By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz

The parshiyos that we lain during the summer months contain lengthy descriptions of the travels and travails of Klal Yisroel in the midbar. Stop after stop, they camped, they rested and they continued.

The accounts of the…

By Ed Rogers

The president gets credit for a gigantic tax increase. The prize in the Supreme Court decision could turn out to be an exploding cigar. Carter and his team need to put on a brave face, but they also need to huddle in private and think tw…

An extensive cargo ship search that was triggered by a knocking sound ended today without authorities finding any stowaways.
Federal authorities used X-ray machines, K-9 units and officers to search more than 160 of the 2,000 containers aboard the 850…

In a victory for President Obama, the Supreme Court decided to uphold his signature health care law’s individual mandate in a split decision, upending speculation after hostile-seeming oral arguments in March that the justices would overturn the…

Has the decision to change the Tal Law and draft yeshiva students into the IDF or national service already had an effect? Numbers released by the National Civil Service Administration show that in June alone, 159 chareidi students applied for national …

Rabbi Yosef Halevi Wineberg, a well known Lubavitcher Chossid, passed away on Wednesday. He was 94.
Rabbi Wineberg served for many years as the Vice Chairman of United Lubavitcher Yeshivos and worked tirelessly to keep the Yeshiva thriving and growin…

“We’re in good, but not great, shape. Why? Our fiscal situation has deteriorated,” said Governor of the Bank of Israel Prof. Stanley Fischer at the Caesarea Forum today, in what amounted to a rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Net…

By Robert McNally
Iran’s stance at the recent Moscow talks shows that the current sanctions are too weak to avoid a drift towards a pre-emptive Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear programme or a nuclear weapons-capable Iran; both scenarios co…

Rav Meir Horowitz of Dzikov (Tarnobrzeg), author of Imrei Noam, grandson of Rav Naftali, the Ropshitzer Rov. One of his sons, R’  Tuvia Horowitz, was Rav of Majdan. Another son, Ravi Aharon
Horowitz, married Fradel, a daughter of the Divre…

100-degree days. 65 mile-an-hour winds. 0 inches of rain.
In the end, Rabbi Moshe and Zelda Liberow and their children had just minutes to evacuate their neighborhood on the west side of Colorado Springs, Colo.
“I never dreamed that this fire wo…

Located in what is currently western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland, and north-eastern Romania – the provinces that were once known as Galicia and Bukovina were once home to over 8 million Jews before the Holocaust – making up nearly a quarter of all A…

Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore International and crucial figure in the early history of personal computing, passed away surrounded by his family on Sunday, his family confirms. He was 83 years old.
Tramiel was born in Poland to a Jewish family in…

A former member of the Baltimore Jewish neighborhood Shomrim watch group convicted in the beating of a black teenager has been sentenced to probation.
The case has drawn comparisons to the fatal shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.
Twenty-four-yea…

A group of 9/11 family members on Wednesday accused the governors of New York and New Jersey of betraying the people killed in the 2001 terrorist attacks, urging them to resolve a financial disagreement that has hobbled construction of the ground zero…

A rare original copy of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation sold Tuesday at a New York auction for more than $2 million.
It’s the second-highest price ever paid for a Lincoln-signed proclamation – after one owned by the l…