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At a time when the U.S.-based Reform movement continues to pressure the Israeli government into desecrating the sanctity of the Kosel and upending the status quo that has been place for seventy years when it comes to key matters such as giyour, kashrus, and marriage... Read more
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Terrorists disguised as soldiers opened fire Saturday on an annual Iranian military parade in the country's oil-rich southwest, killing at least 25 people and wounding over 60 in the deadliest…
Officials in the Likud and on the right slammed former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for meeting with Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas in Paris on Friday. Olmert “offered Abbas in…
Kever of Ostrovtzer Rebbe, Zy"a, Desecrated in PolandJust days after an anti-Semitic attack on a shul in Gdansk, Poland, during Yom Kippur, the kever of the Ostrovtzer Rebbe, Harav Meir Yechiel Halshtock, zy"a, was found desecrated in…
Prime Minister Theresa May said Britain would not flinch in an impasse with the European Union about its departure from the bloc, as French and German ministers suggested the next…
Tens of thousands of Bnei Brak's residents participated on Leil Shabbos in an atzeres tefillah in protest of construction work of the light rail in a brazen chillul Shabbos by the contractors building…
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The International Division of the Justice Ministry filed an extradition request with the Yerushalayim District Court to deport an American citizen who fled to Israel to avoid murder charges in…
In a new program, Israelis can now order and pay for foreign currency at their local post office – and pick up the cash at Ben Gurion airport, before they…
At a Cabinet meeting earlier this week, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkott called for Israel to improve the economic lives of Arabs in Yehudah and Shomron – lest a…
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Polish police are looking for a man who threw a stone into a synagogue in the city of Gdansk as members of the Jewish community were praying at the end…
The Gerrer community in New York and further abroad mourns the petirah of Reb Shimon Charny, z”l, who was niftar in Boro Park on Tuesday, Erev Yom Kippur, at the…
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The fate of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein could turn on whether President Donald Trump believes the account of an ex-FBI official who, as Trump once asserted in a tweet,…
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein denied a New York Times report Friday that he floated the idea of using the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump as unfit for…
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Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit proposals were declared dead by the British media on Friday after what they cast as a humiliation at the hands of European Union leaders at…
Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang, a former chief of internal security who became one of the most high-profile leaders in the communist-ruled country, died on Friday after an illness, state…
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