Mitt Romney is having fun. Or so he says.
Speaking in Albion, Michigan on Monday, Romney told a crowd of about 350 people that campaigning “sure has been fun these last ten days or so.”
“We started off what, 15 points down in the poll…

In a modern version of Marie Antoinette’s “Let them eat cake” advice to hungry French citizens, the Finance Ministry has rejected erasing automatic tax hikes on higher fuel prices to take effect Thursday.
The price of gasoline at the …

Patti Tyree was afraid that cancer would steal her future. Instead, the cost of treating it has.
She had hoped to buy a small farm with money inherited from her mother. But copayments for just one $18,000 round of breast chemotherapy and one shot of a …

Jan Berenstain, who with her husband wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bears books, gentle best-sellers that enlightened preschoolers for half a century with simple lessons about kindness and tidiness, and reasons not to be afraid of the doctor, die…

On Monday, MK Danny Danon (Likud), Chair of the Immigration, Absorption & Diaspora Affairs Committee, held a Committee meeting to discuss the problem of the desecration of graves on the Mt. of Olives, and the security of Jews from abroad who go the…

By Rabbi Avi Shafran
I can’t pride myself on having a good long-term memory (as my wife can attest, that’s an understatement), but a February 1 New York Times article did spur my sluggish hippocampus.
The Times article was about Brooklyn&#8…

The Robert M. Beren Academy, an Orthodox Jewish day school in Houston, won its regional championship to advance to the boys basketball state semifinals this weekend in Dallas. But the team will not make the trip.
The Beren Academy players are shomer Sh…

Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said today the unrest the United States was seeing in Afghanistan was just “the tip of the iceberg.”
“We’re not going to fix Afghanistan. It’s not possible. These are people …

Today marked the 20th straight day of rising prices at the pump. According to AAA, the national average is $3.70 a gallon for regular unleaded.
A month ago it cost $3.39.
If you think that’s because of a global shortage of oil or tensions in the …

Dozens of senior IDF officers, air force pilots, and elite unit troops are getting that little extra spiritual push that helps them get through the tough exercises and combat training: A five minute daily phone-in Torah lesson via conference call.
The …

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) blamed President Obama for the spike in oil prices, saying the administration had pushed for consumers to pay higher prices at the pump.
“Let’s give the president credit for one domestic policy that works. He …

Local lawmakers are accusing some New York City sanitation agents of fraud and perjury.
Assemblyman Dov Hikind and Sen. Jeff Klein said three agents were caught on surveillance video in Brooklyn issuing homeowners tickets for violations they did not co…

Israel has destroyed all Iranian nuclear infrastructure on the ground, a November email from the US intelligence firm Stratfor released by Wikileaks on Monday claims, citing a “confirmed Israeli intelligence agent.”
The email is one of five…

Calif. — A New York couple who accused the San Mateo County coroner of negligence for letting an ambulance company dissect their son’s brain may not pursue a lawsuit, a judge tentatively ruled Wednesday.
Under the ruling, the family can ame…

That’s Ed Koch.
The former New York City mayor and President Obama endorser lambasted Rick Santorum in an interview on Aaron Klein’s WABC Radio Show.
“Santorum is nuts,” Koch told Klein. “And I say that in a loving way. He…

Lakewood, NJ – Reb Duvi Honig and the Learn and Network Kollel’s first ever Parnassah Expo yesterday was a smashing success, exceeding all expectations.
The event, held at Bais Yaakov High School Hall in Lakewood, from 12 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. for wo…

All of Klal Yisroel is asked to say Tehillim for the Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak, Rav Moshe Yehoshua Hager, whose condition has been deemed critical. The Rebbe, who is 95, has suffered from labored breathing and an infection. His doctors visited at…

Potential candidates for Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office are taking stands on the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslim students, ranging from cautious support to a warning about curtailing civil liberties.
Bloomberg, who lea…

The Purim revolution is growing every year.
This year, more than ever before, Yeshiva Bochurim are looking for a message of simchas Purim.
Three years ago on Purim night a mini-revolution happened that addresses this issue. A group of very special Baal…