The traveling press corps is “harassing” Mitt Romney to “create gaffes” that benefit President Barack Obama and distract from the candidate’s “home run” of a trip, Rush Limbaugh said today.
“Now the repo…

You might call it kvittel redux.
With past tumults created after notes left by dignitaries in the Kosel were taken out, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation removed a note placed in the Kosel by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, with t…

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, but if you’re willing to pay a fee and get your iris scanned, you can jump to the front of the security line at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
A company called CLEAR is offering the optio…

By Rabbi Ari Koretzky

With the Siyam HaShas approaching, Klal Yisroel focuses its attention on the primacy of limud haTorah, celebrating those who have dedicated significant time and energy to embrace a relationship with Torah learning. The moment in…

Despite inclement weather being forecast for East Rutherford, NJ, tomorrow, the Twelfth Siyum Hashas of Daf Yomi will go on as planned, Matzav.com has confirmed.
Rabbi Shlomo Gertzulin, who has been at the helm of Siyum Hashas preparations since 1982…

Oorah Kiruv Rechokim, the renowned kiruv organization, has reached out to Matzav.com for assistance. Oorah is currently in need a pairs of tefillin for some of its campers at The Zone, its fabulous summer camp which does wonders in introducing the bea…

He became New York City’s longest serving mayoral spokesman and now Stu Loeser is moving on.
Loeser became press secretary in January of 2006.
It can’t have been an easy job managing every public minute of Mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s life….

Dear Editor,
The weather reports indicate a 50% chance of rain for tomorrow’s Siyum Hashas at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. All are asked to now daven that it not rain tomorrow or during the event. Scattered thunderstorms are being pr…

The Huffington Post reports:
Some books you just can’t put down.
On Aug. 1, some 90,000 Jewish men and women will attend a celebration of one such tome — the Talmud. Organizers bill the event as the largest party for Jewish learning in 2,0…

Without naming names, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad essentially accused Mitt Romney of “kissing the foot” of Israel in hopes of gaining more support for his presidential campaign.
The Iranian president was indisputably talking about the U.S. Republi…

India’s blackout spread to cover more than half the country today, as the electrical grid collapsed in 14 states in the country’s north and east, depriving at least 600 million people of power, many for a second day.
More than 500 trains c…

Berlin – Frequent kosher fliers may have been surprised to hear a recent report that the kosher food in Business Class on Lufthansa flights are actually better than the regular non-kosher Business meals. Jewish News One recently reported on the qualit…

A study from Ancestry.com has determined that President Obama is related to John Punch, the first black African enslaved for life in America–which would make Punch the 11th great-grandfather of Obama.
The connection is made through Obama’s…

Rav Zevulun Aryeh Graz (1904-1989). Born in Ozband, Lithuania, to Rav Yosef Nesanael, a student of the Alter of Kelm and, for a while, the menahel ruchani of the Telz yeshivah. As a youngster, Rav Zevulun Aryeh studied for a while in Kelm, and th…

Sometimes the littlest patients get the short end of the stick. Medical devices used in hospitals are seldom available in pediatric versions, especially for tiny preemies. Healthcare workers must adapt devices as best they can, but often they must res…

Arizona Sen. John McCain took a shot at Dick Cheney on Monday for his attack on Sarah Palin as his 2008 running mate and blasted a Newsweek article asserting tensions with Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign as “liberal left-wing trash.&#8…

[Video below.] NBC’s Bob Costas led a five-second moment of silence when Israeli athletes walked into Olympic Stadium yesterday, which the International Olympic Committee refused to do.
Costas was acknowledging the 11 Israeli athletes and coach…

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney raised more than $1 million at a campaign fundraiser in Israel.
Over 40 donors paid between $25,000 and $50,000 apiece to attend a breakfast with Romney at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, including Las …

President Barack Obama will be back in Manhattan today for a campaign event.
Sixty people are reportedly paying $40,000 each to dine with the president at the NoMad Hotel in the Flatiron district.
Drivers should expect some delays and road closures wh…

Writing in Makor Rishon newspaper, journalist Ishay Fridman has exposed the extremist views that Channel 2’s culture reporter, Ilan Lukach, apparently holds regarding chareidim.
The views are exposed on Lukach’s Facebook page, where he has…

The New York Times, which famously insists on the accuracy of its reports, was red faced Sunday after being fooled by a hoax online editorial posted under the name of ex-boss Bill Keller.
The editorial, titled “WikiLeaks, a Post Postscript,&#822…