[Photos below.] Mayor Michael Bloomberg was graciously hosted for breakfast at the home of Wallenberg Commission Board Member William Nussen attended by numerous members of the Raoul Wallenberg Centennial Celebration Commission including Steven Grauer…

A premiere Brooklyn Chocolate store has expanded its exclusive line of Godiva kosher chocolate to a new on-line center of exquisite kosher chocolate. www.lechocolatieronline.com is an expansion of Le Chocolate Extraordinaire, founded in 1994 by the Bl…

President Obama “disrespected” Israel and threw it “under the bus” in a wide-ranging speech on the Middle East on Thursday, GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney charged.
Romney strongly criticized Obama, who, in a speech at t…

[Audio below.] The following is a shiur delivered by Harav Yisroel Reisman, maggid shiur in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and mara d’asra of Agudath Israel of Madison. The shiur, on Parshas Shoftim, was delivered to Rav Reisman’s alumni over the tel…

[Video below.] The following is a transcript of Clint Eastwood’s remarks last night at the GOP Convention:
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Save a little for Mitt.
(APPLAUSE) I know what you are thinking. You are thinking, wh…

[Video below.] Sen. Marco Rubio’s Speech to the Republican National Convention last night:
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
I think I just drank Clint Eastwood’s water. Thank you.
(LAUGHTER)
Thank you so much. Thank you so much for havi…

Viewership for the Republican National Convention plunged sharply on its second night compared with the same evening of 2008, when Sarah Palin made her debut as the vice presidential nominee.
An average of 21.9 million viewers tuned into the nine broa…

In the month of Elul, the yeshiva of Kelm was a very serious place. The trepidation from the upcoming Yom Hadin was in the air. The talmidim walked around with a sense of purpose, lost deep in thoughts of self improvement. So much so that one of the…

Rav Yosef Chaim of Baghdad, author of Ben Ish Chai, Od Yosef Chai, Rav Pe’alim, Ben Yehoyada, Aderet Eliyahu, and Imrei Bina, and many other works (1832-1904). Both his grandfather, Rav Moshe Chaim, and his father, Rav Eliyahu, served as Rav of B…

A decade-long heated discussion within Chabad that has cooled down lately, will possibly be renewed with a new book that was published this week.
“Bemai Kamipligei,” authored by Rabbi Yechezkel Soffer of Yerushalayim, takes a bare-knuckle …

Residents on the Upper West Side are being advised to stay inside and keep the windows closed when city officials spray for mosquitoes during the early morning hours on Friday.
The move comes after more people were confirmed to have West Nile Virus in…

[View the letter here.] Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said that the practice of metzitzah b’peh, which is under review by the New York City Health Department and was the subject of a recent hearing, is potentially dangerous to newborns.
A Health D…

Following a Yediot Achronot report claiming that hundreds of frum teenage girls of Sephardic descent are forbidden from attending school, Interior Minister Eli Yishai has instructed municipalities to stop funding the discriminating institutions.
The m…

The greater Modiin Illit community has been plunged into mourning with the news of the passing of a four-year-old boy, who was found this afternoon in a car after having been forgotten there. Police said the child was the locked vehicle for a number h…

Mitt Romney was revising and rewriting his acceptance speech on Wednesday, according to advisers and aides, hoping to find the words that would introduce and endear him to voters tuning in to the race for the first time.
“I can’t wait to h…