JERSEY CITY, NJ – Two gunmen are firing upon police and people from a building on Martin Luther King Drive near Bidwell Avenue, injuring at least one police officer Tuesday afternoon. Police said in radio transmission that the the gunmen are shooting at anyone they see on the street, and has fired at the Sacred […]

Israeli politics remained stuck in a logjam on Monday, with Yisrael Beiteinu head Avigdor Lieberman appearing to rebuff a call to join a right-wing coalition headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White party number two Yair Lapid saying he would forgo a rotating arrangement with party chairman Benny Gantz.
Following a second round of elections in September after a vote in April failed to produce a clear winner, both Netanyahu and Gantz have failed to form a workable governing coalition. If one was not established by Wednesday, a third round of elections would be triggered automatically.
On Monday, a tentative date for those potential elections was announced — March 2.

Over the past 12 months, Israel has seen an increase in nutritional insecurity and hunger, according to a report published Monday by Latet, Israel’s largest nonprofit organization. An umbrella organization for many local groups and associations, Latet operates a food bank and provides monthly food assistance to tens of thousands of families.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday the Islamic Republic was ready for a full prisoner exchange with the United States, tweeting: “The ball is in the US’ court.”
“After getting our hostage back this week, fully ready for comprehensive prisoner exchange,” Zarif said.
The United States and Iran on Saturday swapped prisoners — American graduate student Xiyue Wang, detained for three years on spying charges, and imprisoned Iranian stem-cell researcher Massoud Soleimani, accused of sanction violations — in a rare act of cooperation between two longtime foes.
Separately, Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei said Iran had always sought an “all for all release” with the United States.

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An emotional scene, a real tear jerker, took place last week in countless hospitals in Manhattan.  In an effort to cheer up the bed ridden children stricken with illnesses r’l, three mechanchim took the time to visit the hospitals of Manhattan.  The trio included:  R’ Leibish Lish Shlit’a, R’ Yoel Klein Shlit’a menahel of Aleksander Cheder, and R’ Gavriel Bauer Shlit’a of the hanhala of Aleksander Cheder.

A high school teacher in Belgium shared a video on Facebook of an imam calling for a jihad against Jews and people who “conspire” with them, JTA reported on Friday.
Talal Magri, a professor of Islam at the Royal Agri Saint-Georges Athenaeum, 35 miles southeast of Brussels, posted in October a clip of an unidentified man saying in Arabic, “Those who cooperate, work, conspire with the Jews, Allah, take them without delay. Shake their bases and topple their buildings, Allah. Support the jihad fighters, whom some of us find excuses not to join.”

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Russia’s challenge to NATO and democratic nations, as well as Iran’s influence on the wider Middle East, remain two of the top threats to world peace, two former White House advisers to presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump said Tuesday. The comments by the two former Marine generals, […]

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the passing of Rebbetzin Chaiky Rubin a”h, wife of Rav Y. Reuven Rubin, rov of Adass Aish Kodesh in Manchester.
After living in Brooklyn New York, where Rav Rubin opened the very first frum school for adolescent boys with learning difficulties, Rav and Rebbetzin Rubin moved to England in answer to a call from the South Manchester Community.
In the quarter of a century of service of Rav and Rebbetzin Rubin, the community was transformed, and many people who lived in the shul’s proximity began their Jewish awareness under the rebbetzin and the rov’s understanding guidance.

LONDON (AP) — If Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn wins Britain’s general election on Thursday, he’s promising a remix of British society, with a strong emphasis on raising the lot of Britain’s disenfranchised and forcing tax-dodging corporations and wealthy individuals to pick up part of the tab. Corbyn’s key theme is that decades of unbridled […]