Large numbers of religious IDF soldiers have had requests to have a beard while serving denied in recent weeks, ahead of a new directive from the IDF Manpower directorate which will make it more difficult to obtain permission to grow a beard.
An image released Sunday appears to show an Israeli-made drone flying over Syria. Israel Air Industries (IAI) sold the same model of drones to Russia, which may explain the aircraft’s presence in the country.
A police officer shot a 16-year-old boy when he refused to drop the broomstick he was holding in Salt Lake City last night.
Recently, questions about the Reform movement and its demand for full religious recognition (at the Western Wall, regarding access to state-funded ritual baths [mikva’ot] to perform conversions, and with regard to chaplaincy in the IDF) have resurfaced.
There is nothing in your life as close to you as your iPhone that is so tragically underutilized. It’s a sad truth that even the most savvy iPhone owners out there must come to terms with.
Vermont Senator and self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders has tapped retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson as a foreign policy adviser for the dark horse candidate’s presidential campaign.
Pope Francis’s secretary, 34-year-old Miriam Wuolou of Eritrea, was found dead earlier this week and the Vatican is calling foul.
A Virginia police officer who was on her first shift with a department was shot and killed Saturday and two other officers were wounded in a standoff stemming from a call about a domestic-related incident.