Islamic extremists blew up the gate of a Somali hotel with a car bomb and took over the building for more than 14 hours, leaving 26 people dead before Somali
There were many smiles at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Hospital last week. On Thursday, July 11, 2019, at 7:15AM, a baby girl was born to Ella and Itzik Tzemach, both employees
A healthy lifestyle can cut your risk of developing Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia even if you have genes that raise your risk for these mind-destroying diseases, a large study has found. People with high genetic risk and poor health habits were about three times more likely to develop dementia versus those with low […]
Chairman of the Democratic Israel party, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, on Sunday announced that if he enters the next coalition government, it will have to agree to civil weddings
Police outside Phoenix recently closed part of a street to conduct a lighting test as an investigation continues into the 2018 death of a woman who was struck and killed by an Uber self-driving SUV. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office says prosecutors asked for more investigation before making a decision about whether to charge backup […]
Swedish officials said a small plane carrying parachutists crashed in northern Sweden soon after takeoff on Sunday and all nine people on board were killed. The accident took place a
Israel’s new education minister’s remarks in favor of “conversion therapy,” a controversial technique that seeks to turn gays into heterosexuals, came under widespread criticism and led hundreds to protest Sunday. Rafi Peretz, who leads a small religious nationalist party, said in a televised interview over the weekend that he supports conversion therapy and has performed […]
A Manhattan power outage that temporarily turned off the bright lights of the big city only lasted for a few hours, but left plenty of lingering questions and calls for
NEW YORK — On July 8, 2019, State Police responded to a criminal mischief complainant at the Champlain Commons Housing Complex in the town of Scriba. The investigation has revealed
Police say they will be reviewing any available video to help them identity protesters who trespassed and pulled down the American flag in front of an immigration detention center in suburban Denver, tried to burn it and replaced it with a Mexican flag. Friday night’s protest in Aurora, one of many coordinated across the country, […]
American Airlines said Sunday that it will keep the Boeing 737 Max plane off its schedule until Nov. 3, which is two months longer than it had planned. In a statement, American said the action will result in the cancellation of about 115 flights per day. It said it “remains confident” that the Boeing plane […]
Residue of a dangerous drug was found in the blood of the baby girl on Friday, after she arrived at Wolfson Hospital in Holon. The one-year-old patient lives in nearby
A 69-year-old man armed with a rifle threw incendiary devices at an immigration jail in Washington state early Saturday morning, then was found dead after four police officers arrived and
All the Sephardi rabbonim in Elad, including the city’s chief rabbi, HaGaon HaRav Mordechai Malka Shlita, last month signed a psak halacha barring residents from having dogs. According to the
Tropical Storm Barry dumped rain as it slowly swept inland through Gulf Coast states Sunday, appearing to spare New Orleans a direct hit, but stoking fears elsewhere of flooding, tornadoes and prolonged power outages. Mississippi’s capital city braced for possible flash flooding after up to 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) of rain fell in the Jackson […]
For years, the Kanievskys have been there for us – individually, for those fortunate enough to visit Rav Chaim or the rebbetzin personally, and as a klal through the Torah
In response to the planned closure of an Afula park during the summer to non-residents, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit stated, “An order permitting the temporary opening of the park must
President Donald Trump on Sunday assailed a group of Democratic congresswomen of color as foreign-born troublemakers who should go back to the “broken and crime infested places from which they came,” ignoring the fact that the women are American citizens and all but one was born in the U.S. Trump’s tweets drew sharp rebukes from […]
HaRav Shmuel Menachem Mendel Schneerson was NIftar on SHabbos. He was among the elders of the Chabad community in Yerushalayim, 91, and a member of the directorate of Collel Chabad
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