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After the media announced Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s apology to US Vice President Joe Biden, the two spoke on the phone and according to the prime minister, “the crisis is behind us”.
The ‘crisis’ surrounded the announcement by the Jerusalem District Planning Board to build 1,600 housing units in Ramat Shlomo. The announcement led to condemnations [...]

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Netanyahu: The Crisis With VP Biden Is Behind Us

Statements made by President Shimon Peres yesterday in favor of exempting yeshiva bochurim from IDF service has sparked furor among anti-draft-dodging activists. The Israeli Forum for the Promotion of Equal Share in the Burden sent a harsh protest letter to the president today.
During his visit at Yeshivas Ponevezh [as reported here], Peres said, “I am [...]

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Parents of IDF Soldiers Bent Out of Shape Over Peres’ Remarks at Ponovezh

Santa Cruz, California. Jacksonville Florida. These are unlikely places for yungeleit learning in the kollel of Bais Medrash Govohah to be found, yet it is exactly where two very special couples from Lakewood were sent by Torah Umesorah’s Project Seed program. The impact they made in those respective communities is incalculable.
At the upcoming 66th Annual [...]

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Torah Umesorah Dinner to Honor Pioneering Young Seed Couples

Itamar Ben-Gvir and Baruch Marzel will be allowed to march through eastern Jerusalem neighborhood demanding ‘equality in enforcement’.

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Police OK Limited Nationalist March in Shiloach

American parents of pro-Gaza activist Rachel Corrie sue Israel for damages. Israel: Corrie was negligent, put herself at risk.

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Americans Sue Israel over Daughter’s Death in Gaza

The FDNY will be forced to close a staggering 62 fire companies and lay off more than 1,000 firefighters if the bad-news state budget becomes reality, Commissioner Salvatore Cassano told the City Council Wednesday.
“We would be very, very taxed,” warned a grim-faced Cassano. “Our operations would be impacted and every neighborhood in this city would [...]

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FDNY Faces Closure Of 62 Fire Companies, 1000 Personnel Layoffs

Thirty-eight civilians were murdered in the attack, thirteen of them children, and seventy-one were wounded. PA glorifies the murderers.

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32nd Anniversary of the Coastal Road Massacre

IDF Civil Administration inspectors on Thursday appeared in the Gush Etzion community of Bat Ayin, once again to destroy foundations of buildings as Defense Minister Ehud Barak zealously enforces the 10-month construction freeze.
In the latest round of government-sponsored destruction, foundations of six structures were destroyed, including a community shul. Inspectors arrived during the night and [...]

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Barak Continues Zero-Tolerance Policy in Yehuda & Shomron

Sources close to the state attorney general say that an investigation over whether Governor David Paterson tampered with a witness in a domestic abuse case against one of his top aides is still ongoing, and that it is premature to draw any conclusions.
The New York Daily News reported that investigators found that the accuser did [...]

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Sources Deny Report That Little Evidence Connects Paterson To Aide Scandal

British journalist Paul Martin, who was held by the Hamas terror regime in Gaza for almost a month, was released today, Thursday, March 11, 2010.
Martin arrived in Gaza on February 14th to give testimony in a case of man accused of collaborating with Israeli security agencies. He was turned over to consular officials.
Martin is a [...]

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Hamas Terror Regime Release British Journalist