Approximately 6,000 Jews on Sunday ended an annual pilgrimage to Africa’s oldest synagogue, the Ghriba, on the Tunisian island of Djerba. According to the AFP, most of the pilgrims –
United States Senator Charles E. Schumer called on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to commit to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or return to Iran. Ahmadinejad announced his intention to attend the
There are a lot of uncertainties right now about the Gulf oil spill. But one thing is clear: In addition to the intangible loss of wildlife, it’s going to cost
During the Sunday evening Levaya of Neturei Karta leader Moshe Hirsch, a number of persons identifying with the teachings of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane burst into the crowd expressing
The Iranian’s brazen defiance of world dictate may only be surpassed by Tehran’s insolence, an in-your-face attitude that is perhaps unsurpassed in the international diplomatic arena. In the latest episode
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met in Sharm el-Sheikh with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ahead of this week’s scheduled launching of ‘proximity talks’ between Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority), talks
Federal officials closed a portion of the northern Gulf of Mexico to fishing Sunday, curtailing a billion-dollar business as high winds and choppy seas hampered efforts to corral a rapidly
United Airlines parent UAL Corp. and Continental Airlines Inc. agreed to merge in a stock swap valued at more than $3 billion that will create the world’s biggest carrier by
After chareidi chinuch had a day in court last week in the Emanuel Beis Yaakov case, the subject of chareidi education is once again in the news in Eretz Yisrael,
Disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer took another step back into political spotlight Sunday, appearing for a chatty interview at the 92nd Street Y on the upper East Side. The former governor
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem released a statement rejecting American criticism and warnings regarding Syrian involvement in supplying Hizbullah with Scud missiles. Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reports the foreign
Appearing before the Rishon L’Tzion Magistrate’s Court on Sunday, police told the court that suspect Shula Zaken is suspected of passing over NIS 1 in bribery funds to Ehud Olmert.
A number of rabbonim have sent a letter to Barzilai Hospital administrators warning that if they move ahead with plans to exhume bones from a proposed building site to construct
To most people there, it was a sophisticated, technologically advanced response to a looming catastrophe. But the police reaction to the report of a car bomb in Times Square on
According to a Ma’an news agency report, US President Barak Obama has sent a letter to the PA (Palestinian Authority) with envoy George Mitchell, a letter that states the White
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in her remarks to the American Jewish Committee Gala Dinner in Washington last week warned that Syria’s arming Hizbullah with advanced weaponry may spark
Following an uplifting shabbos in Meron, thousands of people gathered by Rashbi’s tzyion on motzei shabbos for havdalah. Taking advantage of the relative calm before the storm, people flocked to
Yachad Shivtei Yisrael is the theme of Tzeirei Chabad’s Lab B’Omer parades around Eretz Yisrael, totaling 800 separate events involving 250,000 children. This year’s events mark the 31st consecutive year
While the world continues to debate economic sanctions against Iran, Tehran is moving ahead, adding to its military capabilities. The Iranian FARS news agency reports that Iran has now produced
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