IAF aircraft were able to foil a rocket attack on Israel’s southern communities late Thursday night, the IDF Spokesman reported in a statement. (more…)
Update below: All are asked to continue saying Tehillim for Rav Yisroel Belsky, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and one of the senior poskim of our dor, who is hospitalized at Maimonides Medical Center in Boro Park. We (more…)
Mitt Romney and his supporters are spending more than $4 million in the battle for next Tuesday’s must-win Michigan primary, funding a barrage of negative attack TV ads aimed at Republican presidential rival (more…)
Israel Defense Forces Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz commented Wednesday that everyone should serve in the military, in response to a High Court decision to annul a law that had exempted Israel’s (more…)
Israel believes that within two to three years Iran will have intercontinental missiles able to hit the United States, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz told CNBC on Wednesday, in remarks aimed at raising global (more…)
President Shimon Peres addressed the Iranian threat today in a speech before the annual Yerushalayim meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. (more…)
President Barack Obama sounded confident today about his prospects for re-election, telling a radio host that he has another five years left in his presidency. (more…)
President Obama jets to Florida today for a mix of official and political business that will steal some headlines in the Sunshine State and line his campaign coffers with at least $4 million. (more…)
Seven Marines were killed during night training west of Yuma, Ariz., Wednesday when two helicopters collided, the Marine Corps told ABC News. The helicopters were identified as a two seat Cobra attack (more…)
In a letter to the Afghan President Hamid Karzai, President Obama apologized for American troops having burned a number of Korans at Bagram Air Field, the main American military base in Afghanistan, earlier (more…)
Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai said today that “The government will have to extend Tal Law until alternative legislation regulating yeshiva students’ military service is drafted, with the collaboration of the (more…)
The UN nuclear agency has declared its latest inspection visit to Iran a failure, with the regime blocking access to a key site suspected of hosting covert nuclear weapon research and no agreement reached on (more…)
Rav Moshe Yitzchok Fisher, rov of Khal Bais Yeshaya and rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Derech Hatalmud in Flatbush, returned home this past Erev Shabbos following a prolonged hospital and rehabilitation stay due (more…)
CNN’s decision to fire four Jewish Israeli journalists from the cable network’s Jerusalem bureau earlier this month was due in part to their religion and nationality, and to their perceived inability to operate freely (more…)
Rick Santorum found that his position at the top of polls made him the biggest target in Wednesday’s CNN Republican presidential debate, possibly the last of the GOP primary and caucus campaign. (more…)
Rav Moshe of Zaloshin, author of Mishpat Tzedek, Tikkun Shabbos, and Geulas Yisrael (1788-1831). In 1815, he was appointed leader of the chassidic community in Zaloshin. (more…)