MK (Yahadut HaTorah) Rav Yisrael Eichler on Wednesday, stated angrily that the chareidim do not owe the dati leumi tzibur a thing, referring to the impending expulsion of 30 families

Once again it is a right-wing government that will be responsible for evicting Jews from their homes as was the case in Yamit (Menachem Begin), Gush Katif & N. Shomron (Ariel Sharon), and now, after Migron, Beit El�s Ulpana neighborhood (Binyamin Netanyahu). For those na�ve among us it comes as a shock, for they question […]

A two-year saga of recall elections, public demonstrations, litigation and legislative walkouts drew to a finish Tuesday as Wisconsin voters turned out in massive numbers and voted to keep Republican

�Kav� reports that there is an improvement in the condition of Maran Posek HaDor HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita. This is not being confirmed by officials at Shaare Zedek Medical Center. The report states this past Shabbos, the gadol hador was out on the balcony of the eighth floor of the hospital and has […]

The wife of the man who’s confessed to killing a New York City boy in 1979 says he has been mentally ill for years. Rosemary Hernandez told the Daily News

First lady Michelle Obama says banning big servings of sugary drinks isn�t anything she�d want to do at the federal level but she applauded New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday for proposing to do just that at city eateries. It was a telling example of the fine line the first lady walks as […]

[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Three Jewish organizations sponsored a joint leadership mission to Albany today, in support of the 130,000 students in Jewish day schools, among over 400,000 in all

The Democratic chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday expressed worry that leaks to press about a cyber attack on Iran authorized by the Obama administration could lead to

Today, a delegation of rabbinic and lay leaders from the American Orthodox Jewish community met at The White House with President of the United States Barack Obama and his Chief of Staff, Mr. Jack Lew. The meeting was organized by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (aka �the Orthodox Union�) through its Washington, […]

According to a report appearing in the local Zman HaDarom newspaper, a local business owner was fined 20,000 NIS by the Ashdod Magistrate�s Court for speaking abusively to chareidim. This story begins two years ago, when a chareidi couple arrived in a lumber supply store asking to buy a do-it-yourself cabinet. The worker inquired with […]

If you�re driving around Midtown Manhattan, you may have recently noticed a litttle more go and a little less stop in your ride. New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan said Tuesday that in the year since the Midtown in Motion traffic reduction program went into effect, traffic flow has improved by 10 percent. Sadik-Khan […]

FBI agents this morning arrested five more people in a widening probe of corruption allegations involving New York City government housing preservation officials. One city official and a former city

A House panel on Wednesday will turn the heat up on the State Department to do more for an American citizen who�s on a hunger strike in a Bolivian jail. Jacob Ostreicher is a New York businessman who was arrested last year on charges that he laundered money through a rice plantation he runs in […]

Federal officials have blamed last year’s deadly Bronx bus crash on driver fatigue. At a briefing in Washington, D.C. Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded bus driver Ophadell Williams

Arab MK Hanin Zuabi on Tuesday, appeared before the High Court of Justice to challenge the Knesset move to remove her parliamentary immunity for taking part in the 2010 Gaza

Israel Air Force Command Major-General Amir Eshel has turned down his new vehicle because he does not wish to be driven in a German-manufactured car. Eshel�s family members were kedoshim in the Holocaust HY�D. It was Eshel who arranged for the first IAF fly-over in Poland, when they flew over the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Officers […]

Bill Clinton is one of President Obama�s highest profile political supporters and said in New York Monday that Romney as president would be “calamitous for our country and the world.” But in an interview with CNN Thursday, Clinton talked up Romney�s business credentials by saying the former Bain Capital exec had a �sterling business career.� […]