Former White House correspondent Helen Thomas said she stands by controversial comments she made earlier this year about Israeli Jews, even though they led to the end of her decades-long
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One of London’s biggest hospitals has ordered a rabbi to remove a nine-foot chanukiah from its main entrance, just one week after granting permission for it to go on display.
Below are the remarks made by President Barak Obama just one hour ago at the White House Chanukah party. In his opening remarks the President offered his deepest condolences to
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Mayor Bloomberg called Israel’s Acting Consul General in New York, Ido Aharoni to reiterate that, like always, New York City’s stands closely with Israel this afternoon. The Mayor asked if
The House on Thursday voted to formally censure Rep. Charlie Rangel for financial misconduct despite pleas from the New York Democratic lawmaker and some of his colleagues for a less
Congressional Democrats rammed a bill through the House of Representatives Thursday indefinitely extending the Bush-era tax cuts only for families making $250,000 a year or less. It would maintain the
ZAKA volunteers working in the area of the bus incident have discovered a pile of about 15 bodies, one on top of another. This shocking and horrific sight would suggest
Special to Yeshiva World News by Rabbi Tuvya Melonsky: In an unprecedented speech, Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, one of the two Grand Rabbis of Satmar, spoke out sharply against the standards
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President Obama’s clarification of his stance on the mosque to be built near ground zero shows that he needs new advisers, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says in an interview
The trustee seeking to recover funds for the victims of Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme sued JPMorgan Chase on Thursday for $6.4 billion, accusing it of profiting from the huge
The following is a CNN report: Amazon dumped the controversial site WikiLeaks from its computer servers on Wednesday. But WikiLeaks, which is known for publishing state secrets, apparently has found
Sweden’s royal family has been rocked by a new scandal which has exposed the hidden Nazi past of the Queen’s father. The latest revelations concern Walther Sommerlath, the late father
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