Jerusalem Magistrate Court Judge Keren Miller ordered the release of two minors detained on the night of Wednesday, 29 Cheshvan, on suspicion of participating in a protest at the Ofra

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times It is a little known and very confusing fact that there are two different types of Shabbos prohibitions that share

Five soldiers were found guilty of accepting sufganiyot (jelly donuts) and they are being ousted from their unit, the border crossings unit of the military police for accepted goods and

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times The First Principle Medicine on Shabbos is a somewhat complex area of Halacha. The first rule or principle that one must be aware of is that whenever there is a question or possibility of danger to life � that takes precedence. The Torah tells us […]

[By: Yehuda Weissmandl] We have come a long way as a community. This year alone we passed a balanced budget that expanded arts and reading, approved by voters in May.

According to a Kikar Shabbos report a number of cabinet ministers recently met with representatives of the families of IDF soldiers Sgt. Oron Shaul HY�D and Lt. Hadar Goldin HY�D. About six months ago, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appointed Shas leader Aryeh Deri and Kulanu leader Moshe Kahlon to head a committee assigned with bringing […]

[COMMUNICATED CONTENT] �Amazing from beginning to end, ecstatic, fantabulous- no exaggerations! It�was the first time that I made such an event, and the organizational aspects�came out better than I ever thought they would. The Ribbono Shel Olam�was in charge, so it was gevaldig!� This was how Rabbi Moshe Yakov�Gruskin, founder of Sparks of Life, the […]

The government should cancel its multibillion-dollar order for new Air Force One presidential planes, Donald Trump declared Tuesday, serving notice he’s ready to jump in and start making decisions six

As most Israelis have put the fires that struck Israel behind, for those whose homes were destroyed or badly damaged, the work is just beginning. This is the situation for 18 families in the Shomron community of N�vei Tzuf as their homes were totally destroyed. Another forty homes were damaged, some more seriously than others. […]

President-elect Donald Trump is taking his show back on the road. Trump is slated to hold the second stop of this “thank you” tour Tuesday in North Carolina, less than

[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Philanthropist and businessman David Hager hosted Jewish officials from the Saban Forum in his Washington DC suite this past Shabbos for some of the tefilos and

The FBI is investigating an imminent threat against the Los Angeles Metro system for which it had received specific information, officials said. Authorities were still trying to determine if the

Whether by accident or design, President-elect Donald Trump is signaling a tougher American policy toward China, sparking warnings from both the outgoing Obama administration and Beijing. On Monday, White House

After eight years as a wartime president, Barack Obama is handing his successor an expansive interpretation of the commander in chief’s authority to wage war around the globe. And that

The Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee on Monday 5 Kislev gave its approval to reduce Mandatory IDF service for men, cutting service from 32 months to 30 months beginning