The relationship between President Obama and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has taken a turn for the worse. In the wake of the supercommittee’s failure and both parties already jockeying for the 2012 election, the rapport between the commander-in-chief and the nations top Republican is not good. And its not expected to improve any time soon. […]
A nationwide public-sector strike next Wednesday in Britain threatens to paralyze operations at Heathrow, Europes busiest airport. BAA, the airports operator, said Friday 12-hour delays for arriving passengers are likely because the Nov. 30 strike will hit the U.K. Border Agencys ability to support normal operations. An estimated 2 million workers are expected to protest […]
Larger — and younger — crowds jammed the nation’s malls and big box stores on Black Friday, as a new generation got in on one of the biggest sales days
In an unusual step that comes on the heels of Iran’s threats and warnings to the US and Israel over the consequences of a possible strike on its nuclear facilities,
Youd expect George W. Bushs library to be Texas-sized, and 43s monument to his eight years as President wont disappoint when it opens in the spring of 2013. But a solitary jagged, twisted reminder of New York Citys worst day will unquestionably become the centerpiece of the 43,000 artifacts available for display at the library […]
Prague – Seventy years ago this week, the Nazis began deporting Czech Jews to the garrison town of Terezn (Theresienstadt) in nothern Bohemia; the oldest known survivor of that Gestapo show camp and of the Holocaust this Friday marks her 108th birthday. Alice Herz-Sommer was born in Prague on Nov. 26, 1903, along […]
The following is a Washington Post article: On a September afternoon, as the strains of Pachelbels Canon filled a flower-laden hotel ballroom, Melanie Lo and her father slowly proceeded past family and friends toward a huppah, the Jewish wedding canopy. Rabbi Kenneth Block stood waiting under the white canopy with Melanies husband-to-be, Michael Pezzula. Next […]
Republican presidential candidates are joining New Hampshire’s intensifying same-gender marriage debate — whether they like it or not. State lawmakers plan to take up a measure to repeal the law
The following is from the Patriot News: Sometime around midnight, deep inside Kesher Israel Congregations big old South Bend industrial gas stove, the fire went out. More than 130 pounds of turkey stopped roasting. About 20 volunteers had spent the evening before Thanksgiving cutting 40 pounds of sweet potatoes, baking dozens of pumpkin pies and […]
Students at St Andrews University in Scotland will reportedly write a letter of apology to President Obama after an incident last week in which they burned him in effigy. The incident occurred the evening of Nov. 18, when members of the universitys conservative student association burned images of Obama on a beach bonfire, according to […]
Seeking to extricate its mosdos from the fiscal abyss, the Chernobyl chassidus is offering a Shabbos with the rebbe shlita in a private facility at the cost of $5,000 a
AT&T announced on Thursday that it withdrew its application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to buy T-Mobile, but the company said it had not given up on completing the
Last week, before the Toldos Aaron Rebbe Shlita left for North America, he spoke with chassidim explaining that for him, this is a trip to golus, but he excepts Hashems decree with love, realizing this is what must be. The rebbe explained that the financial situation of mosdos is critical, calling upon chassidim to daven […]
The internal-affairs honcho who headed the NYPDs explosive ticket-fix investigation filed for retirement yesterday, The Post has learned. Internal Affairs Bureau Deputy Inspector John McDermott, 46 in charge of a probe that led to the indictment last month of 16 cops for crimes including official misconduct and conspiracy earned $146,364 in 2010, records […]
The former New York City mayor who said in September that he’s “on board” with Barack Obama’s reelection campaign tells Maggie in our story on the homepage that he hopes Michael Bloomberg will enter the 2012 race: Koch a Democrat who endorsed George W. Bush in 2004 and has backed Obama for […]
The Ministry of Tourism has increased its marketing efforts worldwide in preparation of the winter season in the United States, Canada and Brazil, investing over 10 million NIS. The winter
One of the few affordable staples in the day-to-day lives of many large families is fresh vegetables, but as a result of the recent harsh winter weather, that too has
Eleven members of an organization calling itself Gareen Shechem, an organization calling for the return of Jews to Shechem, were arrested in Shechem as they were walking to Kever Yosef
An Iranian lawmaker said Thursday that officials in Iran and Lebanon have arrested 12 CIA “spies” who intended to a “deal a strong blow” to Iran, state media reported. Parliamentarian
President Obama has an unwelcome holiday gift for New Yorkers hell be coming to Midtown the same day the streets will be impossibly clogged by the Rockefeller Plaza tree-lighting ceremony. He has picked Wednesday, one of the busiest gridlock-alert days of the year, to descend on the area with his motorcade for a fund-raiser […]
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