The U.S. Coast Guard suspects there are stowaways in a container that was loaded on a ship docked at Port Newark in New Jersey Wednesday. Coast Guard spokesman Charles Rowe

Maryland prosecutors are not seeking jail time for a former member of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood watch group convicted in the beating of a black teenager. Twenty-four-year-old Eliyahu Werdesheim faces

Religious artifacts were swiped from a Queens synagogue sometime in the past week, and the thief is still on the lam, cops said. The four objects — including a silver

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman came under a fiery verbal assault while visiting Bedouin communities in southern Israel on Wednesday morning, 7 Tammuz 5772. Lieberman commented that it is inacceptable that

Egged has launched a new campaign by which a passenger presenting a ‘RavKav’ smart card can receive a siddur from Feldheim. The siddur will even have one’s name inscribed without

The Jerusalem Magistrate’s court on Tuesday, 6 Tammuz 5772 remanded 31-year-old E.O. along with another suspect, a minor of the age of 17. They are charged with the graffiti attack

The tri-state area is set for another heat wave, less than a week after stifling humidity and temperatures in the mid-90s baked the region in its first of the year.

New York Rep. Charles Rangel has won a primary in his bid for a 22nd term in Congress, defeating Adriano Espaillat and three other competitors despite a recent ethics scandal.

Representative Nydia M. Vel�zquez appears to be on her way to an eleventh term in Congress. Ms. Vel�zquez easily won the Democratic nomination in the 7th Congressional District, according to the Associated Press, taking a comfortable lead over her nearest opponent, City Councilman Erik M. Dilan, with more than half of precincts reporting. Her victory […]

Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries trounced firebrand City Councilman Charles Barron Tuesday night in the Democratic primary to represent Brooklyn’s 8th Congressional District. With 87 percent of districts reporting, Jeffries was leading

Attorney Wendy Long has won a three-way Republican primary to take on Kirsten Gillibrand in this fall’s race for the U.S. Senate. Long defeated Nassau County comptroller George Maragos and

In a weekly shiur given by HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Yosef, the rav last week addressed the issue of mamzeirus and non-frum weddings. The rav explained that he believes if a

Ministry of Education inspectors visited the Paamei Yaakov Kollel in Bnei Brak on Tuesday afternoon, 6 Tammuz 5772. The kollel is under the auspices of the mora d’asra of the

In an article published in South Africa’s Business Day online, former senior Israel Foreign Ministry official Dr. Alon Liel calls to join the boycott against good manufactured in yishuvim throughout

The starting price for volumes of Shas Bavli and Yerushalmi with handwritten notes from the Vilna Gaon offered for sale is $500,000. The sale offered by the Kedma Company includes

MK (Am Shalem) Rabbi Chaim Amsellem came out on Monday afternoon, against Shas leader Minister Eli Yishai. Amsellem was referring to remarks released to the media by Yishai earlier in

Chareidi inductees into the IDF that entered the service on June 10, 2012 were told they would be in a very simple basic training program that will result in their

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday morning, 6 Tammuz 5772 at approximately 02:00, visited the Kosel accompanied by Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz and Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar. The Russian president