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.� […]

Kadima MK Yochanan Plesner, who heads the Plesner Committee which is formulating the new law addressing conscription for the chareidi community is seeking monetary sanctions against those mosdos serving chareidim

Thirty people, including children, suffered minor injuries in a Queens school bus accident Tuesday morning, fire officials said. The bus was driving the children to Yeahiva Central Queens (YCQ). The

Police on Tuesday morning, arrested the driver of Deputy Health Minister R� Yaakov Litzman during the predawn hours. The driver smashed into a stone wall with the minister�s vehicle on Hativat Yerushalayim Street. After the accident, the driver phoned police, who administered a breathalyzer exam on him. Police searched the vehicle and found marijuana. The […]

The Haifa Family Court has handed down a decision permitting a non-frum father to drive his frum children on Shabbos over the objections of their mother. Justice Esperanze Alon removed

Drivers caught talking or texting on their cellphones in New Jersey may soon face increased fines and license suspensions under a measure approved by a Senate panel Monday. The Senate

Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita met with Rachel Atias, whose parents and siblings were killed in a vehicular accident in Tiveria. Rachel was brought to the rav�s home in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem by her uncle and other family members. See the moving video of the gadol hador giving his bracha to […]

Wisconsin is no stranger to the role of political battleground, but its intense year and a half in the national spotlight culminates Tuesday with voters heading to the polls either

Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger is planning to give an address in a mosque in Paris, the daily Yisrael HaYom reports. The chief rabbi has already met with a leading imam