Israeli Court Extends Ban on Nighttime Takeoffs from Ben-Gurion
There will be no late-night takeoffs from Ben-Gurion International Airport for the next three years, the High Court of Justice ruled on Thursday.
The...
Ginzach Kiddush Hashem Launches Holocaust Documentation Initiative
"Time is running out, this is our opportunity to save the memories of Holocaust survivors," says Rabbi Dovid Skolsky, director of Ginzach Kiddush Hashem...
IDF Foils Gaza Terrorist Attack; ‘Cast Lead 2’ Nears
Air Force helicopters and ground soldiers foiled a terrorist attack in the pre-dawn hours today, killing one terrorist and seriously wounding another, 24 hours...
Bob Singer Says Goodbye to Lakewood Township Committee
Lakewood - New Year's Eve will be the official end to one part of a three-decades-long career in elected office for Robert W. Singer....
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 19 Teves
Rav Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller, author of Ketzos Hachoshen, Avnei Miluim, and Shev Shmaatsa (1813)
Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer, the Kesav Sofer (1815-1872). Born and...
TSA Alert Issued on Beverage Containers on Planes
The Homeland Security Department has alerted air carriers to a potential terror tactic involving insulated beverage containers like thermoses. The alert stressed that there...
Report: Mossad Chief to Apologize to Britain
Tamir Pardo, who is set to take over the role of Mossad chief this week, will apologize to the British government for the agency's...
Blizzard To Bear Down On Tri-State Sunday
The storm bringing a rare white Shabbos to the South will strengthen into a blizzard across the mid-Atlantic and New England Sunday into Monday....
Frum Doctor Killed in Englewood
The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office confirms that Dr. Paul Kudowitz, 57, died at Englewood Hospital Friday night. Kudowitz was struck and killed by a...
Kissinger Apologizes for Comment About Jews in Gas Chambers
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has apologized for telling the President Richard Nixon in a 1973 conversation that it wouldn't be an...
WikiLeaks: Israel Bombed Syrian Nuclear Facility
Israel destroyed a nuclear reactor in Syria, apparently built with North Korea's help, former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said to State Department...
New MTA Fares and Tolls to Take Effect on December 30
Tolls on MTA's seven bridges and two tunnels will go up at 2 AM on Thurs., Dec. 30th , increasing to $6.50 at most...
Simi Jacobson Funding Rubashkin Documentary
By Mica Soffer
A Brooklyn financier is bankrolling a documentary on the life of embattled meatpacking executive Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin.
COLlive.com has learned that investor and...
Rabbi Pinto Gets Rare Permission to Visit Kever Yitzchok at Meoras Hamachpeilah
There was an uncommon sight on Motzoei Shabbos at the Meoras Hamachpeilah in Chevron, when the kever of Yitzchok Avinu, which is usually only...
Video: Rav Mayer Twersky: Mesorah and Change: Women Rabbis, Tznius
Rav Mayer Twersky, noted R"M at RIETS, delivered an enlightening drasha this past week on "Mesorah and Change: Women Rabbis, Parnassah, Tznius." The shiur took place at...
“Our Place” Bklyn Center For At-Risk Teens Itself At Risk of Closing Down
Steve Lipman reports: Stale cigarette smoke hanging in the air behind him, the sounds of weights clanging and billiard balls crashing in the background,...
Email Use Falls as Young Chat and Text
Signs you're an old fogey: You still have a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photos on film. And you enjoy using e-mail. Young...
New Study Finds More Jews in the United States Than Previously Thought: 6.5 Million
There are more Jews in the United States than widely thought - 20 percent more. That's the major finding in a new study conducted...
Tzefas Yid Jailed in Madrid Gets Kosher Food and Tefillin
A Chassidic fundraiser arrested on Dec. 1 in Madrid with unknown drugs in a suitcase is in one of Spain's more modern prisons, and...
OU Poskim Address Your Children and Your Charity
On December 14, the Orthodox Union, at OU headquarters in New York, held a webcast featuring OU Kashrus' senior halachic consultants, Rav Yisroel Belsky,...
