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For months, Klal Yisrael davened and recited Tehillim on her behalf as her parents and devoted askanim fought an intensive, wide-ranging legal and diplomatic effort try to save her life.…
Competitive Race Expected in 48th Council DistrictShe is a Republican-turned-Democrat-turned-Republican. He is a Republican-turned-Democrat. She is Inna Vernikov, he is Steven Saperstein, and they are running for the 48th District City Council seat, in what is expected…
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to block a vaccine requirement imposed on Maine health care workers, the latest defeat for opponents of vaccine mandates. It was the first time the…
Yehuda and Shomron were omitted from a longterm rent program to encourage housing, which prompted an allegation of discrimination against the region from Religious Zionism Party chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich…
Results from companies Procter & Gamble Co and Danone SA as well as phone maker Ericsson on Tuesday show higher costs and supply chain disruptions, signaling more margin pressure for…
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Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan castigated the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday over its payouts to terrorists and its hypocrisy in human rights issues, The Times of Israel reported.…
Recent warnings from health officials that Israel might still be vulnerable to coronavirus variants despite sharply declining morbidity were confirmed on Tuesday with the first report of the AY.4.2 Delta…
Amid claims by the Israel Tax Authority that billions are lost to tax evaders every year, State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman revealed on Tuesday that Israelis overpay billions of shekels in…
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Family members of Hagaon Harav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, shlita, asked Tuesday for tefillos as the Rosh Yeshivah was hospitalized in serious condition. The Rosh Yeshivah is hospitalized in Hadassah Ein…
Hamodia is saddened to report the petirah of Harav Baruch Saks, zt”l. Rav Saks was a magid shiur in Yeshiva of Staten Island for over half a century, and was…
Alta Fixsler, the two-year-old, brain-damaged child at the center of a legal battle between her parents and the U.K. National Health Service, passed away Monday night, approximately 90 minutes after…
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The new U.S. travel policy will block entry to foreign nationals who have recovered from Covid-19 and then gotten one dose of two-dose vaccines — a standard that France and…
The U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan is stepping down following the chaotic American withdrawal from the country, the State Department said Monday. Zalmay Khalilzad will leave the post this week…
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader declared for the first time on Monday that his group has 100,000 trained fighters. His speech appeared to be meant as a deterrent to domestic foes following…
A gang that kidnapped 17 members of a U.S.-based charity group has demanded a $17 million ransom for them, according to Haiti’s justice minister, as quoted by the Wall Street…
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