New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie issued a stern warning to Iowa voters at a campaign rally for Mitt Romney Friday. Romney was in West Des Moines, as were 5 other Republican presidential candidates, as they all hope to set the tone for the upcoming race …

Israel – A new law proposed by MK Zvulun Orlev (Bayit Yehudi), who is chairman of the Knesset Children’s Rights Committee, would prevent parents from giving their children “weird” or strange names that other children were likely to ma…

The past 10 years have been the best in the country’s aviation history with 153 fatalities. That’s two deaths for every 100 million passengers on commercial flights, according to an Associated Press analysis of government accident data.
Th…

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is intervening in his state’s presidential primary dispute and plans to file emergency legislation to address the inability of most Republican presidential candidates to get their name on the ballot, Fox N…

At the National Arboretum, the white petals of snowdrops – normally an early spring flower – have unfurled. In Maine’s Acadia National Park, lakes still have patches of open water instead of being frozen solid. And in Donna Izlar’s back yar…

Iran has offered to the EU to resume nuclear talks a gambit that bought Iran plenty of time in the last decade will it work again?

Muslim woman in France fined after being caught driving while wearing a burqa – which is banned in France.

After a customer backlash, Verizon Wireless on Friday dropped a plan to start charging $2 for every payment subscribers make over the phone or online with their credit or debit cards.
In a statement on its website Friday, the company said “custom…

[Letter below.] In response to the recent tumult that has erupted due to the actions of misguided individuals in Eretz Yisroel, and following the exaggerated reports by the left-wing media in Israel and elsewhere attempting to paint chareidim in a nega…

By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
We have heard the news and perhaps seen the pictures.
The facts are not disputed.
A little eight year religious Jewish girl was attempting to walk to her school.
A group of (how many and who they represent is open to deb…

The Internet’s most popular destinations, including eBay, Google, Facebook, and Twitter seem to view Hollywood-backed copyright legislation as an existential threat.
It was Google co-founder Sergey Brin who warned that the Stop Online Piracy Act …

How dare you?
How dare you spit on an 8-year-old schoolgirl and terrorize her as she walks to school? I don’t care what she’s wearing; spitting, verbal abuse, and threats of violence cannot be tolerated.
How dare you call yourself a Hareidi…

By Alex Roarty

Mitt Romney’s confidence is brimming. The former governor, now widely seen as the favorite to win Iowa, announced Wednesday he’ll stay in the Hawkeye State the night of the caucus, a clear indication he anticipates a good re…

A serious and expensive accident occurred this week in the Air Force unit responsible for the Iron Dome rocket defense system in the South. Twenty Iron Dome interceptor missiles fell several meters, causing damage to the missiles but no injuries.
The …

Officials in the United States have sought to reassure Israel that the $29.4 billion sale of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia will boost Israeli security in the region, the Wall Street Journal reported today.
According to the report, Assistant Secretary of…

The Iron Dome counter-rocket defense system has succeeded in intercepting rockets from Gaza 75 percent of the time it fired interceptors at incoming enemy projectiles, according to an analysis of its performance obtained on Thursday by The Jerusalem Po…

Mr. Irving M. Bunim zt”l was a businessman, philanthropist and a major lay leader of Orthodox Jewry, in particular the Young Israel movement in the United States from the 1930s until his passing in 1980. As the trusted assistant to Maran Rav A…

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[Video below.] Rav Bentzion Shafier has impacted thousands of people with his talks and lectures, and especially with his innovative “Shmuz,” a mussar shmuess that draws on Torah, Gemara and the
meforshim, but also brings in lessons f…

Yahrzteits – 4 Teves
Rav Moshe Zev of Bialystock, author of Maros Hatzovos and Agudas Aizov (1729). He was the founder of Gemilas Chassadim Beis Medrash, Bialystock’s most prominent Torah center, where Rav Meir Simcha of Dvinsk learned after …

Lebanon is trying to stay out of the Syrian troubles, but Syria and Hizbullah are allies and the latter backs Syria’s propaganda line.

Mossad chief Tamir Pardo doesn’t believe a nuclear armed Iran would mean the destruction on Israel.
Pardo reportedly told a forum of Israeli diplomats that while Israel continues in its efforts to thwart Iran’s nuclear program he does not b…

Mobile phone customers who make single bill payments online or by telephone will be charged a $2 “convenience fee” starting Jan. 15, Verizon Wireless announced today.
“The fee will help allow us to continue to support these single bil…

New light bulb efficiency standards will begin phasing in on Jan. 1 despite intense opposition from conservatives, who have blasted the rules as a textbook unnecessary federal regulation.
While Republicans secured inclusion of a measure blocking fundi…

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavezspeculated on Wednesday that the United States might have developed a way to give Latin American leaders cancer, after Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez joined the list of presidents diagnosed with the disease.
It was…

Fifteen-to-20 percent.
That is the increase in amount of weaponry the IDF believes has been smuggled into the Gaza Strip in 2011 in comparison to the previous year as a result of the revolutions in Egypt and Libya.
A wide variety of weapons is involved…

Labor Party Chairwoman MK Shelly Yechimovich criticized the Israeli media on Wednesday over its ongoing incitement against the chareidi-religious Jews. Her comments came in the wake of the recent overhyped media reports about the gender segregation amo…

Was it fair game or the pot calling the kettle black? Beleaguered Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich fired a broadside at Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday, accusing the three-term mayor of buying his last election.
Gingrich, stumping in Mason …