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Hatzolah of Los Angeles Begins Emergency Transport of Basic Life Support Patients in Fairfax/Hancock...

August 31, 2009 5:15 pm
Today marked a historical moment for the Los Angeles Jewish community: Hatzolah of Los Angeles has started emergency transport of basic life support (BLS)...

Israel’s Wealthiest Woman Says She Can See the Future

August 31, 2009 4:04 pm
Howard Schneider of the Washington Post reports: The office door has a steel vault veneer, and Shari Arison -- controlling stockholder in Israel's largest bank...

Gilad is Still Alive: A Message from Noam and Aviva Shalit

August 31, 2009 3:24 pm
Dear Friend, We, Noam and Aviva Shalit, residents of Mizpeh Hila in Israel, parents of Gilad Shalit, are appealing to you, Jews of the United...

Just In: Iowa Judge Delays Rubashkin Trial

August 31, 2009 2:43 pm
A U.S. District Court judge has pushed back the trial of four former top managers of the Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse company. Judge Linda Reade...

Israeli-Arab Indicted for Plot to Assassinate IDF Chief Ashkenazi

August 31, 2009 2:29 pm
Hizbullah recruited an Israeli-Arab and ordered him to collect intelligence on IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi ahead of plans to assassinate...

Baby Born With Heart Outside His Chest

August 31, 2009 2:03 pm
A newborn baby boy with a heart protruding from his chest is set to undergo a complex surgery in New Delhi, India doctors said...

Study: Daily Aspirin May Do More Harm Than Good

August 31, 2009 1:42 pm
Healthy people taking a daily dose of aspirin to prevent heart attacks may be doing themselves more harm than good, according to a new...

Rav Chaim Kanievsky Served in the IDF

August 31, 2009 1:13 pm
Rav Shmuel Grossbard zt"l, father of one of the mashgichim in Ponevezh Yeshiva, passed away this past week. His children were surprised when Rav...

Bill Clinton Praises Canadian Health Care

August 31, 2009 12:28 pm
A hoarse but energetic Bill Clinton told a Toronto audience that Canada is the envy of the world. "You may want to make fun...

Smoking Materials May Have Caused Fatal Fire at Capitol Hotel

August 31, 2009 11:47 am
The fire that killed a man and gutted the Capitol Hotel early yesterday morning started in the victim's room, authorities have said. An investigation...

Analysis: Obama Keeps Bush Nominees in Top Posts

August 31, 2009 11:18 am
For all the GOP howling about Barack Obama radically steering the government to the left and leading the nation toward socialism, some of his...

New York City Slow with the Public Toilets

August 31, 2009 10:43 am
Nineteen months after New York City trumpeted automated public toilets, only two are up and running. Last summer, the city promised four more by...

Multiple Grandchildren of Vizhnitzer Rebbes Engaged

August 31, 2009 10:08 am
This past week, the vort celebrating the engagement of a great-grandson of both the Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak and the Vizhnitzer Rebbe of...

Rav Mordechai Eliyahu On Life Support

August 31, 2009 9:18 am
Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, former Sefardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, is currently in intensive care and is connected to a respirator a week after undergoing...

Chacham Ovadia: Shas Schools Must Accept Ethiopian Students

August 31, 2009 8:25 am
Chacham Ovadia Yosef said today that any school principal from Shas' school system who refuses to receive Ethiopian students will be fired. In parallel,...

Commercial Real Estate Lurks as Next Potential Mortgage Crisis

August 31, 2009 8:11 am
Federal Reserve and Treasury officials are scrambling to prevent the commercial-real-estate sector from delivering a roundhouse punch to the U.S. economy just as it...

First Dual-Screen Laptops on Sale By Year’s End

August 31, 2009 7:56 am
The world's first truly dual-screen laptop, which will allow computer users to multi-task while on the move, is due to go on sale by...

Swine Flu Hits Estimated 10 Percent of New Yorkers

August 31, 2009 7:25 am
The new H1N1 swine flu is estimated to have infected about 800,000 people in New York City in the spring, a top U.S. health...

Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 11 Elul

August 31, 2009 7:02 am
Rav Avraham Yaakov Friedman, the Sadigerer Rebbe (1819-1883), second son of Rav Yisrael of Rhuzhin. Rav Avraham Yaakov married Miriam, the daughter of Rav...