Uber is letting passengers tell their driver in advance that they’d like a little less conversation, and more legroom, if they’re willing to pay.
The ride-hailing giant launched “comfort” rides Tuesday. Read more on Yeshiva World News
As a result of Siyata Dishmaya and the efforts of soldiers from the Chatmar Etzion area, members of two terror cells responsible for area firebomb attacks over recent weeks – near Migdal Ohz and the Tunnel Highway, have B”H been apprehended. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Twitter now prohibits hate speech that targets religious groups using dehumanizing language.
The social network already bars hateful language directed at individual religious adherents. Tuesday’s change broadens that rule to forbid likening entire religious groups to subhumans or vermin.
An Indiana man who killed his 3-month-old son was socked in the face by the victim’s uncle in court last Wednesday.
Kwin Boes was sentenced to 25 years for the death of Parker Boes. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Transportation Minister Betzalel Smotrich on Tuesday addressed the needs of the chareidi tzibur regarding public transportation, promising MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Yisrael Eichler his office would address those needs in a serious fashion.
A ticker tape parade to shower the U.S. women’s national soccer team with praise and paper confetti will start at 9:30 a.m. EDT in New York City on Wednesday.
It will be the city’s first ticker tape parade since the team’s Women’s World Cup win in 2015.
MK (Hadash-Ta’al) Knesset Yousef Jabareen publicly called to boycott Israel in a speech he gave over the weekend at a pro-BDS conference in London, KAN news reported.
“The international community has all the tools to deal with war crimes – to boycott settlers, to boycott settlement products, to boycott international companies,” said Jabareen at the Palestine Expo conference.
President says the two had a falling-out 15 or so years ago, 'I was not a fan of his,' offers support for Labor Secretary Alex Acosta's handling of sex trafficking case
Jerusalem – When Leor Jacobi visited a Catholic library in the German city of Mainz to examine its Judaica collection, he was surprised when library officials showed him three centuries-old Hebrew scrolls that had been sitting on a dusty shelf for some 50 years. Jacobi, a doctoral candidate in Jewish art at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University, [...]
Erie County, NY – A county clerk in western New York filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a new state law authorizing driver’s licenses for immigrants who are in the country illegally. Erie County Clerk Michael Kearns’ challenge, filed in federal court, seeks an injunction blocking the law while its constitutionality is reviewed. Clerks in many [...]
Washington – Joe Biden released federal tax returns and a financial disclosure Tuesday showing that he and his wife, Jill, took in more than $15 million since leaving the Obama White House — newfound affluence that catapulted the Democratic presidential candidate into millionaire status and outdated the humble nickname he has used throughout his political [...]
New York – Uber passengers can now get a more spacious ride and a less talkative driver — if they’re willing to shell out a few extra dollars. The ride-hailing giant launched “comfort” rides in dozens of cities Tuesday. Riders are guaranteed 36 inches of legroom in “newer” cars — meaning those that are under [...]
Albany, NY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced plans for a new Exit 3 that will provide more direct access to Albany International Airport and alleviate traffic along the Northway, both northbound and southbound. The new exit, which had been talked about for 50 years without coming to fruition, is a key aspect in [...]
Three lawmakers in the upper house of the British parliament left the Labour party over its spiraling anti-Semitism problem. David Triesman and Leslie Arnold Turnberg, who are Jewish, and Ara Darzi, who is not, announced their resignation on Tuesday. They will stay on as independents in the House of Lords. The party was no longer [...]
Israel’s 21st Knesset voted to disperse itself on May 30, just one month after its inauguration. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to piece together a government and chose to call for new elections rather than give another Knesset member the opportunity to try.
What does the new election—Israel’s second in six months—mean for the country?
According to Deputy Minister Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, while the September elections will come with a hefty price tag, their greatest cost will not be financial in nature.
Uber is letting passengers tell their driver in advance that they’d like a little less conversation, and more legroom, if they’re willing to pay.
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