Google Inc said users of Gmail will now be able to call telephones directly from their email, putting it in direct competition with Web calling service Skype and companies such
A cabdriver was attacked Tuesday by a knife-wielding passenger who made anti-Muslim remarks, the police said. The passenger, Michael Enright, 21, of Brewster, N.Y., hailed the cab at Second Avenue
Brooklyn — Councilman David Greenfield hit a home run with his first annual Greenfield Classic, a softball game that saw Shomrim Boro Park Division take on the 66th Precinct at Gravesend Park last Wednesday, August 18th. Throughout the seven hard-fought innings, Shomrim Boro Park and the 66th Precinct played their hearts out for a crowd […]
New home sales unexpectedly fell in July to the lowest level on record as the housing market continued to suffer from the end of the homebuyer tax credit boost. New
The following message was sent to YWN by Baltimore Shomrim: As you all know our community was hit with hate crime(s) this past week. The Police Commissioner is coming to
12:45AM EST: YWN regrets to inform you of the tragic Petira of Mrs. Reva Esther Robins A”H, who was R”L killed in a car accident in Twin Mountain New Hampshire on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Robins, a resident of Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, davened at Rabbi Welscher’s Shul, and was beloved by her community. According to reports […]
The Mir Yeshiva in Yerushalayim has upgraded their generator with 2 fuel tanks. A special Liebherr mobile hydraulic crane with a telescopic boom was called in to lower the tanks
For the second time in 10 days, a Yeshiva in Lakewood made a decision not to reopen on the opening day of school. Yeshivah Keter Torah, an Sefardic elementary school,
The next time you order a bagel you may want to hold off on the cream cheese or other toppings. Under orders from cash-strapped Albany, state tax officials have begun
WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website that infuriated the Pentagon when it published thousands of classified military reports, said it will release a fresh set of documents Wednesday. The group posted on
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger last Thursday visited the West Bank settlement of Kochav Hashachar, east of Ramallah, in order to hand out award to outstanding students. The rabbi was
Sen. John McCain slid to an easy victory over former congressman J.D. Hayworth in Arizona’s Republican Senate primary election, overcoming early predictions that Hayworth represented the biggest threat to his
The judge who presided over Sholom Rubashkin’s fraud trial did nothing improper when she met with federal agents prior to the massive 2008 immigration raid at Agriprocessors, Inc., prosecutors argued Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Linda Reade was only told about a planned raid that would involve hundreds of illegal immigrant arrests, Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter […]
Officials in Moldova seized 1.8 kilograms (about 4 pounds) of smuggled uranium and arrested three of seven suspects, an interior ministry spokesman said Tuesday. Tipped off in early July, authorities
During opening arguments today, federal prosecutors outlined their case against four men accused of plotting to blow up two Bronx synagogues and shoot down military planes last year, focusing on
The U.S. Department of Education has named New York State as one of the 10 winners of the second round of its “Race to the Top” school reform grant competition.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver called Tuesday for the developers of the mosque near Ground Zero to find a new, less controversial location. Silver, who represents the area, said there’s no question the community center project is protected by the Constitution, but said “the sponsors should take into very serious consideration the kind of turmoil” felt […]
5:00PM EST: A Jewish woman was R”L killed in a plane crash in India, YWN has learned. Misaskim was contacted by a family member of Irina Shekhets A”H, after it
Detectives are questioning a possible suspect in the murder of Yoseph Robinson HY”D, who was brutally murdered this past Thursday night. The man police think is tied to the killing
Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) is calling on Mayor Bloomberg to withdraw his support of the Ground Zero mosque in the wake of the revelation of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s anti-American and anti-Western rhetoric. Rauf has been quoted as saying, “We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on […]
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