A 12-year-old girl riding in a car driving near the settlement of Ariel was moderately wounded Thursday, after the car was stoned by Palestinians. MDA Paramedics and United Hatzalah Personnel were immediately dispatched to the scene and treated the girl on site. She was rushed to the Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva The IDF immediately launched a [...]

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Washington – To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas — the Islamic militant group that controls one of the two Palestinian territories and rejects negotiations. But Hamas let it be known with its bullets that it would [...]

Palestinian Authority security forces detained two men on Thursday suspected of involvement in a deadly shooting attack in which four Israelis were murdered in cold blood on Tuesday, Haaretz is reporting. The four victims were residents of Beit Hagai, and were traveling in a car on route 60 late Tuesday when terrorists opened fire at them, [...]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken off from the Andrews Naval Air Facility near Washington, several hours after a face-to-face meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The two will meet again in two weeks in Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt. (Source: Ynet)

Bronx, NY – A man ordered to tow away unmarked police vehicles claims a cop slapped him with a parking ticket out of revenge. The weekend showdown between a patrol officer and an NYPD tow truck operator is now the subject of an Internal Affairs Bureau probe. The bizarre tale began on Friday, when tow truck operator [...]

Recently there appeared an article on one of the websites, suggesting (and seemingly tying to pressure) Rabbi Rosenberg, to change his Psak, and make a ?tryout period? from the third Rov of the Bais Din of Crown Heights ? Kan Tziva Hashem es Habrocho.

The writer does bring up some good points, on the shortness of time being given to the community, to get to know the candidates. There most certainly should have been more time, no one is disputing that, and an Op-ed by Yitzchak Wagshul to that affect was published some time back.

But the medicine (a tryout period), the writer is suggesting, is way worse then, the disease (not enough time).

Washington – With the recovery faltering less than two months before the November congressional elections, President Obama’s economic team is considering another big dose of stimulus in the form of tax breaks for businesses – potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars, according to two people familiar with the talks. Among the options are a [...]

West Bank – A 12-year-old Israeli girl was moderately wounded on Thursday evening when assailants hurled rocks at a car she was traveling in near the West Bank settlement of Ariel. Israel Defense Forces troops attended to the girl, administering first aid, and she was subsequently transferred to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva for further care. [...]

France – American officers are taking up posts at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport on Thursday to help identify potential terrorists or other high-risk passengers heading to the United States. Officers from the US Customs and Border Protection’s Immigration Advisory Program joined French airport personnel and are working at airports in seven other countries under the [...]