Rona Ramon offers personal prayer for Gilad.

London – Britain’s new government has been caught in an unexpected political crisis as the pope’s visit approaches. The Guardian reported Sunday that the speech of Benedict XVI in Parliament will take place on Yom Kippur, which has attracted criticism from the Jewish community and its supporters. The leader of the Catholic Church will arrive in [...]

Barak gets meetings in DC, Ben-Eliezer meets the Turks.

Audience invited to take in ‘Hostesses.’

Woodridge, NY – Firefighters are battling a fire at Woodridge Pizza & Cafe on Broadway, emergency reports indicate. Firefighters from multiple departments and Catskills Hatzolah are all on the scene at 9 Broadway for the 3-Alarm fire at Fellers Pizza store. Units on the scene are reporting that a collapse zone has been set up at this [...]

Activist paints pro-Palestinian slogans on revered Holocaust site.

New York – iPhone application developers have uncovered what appears to be a widespread hacking of the iTunes App Store. It appears that someone going by the name Thuat Nguyen managed to hack into people’s accounts and buy his own apps to push them up the app store rankings. The scale of the attack, as well as [...]

Baghdad, Iraq – The two Iraqi leaders vying to become the nation’s next prime minister will get personal pleas Sunday from Vice President Joe Biden to end their rivalry that has delayed the seating of a new government as American troops head home.  Biden, the Obama administration’s point man on Iraq issues, will discuss the stalled [...]

(lubavitch.com) Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn was invited on behalf of the Canadian Federation of Chabad Lubavitch to an exclusive Garden Party with Queen Elizabeth as well as Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Sanaa, Yemen – The two men are dressed in the same Yemeni fashion: a thawb (men’s garment), a British-style blazer, and sumata (shawls) wrapped around their heads. One of them has a pin of the Yemeni president on his lapel. They’re introduced as members of the al-Salem tribe, but one is Muslim and the other Jewish. [...]