This week marks 25 years since Baruch Goldstein shot and killed 29 Muslim worshipers in the Ulam Yitzchak of Ma’aras HaMachpelah, leaving some 100 injured before he was attacked when
Israel’s prime minister vowed Wednesday to prevent Iran from securing a lasting presence in Syria as he visited Moscow for talks focusing on regional security. For Benjamin Netanyahu, it’s the first trip to Moscow since September’s downing of a Russian warplane by Syrian forces that were responding to an Israeli air strike. The incident left […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Wednesday with Jared Kushner for talks focused on the Trump administration’s planned but as-yet unveiled Middle East peace initiative. Erdogan’s office said the meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump’s adviser and son-in-law was also attended by Turkey’s Economy Minister Berat Albayrak, who is Erdogan’s son-in-law. Kushner has said he […]
For most, life comes in waves, with both moments of turbulence and relative calm. For the Sofer family, however, the last decade has been a violent sea, and 20-year-old Chaya
The infant that was abandoned near a trash heap on the streets of Netanya two weeks ago, has been given a name and found a new home after its parents
On Wednesday, a balloon bomb detonated near a house in a kibbutz in the Eshkol region. The bomb caused significant damage to windows of the house. Thankfully there were no
Mrs Adina Bar Shalom, daughter of HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef ZT”L, has announced she is withdrawing from the 21st Knesset race and her Achi Yisraeli party is bowing out. She made her dramatic announcement on Tuesday night after years of preparing to enter Knesset, having bowed out last time at the behest of the Shas […]
A pair of Democratic presidential candidates blasted President Donald Trump as racist on Tuesday, adding to a growing debate among the White House hopefuls over how far to go in criticizing the president. In a statement to The Associated Press, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar directly called Trump a racist. “His policies on issues like voting […]
Dov Hikind, former New York state assemblyman and current Chairman of the Coalition for a Positive America, is demanding that Facebook apologize and take action after allowing calls to assassinate
On Sunday, the decision to close various stations and ambulance services currently operated by Magen David Adom in Judea and Samaria will come into effect. One station in particular, which
One year after the original amendment to the Religious Services law that adversely impacted the income of private ambulance companies in Israel, who among other things, deal with transporting deceased
Rabbi Avi Greenstein, CEO of the BPJCC took a stand alongside Mayor de Blasio and other community leaders advocating in support of allowing Yiddish translators at the polls. Speaking at
Having lost his 29-year-old son to a fentanyl overdose, Dean Palozej believes dealers who peddle drugs that kill should be locked up for a very long time – for the
There has been much machlokes surrounding the Golovnitz project in Beit Shemesh over recent years. There has been a halachic dispute regarding the site, which Asra Kadisha insists is compromising
Fiat Chrysler on Tuesday announced a $4.5 billion plan that includes building the first new auto assembly plant in Detroit in almost three decades and increasing its workforce in the area by about 6,500 jobs, an investment officials touted as an uncommon opportunity to revive the region’s economy. Under the plan, the company said it […]
Several Israeli start-ups have joined a handful of companies around the globe trying to develop lab-grown meat, something they see as a solution to the needs of the world’s ever-growing population and burgeoning demand for food. The product has been known under different names, including cultured meat, in-vitro or artificial and “clean meat” — a […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden strongly signaled Tuesday that he could soon launch a campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination. “I haven’t made the final decision,” he said, “but don’t be surprised.” During an appearance at the University of Delaware, Biden still gave himself room to decide against a run. But his comments offered the […]
Iran’s foreign minister said Tuesday he hoped his sudden resignation would reinforce the position of his fellow diplomats, hinting that a dispute with the security apparatus and hard-liners led to a “deadly poison for foreign policy.” Mohammed Javad Zarif’s move sent shockwaves through Iran, where tensions are already running high over America’s withdraw from the […]
Thirty-five soldiers of the chareidi Chetz (Arrow) Company in the paratroopers received the red berets on Thursday at a ceremony held at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, the site of the
Agudath Israel of America notes, with appreciation, the recent zoning law change in the Village of Chestnut Ridge. This new set of zoning laws, passed by the Village last Thursday,
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