Six passengers on the stricken Costa Concordia cruise ship filed a complaint against Carnival Cruise Lines, the parent company of ship owner Costa Cruises, demanding $460 million in compensation, the
Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli confirmed this morning that the 19-year-old man accused of firebombing a Rutherford rabbi’s home and igniting a small arson blaze outside a Paramus synagogue
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,
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
The following appeared in the weekly chareidi finance magazine Macro. An avreich launched a rental car company, offering vehicles by the day or hour. One such vehicle was rented for
You look at a meshulach’s ishur from Tomchei Tzedakah and it has stamped in red letters: “This meshulach may be using an unapproved driver.” You wonder, “What is that supposed
Muslim community leaders held a rally Downtown earlier today where they called for the resignation of Police Commissioner Ray Kelly over a controversial film shown to police officers that they
Mayor Bloomberg said today that he has “100 percent confidence” in Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. “Commissioner Kelly should not step down,” Bloomberg said. Kelly’s tenure as head of the NYPD
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