During the morning hours on Sunday, 11 Tishrei, Rav Moshe Gefen zt”l, 60, was killed, struck by a train. The rav zt”l was among the prominent talmidei chachamim in Hadera, working as one of the Roshei Yeshiva in Yeshivas Knesset Yitzchak in the city. Zaka volunteers reported they arrived on the scene to find “a […]
Reports regarding Yom Kippur and the condition of HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita indicate the Posek HaDor was quite weak, continuing on intravenous antibiotic treatment. The Rav participated in
A decade after wisps of anthrax sent through the mail killed 5 people, sickened 17 others and terrorized the nation, biologists and chemists still disagree on whether federal investigators got the right man and whether the F.B.I.’s long inquiry brushed aside important clues. Now, three scientists argue that distinctive chemicals found in the dried anthrax […]
The Rev. Al Sharpton will broadcast his nationally syndicated radio show from the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City on Monday, according to reports. Sharpton will air his show live from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, where the demonstrations have entered their 24th day, CNN reported. Sharpton’s radio show “Keepin it Real” airs […]
The U.S. government obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of
Republican presidential contender Herman Cain amplified his criticism Sunday of the growing Occupy Wall Street movement, calling the protesters “jealous’ Americans who “play the victim card” and want to “take somebody else’s” Cadillac. Cain’s remarks, on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” came amidst an escalating war of words between Republicans and Democrats over the merits of […]
A Texas woman is suing her local police department after she says she was arrested for no reason – and forced to listen to Rush Limbaugh. In a lawsuit filed last week over the Oct. 4, 2010 incident, Bridgett Nickerson Boyd said her trouble began when she noticed her engine steaming and pulled over to […]
The Obama administration engaged in a pattern of approving loans that were not qualified to receive taxpayer money, according to one Republican House chairman who says that is as disturbing
Over the years, Agudath Israel of America’s Washington Office has worked closely with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency to help alleviate potential problems
In a precedent-setting move, chareidi volunteers of the fire department in Israel are circulating among prominent rabbonim, including Gedolei Yisrael Shlita, seeking to have them sign a kol korei instructing the tzibur to refrain from lighting Shabbos and Yomtov candles in one’s sukka. We are all familiar with the horror stories, those ending in the […]
Boro Park Shomrim patrolling the streets of Boro Park were shocked when they came across a 2-year-old boy strolling the street just before 3:00AM on Motzei Yom Kippur. A Shomrim
Last Sunday, Mrs. Sara Deutch picked up a brand new 2012 Honda Accord from the lot of Wheels To Lease – all for the price of just twenty bucks. No, Wheels To Lease wasn’t running another promotion; Mrs. Deutch was the grand prize winner of the 2011 Hatzolah of Boro Park annual auction. “My twenty […]
President Obama ordered an overhaul of the government’s cybersecurity standards Friday, but experts aren’t sure the new measures will be effective in preventing another damaging leak of classified information. The actions come in response to the release last year of thousands of classified State Department cables by WikiLeaks. Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence analyst, is […]
The NYPD is investigating online threats against the Internal Affairs Bureau detective who set off a massive ticket-fixing probe, sources tell the Daily News. The posts, which were taken down
Victims of Bernie Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme finally started receiving checks yesterday for their lost life savings — too late for at least eight elderly residents of a Queens high-rise who died before their restitution arrived. Many of the Madoff victims living in North Shore Towers in Floral Park saw their nest eggs wiped out […]
Roughly a thousand “Occupy Wall Street” protestors marched from Lower Manhattan to Washington Square Park Saturday as they continued to make their case for what they say is a damaged
Twenty-five tombstones were vandalized in two cemeteries in the Jaffa area of Tel Aviv over Yom Kippur, one Muslim and one Christian. Graffiti stating “price tag” and “death to Arabs” was sprawled on the tombstones. This will undoubtedly spark new racial tensions throughout the country on the heels of the mosque attack in the Galil […]
[VIDEO & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] As night falls and Yom Kippur 5772 comes to an end, people get a head start on their sukkos preparations. Some people started building
A structure fire heavily damaged a home on Yom Kippur night, TLS reports. At about 11:30 PM, police and firefighters arrived to a home on Arlington Avenue to find the
Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical service reports treating 2,168 people during Yom Kippur, including 58 syncopal episodes, people passing out. There were 28 cardiac arrests and 246 children were injured in bicycle accidents, all sustaining light injuries. 122 women in labor were transported to hospitals, including 2 whose children were delivered by paramedics. There […]
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