Eichler Appointed to Dayan Appointment Committee
MK Yisrael Eichler, of the Agudas Yisrael faction of Yahadut Hatorah was elected to the committee to appoint dayanim. Eichler was vying for the slot against MK Moshe Gafne of the Degel Hatorah faction of the chareidi party. Earlier in the week Gafne announced that he was withdrawing his name from the race.
The appointment represents a personal victory for Eichler, who succeeded in enlisting the required support. Gafne realized he has a slim chance at best of being elected for the slot prior ...
KOF-K Thanks Public; King Tut Issue Wrapped Up - YWN Reader Saves Public From Eating 'Treif'
The Following email was sent to YWN by the KOF-K
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Thanks to the call of an alert member of the public, who had seen last week’s article on Yeshiva World, the King Tut Halal fast-food truck, sporting an unauthorized KOF-K symbol was located on Tuesday, July 14 in Manhattan at Madison Avenue and 41st Street. Rabbi Yehuda Rosenbaum, KOF-K Administrative Director, called on Rabbi Mordechai Ross, a mashgiach of KOF-K who works in the area, to speak to the truck driver ...
Kerry Pushes Back Against Critics of Iran Deal
Secretary of State John Kerry bluntly challenged critics of the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran on Thursday, calling it "fantasy, plain and simple," to think the United States failed to hold out for a better deal at the bargaining table.
"Let me underscore, the alternative to the deal we've reached isn't what we're seeing ads for on TV," he said at the first public hearing on the controversial deal to lift economic and other sanctions in exchange for concessions of the Islamic ...
Jewish Arsonists Who Targeted Jerusalem Arab School Imprisoned
Two of the suspects in the arson attack on the Jerusalem Bilingual School have been convicted and sentenced to prison. Nachman Tuito was sentenced to 2.5 years in jail and his brother Shlomo to 2 years imprisonment. The trial of the third suspect, Yitzchak Gabbai, is still ongoing. Their actions were caught on a surveillance camera.
The brothers were also ordered to pay compensation to the school. Shlomo must pay NIS 10,000 and Nachman NIS 15,000.
It was clear the two were not feeling ...
From Highways to Health Care, Challenges Confront Governors
Money to repair highways, rising health care costs and controversies surrounding attempts to combat global warming are among topics the nation's governors plan to tackle when they gather this week in West Virginia.
The National Governors Association summer meeting, which runs Thursday through Saturday at The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, comes as states find themselves grappling with an array of issues that defy easy answers. Those include long-range funding for infrastructure ...
Double Tragedy in Beit Shemesh And Yerushalayim Thursday Morning - Two Children R"L Died in their Sleep
Tragedy struck both Beit Shemesh and Yerushalayim on Thursday morning 7 Menachem Av as two chareidi children died in their homes, apparently in their sleep.
The first case occurred in an apartment on Neria HaNavi Street in Beit Shemesh when the parents of a 10-year-old boy entered his room and realized the child was not responding to efforts to wake him. Ichud Hatzalah arrived and CPR was implemented along with paramedics arriving and performing advanced life support measures. The child was ...
Knesset Approves Affirmative Action Chareidi Sector
The Knesset on Wednesday, 6 Menachem Av, voted to approve an initiative sponsored by MK Moshe Gafne for affirmative action for the chareidi sector. 85 MKs voted in favor of Gafne’s bill after he explained to date, nothing has been done to address the discrimination in the chareidi sector. No one voted against the bill.
The bill addressed guaranteeing fair proportionate representative of minority communities in the public sector, compelling preferential treatment for chareidim towards ...
Border Agents Cancel Meeting With Trump and He's Not Happy
A local border patrol union pulled out of events involving Donald Trump on Thursday as the Republican presidential contender charged ahead with plans to visit the Mexican border to highlight his hardline stance on illegal immigration.
Patrol agents had planned to accompany Trump to the border and hold a meeting with him but canceled after consultations with their national union, the National Border Patrol Council, said Hector Garza, president of Local 2455.
The Trump campaign said in a ...
IDF Soldiers Attacked Trying to Make an Arrest - Terrorist Shot Dead
Security forces during the predawn hours Thursday, 7 Menachem Av, operated in the PA (Palestinian Authority) village of Beit Omar in the Hebron district. Soldiers arrived at the home of the Zamel family to make an arrest.
Soldiers came under attack when they arrived at the home, and one of the assailants tried to choke a soldier. Blocks and stones were also hurled at soldiers.
Soldiers opened fire, striking one of the attackers who died of his wounds a short time after. A second attacker ...
Unique Holocaust Era Kinnos
We are all familiar with the kinnos that are recited on Tisha B’av each year, mourning the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash and the exile of the Jewish people from Eretz Yisrael. Included in the standard litany of kinnos authored at the time of the churban, there are a number of pieces that have been added in over subsequent generations, relating to calamities that befell the Jewish people, such as the massacres that took place in the city of Worms, Magentza, among others. There are some who ...
Bush Blasts 'Swarms Of Lobbyists' But Once Registered As One
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush complained about "swarms of lobbyists" who hold sway over Washington, but he has accepted campaign donations from lobbyists, turned to some for advice and was once registered as a lobbyist himself.
"We will also challenge the culture that has made lobbying the premier growth industry in our nation's capital," Bush said weeks ago in Miami.
Four days later, Bush was in Washington for a fundraising luncheon in his honor. His hosts included lobbyists ...
The Kinah Of Eli Tzion
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times
Most of the Kinos we recite on Tishah B’Av were written during the Crusades. “Eli Tzion” is a kinah that has a special impact on many people. Perhaps it is because the same mournful tune is used on Mussaf of yom tov when we say, “B’nei veischa k’vatchilah,” but it is this author’s feeling that it is the triple combination of the remarkable words, the slow dirge, and the rhyme.
If any of the three elements were missing, ...
Obama Administration To Defend Iran Nuclear Deal In Senate
A trio of Obama administration officials will stand stalwart behind the Iranian nuclear deal despite deep concern on Capitol Hill that Iran will try to evade nuclear inspectors and use billions from sanctions relief to further destabilize the Middle East.
Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday are to pose tough questions to Secretary of State John Kerry, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew about the deal that Congress is expected to vote on in ...
Watchdog: IRS At Risk For Unfairly Auditing Political Groups
Lax oversight at the IRS increases the risk that political and religious groups could be unfairly targeted for audits, government investigators say in a report that raises concerns about an IRS division that has been under scrutiny for singling out conservative organizations.
The Government Accountability Office found no evidence that agents improperly audited any groups. But a new GAO report released Thursday says poor oversight increases the risk that agents could select tax-exempt groups ...
Cops: NY Prison Escapees Clashed On Cabin Stay Before Splitting Up
Two killers on the loose from a New York prison for three weeks disagreed over whether to hole up in hunting cabin, with one worried about being captured and the other suggesting they could kill or take hostage anyone who checked in on the remote camp.
State Police Maj. Charles Guess told the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh that David Sweat and Richard Matt spent two or three nights at the northern New York cabin two weeks after their June 6 escape from the maximum-security Clinton ...
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