The second Sunday after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, New York clergy members of many faiths joined elected officials at Yankee Stadium in a city-sponsored memorial ceremony that melded the sacred and the secular, replete with flags, prayers and tears. Ten years later, any consensus that existed about the appropriate role of religion in public ceremonies [...]

National Democrats are running ads hoping to prevent an embarrassing loss in a special congressional election in New York next week. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced Thursday it would begin an ad campaign attacking Republican candidate Bob Turner in the 9th Congressional District. The seat was vacated in June, when Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner resigned [...]

He was more than an acquaintance but not quite a friend. Nevertheless, I miss him terribly because he was an inspiration and role model to all who knew him. And his death was not only a huge tragedy and a crime, but an enormous Kiddush Hashem. Yosef Robinson, z”l, came from the rough life of a Jamaican rapper, [...]

Syria declared a state of war and mobilized troops to neutralize “terrorists who threaten us,” Al-Quds newspaper reported Thursday evening. Operation “Bayrak al-Assad” was implemented secretly, mobilizing full military forces in Syria for concentrated offensives on cities across the country, according to the report. The military operation is a continuation of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s violent crackdown [...]

As night fell in San Diego County, millions of residents were left in the dark, wondering when power would return after a failure in the system created a cascade effect, knocking electricity out all the way to Orange County and down into Mexico. The major outage knocked out power in a region of almost 6 million [...]

Seven Israeli employees of a private security firm were arrested and released by the Egyptian Naval near the Straits of Tiran in the Red Sea, the Foreign Ministry allowed for released on early Friday morning. The four security men along three crew members were arrested on a yacht on Wednesday after, having noticed an Egyptian naval [...]

[EARLIER REPORTS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] ABC NEWS REPORTS: U.S. authorities are scrambling to sort through information that the CIA developed in the past 24 hours indicating that at least three individuals entered the U.S. in August by air with the intent to launch a vehicle-borne attack against Washington, D.C. or New York around the anniversary of [...]

Here is the White House text of President Barack Obama‘s Address to a Joint Session of Congress delivered on Thursday evening: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and fellow Americans: Tonight we meet at an urgent time for our country. We continue to face an economic crisis that has left millions of our neighbors jobless, [...]

Queens native Donald Trump gave a rousing endorsement of businessman Bob Turner for Congress today in this automated telephone call to voters in New York’s 9th Congressional District (Queens-Brooklyn), where Mr. Turner (R) is running to replace former congressman Anthony Weiner (D) who recently resigned the seat. In his call, Mr. Trump said: This is Donald Trump, [...]

[Op-Ed By Yossi Gestetner] As frum Jews, we often take for granted the freedoms that we are privileged to enjoy.  Our community simply assumes that our elected officials will take the necessary steps to ensure that we can practice our religion in accordance with the tenets of our faith. Unfortunately, it is the assumption that everything will [...]