Lebanon for a […]

Police are investigating three swastikas scrawled in black marker on a Brooklyn sidewalk, officials say. The graffiti was found Tuesday morning on the corner of 49th Street and 10th Avenue in Borough Park, authorities said. The hate crimes task force is investigating. Tuesday’s discovery follows a series of similar incidents in the predominantly Orthodox Jewish […]

New York City’s top cop is ripping local community leaders for their silence after a string of violence this summer. NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly claims they have not spoken out

Controversy is raging in France over a TV broadcast featuring recorded conversations between Toulouse serial killer Mohammed Merah and police negotiators in the hours leading up to the declared al-Qaeda member’s March 22 death. The prime-time airing of the audio excepts July 8 generated outrage from families of Merah’s seven shooting victims, revulsion among a […]

President Barack Obama signed an executive order last week that could give the U.S. government control over the Internet. With the wordy title “Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness

Four chareidi residents of Yerushalayim are in jail after being arrested by customs police on suspicion of smuggling thousands of smart phones into the country, Shtieble.net reports. The four are

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics on Monday, released information pertaining to the population at the end of 2011, breaking down figures per city or yishuv. In first place, with 804,355 residents is Yerushalayim, with a growth of 16,000 from the previous year. Second place goes to Tel Aviv with 404,750 residents with a growth of […]

The Eida Chareidis has decided on a major tefilla protest – march of the children, the tenokos shel bais raban. At present it appears the protest will take place on

[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] It was a VIP visit at the Ichud Hatzalah national headquarters building in the Romeima neighborhood of Yerushalayim on Monday, 19 Tammuz 5772 for British Ambassador

In an interview with Kikar Shabbos, MK (Yahadut HaTorah) Yisrael Eichler explains at present there are no ongoing negotiations between chareidim and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as the final touches

MD Alam is running for Secretary of State in Missouri and heads the National Democratic Party Asian American Caucus, a group sponsored by the Democratic National Committee. Alam also believes no Jews died during the attacks of 9/11 and has made statements that infer Jews were involved in the attack itself. “Why [was] 9/11 was […]

Flights in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport were briefly suspended this afternoon after smoke in an elevator shaft forced the evacuation of the control tower, officials said. The

House Republicans launched an all-out assault Tuesday against President Barack Obama’s signature health care reform law, holding a series of committee hearings and other events ahead of a planned vote

As tensions increase between the chareidi and secular politicians surrounding the recommendations of MK Yochanan Plesner and the defunct Plesner Committee, the chareidi media is working overtime to cover the

The Tuesday morning 20 Tammuz edition of Yated Ne’eman carries a letter from Maran HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita addressing ongoing efforts to draft most of the nation’s avreichim. The rav warns of the possible blow to the yeshiva world, “the contamination of the pure flask of oil”. “Watch out regarding your lives and your very […]

The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America — the largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization, representing 1,000 nonprofits — applauds the security funds allocated through the Nonprofit Security Grant Program

In an interview on Monday night, Meir Porush told Kol Chai Radio’s Noam Zeigman that askanim from various communities have approached him regarding efforts to organize a million man march against the government’s planned law for chareidi conscription. The daily HaMevaser adds that organizers are conferring with “gedolei and tzaddikei hador shlita” to see if […]

The Knesset Immigration, Absorption & Diaspora Affairs Committee yesterday (Monday) discussed the ruling by the Cologne district court banning Brit Mila – circumcision. Committee Chair, Danny Danon, MK (Likud), called on the German Ambassador, H.E. Andreas Michaelis, to make it clear to the German Bundestag that Israel is very concerned about the implications of this […]