The wildly popular 8th Day Band will headline the annual Soul to Soul concert, along with the return of Yishai Lapidot and Oif Simchas; this year in a new venue.
Kamala Harris had the best campaign roll-out. Amy Klobuchar’s snowy debut showed grit. Elizabeth Warren’s opening campaign video was a bit odd. Take it from an unlikely armchair pundit sizing up the 2020 Democratic field: President Donald Trump. In tweets, public remarks and private conversations, Trump is making clear he is closely following the campaign […]
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On Sunday afternoon, February 17, 2019, volunteers of the Yedidim organization rescued a toddler who was found in a locked vehicle at 2:07PM, parked in Yishuv Kochav Yaakov. Avi Ben-Shoshan,
He had no official title and received no salary, but with dedication and love, Rabbi Mendel Baumgarten, who passed away this week at the age of 92, was a lifelong Chabad-Lubavitch emissary dedicated to teaching Torah and sharing the joys of Judaism with anyone he met. Mendel Baumgarten’s fruitful life began on the Jewish New […]
A nonprofit Israeli consortium said Monday that it hopes to make history this week by launching the first private aircraft to land on the moon. SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries told a news conference that the landing craft – dubbed “Beresheet,” or Genesis – will take off from Florida, propelled by a SpaceX Falcon […]
According to officials at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, the soldier wounded along the Gaza border on Sunday night underwent emergency surgery to remove pieces of shrapnel from his neck region.
Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner has been released from federal prison after being convicted of having illicit online contact with a minor in 2017. The Federal Bureau of Prisons website shows the 54-year-old New York Democrat is currently in the custody of its Residential Re-entry Management office in Brooklyn, New York. It’s not immediately clear […]
A huge investigation conducted by the Norwegian newspaper VG revealed that a man named Shimon Hayut is suspected of cheating millions from women in the Scandinavian countries. Hayut introduces himself
Poland on Monday withdrew from a European summit in Jerusalem, derailing the meeting and embarrassing its Israeli hosts, to protest claims by Israel’s acting foreign minister that Poles collaborated with
Major U.S. airlines say they will soon change their ticketing process to give passengers the option of identifying themselves as other than male or female. The gender option on airline sites will soon include choices such “undisclosed” or “unspecified.” There could also be the optional title of “Mx.” The airlines say they are making the […]
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Scientists said Monday they had discovered immune cells that can fight all known flu viruses in what was hailed as an “extraordinary breakthrough” that could lead to a universal, one-shot
Israel Police have arrested four members of a cell, on suspicion of cunningly stealing millions of shekels from business owners in a sophisticated plot. Investigators of the fraud squad of
President Trump on Monday accused Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe of pursuing an “illegal and treasonous” plot against him, after McCabe detailed private DOJ discussions about secretly recording and potentially ousting the president. The alleged discussions have been a subject of fierce debate – and conflicting accounts – […]
Police on Monday apprehended two 14-year-old Arabs who were throwing stones at the Jerusalem light rail in the Shuafat area. Police saw them in the act and then began chasing
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