The White House says President Barack Obama has told advisers he wants to let 10,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. in the coming budget year. The U.S. has accepted only
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Two federal programs that promised billions of dollars in compensation and medical care to sick 9/11 responders and survivors are set to expire next year, meaning a new round of
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Tuesday 14 Elul accepted the recommendation of the ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet), declaring the “Mourabitoun” and the “Mourabitat” illegal organizations, having been
Some of the most strident opponents of the nuclear accord with Iran are invoking memories of the Holocaust in an effort to defeat the agreement, arguing the deal could enhance
[By Zahava Farbman MSW, PhD candidate, As told to Chaia Frishman] The chazzan begins to hum the familiar tune of Unesanu Tokef. Familiar, not because I’ve heard its melody in
[VIDEOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] A truck traveling on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Highway late Thursday morning 26 Elul led to the closure of the highway in both directions. A truck traveling
Eight years, two presidential elections and one shared commitment to the nuclear deal with Iran later, Hillary Rodham Clinton is delicately resurrecting her 2008 critique of Barack Obama’s approach to
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Bayit Yehudi faction chairman MK Yinon Magal is authoring a bill that would make Sunday a rest day as is the case in the United States, thereby creating a ‘weekend’.
[COMMUNICATED CONTENT] 1) Get travelers insurance before you arrive. It’s extremely frustrating when you get to Eretz Yisrael only to find that your luggage has not made the trip with
Rabbi Elazar said: One who becomes compassionate to the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the compassionate. (Midrash Tanhuma, Parshat Mezora, 1) Reb Mendel Futerfas, a legendary Lubavitch Chasid (1906-1995),
[VIDEOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Tishrei is just days away and the situation in areas of Jerusalem’s Old City is increasingly hostile towards Jews who are heading to and from the
Conservative House Republicans have embarked on an eleventh-hour political maneuver to derail the Iranian nuclear deal, saying they can’t vote on it until the president coughs up copies of side
According to data compiled by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, some 29,500 immigrants arrived in Israel in 5775, representing a 13% increase
The federal 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, set up mainly to help people sickened by World Trade Center dust, has also awarded nearly $2.5 million to 10 people who were at
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