President Barack Obama Named Time’s Person of the Year

From a shortlist that included a Pakistani teenager, the new leader of Egypt and a former president, Barack Obama has for the second time...

Rav Zalman Leib of Satmar Asks Not to Publish Photos of Himself

Rav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum has requested from his chassidim not to publish his pictures in newspapers. During the last few years, there has been some...

Least Productive Year for Congress

What a lofty achievement. Congress is on track to have one of the least productive years in modern history, having passed  only 52 bills...

Ex-Nazi Guard Charged at Age 93

A former Nazi guard who served at the Auschwitz death camp has been charged with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder. From January 1942...

Experts Warn Of Loneliness Epidemic Worsening

A growing epidemic of loneliness is affecting large swaths of the U.S. population, exacerbated by isolation measures advised by health officials during the coronavirus pandemic. Experts...

Audio: Rav Reisman On Parshas Shelach

The following is a shiur delivered by Harav Yisroel Reisman, maggid shiur in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and mara d'asra of Agudath Israel of...

Video: Rabbi Tzvi Goode On Purim

The following shiur is presented by Matzav.com and Yeshiva Yesodei Hatorah of Baltimore. The shiur, on the parshas hashovuah, is delivered by Rabbi...

Medical Electrical Caps On Shabbos

May one wear a medical cap that treats cancer with electrical fields on Shabbos? Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein ruled that the Optune medical cap used to...

New York Daily News to Ted Cruz: ‘Drop Dead’

In response to Ted Cruz's comments at last night's debate that "Donald comes from New York and he embodies New York values,” the New...

How Mark Zuckerberg Stole WhatsApp From Under Tencent’s Nose While Its CEO Was Sick

It's well-known that Facebook paid a hefty sum to buy messaging app WhatsApp. But in the process, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apparently outbid a...

Video: Rav Shteinman Bentches the Emmanuel Children

Late this afternoon, sons of the Emmanuel parents sent to the Maasiyahu prison for refusing to comply with an undemocratic ruling of the...

New Song “Vezakeini’ at Last Night’s Bonei Olam Auction

   Benny Friedman, Baruch Levine, Yitzy Bald's New York Boys Choir, & Chaim Meir Fligman's Shir V'shevach Boys Choir perform a brand new song together...

Joe Biden Eulogizes Ariel Sharon as Leader With ‘North Star’

The following is the text of the Vice President's speech at the funeral of Ariel Sharon: When a close-knit country like Israel, a country...

German Court Rules Former Nazi Concentration Camp Guard, 96, ‘Unfit’ To Stand Trial

A court in Wuppertal, Germany, ruled on Wednesday that a 96-year-old former Nazi concentration-camp guard is “unfit to stand trial,” though noted that there...

Audio: Rav Reisman On Parshas Va’eschanon and Shabbos Nachamu

The following is a shiur delivered by Harav Yisroel Reisman, maggid shiur in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and mara d'asra of Agudath Israel of...

‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Gets New Imam

The organization planning to build an Islamic community center near the World Trade Center says the imam who has been the public face of...

Former President Bill Clinton Rushed to N.Y. Hospital, Has Stents Installed

Former President Bill Clinton was rushed to a Manhattan hospital late this afternoon, sources tell ABC News. Clinton, 63, was transported to Columbia Presbyterian...

L’chaim! : In The Spirit of Yom Tov

By Gamliel Kronemer L’chaim—to life—is the traditional toast one gives, particularly when toasting with distilled spirits.  Spirits were historically viewed to be life imbuing (hence...

Apple Says The Founding Fathers Would Be ‘Appalled’ With The Justice Dept. For iPhone...

The feud between Apple and the Justice Department took another turn Tuesday, as the technology giant used a new court filing to say that...

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