It appears that if former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be facing a criminal indictment in the Holyland investigation, it will have to wait. The former prime minister is first going to face a fourth indictment, this one addressing political abduction for alleged political appointments. These charges stem from the 2006 State Comptroller’s report, citing Olmert [...]

The budding romance between Damascus and Washington seems to have come to an abrupt halt, at least for now, with US President Barak Obama announcing renewed sanctions against Syria for a year. The president accused the Syrian of supporting terrorism as well as developing weapons of mass destruction. The White House announcement follows recent statements from [...]

Following a number of recent attacks against the chareidi community, targeting their “ignorance”, “lack of [secular] education” and lack of skills, labeling them “worms and leeches”, the Ministry of Trade & Industry released figures that paint a slightly different picture, one indicating the chareidi community does comprise a higher percentage of the nation’s workforce than [...]

“At approximately 11:45 P.M. EDT, Faisal Shahzad was taken into custody. Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and detectives of the New York City Police Department arrested Shahzad for allegedly driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1, 2010. Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, was taken [...]

Police suspect that the string of fires in shuls in the capital may be the work of a single arsonist operating in the capital. Investigators are unwilling to accept that fires in three different shuls were simply coincidental, but they are now working on the theory that a single attacker was responsible for them all. The [...]

[VIDEO OF HIRSCH KISSING ARAFAT POSTED BELOW] MK (Ta’al – Ra’am) Dr. Ahmed Tibi eulogized the late Rabbi Moshe Hirsh, who was niftar earlier this week in Jerusalem’s Bikur Cholim Hospital. Hirsh, a dedicated leader of Neturei Karta was also a former Minister of Jewish Affairs in the government of Yasser Arafat. Tibi stated that while [...]

A voucher system that lets any child in New Jersey go to any school, public or private, is the “final solution” to an overly expensive system that continues to fail too many children, Governor Christie said Monday. Christie told an enthusiastic school choice advocacy group in Washington that he will expand the number of public charter [...]

Just a week before her 115th birthday, the oldest person in the world has died on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. Kama Chinen was born on May 10, 1895, living to see three different centuries, according to the Gerontology Research Group. She died on Sunday in a care home, although the details of her death have [...]

Emirates Airlines said that three passengers were removed from a New York-Dubai flight last evening. Emirates can confirm that its flight EK 202 (from New York to Dubai on May 3) … was called back by the local authorities prior to departure. Three passengers were removed from the flight,” the airline said in a statement. (One [...]

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg told CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric yesterday that the suspect behind the bombing attempt could be a domestic terrorist angry at the government who acted alone. “If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that [...]