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 […]
A city fire official has been charged with being a major drug trafficker as the ringleader of a cocaine-dealing motorcycle club and another operation that sold pills containing fentanyl in
Ten persons were treated by EMS personnel in the motor vehicle accident on Route 38 near Eshtaol early Wednesday morning, February 6, 2019, including four persons listed in serious condition,
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 […]
State Comptroller, Justice Yosef Shapira, is currently publishing a special audit report on the service of the Israel Postal Company, and the report raises serious findings regarding the conduct of
Face to face with emboldened Democrats, President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on Washington to cast aside “revenge, resistance and retribution” and end “ridiculous partisan investigations” in a State of
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says fellow Democrats in the state Senate are playing politics by nominating a critic of subsidies for Amazons planned campus in Queens to a state board with the power to derail the project. Cuomo says Tuesday that he hasnt decided if he will reject the nomination of Sen. Michael Gianaris, […]
Text of President Donald Trumps State of the Union address, as delivered and provided by CQ. See below for the Democratic response, delivered Stacey Abrams from Georgia: ___ Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States, and my fellow Americans. We meet tonight in a moment of unlimited […]
A medical examiner says a North Texas man was killed when an e-cigarette exploded in his face. The Tarrant County Medical Examiners Office reports 24-year-old William Brown of Fort Worth died Jan. 29, two days after a vaporizer pen he was using at an e-cigarette shop in nearby Keller exploded. The medical examiner says shrapnel […]
President Donald Trump was expected to declare near-total triumph over the Islamic State group in Syria in his State of the Union address Tuesday, but U.S. defense officials are increasingly fearful that the militants are simply biding their time until the Americans leave the battlefield as planned. ISIS militants have lost territory since Trumps surprise […]
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