Tel Aviv has taken a small step toward protecting the lives of “smartphone zombies.” The municipality has installed special LED sidewalk lights at a busy crosswalk to alert distracted pedestrians staring at their phones when they can walk and when they should stop. Tomer Dror, head of the traffic management division at the Tel Aviv-Yafo […]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that the U.S. expects North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to honor his promise to keep his missile launches and nuclear tests on
An Israeli organization has minted a coin emblazoned with the face of Nikki Haley, President Donald Trump’s former ambassador to the United Nations, to commemorate her defense of Israel in the world body. The Sanhedrin, a Jewish organization that dreams of restoring the Jewish Temple, where ancient temples once stood in Jerusalem’s Old City, is […]
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan Thursday to meet the “existential threat” of climate change by extending a section of the lower Manhattan coastline as much as 500 feet (152 meters) into the East River. The Democratic mayor said the $10 billion effort to protect lower Manhattan from flooding by extending […]
Have You Heard? If not, you will. It is on its way – to your yeshiva, your school, your child. What is it? Agudas Yisroel’s learning initiative that is changing the world for our children: The Masmidei HaSiyum Program. Recently unveiled at yeshivos and chadorim everywhere, this ground-breaking program has already been met with tremendous […]
The brutal murders of 49 worshipers in two mosques in New Zealand today is a personal tragedy for the relatives and friends of those who were killed, and yet another
Cross-border fighting between Israel and Gaza’s ruling Hamas group appeared to be winding down Friday, amid reports of an Egyptian-brokered truce and Israeli media saying a misfire was believed to be responsible for the rare Gaza rocket attack on Tel Aviv that triggered the exchange. The two rockets had struck late Thursday, taking Israel’s military […]
The Midgam Institute conducted a new poll on Thursday showing that if elections were held today, the right-wing bloc together with the Charedim would win 64 Knesset seats. The poll, which was published on Channel 12 News on Thursday, showed Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid’s Blue and White party winning the most mandates in the Knesset but […]
At least 49 people were shot to death at two mosques during midday prayers Friday — most if not all of them gunned down by an immigrant-hating white supremacist who apparently used a helmet-mounted camera to broadcast live video of the slaughter on Facebook. One man was arrested and charged with murder, and two other […]
New York State Police are reminding motorists to “Slow Down and Move Over – It’s The Law.” The New York State Thruway Authority is reporting that on Wednesday a trooper
Facebook is losing its product chief Chris Cox, a top-ranking executive who spent more than a decade at the company, just a week after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major new direction for the social network. The departure, announced Thursday , follows Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook will shift its emphasis to private messaging over public […]
Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver can stay out of prison while his public corruption conviction is appealed, a court said Thursday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a one-page order extending bail, a day after a three-judge panel, hearing oral arguments, seemed skeptical of aspects of the government’s case against him. […]
A federal judge, citing an “unprecedented measles outbreak” in suburban Rockland County, New York, has denied a request to let 44 unvaccinated children return to school. Parents of students in the Green Meadow Waldorf School in Chestnut Ridge have sued the county health department. They say none of the school’s excluded children have contracted measles […]
On the nationally syndicated “Dennis Prager Radio Show”, host Denniis Prager discussed Chabad Houses aroound the world that he has visited, and then mentions the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s opposition of to
In the following video one can see the bus driver who was injured in the lock from the attack near Hizme, as he is trying to clear glass shards from
Israeli warplanes attacked some 100 Hamas terror targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday in response to a rare rocket attack on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, as the
The operator of a leading neo-Nazi website claims it’s too dangerous for him to travel to the U.S. to be questioned under oath for a lawsuit accusing him of terrorizing
One of the most prominent prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller is leaving the team soon, a likely indication that the investigation is close to wrapping up. More than any other member of Mueller’s team, Andrew Weissmann has been a target of President Donald Trump’s outrage and singled out for attacks, including by Trump […]
During the early days of the Russia investigation, FBI officials debated whether Donald Trump’s chance of winning should factor into how aggressively they investigated potential coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, two FBI officials told Congress last year, according to newly released transcripts of their interviews. Peter Strzok, the former FBI agent who helped […]
Federal authorities say a Bronx man bit off part of an immigration officer’s finger during a recent arrest. Court papers released Thursday show Cristopher Santos Felix was charged with assaulting a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. A criminal complaint says officers went to Santos Felix’s home March 3 believing he had stayed in the […]
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