Frantic search efforts are still underway tonight, Tuesday, for missing father of seven Peretz Sontag of Monsey, NY. Search teams are reaching out to all able-bodied individuals to assist in the search efforts.
The executive director of Hatzalah in Ukraine, Rabbi Hillel Cohen, was attacked and stabbed last night by anti-Semites in Kiev.
Over 60 rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel over the past few hours. The Islamic Jihad terror organization is claiming responsibility.
“More than the Jews have kept the Shabbos, Shabbos has kept the Jews,” our sages declared. Rarely was this more apparent than this past Shabbos, when a Malaysia Airline flight mysteriously disappeared without a trace.
Ten of thousands of Jews from all walks of life, gathered in lower Manhattan for prayer rally in protest of the Israeli Governments proposed military draft of all its religious citizens.
Canadian authorities have located all 13 Lev Tahor children who fled the country with their parents after being ordered into foster care. They are in the Caribbean and Central America.
Israeli naval forces raided a ship in the Red Sea early Wednesday and seized dozens of advanced rockets from Iran destined for Palestinian militants in Gaza, the military said.
Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews held a mass prayer in Jerusalem on Sunday in protest at a bill that would cut their community’s military exemptions and end a tradition upheld since Israel’s foundation.
In the boys’ classroom at Lamplighters Yeshivah in the Hasidic Jewish stronghold of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Montessori number-counting boards and decimal beads share space with Hebrew-learning materials. A colorful timeline on the wall shows two strands of world history in parallel: secular on the left, Jewish on the right. A photo of the grand rabbi of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement hangs above a list of tasks that children perform individually: make a fractions poster, practice cursive, learn about the moon’s phases.
The NYPD has decided not to appeal the reinstatement of Hasidic police officer Fishel Litzman, following his victory in a religious discrimination lawsuit.
Two Israeli brothers who were placed on life support following the pesticide poisoning that took the lives of their younger sisters, returned to their Jerusalem home this afternoon.
Religious slaughter of animals without stunning them first is now banned in Denmark, bringing into question the religious freedom of residents.
Last Thursday, The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC Radio did a segment on the phenomenon of gentrification in New York City, and its effects on the city’s residents.
Boruch Hashem, the two Jerusalem brothers poisoned by pesticides, who have spent the past two weeks fighting for their lives after their two younger sisters succumbed to the poison r”l, have been moved out of intensive care and are seeing steady improvements to their conditions.
A new report by London’s Institute for Jewish Policy Research concludes that younger British Jews posses a stronger Jewish identity than Britain’s older Jewish generations.
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has issued an “alert” to the city’s medical community following a January 2014 case of neonatal herpes following the Jewish circumcision ritual metzitzah b’peh, or MBP.
Over the weekend doctors at the Schneider Children’s Medical Center said that the conditions of the two young brothers poisoned by pesticides have been upgraded from “serious” to “stable,” and that doctors are discussing the possibility of waking the two from induced anesthesia.
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