Month September 2019
The GOP-controlled Senate has approved a nonbinding but symbolically important resolution calling on the Trump administration to immediately provide the House and Senate intelligence committees a copy of a whistleblower… Read more » The post Senate Votes for Release of… Continue Reading →
Bernie Sanders announced on Tuesday a plan to tax the nation’s wealthiest households, saying it will generate more than $4 trillion over the next decade and substantially reduce billionaires’ fortunes — his version of Democratic presidential rival Elizabeth Warren’s signature… Continue Reading →
The following is a message submitted to TLS from the Tomchei Tzedakah: “Tomchei Tzedakah of Lakewood’s mission is to verify the validity of a need when a cause comes to us. We do not fundraise for any cause. People have… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump, facing growing calls by Democrats for his impeachment, said he has authorized the release on Wednesday of a complete trancript of a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to… Continue Reading →
MK (Joint Arab List) Dr. Ahmed Tibi on Monday evening compared former prime ministers, Yitzchak Shamir and Menachem Begin to convicted master Fatah Tanzim terrorist leader Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for his heinous… Continue Reading →
A Central District Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal filed by Yigal Amir against the Israel Prison Authority (IPA) revoking his privileges after he contacted Yoav Eliasi, commonly known by his stage name ‘The Shadow’, to assist him in getting… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) — WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann has stepped down as CEO of the shared office space company, which has suffered a major devaluation amid investors’ fears over the charismatic but unpredictable leader’s control of the firm. The company… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has issued a rule that will make overtime pay available to 1.3 million additional workers, though the proposal replaces a more generous one advanced by former President Barack Obama. The Labor Department said Tuesday… Continue Reading →
You can Help! One of the most amazing phenomena of our time is the hundreds of bus routes that make their way each day from Eretz Yisroel’s outlying, periphery moshavim, transporting young children from secular homes to Torah schools in… Continue Reading →
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While neither of the two major parties were giving out official details of the unity talks, the Israeli media was bubbling with information on Tuesday night. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin… Read more » The post Reports: Rotation Tops Agenda in… Continue Reading →
Authorities say a small plane crashed in a wooded area in central New Jersey and came to rest high in a tree. The plane went down around 12:15 p.m., Tuesday,… Read more » The post Small Plane Crashes Near New… Continue Reading →
Paramedics from the Arab village of Abu Gosh near Yerushalayim will be working alongside Hatzalah volunteers in Uman to provide emergency series during the Yomim HaNoraim, under a p’sak of… Read more » The post Abu Gosh Hatzalah in Uman… Continue Reading →
In the accompanying video, we see two IDF armored patrol jeeps collide, the result of rocks and boulders being throw and hurled at them in Halhul, which is a PA (Palestinian Authority) autonomous area located north of Hebron. Read more… Continue Reading →
The New York Times said it turned to the Irish government to rescue a reporter threatened with arrest in Egypt two years ago out of concern that the Trump administration… Read more » The post NY Times, Not Trusting Trump… Continue Reading →
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rhetorical attack on Israel at the U.N. on Tuesday drew condemnations from senior Israeli officials. “The Palestinian territory under Israeli occupation has become one of… Read more » The post Erdogan Lashes Out at Israel… Continue Reading →
An esrog crisis was averted over the last few days, thanks to co-ordination between the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the Board of Deputies and leading… Read more » The post Esrog Crisis Averted in Britain… Continue Reading →
In a decision that badly undermines Boris Johnson’s authority, Britain’s highest court ruled unanimously Tuesday that the prime minister broke the law by suspending Parliament in a way that squelched legitimate scrutiny of his Brexit plan. Read more on Yeshiva… Continue Reading →
(JTA) — An attorney under contract with the city of Trenton, New Jersey, resigned after the City Council president used the term “Jew her down” during an executive session earlier this month. Stuart Platt sent a letter of resignation to… Continue Reading →
Blue and White and Likud continued on Tuesday to argue over whom Likud is representing in the just-opened unity negotiations. Blue and White persisted in asserting that the Likud negotiator,… Read more » The post Unity Talks Hit Bump on… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump says he has directed the release on Wednesday of the “unredacted” transcript of his July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Trump has acknowledged that he… Read more » The post Trump Says Transcript of Ukraine… Continue Reading →