Month June 2019
While the Likud party is hoping to find a way out of the September election rerun, Interior Minister Rabbi Aryeh Deri is preparing for the worst. Rabbi Deri told the… Read more » The post A Camera in Every Polling… Continue Reading →
Manama, Bahrain – President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, appealed Tuesday for the Palestinians to consider a $50 billion economic support plan they have already rejected because it does not include a political resolution to the long-running… Continue Reading →
The Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein, together with other high ranking officials in the Likud and the Blue and White Party, has been examining a move that would eliminate the dispersion of the 21st Knesset and the elections to… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to obliterate parts of Iran if it attacked “anything American,” in a new war of words with Iran which condemned the latest U.S. sanctions… Read more » The post Trump Threatens ‘Obliteration,’ Iran Calls… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] For 75 years, Torah Umesorah has been ensuring that *all* children can aspire to the level of our Gadolim, who guide Torah chinuch from generation to generation. These great leaders, who carry the weight of our world on their… Continue Reading →
International summits are usually held for the purpose of reaching and ratifying agreements. By contrast, the trilateral summit in Yerushalayim on Tuesday highlighted areas of deep dispute between Israel, the… Read more » The post Russia Sides With Iran at… Continue Reading →
The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday he is stepping down, as his agency is under siege over the discovery of dozens of children in filthy conditions… Read more » The post Border Official Steps Down as… Continue Reading →
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is exploring the possibility of cancelling the September elections, according to media reports on Tuesday night, though it was not immediately clear if… Read more » The post Likud Serious About Cancelling Elections,… Continue Reading →
A manhole cover exploded and erupted in flames, disrupting traffic and knocking out the electric power for several surrounding blocks during the afternoon. FDNY firefighters responded and closed off vehicular… Read more » The post Manhole Cover Fire Knocks Out… Continue Reading →
A U.S. military member who became an American citizen during a 2012 White House ceremony has been slain along with her two toddlers, and the children’s father has been arrested. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Baqaa Camp, Jordan – A U.S. Middle East peace plan is stirring anger and apprehension in Palestinian refugee camps around the region by raising the prospect that a long-cherished dream of returning to former homes in what is now Israel… Continue Reading →
Israeli firm SpaceIL announced on Tuesday its decision not to make a second attempt to land a spacecraft on the moon, after the crash landing of the Beresheet in April,… Read more » The post One Lunar Landing Enough for… Continue Reading →
NYPD Traffic Agents were out in force in Flatbush on Tuesday afternoon. They were stationed with a four-man team, waiting to issue summonses to anyone blocking the intersection at Avenue J and East 12 Street. Read more on Yeshiva World… Continue Reading →
Washington – The acting commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, John Sanders, is resigning and will leave his post on July 5, the agency said on Tuesday, a move that coincides with an outcry over the… Continue Reading →
Don’t envy NBC News executive Rashida Jones, who is behind this week’s inaugural Democratic presidential debate and will have to juggle 20 candidates, five news personalities and, it’s likely, one tweeting president. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Jerusalem – SpaceIL, the Israeli company that attempted but failed to put an unmanned craft on the moon earlier this year, says it will not try a second moonshot. The company issued a statement Tuesday saying its lunar mission in… Continue Reading →
Palestinians burned effigies of President Trump and marched a donkey pasted over with images of Gulf royals in Yehudah and Shomron on Tuesday, as the U.S. opened its conference in… Read more » The post Palestinians Protest Against Bahrain, Burning… Continue Reading →
Saudi Arabia’s special forces captured the leader of the Islamic State’s branch in Yemen during a raid on a house that was under surveillance, a Saudi military statement said Tuesday,… Read more » The post Saudi Coalition Says Head of… Continue Reading →
Orangutans at a Vienna zoo got buckets of water, lemurs in Rome enjoyed fruit icicles and a polar bear took to a pool in Germany as much of Europe sweltered… Read more » The post Orangutans, Polar Bears Make a… Continue Reading →
The authority that operates New York’s airports and many of its bridges and tunnels is proposing fare and toll hikes across a broad swath of its facilities, some potentially taking effect as early as this fall, to keep pace with… Continue Reading →
Motorists beware. The Port Authority is planning to raise tolls on all bridges and tunnels under it’s jurisdiction. The hikes, which would go into effect in 2020, require approval from the Port Authority’s board before being implemented. The last time… Continue Reading →