Parents often ask me whether spanking is really so bad. After all, they were spanked as kids and they turned out fine. Plus, it’s the only thing that will get
Finance Minister Dr. Yuval Shteinitz opposes the Plesner Committees intention to compel chareidim to serve in the IDF. He feels that ultimately, the burden is to release chareidim from the current situation and permit them to enter the workplace, for this will reduce dependence on state aid and alleviate rising poverty in the chareidi sector. […]
The minutes wasted trying to find accurate information on websites, business listings, and weekly newsletters are now a thing of the past. ChesedList.com is the only site one needs to
Councilman Charles Barron said hes already seeing incoming congressman Hakeem Jeffries, who he lost to in Tuesdays primary, carving out a legislative agenda in order to pay back political supporters. Calling into WBLSs show Express Yourself Sunday afternoon, Barron said: They preferwhen I say they, the DNCthey want the Cory Booker, they want the Clarence […]
The Vaad Yeshivos has released a letter addressed to students receiving their tzav rishon, their first IDF induction notice, generally received by the age of 16 or 17. The letter explains that the status of thousands of students hangs in the balance as the Plesner Committee formulates a plan which will likely call for inducting […]
With a coalition government of 94 of the 120 MKs in Knesset, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was under the assumption that there would be coalition stability, a hiatus from the
The states main witness against the primary defendants in the Holyland trialtold the court that he personally brought a total sum of 1.5 million NIS and expensive cigars to for Prime Minister Ehud Olmerts office when he served as Jerusalem mayor, from 1993-1999. There are over 13 defendants in the case. Olmerts attorney told the […]
An 11-year-old boy was transported to a hospital with a head injury on Sunday night. It is reported that the child drank a large quantity of alcohol at a hachnasas
A Neturei Karta delegation is in Cairo to meet with newly-elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. Yisrael Dovid weiss and Dovid Shlomo Feldman have spent recent days in Lebanon attending an
What was thought to be a primary election win for Rep. Charles Rangel is not a done deal. The New York State Supreme Court will hold a hearing Monday to
Intelligence officials have uncovered a new al Qaeda plot to bomb a US passenger plane leading up to the London Olympics, according to Sunday Times of London. Officials don’t know
While little is heard about Israels navy, this branch of the IDF is a formidable one that addresses many security issues, albeit usually outside of the media arena. According to a HaMevaser report, a senior naval officer explains one of the possible scenarios that the IDF is addressing is a Hizbullah naval blockade using missiles, […]
Brooklyn’s Hakeem Jeffries is the new Democratic golden child. He has been tapped for an important fund-raising position as the party tries to take back the majority in the House. Following his crushing defeat of City Councilman Charles Barron in last weeks Democratic primary in the 8th Congressional District, House Democratic leaders selected the assemblyman […]
Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Courts four conservative justices to strike down the heart of President Obamas health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, but later changed his position and formed an alliance with liberals to uphold the bulk of the law, according to two sources with specific knowledge of […]
Kol Chai Radio reported on Monday morning, that there will be no official participation of rabbonim or the recitation of tehillim at the funeral of Israels seventh prime minister, Yitzchak Shamir. The body of the prime minister, who died on shabbos, will lay in state in the Knesset Plaza on Monday and the state funeral […]
As the Plesner Committee seeks to hammer out the nations new draft law things are somewhat turbulent in the IDF as officials in the Manpower Branch are not in agreement regarding the induction of thousands of chareidim. Some feel the obvious move it to expand on the already existing Nachal Chareidi while others feel the […]
At least one person is dead and others injured, some seriously due to inhaling toxic fumes, the result of an explosion at an Ein Yahav area drilling site. It appears
The lifeless body of 30-year-old avreich Rav Yaakov Glasner zl was found in Elad on Monday morning, 11 Tammuz 5772. The niftar was a resident of Yehuda HaNasi Street. It appears that on Sunday he complained of a bad headache and not feeling well but he was not thinking in terms of something serious and […]
Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) led a gathering of elected officials this afternoon in demanding justice for Jacob Ostreicher, a Brooklyn resident held for more than a year in a Bolivian prison. U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, former NY Governor David Paterson and others joined the Assemblyman along with Ostreichers wife, children and grandchildren in front of […]
With much of Montgomery County still without power and ongoing 911 problems continuing across Northern Virginia on Sunday afternoon, local officials vowed to press utilities to restore service more quickly. I will not accept the timetable of July the 6th, said Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D), shortly after Pepco announced some homes would not […]
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