With passage of an enormous budget bill, the GOP-controlled Congress all but wrapped up its legislating for the year. But will it be enough to convince voters to give Republicans
Following a fire in a Paris apartment, an 85-year-old Jewish woman was found stabbed in a violent attack. Local press outlets are reporting that the fire broke out on Friday evening just before Shabbos began. The firefighters who broke into the apartment found the woman’s lifeless body after she had been stabbed. Police have ruled out a […]
President Donald Trump will not be adding two new lawyers to the legal team defending him in the special counsel’s Russia investigation after all, one of the president’s attorneys said
Israel’s Council for Higher Education has adopted a new ethical code which includes prohibiting lecturers from taking part in academic boycotts and prohibiting discrimination against lecturers and students alike. It also prohibits a lecturer from expressing a political opinion in the classroom if the opinion is not fef Heads of the nation’s university objected but […]
(VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) The Iron Dome missile defense system was activated on Sunday night, and dozens of the anti-missile missiles were fired into the sky. Sirens wailed and Red
A passenger who was bumped off a full flight has scored the maximum prize — a $10,000 travel voucher. A spokesman for United Airlines confirmed Friday that a passenger got the big voucher, but he didn’t name the person. In a series of tweets, Allison Preiss of Washington, D.C., says she was rewarded after being […]
“When we look around this room and see over three thousand people,” declared Chaim Miller, chairman of this year’s Mir Celebration at Bell Works, “we’re looking at only half of the story.” “The other half of the Mir story”, he continued, “is taking place six thousand miles away, where over eight thousand bnei Torah are […]
A top Chinese official warned Sunday that a “trade war” would harm all sides but gave no indication of Beijing’s possible next move in a spiraling dispute with President Donald
Police say an officer shot and wounded a knife-wielding man inside a New York City Whole Foods store. The shooting happened just before 8:30 p.m. Saturday at a Whole Foods
A Portuguese airline has apologized for keeping more than 100 passengers stranded at Stuttgart airport in southwestern Germany after one of its flights was canceled last-minute because of a drunken
(VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) For Gazans entered southern Israel in the area of Kibbutz Kissufim and then attempted to damage/destroy construction equipment used by authorities in the ongoing war against
President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his decision to sign a $1.3 trillion federal spending bill despite his misgivings, pointing to billions in new funding for the military and national
(VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has officially announced he will not seek a third term in office. In the video he released, the mayor explains that 16
The French police officer who swapped places with a female supermarket employee being held hostage had already received a lifetime of accolades by the time he walked unarmed into the
The hours are ticking away until Pesach arrives, and impoverished families in Israel are in a state of crisis. Many of the absolute poorest have been hand-selected by Kupat Ha’Ir’s
The maiden flight of a new non-stop regular passenger service between Australia and Britain has touched down at London’s Heathrow Airport. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, operated by Qantas Airways, arrived Sunday in London just over 17 hours after setting off from the western Australian city of Perth. The new link with Perth — a 14,498-kilometer […]
Under President Barack Obama and a GOP-controlled Congress, Capitol Hill Democrats had to scratch and claw for months to get tiny increases for domestic programs — or just hold them level. The $1.3 trillion government-wide funding bill signed by President Donald Trump on Friday gave them almost everything they wanted. Big fights in 2016 over […]
A federal heating aid program for low-income residents has survived another attempt by President Donald Trump to kill it. The $1.3 trillion spending bill signed by Trump on Friday includes
(VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) A group of Jews wer shocked when they arrived at the tziyun of Yehoshua Bin Nun in the PA (Palestinian Authority) village of Kifl Haris, not
What’s the White House’s word worth? Days of conflicting and misleading statements from President Donald Trump and his top aides have fueled new questions about the White House’s credibility, sowing
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