Yeshiva World News

On behalf of the Governments of the State of Israel and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Minister of Foreign Affairs Frans Timmermans have agreed on Monday, 9 Tammuz 5773, to begin preparations for the establishment of the bilateral Dutch-Israeli Cooperation Forum. The Forum’s objective is to ...

Heavy rain in Sullivan County flooded roads here in Bloomingburg. Some streets were impassable with the amount of water that poured through. Responding crews said water came down off higher elevations and it appears no one was injured. Emergency crews said when drivers see water in the road the best idea is to turn ...

Housing Minister (Bayit Yehudi) Uri Ariel admits to the media that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has frozen construction throughout Yehuda, Shomron and eastern Yerushalayim. Ariel told Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) host Micha Friedman on Tuesday morning, 10 Tammuz 5773, “there is no marketing [of homes] in Yerushalayim at all with the ...

The mayors of Los Angeles, Chicago and 15 other cities are joining New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in reviving a push against letting food stamps be used to buy soda and other sugary drinks. In a letter to congressional leaders Tuesday, the mayors say it's "time to test and evaluate approaches limiting" the use of the subsidies for ...

HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Amar Shlita arrived at the home of Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita on Tuesday afternoon, 10 Tammuz 5773. The two met following days of tensions surrounding the race for new Chief Rabbis of Israel and the fall of the Amar Bill in Knesset, which is being attributed to Shas. Kikar Shabbat adds that on erev ...

An Internal Revenue Service manager and self-described conservative Republican said the close scrutiny of tea party groups' tax forms originated in his Cincinnati IRS office and not in Washington, according to a full transcript of his interview by congressional investigators released Tuesday. John Shafer, who oversaw a small group of IRS ...

Police are investigating what appears to be another price tag attack, this time in the Israeli Arab municipality of Abu Gosh. Police were summoned to Abu Gosh, located off the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Highway near Telshe Stone on Tuesday morning, 10 Tammuz 5773. Officials report the tires of 28 vehicles were slashed and graffiti “racism or ...

Nearly 3 million New Yorkers' homes are now in evacuation zones that cover more than a third of the city's population, under new maps released Tuesday. In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, officials said last month, the number of zones would double and encompass about 600,000 more residents. Few storms are likely to require evacuating all ...

Health Minister (Yesh Atid) Yael German is creating new organ donor realities in Israel, her way of addressing the critical shortage of donor organs. After consulting with national organ donation officials German is working to change the default for Israelis to automatically being an organ donor. That means, when one renews one’s drivers ...

Medicare begins a major change next month that could save older diabetics money and time when they buy crucial supplies to test their blood sugar — but it also may cause some confusion as patients figure out the new system. On July 1, Medicare opens a national mail-order program that will dramatically drop the prices the government pays for ...

Some 250 rabbonim of cities and municipalities convened in a kenos in Petach Tikvah on Sunday, 8 Tammuz 5773 along with a number of prominent rabbonim in the community. The rabbonim, all civil servants, addressed the planned religious services reform being led by the Bayit Yehudi party and Minister of Religious Services Naftali Bennett and his ...

Legislation (S4777D) co-sponsored by Senator Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn) that protects providers of services for the developmentally disabled from state funding cuts passed the New York State Senate today. The legislation would appropriate up to $90 million, or as much as is needed, to the Office for People with Developmental ...

[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] In an interview with former MK Yaakov (Ketzaleh) Katz, the founder of Beit El and builder of yishuvim addresses today’s realities. Katz explains that the quality of today’s elected officials is not what was seen in the past and while many of today’s politicians remain pragmatic and committed, they lack vision. ...

Visiting acclaimed celebrity Barbra Streisand is among the dignitaries who arrived in Israel to attend the gala 90th birthday party for President Shimon Peres. On her first day in Israel, Monday, 9 Tammuz 5773, Streisand was quite busy, meeting with President Shimon Peres and then attending a ceremony at Hebrew University in which she ...

The Supreme Court on Monday, 9 Tammuz 5773 ruled that elections to select the new Chief Rabbis of Israel must be held as soon as possible and the election must be held no later than 17 Menachem Av 5773. The date was selected to prevent a situation in which the current chief rabbis are no longer serving while new rabbis have not been ...

A photo of Yesh Atid party leader Finance Minister Yair Lapid as an SS officer is circulating on the internet. The photo, which has gone viral on social netword sites shows Lapid wearing an Nazi cap and has been fitted with the infamous Hitler mustache with two dollar signs displayed on his collar instead of the “SS” symbol. The caption reads ...

[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] MKs took part in a Knesset hearing addressing security concerns on Har HaZeisim, so much so that many fear visiting even though their loved ones are buried on the holy site. Abe Lubinsky, Chairman of the International Committee for the Preservation of Har Hazeitim (ICPHH) spoke with Arutz-7, explaining his ...