[LIVE WEBCAST LINK BELOW] Rachel Imeinu was a cup half full kind of person. It sounds chutzpadik to talk that way about one of our Imahos, but if we want to emulate her, thats probably the best way. She waited for Yaakov, and then had to give him away. She waited for children, and then […]

The NY Observer reports: Dan Donovan met with leaders of the Hasidic community yesterday and blasted out a release afterwards saying that he received an endorsement from the meetings. These community leaders decided that Donovan represents the best choice for New York State Attorney General, the campaign wrote. But now several people who were actually […]

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday handed top state honors to the Russian spies deported from the U.S. in July in the biggest spy scandal since the Cold War, the

Carl Paladinos visit to Boro Park should be mandatory teaching in graduate schools across New York of how to guarantee that your candidate loses the Orthodox Jewish vote. It went so poorly that Paladinos campaign manager even offered to resign. To prevent this from happening to another nave political operative, we at Jewish Politics proudly […]

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Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are believed to be hiding near each other in relative comfort in northwest Pakistan, a senior NATO official told

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President Obama, with a coarse voice, warned a crowd in Ohio: “They’re fighting back. The empire is striking back. To win this election, they are plowing ten’s of millions of dollars into front groups. They are running misleading negative ads all across the country.” (Real Clear Politics Video)

Excitement and optimism were in the air yesterday as Daniel Donovan held a rally at his New Dorp field office celebrating a recent poll showing him trailing his Democratic opponent

Seven thousand cubic meters of concrete were poured this week to form the base of the worlds largest underground hospital. For 36 hours running, shifts of 70 workers and 80 cement mixers worked to lay the foundation of the emergency facility, which is designed to withstand conventional, chemical, and biological attacks. The night of Saturday […]

A four-alarm fire in a junkyard that began late Saturday night continues to burn this morning, sending smoke drifting to parts of Brooklyn, authorities said. Four stories of scrap metal

If you needed more proof that texting is on the rise, here’s a stat for you: the average teenager sends over 3,000 texts per month. That’s more than six texts

Two Israelis, a 24-year-old woman and her 60-year-old father were murdered in their apartment in Mexico City over the weekend, according to ZAKA representatives in the Mexico capital, who said

Bouncers will be waiting in the wings in case things get out of control tomorrow night when seven gubernatorial candidates take to the stage for a live, televised debate that

The money woes keep growing for a developer of the Ground Zero mosque. Valley National Bank is suing Sharif El-Gamal and his real-estate company, Soho Properties, seeking $95,778 plus interest

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