By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times Each year the city of Chicago holds a Sweets and Snacks Expo. Just before the expo, the Almond Board of

Deputy Foreign Minister (Likud) Tzipi Hotevely announced her office is going after the “Breaking the Silence” organization. Hotevely explains the organization is responsible for defaming Israel abroad. Her announcement is

Police revealed progress in the investigation into the arson attack against the Bnei Akiva branch in Upper Nazareth in which siddurim and other sifrei kodesh were burned. The national flag

In his address to a Globes economic conference, MK Moshe Gafne, now serving as chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, spoke out harshly against former Finance Minister Yair Lapid. Gafne

Following through on a threat, House Republicans on Tuesday proposed cutting the State Department’s budget to protest its slow response in producing documents related to the investigation of the terrorist

[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] After occupying the building for over a year, the IDF and border police on Tuesday, 15 Sivan left the Ohd Yosef Chai Yeshiva in Yitzhar. The

An emotional Amtrak CEO pledged to lawmakers Tuesday that safety technology that could have prevented a deadly derailment last month in Philadelphia will be put into operation, while Democrats and

Congress approved sweeping changes Tuesday to surveillance laws enacted after the Sept. 11 attacks, eliminating the National Security Agency’s disputed bulk phone-records collection program and replacing it with a more

A talmid yeshiva attending Yeshivas Lev Simcha, affiliated with the Gerre Chassidus, located in Arad, set the room of the mashgiach ablaze over a dispute between them. The arson attack

A Republican-run House committee has voted to repeal a 2.3 percent tax on many medical devices that helps pay for President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. The Ways and Means

The gabbai of the Achvat Re’im Shul in Ra’anana was horrified to see the mezuzos torn from the walls, covered in blood, and then affixed to a wall in the

The former deputy CIA director made a series of factual misstatements while defending the agency’s harsh treatment of detainees in his recent book, Senate intelligence committee staffers assert in a

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu commented to the media at the beginning of a meeting of the Ministerial Committee on the Integration of Israeli Citizens of Ethiopian descent in Israeli society.

The Ministry of Transportation emphasizes that bus companies are required to accommodate riders, even during night hours. The ministry has received a number of letters in recent months explaining at