The New York Police Department is making changes to officer training and supervision amid an outcry over its stop-and-frisk policy. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly sent a letter to City Council

Soldiers and officers of an elite combat unit were compelled to visit a church and attend a lecture by a religious leader, the daily Yisrael HaYom reported on Thursday. A group of ten soldiers and officers visited Yerushalayim as part of an educational culture day by the IDF. Such days are commonplace as the military�s […]

The SAT test scores for nearly 200 students were ruled invalid because students sat too close to each other at the testing site. The test was taken on May 5

Thousands of crib tents sold by several major retailers are being recalled due to a “serious safety risk,” state and federal officials said Thursday. The state Department of Consumer Protection

Federal agents have been stymied in their long search for a man who mails envelopes containing white powder and usually a message of some kind. Investigators from the FBI and

IDF military police arrived in Meah Shearim on Wednesday morning. They were looking for a number of people, men and women who did not file to be excused from military

The city is on pace to haul in $9 million less in revenue from traffic and parking violations this year because of a dramatic reduction in the number of tickets

Have you ever sat on the FDR in traffic, heard a siren behind you and wondered how long it takes for an ambulance to reach a victim in New York City? New Yorkers just came closer to finding out how efficient the city�s $2.3 billion 911 emergency response system is at getting people treatment within […]

The board revoked the permit for the East End Madrassah, a Sunday school for Muslim children, citing an ongoing police investigation into alleged anti-Semitic course material. East End Madrassah came

If the treasury has its way the new bill addressing the chareidi tzibur�s fulfillment of its national duties will be carried out by enlisting chareidim as police and firemen. According to a report appearing in the daily Haaretz, the Finance Ministry does not wish to pursue a compulsory draft for chareidim, but feels the current […]

Rabbi Yaakov Edelstein, Rav of Ramat HaSharon was approached with an interesting shailah, what is the chevra kadisha supposed to do, if anything, regarding a woman who purchased a plot

Turkey is accusing Israel for violating its air space over northern Cyprus five times earlier this week, on Monday. According to the report, Turkey scrambled fighter planes to distance the

The admorim of the Abuchatzera family were on hand Wednesday, 24 Iyar 5772 for the inauguration of a shul in memory of Rav Elazar ZT�L, who was murdered ten months ago. The new shul is in Yokneam, named Ohel Elazar in memory of the Baba Elazar ZY�A. The land for the shul was given without […]

Philanthropist Shimon Glick has come through once again, enabling many avreichim to breathe a sigh of relief this erev Shabbos. This story begins three years ago with the collapse of Mosdos Mesila B�Arava in southern Israel. The organization included schools, kindergartens, talmidei torah and kollelim. After the debts became too much, the directors fled the […]