Public park advocates have filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago seeking to stop construction of the Obama Presidential Center. The Chicago Sun-Times reports the federal lawsuit by Protect
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an received members of Neturei Karta in a closed-to-press meeting in London on Tuesday – just after calling Israel a “terror state”. The Orthodox Jewish group led by Elchonon Beck held a meeting with Erdo?an, Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Ömer Çelik and Deputy Secretary General and Spokesperson of […]
Justice Minister (Bayit Yehudi) Ayelet Shaked on Tuesday morning, Rosh Chodesh Sivan, addressed the events of Monday, the violence along the Gaza border and reports a price must be paid for the opening of the new US Embassy in Jerusalem. Speaking with Galei Tzahal (Army Radio), she said, “The Americans did not ask us for […]
In an unprecedented show of support, the leadership of some of Boro Park’s largest Hassidic organizations have unanimously thrown their endorsements to Simcha Eichenstein in his bid to represent New York State’s 48th Assembly District (Boro Park, Midwood, Bensonhurst). Tonight, the leaders of the Bobov, Satmar, Ger, Belz, Bobov-45 and Satmar mosdos—the six largest Chasidic […]
Following the bloodiest day yet in the recent round of Hamas attacks on the Gaza border fence during which some 61 Gaza residents, many of whom were known terrorists were
Deputy Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman announced his opposition to an initiative by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, to lower the minimum threshold for entering Knesset. His opposition is joined by
(VIDEO AND PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) MDA officials report that at 4:39AM on Tuesday, 1 Sivan, the dispatch center received a call for a collision between two trucks on the
The Trump administration is downplaying concerns about a possible low participation in the 2020 Census over the addition of a citizenship question for the first time in 70 years. “61
Minister of Housing (Yesh Atid), IDF Major-General (retired) Yoav Galant took part in an Israel Defense Conference last week: “Hamas is the angel of death of the innocent residents of
Summery temperatures will give way to a stormy afternoon as potentially severe thunderstorms roll through the region. The storms will be capable of producing damaging winds, heavy rain, and hail
Yemeni tribal and security officials say a missile fired by a suspected U.S. drone has killed three al-Qaida militants who were driving in a vehicle in the country’s south. They
Where do you find amazingness in Lakewood? At the end of a long evening hard at work in Lakewood, NJ we were craving some real Heimishe food to give us
By Simcha Loiterman Everyone enjoys a good origin story. From Peter Parker becoming Spiderman to Kal-El’s narrow escape from his doomed planet, origin stories resonate because they tap into something inside of all of us. The origin I want to tell you has no radioactive spiders or lone survivors from planet krypton, but it’s a […]
A day after the Moetzas Gedolei Torah of Agudas Yisrael convened, on Monday morning, 29 Iyar, Rabbi Mordechai Stern, the secretary of the Council, sent a letter to the Knesset
President Donald Trump’s CIA nominee appeared to be on a path toward confirmation as she picked up support from key Democrats Tuesday and toughened her public stance against harsh interrogation.
As turmoil spreads through the Middle East, American Jews and Muslims have been forming alliances to build trust and seek solidarity in more ambitious ways than in the past, a
Australia’s government said Tuesday that it will upgrade airport security around the country and increase police powers in response to an alleged attempt to smuggle an improvised explosive device aboard
North Korea on Wednesday canceled a high-level meeting with South Korea and threatened to scrap a historic summit next month between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim
Major European powers sought Tuesday to keep Iran in a landmark international nuclear agreement even after President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the pact and promised tough economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Foreign ministers from Britain, France and Germany — signatories of the 2015 deal to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons — […]
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