Jerusalem – Channel 2: Secret Meetings Between Netanyahu, Livni
Jerusalem - Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held secret meetings with Tzipi Livni ahead of the formation of the 19th Knesset, Channel 2 reported on Monday.
The report gives cr...
New York – Hundreds Line Up To Attend Koch’s NYC Funeral
New York - About 350 people were already standing in lines over an hour before Ed Koch's Manhattan funeral.
Some streets were closed Monday morning around Temple Emanu-El, at 65...
Kfar Chabd, Israel – Chabad Rabbi Decrees Long Sheitels Are Not Halachically Acceptable For “Kisoi Rosh”
Kfar Chabd, Israel - Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, the chief rabbi of the Kfar Chabad village in Israel, has sent a letter to the dean of the Beis Rivkah Teachers' Seminary in ...
Los Angeles, CA – Stories Of Holocaust Survivors Retold By Holograms
Los Angeles, CA - For years, Holocaust survivor Pinchus Gutter has told the tragic story of watching his parents and 10-year-old twin sister herded into a Nazi death camp's gas ch...
Rishon Lezion – Court: Rabbi Must Explain Referrals Of Marrying Couples To Private Firm
Rishon Lezion - The High Court of Justice demanded on Thursday that Rishon Lezion Chief Rabbi Yehuda David Wolpe explain why he sends couples seeking to register for marriage to a ...
New York – Ed Koch Passes Away On The Same Date As Daniel Pearl
New York - Former New York City mayor Ed Koch who died Friday morning at the age of 88 said in 2008 he has engraved on his tombstone the final statement of murdered journalist Dani...
Washington – U.S. Skeptical About Argentina-Iran “Truth Commission”
Washington - The United States on Thursday voiced doubt that Argentina and Iran's planned "truth commission" would bring to justice those responsible for the deadly 1994 bombing of...
Israel – Arye Deri Recommends PM; Hands Peres Letter From Ovadia Yosef
Israel - Arye Deri, of the Shas party on Thursday recommended Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to form the next government.
Deri said, "According to the meetings that we had wi...
Germany – Egypt’s Mursi Says His Jewish Comments Misunderstood
Germany - Egypt's Islamist president turned aside repeated criticism of his past comments referring to Jews as "the descendants of apes and pigs" as he visited Germany on Wednesday...
Jerusalem – Israeli Secularists Find Their Lost Voice In Yair Lapid
Jerusalem - After a stunning success in last week's election that positioned Yesh Atid as Israel's second largest party, its leader, secular talk-show host Yair Lapid, said his par...
New York – Child Safety Book Geared To Orthodox Community Released As Read Aloud Video
New York - In an effort to reach an even larger audience, a highly lauded children's book aimed at opening up the conversation between parents and children about personal safety in...
London – Rupert Murdoch: We Owe Major Apology For Offensive ‘Blood Libel’ Cartoon
London - Rupert Murdoch, owner of British broadsheet The Times on Monday tweeted an apology following the fallout from the publication on Sunday of a cartoon accused of using anti-...
Williamsburg, NY – Satmar Rebbe To Arrive In Jerusalem On Sunday To Shake Up Israeli Elections (photos)
Williamsburg, NY - The Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, is expected to arrive in Israel on Sunday with a large delegation on the eve of the Israeli elect...
Tel Aviv – 2,000th Bnei Menashe Immigrant Arrives In Israel
Tel Aviv - The Shavei Israel organization on Thursday welcomed the 2000th Bnei Menashe immigrant to Israel.
Mirna Singsit arrived together with 53 other Bnei Menashe community m...
Jerusalem – Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Released From Hospital After Stroke
Jerusalem - Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the Shas movement, was released from Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem Sunday morning after suffering ...
Jerusalem – Rav Ovadia Yosef Rushed To Hospital After Collapsing In Shul
Jerusalem - The spiritual leader of an Israeli ultra-Orthodox political party was hospitalized after a suspected minor stroke in Jerusalem on Saturday, a development that could sha...
New York, NY – $11 Million Worth Of Judaica Collection To Be Auctioned
New York, NY - Philanthropist and former Wall Street money manager Michael Steinhardt began collecting objects of Jewish history and culture three decades ago, eventually amassing ...
Jerusalem – Shas Agrees To Pull Controversial Campaign Ad
Jerusalem - he Shas party has agreed not to broadcast its controversial campaign ad on conversion following a request by from the Chairman of the Central Election Committee Supreme...
Jerusalem – Rav Amnon Yitzhak: I Won’t Stop, I Will Save The Jewish People
Jerusalem - Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak, a well-known haredi outreach preacher and founder of newly established Koah Lehashpia, said the party would be running in the coming elections, des...
Jerusalem – Rav Ovadia Yosef To Yeshiva Students: Leave Israel To Avoid Being Drafted
Jerusalem - During a lecture this past Friday in Jerusalem, Rav Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of the Shas party, said if Israel continues to draft yeshiva students into the ID...