The trial against Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian in Iran has begun, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reports Tuesday morning, after he has been detained in Iran for over nine months on charges of “espionage” and “acting against national security.”
Trenton, NJ – A Philadelphia woman who was arrested after she refused to answer questions during a traffic stop in New Jersey has sued state police, claiming troopers violated basic rules by arresting her for remaining silent.
U.S. President Barack H. Obama has Israel’s best interests at heart, believes his Treasury Secretary Jack Lew – but attendees of the Jerusalem Post Conference taking place in Washington this week weren’t buying it.
Four months after the Besheva magazine affiliated with Israel National News first broke the story of an eight-year-old “transgender” girl dressed as a boy learning in a state-religious school in Givat Shmuel, the saga is no nearer and possibly even further from resolution. Last week, when students returned to school following the Hanukkah break, parents…
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Journalist Zoey Tur, a transgender woman, has threatened Ben Shapiro, a right-wing political commentator who is an Orthodox Jew, with violence for publicly opposing social acceptance of transgender people.
At least 109 people were killed and more than 150 injured when an Indian express train derailed in northern Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, with the toll set to rise amid a scramble to locate survivors in the wreckage.
Former FBI special agent Clint Watts, testifying at the Senate Intelligence Committee’s hearing on Russian meddling in last year’s elections, had an arresting message for his interlocutors: “Follow the trail of dead Russians”, he said.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed and a third seriously injured in an accident early Sunday morning in the Golan Heights.
The granddaughter of the Puppa Rebbe, 22 year old Feige Greenwald, died suddenly today (Tuesday), Kikar Hashabbat reported. She was the daughter of the Rebbe’s son, Rav Pinchas Greenwald, who is the rabbi of the Monsey branch of the Hassidic community.
