UPS will increase rates effective January 3, 2011. UPS Ground services will increase a net 4.9% through a combination of a 5.9% increase in rates and a 1% reduction in

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Here is avideo of Rav Mendel Hager Shlita of Viznits, the son of the Visnitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak giving a Brochato Fran Becker (Francis ben Elizabeth), the GOP nominee in NY-4 against Rep. Carolyn McCarthy. To watch this video from a mobile device, click HERE. Have you checked outYWN Radioyet? ClickHEREto listen! (Hat Tip: […]

As visitors to YWN have noticed, we have launched the YWN Election 2010 Coverage. Our team of reporters will be bringing you the most extensive coverage available on the Internet,

Here we go again. Its that time of the year Election Day. Every year, Yeshiva World News receives emails from Frum Jewish candidates who have little chance of winning but ask for coverage by YWN. This year, because I have reluctantly accepted the role of YWNs senior political commentator, I have agreed to not […]

Below is a letter I wrote in response to A.S, which was posted Monday on YWN. Thank You Joseph Hayon Dear A.S. I would like to thank you for your support right at the most crucial moment in time. Please understand that I write this partial rebuttal in good faith. While I am also […]

Gaining strength as the campaign draws to a close, Republicans are poised for enormous gains in the 2010 mid-term elections, according to new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The poll

As people gear up to head to the polls Tuesday morning, YWN has all the information you need to make sure your voice is heard. In New York City, polls

An officer from the Lakewood Police Department detained a Hatzolah volunteer from responding to an emergency for the second time in the past few months. Officer Dennis Scanell pulled over

The man in this photo is poised to become the most powerful Republican in Congress if the GOP takes control of the House Tuesday. And Rep. John Boehner’s ramping up

Lakewood, NJ – Since veteran Township Committeeman Robert Singer last month announced he wont seek re-election, two candidates have battled to fill the void. One is a political novice counting on the nationwide anti-establishment wave to bring him a win. The other is a former mayor hoping voters still prefer experience over fresh blood. Isaac […]

With a rising number of children showing signs of food allergies in the United States, it’s natural to wonder whether something that happens during pregnancy may contribute to it. Unfortunately,

A Diamond District jewelry peddler is accused of acting as the lookout in a $2 million gem heist from a tony Manhattan antique center, police sources said yesterday. Cops nailed

Brooklyn - With Election Day just hours away, Councilman David G. Greenfield is making voters aware of their privacy rights and providing some helpful information before the first General Election with the new paper ballots gets underway in New York. I received numerous complaints during, and after, the September 14th primary elections, said Councilman Greenfield. […]

A Chilean miner will go from running underground to running through the streets of New York. A spokesperson for New York Road Runners says Edison Pea will take part in the ING New York City Marathon this Sunday. The 34-year-old from Chile ran up to five miles a day to keep his body and mind […]

Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations strongly criticized the resolution passed recently by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, in which it labeled Kever Rochel a mosque. The UNESCO resolution is an affront to history and to truth and to the very principles that UNESCO was […]

A nonprofit formed to create an eruv in the Hamptons has received preliminary permission from two utilities to use their poles in creating the symbolic religious border in the Westhampton

New York area synagogues were on heightened alert Monday, and some New York City apartment buildings were taking the extra precaution of not accepting package deliveries at all. This was all in response to Fridays discovery of an international terror plot from Yemen targeting synagogues in Chicago, CBS 2HDs Derricke Dennis reports. When something like […]

Former Governor of New York George Pataki today endorsed Buffalo builder Carl Paladino for Governor of New York. “We do agree on three essential Republican-Conservative core beliefs: the need to

Some 5,000 students have left Jerusalem’s Paris Square and are marching towards Zion Square as part of a protest against the yeshiva student funding bill – allotting millions in state

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