NY Shul Bomb Suspects: The Feds Put Us Up to It

NBC New York reports: Defense attorneys say an alleged plot to bomb New York synagogues was hatched and directed by a federal informant. Lawyers for four men from Newburgh have filed a motion to (more…)

As Per Rav Elyashiv’s Psak, Litzman Has Ashkelon Emergency Room Relocated

After a long struggle and widespread opposition, Israeli Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman construction plans for a relocated, fortified emergency room at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon were approved. (more…)

OU Policy on Worms in Fish

By Rabbi Chaim Goldberg, RC Fish

The Gemarah in Chulin 67b states that darna, a worm-like parasite, found in the flesh of a fish is permissible because “minei gavli” it grows in the fish. (more…)

Report: Chassidishe Bus Gets a ‘Gentile’ Push

The NY Post reports: Oy. A goy’s driving my bus.

The city is looking for a new operator for a private bus company that caters to ultra-Orthodox Jews (more…)

Jews Say Hate Crimes and Anti-Israel Rage Are Driving Some of Them out of Their Swedish City

The Assoctaed Press reports: Marcus Eilenberg is a Swedish Jew whose family roots in Malmo go back to the 19th century. His paternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors who found shelter in this (more…)

S.F. Distillery Produces First Kosher-for-Pesach Gin Under the OU

Jon Bonné reports in the San Francisco Chronicle: The Passover seder calls for four glasses of wine, not liquor. But should the observant need something quicker, a San Francisco distillery has come to the (more…)

Modi’in Illit Newspaper Fined for Publishing Ad for Chabad ‘Toras HaGeulah,’ Likutei Sichos’ Shiurim

[See the ad here.] The committee monitoring the local newspapers in Modi’in Illit has rejected an advertisement, gaining the wrath of local Lubavitcher residents. The incident gaining attention comes as (more…)

Offer Would Allow Lakewood EMS Unit to Remain Intact

After months of negotiations, township officials have made an offer to the Emergency Medical Services department that would allow the unit to remain intact but require a 30 percent pay cut for its employees, (more…)

NYS Law Puts Patients’ Lives At Risk, Agudah Stresses Importance of Halachic Living Wills

In an ominous new development, New York State law has now vastly expanded the authority of health care providers to “pull the plug” on incapacitated patients - even to withhold from them food and water, (more…)

Sara Hurwitz Using Title of “Rabba” for Herself

Less than two weeks after a declaration by Rabbi Avi Weiss that it is not his “intention or the intention of Yeshivat Maharat to confer the title of ‘Rabba’ upon its graduates,” it appears that Ms. Sara Hurwitz is still sticking to the (more…)