House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King called Monday for a formal investigation into leaks of classified information regarding the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula underwear bomb plot that was recently uncovered by American intelligence. �It�s essential to find out who did it. It was a dramatic, dramatic mission, and a terrible, terrible leak. That […]

The Knesset committee headed by Kadima MK Yochanan Plesner responsible for drafting a new law that will replace the Tal Law, to induct chareidim into the IDF convened today. The

Drivers and their passengers better make sure they�re buckled up. State police will be running a two-week crackdown on seatbelts starting Monday and running through June 3. The state police will join about 400 local law enforcement units across New York to enforce the seatbelt law. The law says all people in a vehicle�s front […]

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is urging her colleagues to pass a Senate bill that would provide some relief to sick patients dealing with a rise in drug shortages. Gillibrand told reporters

The tragic story of the 19-year-old from a chareidi family who took his own life made its way to Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita, who addressed the issue of the responsibility of rabbonim to their talmidim. Without mentioning the actual case in point, the rav�s weekly shiur addressed the topic of ??????? ????. The […]

For some it was a day of thanks to HKBH, recitation of Hallel or possibly just omitting Tachnun. For others, it was a regular day, nothing special added or omitted

�Today�s chareidi women are more intelligence than chareidi men� stated MK (Yahadut HaTorah) Rav Moshe Gafne to a bar association gathering addressing discrimination against women. Gafne addressed the bar association�s annual gathering in an Eilat hotel, defending the chareidi tzibur against the recent accusation of gender discrimination and more. Gafne told participants that accusations against […]

Israel Police is now advertising for new cadets, including qualified candidates who speak Yiddish. �Jerusalem Central District Police seeking qualified candidates who speak Yiddish (mother tongue level) for a challenging and interesting career. The advert addresses both men and women who are finishing their studies this year� an ad reads. Jerusalem police officials explain during […]

The city is set to close dozens of Brooklyn after-school programs, angering working parents who say there�s nowhere else for their kids to go. Brooklyn is slated to lose 77 of its 154 Out of School Time programs in the fall, the most programs axed in any borough. Many parents say they will have to […]

Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt challenged college graduates on Sunday to take the radical step — at least for their generation — of tearing their eyes away from their

A special erev rosh chodesh tefilla will take place today, 29 Iyar 5772 in the Yeshuos Yaakov Shul in Yerushalayim�s Meah Shearim neighborhood at 15:50. All of Sefer Tehillim will be recited along with the tefilla of the Shela HaKadosh. Mincha will get underway at 18:15 with recitation of Yom Kippur Koton. (YWN � Israel […]

There was slight concern among doctors, members of the medical team treating Maran Posek HaDor HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita as his condition deteriorated somewhat last night, the eve of 29 Iyar 5772. As a result of a fluctuation in the rav�s condition doctors in Shaare Zedek Medical Center ordered to halt the dialysis […]

This effort is labeled Operation Yonatan, taking place today, erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan 5772. Much has been said regarding the terrible injustice that has been done to Yonatan. Now we

Upon hearing that representatives of the Mifal HaShas were preparing to complete another siyum on Shas, their third, HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita on erev Shabbos contacted Mifal HaShas officials,

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The $1 million pilot program funded by a grant from State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos will purchase about 150 security cameras, to be placed in the Borough Park and Flatbush neighborhoods of Brooklyn. The initiative is named after Leiby Kletzky, the eight-year-old boy who disappeared and then was found murdered last summer. �If we […]

Yes, there are problems in the chareidi community but not anything like the violence and all that accompanies the secular lifestyle of many Israeli public schools. As the left-wing and anti-religious in Eretz Yisrael remain committed to compelling the chareidi schools to comply with their educational agenda, the reality in the nation�s public schools becomes […]

After the sharp increase in violent attacks and crimes perpetrated by illegal aliens from African nations over recent weeks, the issue of the growing number of illegals crossing into Israel

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today traveled to Jerusalem where she met with Israeli President Shimon Peres and other Israeli officials to discuss security-related issues, and signed a Joint Statement on the implementation of the Global Entry trusted traveler program for Israeli citizens with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. �This agreement is part of the […]