Rubashkin Attorneys Moving Forward With Appeal
By Debbie Maimon
Chanukah has come and gone. For some of us, the days flew by in a whirlwind of celebration and activity. But not...
Who Is Protecting Our Mashgichim In The Field?
By Menachem Lubinsky
Last summer a kosher supervisor at a New York restaurant confided in me that he was quite appalled by the...
Rav Noach Weinberg zt”l, Eleven Months Later
By Rabbi Yehudah Weinberg
Yesterday marked the end of the11th month since my father, Rabbi Noach Weinberg zt"l, passed away. This day is not marked...
Barak Forces IDF Chief Rabbi Ronsky Out of Army
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has taken the unusual step of not renewing the appointment of Rabbi Avi Ronsky as the IDF's Chief Rabbi....
The Zvhiller Rebbe zt”l
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of the Zvhiller Rebbe, Rav Avrohom Goldman zt"l, in Yerushalayim. The Rebbe was admitted...
Initiative To Put Rav Kook On Israeli Currency
A group of Religious Zionist rabbis have suggested that Rav Avrohom Yitzchok Kook, the forefather of Religious Zionism, be included among the figures to...
Dov Hikind: Catch Terrorists With Ethnic Profiling
A Brooklyn lawmaker is seeking drastic measures to combat terror, resurrecting a measure he's tried to introduce before: ethnic profiling. Assemblyman Dov Hikind is...
IDF, IAA to Hold Major Drill Today at Ben Gurion Airport
Just days after a suspected Nigerian terrorist tried blowing up a Northwest Airlines flight on its way to Detroit, the IDF and Israel Airports...
Two al Qaeda Leaders Behind Flight 253 Terror Plot Were Released by U.S. from...
Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by...
Photos: China’s 245 MPH Train Service is World’s Fastest, Was Completed in Just Four...
In the week that Britain's high speed rail link closed down because the wrong sort of snow interfered with the engine's electronics, China...
Cell Phone Mania: We Are Running Out Of Airwaves
Wireless devices such as Apple's iPhone are transforming the way we go online, making it possible to look up driving directions, find the nearest...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 12 Teves
Rav Moshe Margulies, author of Pnei Moshe on the Yerushalmi (1781)
Rav Moshe of Pshevorsk, author of Ohr Pnei Moshe . (1805)
Rav Mordechai Chaim Kastelantiz...
Underwear Bomber Renews Calls for ‘Naked Scanners’
After an alleged terrorist unsuccessfully tried to detonate his explosive underwear on a Friday flight to Detroit, current and former American officials are now...
Anti-Semitism Envoy Gets Sent to Woodshed
When Hannah Rosenthal was apppointed State Department Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism, there were concerns from those who raised questions about her background and...
Har Bracha Yeshiva and Community Unfazed by Break with Defense Ministry
Ben Hartman reports: Two weeks after Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the IDF to cancel the Hesder arrangement with the Har Bracha Yeshiva, students at...
Poll: 90% of Israelis Oppose Gender-Segregated Buses
Ninety percent of Israel's Jewish adults, including 81% of chareidim, support the elimination or limitation of gender segregated "mehadrin" bus lines, according to a...
Updated: Obama Leaves Golf Course Abruptly, Speeds Home
5:14 p.m. President Barack Obama has abruptly ended a round of golf and sped toward his family's vacation home for what is being...
Sunday Production of Kosher Poultry Leaves Shelves Stocked After Weekend
It's Sunday at Kiryas Joel Poultry and the plant looks every bit as it does on a Monday. It is abuzz with a full...
Will the US Gov’t Condemn Fatah for Taking Credit for the Murder of a...
28 December 2009
Mr. Frank Finvar
Department of Public Affairs
United States Consulate
Jerusalem, Israel
Dear Frank,
Fatah armed forces of the Palestinian Authority, now undergoing training by the US,...
Shalit Deal: Chacham Ovadiah Supports It, Porush Quotes Those Who Oppose It
Shas chairman Eli Yishai supports a possible prisoner swap deal for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, based on a decision by Chacham Ovadiah Yosef,...
