Rubashkin Jurors Break for Weekend; No Verdict Yet
Jurors in Sholom Morderchai Rubashkin's child labor trial are getting the weekend off before they continue deliberations. Judge Nathan Callahan dismissed the panel of...
Analysis of the New Zealand Shechitah Ban
Chanoch Kesselman, Jewish Tribune
The very disturbing news that the New Zealand government has outlawed all food animal Shechita is bound to have reverberations in...
Video: Missionaries Pummel Yeshivah Student in Ranana
Nesanel's only "crime" was being mistaken by missionaries for a Yad L'Achim activist. His punishment was a brutal beating at the hands of...
Will Yussi Rieder Run Against Greenfield?
David Feedlander of City Hall News reports: Yussi Rieder, a wealthy Boro Park community activist, is considering mounting a run against newly elected Council...
Rubashkin Defense Rests; Deliberations Open Today
Prosecutors built their child labor case against Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin on the testimony of liars and thieves, and failed to prove that the former...
Three Municipalities to Sue Kiryas Yoel Over Water Pipeline
Three municipalities plan to sue Orange County and Kiryas Yoel over the village's plans to tap the Catskill Aqueduct and its legal deals with...
Chareidi Founder of Ezer Mizion, Ponovezh Alumnus, Given Honorary Doctorate By Bar Ilan University
The chareidi alumnus of Ponovezh Yeshiva sat draped in a collegiate cap and gown alongside a former Supreme Court Justice, the advisor to the...
‘Tzama Lecha Nafshi’ at Yankee Stadium
This Motzoei Shabbos, when Yuri Foreman - an Orthodox Jew who also happens to be the undefeated World Boxing Association super-welterweight champion - will...
Lakewood Board of Education Approves 3 Vendors for Title-1 Program
Last night, the Lakewood Board of Education approved 3 vendors - Tree of Knowledge, Learn it, and Catapult - for the district's Title-1 program.
"This...
Hikind Urges Yeshivos To Improve School Bus Safety
Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) has written to local yeshiva administrators asking them to review their current school bus safety procedures, particularly as it pertains...
Youngest of Three Japan Bochurim Returns Home for First Time Since Smuggling Fiasco
Yosef Bando, Yosef ben Itta Rivkah, one of the three bochurim at the center of the Japan smuggling saga, has been allowed to return...
Frum Child Found in Car Unconscious Now Recovering
A frum child in Lakewood, NJ, was found unconscious a short while ago after having been left in a car. The nine-month-old was taken...
55% of Seculars Prefer Not to Buy Eidah Hachareidus Badatz Products
While the secular boycott of food products with an Eidah Hachareidus stamp did not catch on, a recent poll shows it did have potential. A...
The Forgotten Fast Day – 20 Sivan
Rav Shabsai Hakohen, more popularly known as the Shach, was the first rov to institute a fast day on the 20th of Sivan in...
Video, Photos: Lakewood Bus Overturns On Garden State Parkway Returning from Skverer Rebbe’s Grandson’s...
A bus of frum Lakewood, NJ, residents overturned on the Garden State Parkway in Monmouth County this morning, injuring several passengers.
State Police say the...
Israel’s Ambassador Oren Addresses 5,000 at YU Graduation
Addressing the more than 5,000 people in attendance at Yeshiva University's 79th commencement, Israel's Ambassador to the United States Michael B. Oren declared that...
Rostov Jewish Community Calls For Survivors, Children to Remember Zmievskaya Balka
The Jewish community of Rostov working in partnership with the city's Chabad Rabbi, Chaim Danzinger, have launched a project to establish a permanent memorial...
Rubashkin State Trial Day 11: Leah Rubashkin Testifies, Defense Rests its Case
Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin's wife took the stand as the defense's last witness today before it rested its case in the former Agriprocessors Inc executive's...
Sharp Rise in Fictitious Conversions in Israel
The Israeli Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry's Conversion Administration performed 6,200 "conversions" last year, deliberately driving up the number by tens of percentage points,...
Video: Star-K Discussion of the Anisakis Worm Issue
The following is a webconference delivered this past month by Rabbi Zvi Goldberg and Rabbi Mordechai Frankel discussing the background to the worldwide...