Last year, the Port Authority instituted the first round of a two-part toll and fare hike. Now, Sen. Frank Lautenberg wants to stop round two from going into effect. In
Bronx Pentecostal minister and New York State Senator Ruben Diaz (D-Bronx) compared abortion to the Holocaust Tuesday during a rant against a piece of pro-choice legislation. According to The New
A Delta passenger who filmed a bird strike at John F. Kennedy International Airport said that he is being targeted by embarrassed feds just because he shot the footage with
Rabbi Chaim Miller, who heads the Movement for Jerusalem and its Inhabitants met with the city�s chief engineer, Shlomo Eshkol. One of the topics of discussion the lack of affordable housing for young chareidi couples. Miller explained that many young couples fled the capital because it was simply too expensive for them. Miller feels that […]
55 tombstones in Kosice Slovakia were targeted by vandals in a hate attack, the daily HaMevaser reports. The report quotes the care taker of the cemetery, who explains he was horrified to find the destruction when he arrived for his weekly work in the cemetery. The damage was described as extensive. (YWN � Israel Desk, […]
While still unofficial, it appears national elections will be held on Tuesday, 17 Elul 5772 (September 4th). The Knesset will most likely vote to dissolve itself next week, a vote
A press conference will be held in front of the Bolivian Mission to the United Nations to rally support for Jacob Ostreicher, an innocent New York businessman who has now been confined for 11 months in one of Bolivia�s most notoriously dangerous prisons without being charged. Bolivian authorities have spent the time investigating Ostreicher for […]
The Knesset Health Committee on Wednesday, voted to approve stricter no smoking regulations. The new regulations become law in 30 days. According to new regulations smokers will not be permitted
12:30 IL: Environmental Ministry officials are working to determine the cause of a foul odor that began spreading over the Gush Dan area about an hour ago. An increasing number
The Ministry of Tourism continues to develop tourism in Eilat � it will invest about 41 million NIS in the southern resort town in 2012. The investment was allocated as part of a five-year plan, established in 2010 by the Tourism Ministry, to leverage the tourism potential of the resort. The investment will incorporate marketing, […]
New York City officials said the number of opioid painkiller prescriptions filled by city residents climbed to more than 2 million in 2010 � a 22 percent increase from 2008. �That�s a rapid increase in the number of prescriptions of any type and we know that it is heavily concentrated in the hands of a […]
Messianic “Jews” have returned to major intersections in Israel’s north brandishing huge banners promising salvation through belief in J. The missionaries also hand out material to cars stopped at lights
This story began a number of years ago when the young impressionable Sheirut Leumi volunteer met an Arab male employed in the institution she was assigned. Unfortunately, they got together R�L and have been living in northern Eretz Yisrael. On Monday,�Lahava members tired to extricate the woman and her son from the Arab home, but […]
Rabbi Shlomo Dichovsky serves as the director-general of the nation�s rabbinical court system. He is a senior dayan and has served on the Rabbinical Supreme Court. Israel Radio asked the rav to comment on last week�s High Court ruling supporting the giyur of the former head of the state�s Conversion Authority, Rabbi Chaim Druckman. The […]
Following the Channel 2 report that former Shas leader Rabbi Aryeh Deri refused an offer from Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita to accept the party�s third slot, Deri appears to be basing his decision on polls that signal if he runs as an independent he will earn three seats on his own. Shas leaders […]
Shas party leader and Deputy Prime Minister R� Eli Yishai responded to the recent high profile position taken by Yair Lapid, the ultra-secularist who this week launched his Yesh Atid party, highlighting the need to bring an end to draft deferments for chareidim. �Mr. Lapid, we don�t hate you but the tzibur can no longer […]
The Kaliver Rebbe, HaRav Menachem Mendel Taube Shlita has become a Chosson. The rebbe, 89, is engaged to Moras Sheindel Malinik, 55, of Kiryas Herzog in Bnei Brak. The rebbe
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination and threw his support behind Mitt Romney, saying, “today I am suspending the campaign, but
The Baltimore Sun reports: One of the brothers accused of assaulting a teen in Northwest Baltimore took the stand Wednesday morning in order to testify that he was defending himself.
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