The machlokes between Bnei Brak employees and City Hall appears to be worsening and the Histadrut national labor federation official in the city, Ofir Yimin, warns if progress is not

[By: Judith Dinowitz] Just weeks after a turbulent and divisive election, on Tuesday, November 29th, an avid audience of Jewish community activists and legislators attended Agudath Israel’s annual legislative gathering.

There was a storm in Knesset after coalition members learned Shas leader Minister Aryeh Deri has secretly told Arab lawmakers he was not going to back the Muezzin Bill initiated

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has agreed to remain a federal prosecutor at President-elect Donald Trump’s request. Bharara told reporters Wednesday after meeting with Trump “to discuss whether or not I’d

Donald Trump, that most unconventional of presidential candidates, last spring pledged that he would act perfectly presidential when the time was right. “I will be so presidential that you’ll call

A plea bargain agreement was reached, resulting in a 16-year prison term against an Abu Dis resident found guilty of attacking a chareidi man seated near a building on HaNevi�im Street in Jerusalem together with his wife and their two children. The Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday, 29 Cheshvan, sentenced the suspect after accepting the […]

The Badatz Eida Chareidis has released a new logo which will appear on packages of its green vegetables grown under controlled conditions, those items prone to insect infestation. In fact, there is nothing new as the packages under the badatz�s hashgacha have always called for soaking in soapy water, then rinsing under a stream of […]

[COMMUNICATED CONTENT] By Chaim Gold For the past five years, the Acheinu Flatbush Event has been a community milestone featuring�numerous prominent Roshei Yeshiva from the United States and Eretz Yisrael as guest speakers.�Throughout the five years that the Flatbush Community Event has been held, Gedolei Yisrael�have shown their deep appreciation for the special role that […]

Defense attorneys say an Ohio man who plotted to attack the U.S. Capitol has now rejected “radical Islamic propaganda” that influenced him and should get a substantially lighter prison term

[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Chen Block z�l, 10, is the child who was run over and killed R�L by an armored border police patrol vehicle on Tuesday night the eve of 29 Cheshvan near his home community of Tekoa. The atmosphere in nearby Tekoa is one of aveilus due to the tragic accident, which is […]

House Democrats re-elected Nancy Pelosi as their leader on Wednesday despite disenchantment among some in the caucus over the party’s disappointing performance in elections earlier this month. The California lawmaker,

The CIA director says it would be an act of “folly” for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to scrap the nuclear deal with Iran. John Brennan told the BBC in an

[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] A fire broke out in Yeshivas Pnei Shmuel on Tuesday night the eve of 29 Cheshvan. The yeshiva, Rabbi Neuwirth�s, is located in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Yerushalayim. A number of fire trucks responded, including a ladder truck and the entire building was checked by firefighters as heavy smoke was […]