Here is the White House text of President Barack Obama‘s Address to a Joint Session of Congress delivered on Thursday evening: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and fellow Americans: Tonight we meet at an urgent time for our country. We continue to face an economic crisis that has left millions of our […]
Queens native Donald Trump gave a rousing endorsement of businessman Bob Turner for Congress today in this automated telephone call to voters in New York’s 9th Congressional District (Queens-Brooklyn), where
[Op-Ed By Yossi Gestetner] As frum Jews, we often take for granted the freedoms that we are privileged to enjoy. Our community simply assumes that our elected officials will take the necessary steps to ensure that we can practice our religion in accordance with the tenets of our faith. Unfortunately, it is the assumption that […]
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the cost of buying produce in Israel is dropping. This is based on information pertaining to prices in produce stores and supermarkets around the
As Israel’s Labor Party busies itself with internal elections, one candidate, former journalist and current MK Shelly Yacimovich explains one does not have to be anti religious to take the election. The party’s primaries is set for next week, and according to a Channel 2 Sarid Institute poll headed by Dr. Miri Sarid, Yacimovich will […]
Ground Zero will be the obvious center of focus for the New York Police Department in the lead up to Sunday’s 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. But Police Commissioner
Citypass, the operator of the new Jerusalem light rail has announced the service will continue without charge, apparently at least until mid October, until a number of issues are resolved. It appears the continued free service is due in no small part to the efforts of askan R’ Chaim Miller, who heads The Movement on […]
The New York City Police Department this morning remembered its members who died on September 11th, and those who have passed since working at the site. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Police
Career politician David Weprin (D-WFP) – who has held or run for four separate political offices in the past two years: city council, city comptroller, state assembly (twice), and now congress — cannot vote for himself next Tuesday, September 13th in the special election to replace former congressman Anthony Weiner because Mr. Weprin does not […]
The PA on Thursday (Sept. 8th) officially launched it unilateral bid to declare Palestinian Statehood. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) sent a letter to the Ramallah office of the
A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Virginia’s challenge to President Obama’s health care law, saying in a ruling that the state doesn’t have a right to bring a lawsuit.
Story 1: A number of months ago Rabbi Binyamin Metzger, principal of the Beis Yaakov Lustig High School in Ramat Gan called a student in to explain that she simply
[AUDIO LINK POSTED BELOW] For one instant on the morning of Sept. 11, an airliner that had vanished from all the tracking tools of modern aviation suddenly became visible in
In an address to bochrim the Chernobyl Rebbe Shlita stressed the need to maintain an awareness of the holiness of Hebrew, and therefore, one should not speak in Hebrew for
While the political echelon does its thing regarded an expected unilateral PA (Palestinian Authority) declaration of statehood, the IDF is preparing for what the intelligence community fears will be a
The beers are on Mayor Bloomberg. Invoking President Obama’s White House “Beer Summit,” Mayor Bloomberg suggested that a black city councilman and a top city aide, also black, get a beer with the police officers who threw them to the ground and handcuffed them during Monday’s West Indian Day parade in Brooklyn. “I assume it’ll […]
It did not take too long for fanatics in Meah Shearim to begin a stir, questioning just why Yoel Zev Goldstein visited HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita following his release
A spike in domestic terrorism and attacks by American citizens directed from overseas are top concerns for police departments across the country, according to a new survey by the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University. “Homegrown and foreign-directed jihadi terrorism and radicalization are perceived as a real threat by local law enforcement in […]
Hillary Clinton for president? “So far she hasn’t said she would, but I think it’s not a bad idea,” former Vice President Dick Cheney told ABC’s Jonathan Karl in an interview on Wednesday to promote his new book “In My Time.” Cheney declined to say whether he thought the current Secretary of State would have […]
The fight for the Republican presidential nomination began narrowing into an intense and ideological battle at a debate Wednesday night, with Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and Mitt Romney sharply clashing over Social Security, health care and each other’s long-term prospect against President Obama. A series of spirited exchanges between the two men, which revealed […]
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