Authorities say two children have died in a New York City apartment fire. Firefighters pulled the girls, 7-year-old Payton Gomez and 9-year-old Haley Harris, from the building in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood around 11 p.m. Saturday. Police say they were pronounced dead at a hospital. A 53-year-old man rescued from the three-story residential building is hospitalized […]
An FBI agent was shot in the shoulder Saturday in New York City during a street gunfight in a seemingly placid residential neighborhood, police said. The male agent was struck while on duty at 3:30 p.m. in Brooklyn’s Canarsie section. FBI officials confirmed the shooting and said the agent was in stable condition at a […]
Members of the Peleg Yerushalmi are preparing to evacuate the Darchei Shmuel Shul in Kiryat Herzog, Bnei Brak, as the city has ordered removing it since it is an illegal
(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Israel’s state-employed social workers continued protesting on Sunday, demanding increased security measures in facilities around the country following numerous attacks against members of the profession. Protestors were in numerous locations Sunday morning, according the area of Jerusalem’s Chords Bridge, disrupting traffic in that area. They announced that on Monday, at 10:00AM, […]
One of the world’s biggest tobacco companies is diving into the cannabis market with a $2.4 billion buy-in. Marlboro maker Altria Group Inc. is taking a 45 percent stake in Cronos Group, the Canadian medical and recreational marijuana provider said Friday. Altria will pay another $1.4 billion for warrants that if exercised, would give the […]
On December 5, 2018, the 4th night of Chanukah, Staten Island was fortunate enough to experience at Borough Hall the annual candle lightings sponsored by the Council of Jewish Organizations of Staten Island (COJO). Mendy Mirocznik, President of COJO started the program by saying that, “the Menorah Lighting this year has taken on an even […]
50 years Later the Oil is still burning By: Yoshi Falber The year was 1966 when a young Rabbi Nota Schiller decided to undertake an innovation which had never been
A number of rabbonim who serve in the IDF reserves have learned that at least seven of the fourteen females who have applied to become mashgichos kashrus in the IDF
Wondering if Republicans will push Nancy Pelosi over the top in her drive to become House speaker next year? Despite supportive words from President Donald Trump, it’s implausible. Twice since Democrats won House control in last month’s elections, Trump has said the California Democrat deserves to regain the post she held from 2007 to early […]
North Korea’s foreign minister said his country remains committed to ending its nuclear weapons program in talks Friday with his Chinese counterpart, according to China’s foreign ministry. The talks in Beijing between Ri Yong Ho and Wang Yi came amid a lack of progress in international efforts to persuade North Korea to reverse its drive […]
President Donald Trump, never known for taking criticism lying down, responded to unkind words from his former secretary of state Rex Tillerson on Friday by calling Tillerson “dumb as a rock” and “lazy as hell.” During a rare public appearance in Houston on Thursday evening, Tillerson, the former Exxon Mobil CEO, discussed his difficult tenure […]
Following the recent turmoil over a flight that left passengers stranded in Athens for Shabbos, it appears El Al decided to play it safe this erev Shabbos, canceling a flight
A man who drove his car into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Virginia was convicted Friday of first-degree murder, a verdict that local civil rights activists hope
As terrified people scrambled out of broken windows, screaming and bleeding and fleeing a mass shooting inside a California bar, Sgt. Ron Helus and a highway patrolman decided to try
On Monday, Israel began Operation Northern Shield which was aimed at destroying the terror tunnels built by Lebanon-based terror organization Hezbollah. On the very first day of the operation, the IDF released footage of a Hezbollah terrorist walking through one of the underground tunnels. Once the operative came close to the device that carried both a camera […]
Mesivta Ohr Yisrael, a division of Yeshiva Gedola Ohr Yisrael, (Est. Elul 1999), under the leadership of the Rosh HaYeshiva, Harav Avraham Nesanel Zucker, and the Menahel Rabbi Raphael Bernstein, began
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s reluctance to hold a vote on a popular criminal justice bill has angered top Republican senators and created an unusual rift with a longtime GOP ally, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa. And on Friday, it also brought on a tweet from President Donald Trump. “Hopefully Mitch McConnell will ask for […]
The IDF Spokesman’s Office on Motzei Shabbos confirmed that a second terror tunnel was discovered connecting from Southern Lebanon to Northern Israel, as Operation Northern Shield continues. The announcement came shortly after IDF troops fired at suspected members of the Lebanese terror group who approached the site of Israeli army engineering working to thwart tunnels. […]
President Donald Trump on Friday picked former Attorney General William Barr to once again serve as America’s top law enforcement official. But while his experience and mainstream background may boost his prospects for confirmation, Democrats are raising alarms about his comments on the Russia investigation and Hillary Clinton. Barr has expressed concerns about political donations […]
President Donald Trump is inching closer to his long-teased major White House shake-up, gearing up for the twin challenges of battling for re-election and dealing with the Democrats’ investigations once they take control of the House. The biggest piece of the shifting picture: Chief of Staff John Kelly’s departure now appears certain. Trump announced Friday […]
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