Month March 2019

Chicago – Now that charges have been dropped against Jussie Smollett, the “Empire” actor’s attorney is trying to shift attention back on two brothers who told police they were paid by Smollett to help stage a racist, anti-gay attack on… Continue Reading →

Leader of the Yachad Party Eli Yishai announced Wednesday that his party will pull out of the election run, and that the party, after discussion with Harav Meir Mazuz, will… Read more » The post Eli Yishai’s Yachad Pulls Out… Continue Reading →

The head of the European Council Donald Tusk urged the European Parliament on Wednesday to be open to a long Brexit extension and not to ignore the “increasing majority” of… Read more » The post Tusk Urges European Parliament to… Continue Reading →

To better prepare school officials and law enforcement to respond to emergencies on school grounds, such as an active shooter scenario, legislation to require New Jersey schools to provide maps and blueprints of campuses to police received final legislative approval… Continue Reading →

Washington – Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (KEER’-sten JIHL’-uh-brand) has released her tax returns for 2018, showing she paid $29,170 in federal taxes on an income of about $214,000. The New York Democrat on Wednesday became the first presidential candidate to disclose… Continue Reading →

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Jerusalem – Hamas’ supreme leader has made his first public appearance since a new round of cross-border violence with Israel this week. Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday visited the rubble of his Gaza City office, which was destroyed in an Israeli… Continue Reading →

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is to meet with top security staff, including IDF Chief of Staff Yair Kochavi. The meeting at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv will concern the… Read more » The post Former Top General: Either Work… Continue Reading →

An Army staff sergeant who saved three soldiers from the blast of an Iraqi suicide bomber by turning himself into a human shield will be memorialized when President Donald Trump… Read more » The post Trump to Present Medal of… Continue Reading →

[COMMUNICATED] A Givat Ze’ev family was advised by rabbanim to publicize their story recently, after a shocking turn of events escalated their situation from difficult, to tragic.The challenges began last year when 18-year-old Faigy Kochman, product of a happy, wholesome Brisk… Continue Reading →

NPGS Jackson has notified TLS they have reopened this morning. As first reported on TLS, a fire on Purim evening damaged the store, and forced it to close. “After the fire in the store on Purim evening, emergency work proceeded… Continue Reading →

If all food imports were to somehow be halted tomorrow, Israelis would have enough chicken and turkey to satisfy their needs – but getting bread and cake might be a… Read more » The post Gov’t: Israel Produces Almost All… Continue Reading →

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Jerusalem – Impressive remains of a Jewish village from the Hasmonean period, approximately 2000 years ago, are currently being uncovered in a salvage excavation conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Sharafat neighborhood of Jerusalem, where an elementary school… Continue Reading →

Washington – In 2016, President Donald Trump compared Hillary Clinton’s campaign to the lumbering federal bureaucracy. Now he’s building one of his own. From an office tower across the Potomac River from Washington, from the bowels of the Republican National… Continue Reading →

Do you have gifts sitting around your home because you have no use for them? One Lakewood gemach will put them to good use. Re-Gifted is a new name to an old gemach formerly known as The Chasunah Gift Drop-off…. Continue Reading →