The Labor-Gesher and Meretz parties announced on Monday that their two parties are merging and will run jointly for the upcoming March 2 elections. Labor chairman Amir Peretz will head

A water main break flooded streets on Manhattans Upper West Side near Lincoln Center and hampered subway service during the Monday morning rush hour. The Fire Department of New York responded to the flooding around 5 a.m. near Broadway and West 62nd Street. The water spread for blocks and was several inches deep in places. […]

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced new funding to harden security infrastructure and further protect communities in and around the community of Monsey, where a man attacked a home full

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Israel police raided the “Be’er Miriam seminary” – a sefardi Chareidi girls’ seminary – in the Bucharim neighborhood of Jerusalem on Monday morning and arrested a man and eight women

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Defense Secretary Mark Esper explicitly said Sunday that he had seen no hard evidence that four American embassies had been under possible threat when President Donald Trump authorized the targeting of Irans top commander, raising questions about the scale of the threat described by Trump last week. As the administration struggled with its justification for […]

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A Sefer Torah that went missing after the Pearl Hotel in Yerushalayim closed was found and returned to its owners. The Draiman Family who owned the Sefer Torah worked tirelessly

The idea for the song began with the bell at the beginning of the morning at the cheder right opposite Yonatan Razels home. Every time I kept hearing this song, until it became a part of our Shabbos zemiros. I said to my brothers, Let’s record it and it will give us closure. Yonatan Razel, […]

Members of Agudas Yisroel met at their headquarters in Bnei Brak to ratify the agreement to run on a conjoined list with Degel Hatorah in the upcoming elections for the

The theory took root in vague form well before Donald Trump laid claim to the White House in 2016. The candidates close confidant tweeted about it. His campaign chairman apparently spoke about it with people close to him. What if, the idea went, it was actually Ukraine and not Russia that was interfering […]

Many students at a university in Tehran have openly avoided walking over US and Israeli flags in an apparent show of defiance again the Iranian government. Video shows the students

History was made when a bris milah took place late last week in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Harav Yehudah Teichtal, the rabbi of

On the Bronx streets where New York Citys new police commissioner started as a patrolman in the crime-ravaged early 1990s, gunfire and burned-out buildings were everywhere. Sometimes the police radio would crackle with a different kind of call, not for a shooting or stabbing but for a sick child, a locked apartment door or a […]

Two young men were seriously injured in a shooting in Nahariya on Sunday evening. They were found with gunshots wounds on Weizmann Street in the northern city. United Hatzalah treated

The U.S. Supreme Court decided a citizenship question wont be on this springs census form, but that doesnt mean the fight over it has ended in courtrooms across the country. In Maryland, civil rights groups are trying to block an order from President Donald Trump to gather citizenship data through administrative records. In New York, […]

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz postponed his visit to Dubai this month over security concerns amid heightened tension in the Middle East following the US strike on Iranian Quds Force

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