Yeshiva World News

Is President Obama Creating A Nation Of Dependents? (1 opinions)

If the Republican primaries are any indication, one big debate in the upcoming election will be whether President Obama is pushing the country toward a European-style welfare culture. Mitt Romney, for example, ...    Full Story »

Secret Service Reviews Possible Threat To Obama (1 opinions)

The Secret Service is reviewing the case of an Internet photo showing a group of armed young men in the Arizona desert standing next to what appears to be a bullet-riddled image of President Obama. "We're aware of it, and we're ...    Full Story »

TRAGEDY IN FLATBUSH: R’ Noach Foxman Z"L; Struck & Killed By A Hit-&-Run Vehicle On Coney [UPDATED 8:45AM EST] (6 opinions)

YWN regrets to inform you of the tragic Petira of R’ Noach Yaakov Foxman Z”L, who was struck and killed by a hit-and-run vehicle on Coney Island Avenue, Thursday night. The tragic accident unfolded at around ...    Full Story »

Holocaust Omitted From Russian Memorial Site

Authorities in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don have removed a memorial plaque for Jews murdered during World War II, replacing it with a monument which fails to mention the Holocaust or the victims' religion. The ...    Full Story »

Barak Calls On World To Stop Iranian Nuclear Danger (1 opinions)

Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Friday warned that nuclear weapons in the hands of the Iranian regime would lead to regional proliferation, the spread of terrorism and a threat to oil supplies from the Middle East, UK daily The ...    Full Story »

NJ Toll Cheat Violations Down Since Crackdowns

Violations have dropped from 9 percent to 3 percent since photo enforcement began to target toll cheats in the exact change lanes on the Garden State Parkway. Enforcement began in October, when officials increased the ...    Full Story »

Newt Once Again Says Palestinians Are 'Invented People'; Romney Says Obama Threw Israel Under The Bus (1 opinions)

Governor Mitt Romney said on Thursday that the Palestinians are not interested in a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, rather that they are interested in the elimination of the State of Israel. The ...    Full Story »

Hikind Takes On Romney Over Kosher Meals At Nursing Home (3 opinions)

Massachusetts - Mitt Romney is getting heat for a 2003 veto he cast as governor of Massachusetts to reject $600,000 in additional funds for poor Jewish nursing-home residents to get kosher meals. At the time, Romney said he ...    Full Story »

Bnei Akiva Leader Joins 'Protest Of Losers' (16 opinions)

A number of IDF reservists, high schoolers and parents of soldiers protested on Thursday morning, in what they called the “protest of losers”, those who serve in the IDF as the chareidim evade ...    Full Story »

Israel: Who Pays Monthly Elevator Costs on Apt Rental? (3 opinions)

A case came before the beis din of HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Eliezer Stern, rav of Bnei Brak West, concerning a dispute between a landlord and a tenant. The latter feels he is not responsible to pay monthly payments for the ...    Full Story »

Mazel Tov to Mrs. Puah Pamer (1 opinions)

A number of months after the murder of her husband and infant son, Mrs. Puah Palmer gave birth to a baby girl, on Wednesday night. Asher and Yonatan Pamer, 1-years-old HY”D, were murdered in an ...    Full Story »

FOUR MORE YEARS! President Obama: I'm Going To Win Reelection (4 opinions)

President Obama said in no uncertain terms on Thursday that he will win his reelection campaign in November. Asked by ABC News’s Diane Sawyer if he was going to win, Obama replied: “Yes.” He also told Sawyer he ...    Full Story »

Hod HaSharon Councilmen Address Shabbos & Kashrus (2 opinions)

Two members of the Hod HaSharon City Council have put forward a bill to compel stores to shut down on Shabbos and to ban the sale of treif meat in the municipality. The move received the support of dozens of gabbaim ...    Full Story »

Orthodox Union Protests U.S. Decision On Health Benefits (1 opinions)

Today, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America – the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization – criticized the decision announced late last Friday by the U.S. Department of Health & Human ...    Full Story »

Packages Containing 40 Pounds Of Cocaine Found At United Nations (4 opinions)

The NYPD and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) are investigating the discovery of packages containing 40 pounds of cocaine at the headquarters of the United Nations last week. A source told FOX News that the cocaine was first ...    Full Story »

Obama Downplays Brewer Tarmac Tiff (1 opinions)

President Barack Obama on Thursday downplayed his tarmac tiff with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, saying that media coverage has blown the tense moment out of proportion. "This is not a big deal," Obama said in an interview with ABC News's Diane Sawyer. Brewer, a Republican, greeted the president as he landed in Arizona on Wednesday and the two appeared to have a brief, strained ...    Full Story »