A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Virginia’s challenge to President Obama’s health care law, saying in a ruling that the state doesn’t have a right to bring a lawsuit. The unanimous decision from the three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturns a lower court’s decision to declare the law unconstitutional and [...]

Story 1: A number of months ago Rabbi Binyamin Metzger, principal of the Beis Yaakov Lustig High School in Ramat Gan called a student in to explain that she simply may not return next year, and that she must find another school to continue her studies. In the letter given to the young lady to [...]

[AUDIO LINK POSTED BELOW] For one instant on the morning of Sept. 11, an airliner that had vanished from all the tracking tools of modern aviation suddenly became visible in its final seconds to the people who had been trying to find it. It was just after 9 a.m., 16 minutes after a plane had hit the [...]

[AUDIO LINK POSTED BELOW] For one instant on the morning of Sept. 11, an airliner that had vanished from all the tracking tools of modern aviation suddenly became visible in its final seconds to the people who had been trying to find it. It was just after 9 a.m., 16 minutes after a plane had hit the [...]

In an address to bochrim the Chernobyl Rebbe Shlita stressed the need to maintain an awareness of the holiness of Hebrew, and therefore, one should not speak in Hebrew for divrei chulin, but rather one should speak in Yiddish to address day-to-day affairs, as is the custom in the chassidus. The Rebbe added that he has [...]

A rocket fired into southern Israel on Wednesday night landed in an open area. There were no reports of injuries or damage. ** The IAF targeted terrorists in Gaza in two sorties during the night. ** Arabs blame Jews for another graffiti attack against a mosque, this time in the village of Yatma, near Tapuach Junction. ** IDF: [...]

While the political echelon does its thing regarded an expected unilateral PA (Palestinian Authority) declaration of statehood, the IDF is preparing for what the intelligence community fears will be a wave of violence that could result in unprecedented attacks and attempts to infiltrate into communities throughout Yehuda and Shomron. There will be a significant increase [...]

The beers are on Mayor Bloomberg. Invoking President Obama’s White House “Beer Summit,” Mayor Bloomberg suggested that a black city councilman and a top city aide, also black, get a beer with the police officers who threw them to the ground and handcuffed them during Monday’s West Indian Day parade in Brooklyn. “I assume it’ll probably turn [...]

It did not take too long for fanatics in Meah Shearim to begin a stir, questioning just why Yoel Zev Goldstein visited HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita following his release from a Japanese prison. They maintain that the Rav heads a Zionist party and as such, visiting him or seeking his bracha is simply unacceptable. “It [...]

By Sarah Lasry’s Kosherstreet.com recipes for YWN: Summer is almost over and we are all trying to week out the last few days of vacation time with our kids. So for the next week or so I am all about the no-scramble dinner –  where prepping takes less than 5 minutes!  A great way to use [...]