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[Video below. Minn - A 15 year old girl from Yerushalayim came all the way to Minnesota for her second kidney transplant, but once in Minnesota, the journey to save her life became even more uncertain.
The living donor the family brought with them fro...

Economics Minister Naftali Bennett said he would not allow Hesder yeshivas to be damaged by proposed changes in service requirements. The idea was promoted by government minister Amir Peretz, a member of the Hatnu’a party.
“We cannot allow…

The Kaliver Rebbe of Eretz Yisroel, Rav Menachem Mendel Taub, addressed a yahrtzeit gathering held yesterday in memory of his father-in-law, Rav Pinchas Shapiro of Kechnia zt”l. The gathering was held at the Kaliver Bais Medrash on Rechov Chana…

In a video titled “We’re Really Puzzled,” former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich calls for cellphones to be renamed.
“But think about it,” Gingrich says. “If it’s taking pictures, it’s no…

As the Dov Lipman saga continues to rage on and there is greater awareness in the Orthodox world of his true motives and beliefs, Matzav.com presents Dov’s policies, goals and feelings – in his own words – culled from interviews he has given and …

Rand Paul on Shabbos accused President Obama of working with “anti-American globalists” to “plot against our Constitution.”
The email blast was sent on behalf of the National Association on Gun Rights and heavily criticized the…

By Chaim Barzilai

One of the unsung heroes of our generation was the great Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum zt”l. He never wavered. He was never intimidated. He spoke his mind when he felt he had to, but he always demonstrated deference to the gedolei had…

By Jonathan Tobin
While almost all liberals and Democrats are still in denial about the implications of the Benghazi scandal, none of them is choosing to defend the IRS officials who targeted Tea Party groups for investigations that would deny them ta…

[Video below.] Construction workers placed New York City’s One World Trade Center’s spire on the roof–making it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
Click below to watch the video:

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Federal officials at the General Services Administration are set to hawk an extraordinary item this week: a plane that once served as Air Force One.
The plane flew every president from Ford to George W., VPs and VIPs — and it can be yours for as…

The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has encountered severe turbulence after it emerged that he ordered a bed to be installed on a plane that carried him and his  wife, Sara, to Baroness Thatcher’s funeral in London last month – at a…

Rav Yeshaya Naftali Hertz of Dinov, author of Hanosen Imrei Shefer (1888). Born approximately 1838 to Rav Dovid Dinov (the Tzemach Dovid), who was the son of Rav Tzvi Elimelech, the Bnei
Yissochor. After his father’s petira in 1874, he succ…

A 10-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl were among 19 people shot and wounded at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans today, police said.
Most of the victims were grazed, including the children, but three people were reported in serious condit…

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Kovalkin of Neria, in the Binyamin region, was brutally beaten May 4 at the Doar Junction near his community together with another Jew, Aharon Zlatkin, 53.
Zlatkin is still in the hospital and was initially under anesthesia and ar…

When a suicide bomb ripped through a pizzeria in downtown Yerushalayim in 2001, killing 15 and wounding 130 more, 13-year-old Izzy Ezagui, who was visiting from America, found his calling.
Five years later, the New York-born Ezagui became a dual citiz…

A day after two game-changing politicians signed up at the last minute as candidates for Iran’s presidential elections in June, the country’s governing establishment reacted angrily, predicting that they would not be allowed to participate…

The House Ways and Means Committee this weekend released a timeline of interactions with the IRS and a list of 10 questions it will likely ask agency officials in an upcoming hearing — following the agency acknowledging Friday that it targeted c…

CBS anchor Scott Pelley said at a speech at Quinnipiac University that journalists “are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.”
“Our house is on fire,” said Pelley. The video of Pelley’s speech is courtesy of no…

Parents, grandparents, alumni and others will join the Jewish Educational Center of Elizabeth, NJ, as it celebrates the 50th year anniversary of its Bruriah High School for Girls division on Monday evening, June 3, 2013.
The celebration will take plac…

Dear Editor,
As a reader, I would like to chime in on the Dov Lipman matter.
With Lipman being criticized by rabbonim, I was surprised that Zev Brenner had him on his radio show last night. Why would Brenner give him a platform? Or does Brenner see ey…