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A group of prominent American and Israeli Jewish leaders visited Har Hazeitim on Friday, as part of the ongoing effort by the International Committee for the Preservation of Har HaZeitim
The highly regarded head of Icholov Medical Center’s Intensive Care Department Professor Patrick Sorkin has decided to join United Hatzalah. The obviously frum, bearded motorcycle-riding professor of emergency medicine is
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A Delta Airlines flight headed to Minneapolis made an emergency return landing Sunday morning at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after one of the jet engines apparently broke apart, raining pieces
Heroic NYPD cops battled ferocious winds and sub-freezing temperatures as one was lowered from a hovering helicopter onto a mountaintop cliff early today to rescue two near-dead West Point cadets
According to Ynet, Hagon Chacham Ovadia Yosef Shlita, authorized a number of senior Rabbonim on Sunday to add clarifications on his behalf to his controversial ruling which legitimized conversions performed
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