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Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said today that the Islamic community center and mosque planned near Ground Zero should be built because Muslims were among those of many faiths who died 
Michael Scherer writes in Time Magazine:
Over 20,000 people have signed an online petition which calls for the boycott of Standard Time in the next three days, which comes into effect in Israel this year before Yom Kippur. Daylight Saving Time 
Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed today to produce a framework for a permanent peace deal and to hold a second round of direct talks this month, modest achievements reached under U.S. mediation amid 
[Video below.] 
An Israeli rabbi narrowly escaped arrest after being stopped by security officers at Munich airport for carrying a shofar. Airport officials pulled aside the man, in his late 50s, and asked him to explain the 
The Coast Guard is responding to another oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the Coast Guard, 13 people were onboard when it exploded and caught fire this morning. Everyone is accounted 
By Rabbi Yitzchok Lowenbraun
Dear Matzav.com Editor,
[Photos below.] 
On Tuesday, in a unique event for Baltimore’s frum community, Baltimore City’s leadership hailed this city’s Hatzalah organization as a prime example of what happens when the city and its people work 
The seemingly never-ending Tiny Tots-special-ed saga in Lakewood, NJ, continued last night as the Lakewood Board of Education held an Open House for students who formerly attended an out-of-district 
As direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority began this week in Washington, the PA gave an award to a woman for raising four sons who all murdered Israelis in terrorist attacks. PA Minister 
A 14-month old Monsey girl has passed away after being critically injured last night upon being struck by a minivan in the driveway of a home. The girl, Rivkah Kravetz a”h, is a daughter of Rabbi and Mrs. Pesach 
Lawrence Meinwald’s voice starts shaking when he recalls the first time he saw the Statue of Liberty. It was 1920, and the young Polish boy was on a ship with his family, headed to Ellis Island and a new life in 
Mayor Bloomberg says there are only two ways he will leave office before his third term ends in 2013. Death or “total incapacitation,” as he puts it. 
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Rav Yona Metzger has ordered a complete halt in importers’ sale of non-kosher meat to Israeli chains. Rav Metzger’s decision has great implications for meat importers, who rushed to 
Former Chief Rabbi of Israel and Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Yafo Rav Yisroel Meir Lau publicly supported Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu while speaking at the World Jewish Congress today in Yerushalayim’s 
An Israeli couple was wounded tonight in a West Bank shooting attack after Palestinian terrorists opened fire at an Israeli vehicle traveling in the Ramallah area. The shooting victims were identified as Moshe 
By Yitzchok Cohen
Condemning Mideast peace “rejectionists,” President Barack Obama convened a new round of ambitious talks today and vowed not to allow a fresh burst of violence dim hopes for an 
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