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PHOTO & VIDEO LINK BELOW: It was fitting that the staff and journalists present at last evening’s banquet in culmination of the 25th annual International Conference of Shluchim were seated on an upstairs balcony. The bird’s eye view of the proceedings downstairs was both moving and symbolic: most ...

VIDEO LINK BELOW: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani accused the Obama administration of "repeating the mistake of history" by bringing the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and his accomplices to New York for a civilian trial, saying the administration has definitively reverted to a ...

VIDEO LINK BELOW: Republicans are irate over the move to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York, perhaps within walking distance of Ground Zero. Yet Democrats - including some from New York City - are comfortable with the idea that the mastermind of 9/11 will ultimately judged by a jury of New ...

VIDEO LINK BELOW: A picture began to emerge Thursday of the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, 39-year-old Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. An owner of a 7-Eleven at Fort Hood said Hasan -- whom he knows as "Major Nidal" -- came in for coffee and hash browns most mornings, including the morning of the ...

Click HERE to see footage of the chaotic scene at the massacre in Fort Hood on Thursday.

VIDEO LINK BELOW: Major Malik Nadal Hasan, the US army officer alleged to have gone on on a shooting spree at a military base in Texas, is alive but wounded, officials have said. The announcement came hours after it was reported that Maj Hasan had been shot dead by the authorities after he allegedly ...

3:15PM EST: [ALL UPDATES IN EXTENDED STORY] At least seven people are dead and 12 wounded in a shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, the base's public affairs office told NBC News on Thursday. The official would not give his name nor additional details. It was unknown whether victims are ...

4:00PM EST: President Obama has been informed of the incident, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters. Click HERE for a video of President Obama speaking. DEVELOPING....

PHOTO & VIDEO LINK BELOW: As YWN Israel has been reporting, a special Israeli Navy force intercepted and boarded a ship 100 miles off the coast of Israel. The ship, carrying the flag of Antigua, was carrying 500 tons of weapons in civilian disguise. According to the IDF, the amount of weapons found is 10 ...

Click HERE for a video of Mayor Bloomberg taken this morning.

(VIDEOS & PHOTO LINKS AT END OF ARTICLE) Thousands of people converged upon the Bais Hakvaros of Bnei Brak the past two day, for the yartzheits of the Chazon Ish and HaRav Shach ZATZAL, whose Kevarim lie no more than 10 metres apart - and whose yartzheits fall out on the 15th and 16th of Cheshvan, ...

VIDEO LINK BELOW: YWN met exclusively with Rabbi Yehuda Levin on Monday, and expressed his views and opinions regarding the elections for NYC Mayor, and NJ Governor. Below is an exclusive video & two articles where Rabbi Levin slams the Lakewood Vaad for endorsing Corzine, and goes after the ...

Less than a week after yidden in Eretz Yisroel started saying "v'sein tal u'matar" the parched ground received its first dose of gishmei bracha. Though it rained for a few minutes in the beginning of the week, Erev Shabbos brought the first real rainstorm of 5770 to Central Israel. As schoolchildren squealed and vehicles honked, water could be seen flowing ...

Click HERE for video of the sounds of Torah in the Mir Brachfeld beis medrash towards the end of second seder at the onset of winter zman (Yehuda Boltshauser / Kuvien)

Marking the occasion of moving to their new building, Yeshivas Toras Moshe (Yerushalayim) held a Hachnosas Sefer Torah as they welcomed the Sifrei Torah into the new building. Click HERE for video & Read Full Story »