Six people died in a large-scale traffic accident on Highway 1, between the Latrun and Anava interchanges, in which nine other people were wounded, one in critical condition.
In another victory for the non-Orthodox movements in Israel, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that converts through the Reform and Masorti (Conservative) movements should be allowed to use public mikvaot for their ritual immersion.
The rabbinic leadership of several hassidic groups has in recent days been stepping up a campaign to implement strict restrictions and conditions on the use of smartphones within the community.
There’s an Orthodox media mystery developing around the anonymous new owners of the muckraking blog FailedMessiah, and growing signs the site’s harsh criticism of the Orthodox community may be permanently silenced.
NEW YORK -“Only by breaking down the walls of intolerance and division can we prevent new conflicts and genocide,” United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said at the annual commemoration ceremony in memory of the victims of the Holocaust held at the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan on Saturday.
TOT regrets to inform you that the man killed in this mornings crane collapse in Lower Manhattan is an Orthodox Jewish man.
On Monday, January 25, Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz, one of the big philanthropists in the Jewish world, stood before the top rabbis in Lakewood, New Jersey at a fundraising dinner for the largest yeshiva in America, and delivered a speech that shook the ultra-Orthodox community to its core.
Erlau Rebbe Rabbi Yochanan Sofer, 93, was hospitalized Thursday at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem over concerns of developing pneumonia.
The FailedMessiah blog, run by Scott (Shmarya) Rosenberg, is closing after 12 years of serving as clearinghouse for news bent on slandering and destroying the frum community.
The grand rabbi of one of the branches of the Satmar hassidic dynasty Reb Zalman Leib Teitelbaum conducted a whirlwind trip to Israel Monday night and Tuesday, culminating in a ceremony in which he donated large sums of money to haredi institutions that refuse to take money from the state and instruct congregants not to…