A House committee will hold its first hearing on gun violence in years. Two others will gavel in to address climate change. And three more will debate protecting pre-existing health conditions and the Affordable Care Act. Thats before noon on Wednesday. After eight years in the minority, House Democrats are about to uncork their bottled-up […]
A “West Bank” settler group on Tuesday said the number of people living in Israeli settlements surged at a much faster rate than the overall Israeli population last year and
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President Donald Trump will hold a two-day summit with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un Feb. 27-28 in Vietnam to continue his efforts to persuade Kim to give up his
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Capitol Hill talks to resolve an impasse over President Donald Trumps demands for billions of dollars for his long-sought border wall are inching forward, with lawmakers focused first on forging agreement among themselves and less on satisfying Trumps shifting demands. One such sign came Tuesday from Capitol Hills most powerful Republican, Senate Majority Leader […]
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Perhaps the initiative of rabbonim in Modi’in Illit will lead to yet another kashrus industry, the supervision of barber shops. Barber shops in the chareidi city are being compelled to
Wildlife officials say a man who fought off a young mountain lion on a northern Colorado trail killed the animal by suffocating it. Colorado Parks and Wildlife says the man
New York City is seeing a sharp increase in reported hate crimes while shootings, robberies and other crimes are down. The NYPD said Tuesday that its investigated 42 hate crimes through Feb. 4, compared with 19 at the same point last year. Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea says most of the incidents have been anti-Semitic […]
In a joyful, bipartisan moment, lawmakers briefly interrupted the State of the Union to serenade a survivor of Octobers Pittsburgh synagogue shooting with an impromptu version of Happy Birthday. Judah Samet is also a Holocaust survivor and celebrated his 81st birthday Tuesday. President Donald Trump saluted Samet during the State of the Union, saying Samet […]
HaGaon HaRav Shalom Cohen commented on the strife taking place in Tiveria following the election of Ron Kobi, who ran on a vehemently anti-chareidi ticket. As the city’s chief rabbi,
In the summer of 1686, the Jewish community in Budavr (the ancient nucleus of modern Budapest) was laid to waste by victorious Christian fighters, who had laid a lengthy siege on the city, which had previously been held by Turkish Muslims. Many of the citys Jewish denizens were raped, murdered or sold into slavery, and […]
There are many emotions typically associated with the engagement period before a wedding. Humiliation, however, is not one of them. For “Libi,”* of Jerusalem, what began as a textbook wedding
David Medan has taken part in hundreds of operation as an agent in the Mossad, and according to some, this was the mission of his life. The man who choreographed
Ivanka Trump and her brothers are responding to a new art exhibit that portrays the presidential daughter vacuuming crumbs. Ivanka Trump says in a tweet about the Ivanka Vacuuming installation: Women can choose to knock each other down or build each other up. I choose the latter. Her brother Donald Trump Jr. tweeted its Sad, […]
The World Bnei Akiva movement (WBA) decided at its 14th conference, which took place in Israel last month and marked the organizations 90th anniversary, to increase the number of its ranks. The move was an effort on the part of WBA to expand its reach beyond religious Zionist circles to include Jewish communities that have […]
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