Investors extended a rally through a holiday-shortened day and pushed the S&P 500 index to its third straight record high close on Wednesday. Other major indexes also closed at record
Dozens of rabbonim from the dati leumi community on Wednesday penned a letter expressing tenacious opposition to a secular woman, in this case Ayelet Shaked, leading the Bayit Yehudi party,
In one unanimous show of hands, Democratic presidential candidates moved the idea of full health insurance for people who are not legally in the United States into the political mainstream.
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MK Amir Peretz has once again been elected to head the Labor party, replacing Avi Gabbai. Peretz, a former Sderot Mayor and former head of the Histadrut National Labor Federation,
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The decorated Navy SEAL who was acquitted of murder in the killing of a wounded Islamic State captive in Iraq thanked Fox News, President Donald Trump and two congressmen for
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Chief Rabbi of Poland, Rabbi Mordechai Sedrick, has come out in support of Chabad Shaliach Rav Mordechai Gurary in the machlokes surrounding a Shul in Krakow. Rav Sedrick, a member
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti proposed forming a politically unlikely partnership Tuesday to take on the city’s homeless crisis: with President Donald Trump. The Democratic mayor whose downtown streets have
On Wednesday afternoon, Rebbetzin Rivka Diner A”H was niftar, the wife of HaGaon Rav Eliezer Diner, mora d’asra of Beit Knesset Beit Yitzchak in Modi’in Illit and a Rosh Yeshiva
Iran’s president warned European partners in its faltering nuclear deal on Wednesday that Tehran will increase its enrichment of uranium to “any amount that we want” beginning on Sunday, putting
Seconds before a small plane crashed at a suburban Dallas airport, killing all 10 people on board, the crew commented on a problem with the left engine, federal officials said
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein on Wednesday announced that despite efforts to prevent the planned Knesset election, set for Tuesday, September 17, 2019, there is no way possible to cancel the
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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp appear to have stopped working for many users in the United States, across the UK and Europe. Thousands of users have complained that the apps and
Some crew members have survived a fire that killed 14 sailors onboard one of the Russian navy’s deep-sea research submersibles, the nation’s defense minister said Wednesday. Sergei Shoigu didn’t specify
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