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[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Thank you. Let me begin by thanking Dr. Solomon Frager and Aron Hirtz for helping us organize this press conference today. I am joined today by
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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that his committee plans to investigate government loan programs to private corporations in light of allegations of improper dealings between the White House and
Plans for members of a Columbia University student organization to nosh with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were scuttled Wednesday by “the controversy surrounding the event,” The Columbia Spectator reported. Fifteen members of
The U.S. and other allies are scrambling for a path to push Palestinians back into direct peace negotiations with Israel, but prospects appear to be grim. Diplomatic efforts by Western
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry accused President Obama of fostering a policy of “appeasement” in the Middle East, blaming him for the standoff at the United Nations over the Palestinian
Seventeen people were injured when a building scaffold collapsed onto a city bus at West 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem around 9:25 a.m. Tuesday, the Fire Department
The recent ‘price tag’ attack presumably carried out by Jews against an IDF command base near Beit El has resulted in widespread condemnation from settlement leaders and rabbonim affiliated with
Hours after a large police force moved into Meah Shearim on Tuesday morning making a number of arrests, corporate officials at Electra told the press that company attorneys are contemplating
Saudi Arabia may not take part in the media splash surrounding the expected declaration of Palestinian independence, but Riydah is using its wealth to quietly fund the move, pledging $200
MK (Yahadut HaTorah) Yisrael Eichler is questioning why there are no audible condemnations following an arson attack against a Jerusalem shul. “We cannot accept those who incite against the chareidi
The following is a statement given to YWN by newly elected Congressman Bob Turner, on the upcoming UN vote pressed by the Palestinian Authority: “The Palestinian Authority has not acted
Ten people, a family that resides in Jerusalem’s Old City and a guest were walking home from the Kosel on Friday night when attackers whose faces were covered by kafias
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