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Canadian police have arrested a suspect in the assassination of a Hamas terrorist in Dubai but offered Dubai police no information on the matter, the Gulf emirate’s police chief said
Just a little over two weeks until Election Day, the Democratic and Republican front runners in the race for governor avoided confrontation during an unusual Monday night debate at Hofstra
Please be Mispallel for the Tosher Rebbe Shlita, who has been admitted to the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. The Rebbe was taken by Hatzolah to the hospital on Monday
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Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar has been invited to address the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg, probably in 2011. On a visit to Moscow this week in order to to promote dialogue between European nations and religious communities, Mevl�t �avusoglu, the assembly’s president, met with Rabbi Lazar and other Russia’s religious […]
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Four men accused of planting bombs outside synagogues in the Bronx and plotting to fire missiles at military planes were convicted on Monday, in a case that was widely seen
[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
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
Facebook issued a stern warning to independent developers Monday in response to reports that some applications on the site were sharing identifying information about users. At the same time, a
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 Paladino’s 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 Paladino’s campaign manager even offered to resign. To prevent this from happening to another na�ve political operative, we at Jewish Politics proudly […]
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New York voters are profoundly pessimistic about the state economy, worried that they or someone in their household will be laid off in the coming year, and convinced that Albany
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