(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) In what is likely to be shocking news to most Beit Shemesh residents in addition to the candidates, a poll shows that Dr. Aliza Bloch beats Beit Shemesh Mayor Rabbi Moshe Abutbul if elections were held today; by one percent – 46% to 45%. Bloch is a member of the city’s […]
Now that it appears the recent leptospirosis crisis is under control, Israel’s healthcare community is addressing West Nile virus, with an 18-year-old male reportedly in very serious condition, in an intensive care unit in Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center. He is on a respirator and in a medically-induced coma. Five others are hospitalized nationwide in less […]
The parents of children in Talmid Torah Emunas Tzion in Yerushalayim are angry with Mayor Nir Barkat as the school year is upon us and they do not have a
Continuing his trip to Israel, John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum on Tuesday, where he took part in a memorial ceremony remembering the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. “In memory of the greatest tragedy which the spirit and resilience of the Jewish […]
President Trump exhorted West Virginia voters to back Republican Senate candidate Patrick Morrisey in November’s midterm elections Tuesday night, but most of the rally followed a familiar pattern of Trump rattling off a list of accomplishments and urging voters to keep the Senate in GOP hands this November. One of the last thing Trump mentioned was […]
A Reform synagogue in Raleigh, North Carolina says several members have received threatening letters. Temple Beth Or Executive Director Robert Gleiberman tells The News & Observer that nine board members and one member of the clergy received copies of the same letter containing “threatening language” at their homes Saturday. Gleiberman says the letters had no […]
Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, the former Gaza Prime Minister, is reported pleased with ongoing efforts to reach agreement for a one-year ceasefire with Israel. Speaking on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, Ismail on Tuesday said “We are on the way of ending the blockade on Gaza. This is the result of your position and […]
A German court has ruled that public broadcaster ZDF can’t be forced to post a specifically worded apology demanded by a Polish court for erroneously calling two World War II
(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Shas chairman, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Tuesday, 10 Elul, took part in the official opening of party headquarters in Jerusalem ahead of municipal elections. Deri optimistically commented, “B’ezras Hashem, we will be the largest faction”. “Our goal is to be the largest faction in the city,” Deri declared at the […]
President Donald Trump is accusing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio of ripping off his rhetoric. Trump tweeted Tuesday that de Blasio “just stole my campaign slogan: PROMISES MADE
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit rejected the request of Rishon L’Tzion HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef, who asked him to demand from the High Court an extension of the implementation of the kashrus reform plan pertaining to mashgichim, which he says could cause financial harm to thousands of mashgichim. In the State’s response to the High Court […]
New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) praised President Donald Trump and his administration for deporting Jakiw Palij, the Nazi War Criminal who resided comfortably in Queens, New York for years despite Hikind’s protests. This last year, Hikind called on President Trump and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to take Palij into custody as an […]
By: Shmulie Brackman I sit here deep in thought. It’s been one of those nights- all too familiar to me now. I spent the night in the emergency room, again. This time it was following a blood patch, a treatment to fix a spinal tap gone wrong. It was just another one of those side […]
Good news for consumers. The Ministry of Agriculture announced that for two weeks, customs duties on the importation of tomatoes from abroad will be abolished in order to prevent an
Microsoft has uncovered new Russian hacking efforts targeting U.S. political groups ahead of the midterm elections. The company said Tuesday that a group tied to the Russian government created fake
Since the 1970s, the U.S. government has initiated legal proceedings to expel just 137 of the estimated 10,000 suspected Nazi war criminals who immigrated to the U.S. after World War
With tweets and taunts, President Donald Trump is attempting to turn one of his most outspoken critics into the public face of the Russia probe that he has long worked to discredit. In John Brennan, the blunt former CIA director, Trump believes he has found an unsympathetic foil — one with whom he can spar […]
The Sephardi Bnei Torah Association, which deals with complex legal cases during the year, warns yeshiva students who wish to leave the country and travel to Uman for Rosh Hashana,
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