Once again tragedy has struck Boro Park…. YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of11-year-old Boruch Mordechai Berliner A”H, who was struck by a vehicle in Boro Park this past Thursday evening. As YWN has reported, the young boy was R”L struck be a vehicle on 20th Avenue and 53rd Street just before 7:00PM […]
Three attempts to pump mud and 16 tries to stuff solid material into a breached Gulf of Mexico oil well failed to stop the flow, top BP executives said Saturday,
In his fiercest defense yet of the mosque proposed near Ground Zero, Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday that it must be allowed to proceed because the government “shouldn’t be in the
The following is a Fox News report: Like an aging sports star who can’t stay away from the game, Bill Clinton’s direct role in the firestorm over President Obama’s job
Attorneys for thousands of sickened 9/11 workers wrote a letter to a judge saying they would cut their share of the massive settlement, which has been held up in courts
State troopers patrolling the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway last month wrote about 50 percent more traffic tickets than they did the previous April. The tickets are being written in the name of safety not revenue, according to a State Police spokesman, who added that any increases in summonses are part of […]
Four children’s cough and cold medicines made at a Johnson & Johnson plant shuttered because of manufacturing problems were recalled Friday, a month after different kids’ medicines made at the
More than 200 emergency medical technicians, firefighters and police officers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire may have to surrender their licenses after an investigation into falsified EMT course completion certificates,
Edison, NJ – Township police chaplain Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg, who was terminated from the paid position Thursday, said he plans to hold a demonstration outside town hall to protest his
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Opposition leader Tzipi Livni, who of late has not hesitated to express her disdain for chareidi Jewry on Thursday, went on another self-righteous tirade. She slammed the ignorance of the
A number of prominent Bnei Brak rabbonim shlita came out against the violent protests that spread to the Torah city this week. Signing the kol korei condemning the violence were HaGaon HaRav Nissim Karelitz Shlita, HaGaon HaRav Moshe Yehuda Leib Landau Shlita, HaGaon HaRav Shimon Baadani Shlita, and HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Halevy Wosner Shlita. Their […]
Submitted to YWN by Rabbi Gershon Bess; Rov Congregation Kehilas Yaakov, Los Angeles with the permission of HoRav Elyashiv Shlita. As a Rov of a Kehillah, I generally refrain from disseminating a halachic issue, which should be discussed in the Bais Medrash with the sole purpose of Asukay Shmaatzah Alibah DHilchoso, on the internet. However, […]
[Op-Ed By Yossi Gestetner] Contrary to what some in the Orthodox Jewish/Hasidic communities have come to believe that Republicans are out of touch with our daily needs, the Republican and Conservative agenda on a host of issues, do indeed serve Jews very well on a daily basis. Here are some examples: 1) Private schooling, from […]
Expect to see even more people on the roads if you’re headed out of town this Memorial Day Weekend. AAA says about 28 million Americans will be driving more than
The following is a Wall Street Journal article: To dial up the best cellphone service in New York, try the Lincoln Tunnel. Seriously. It’s wired, and there are fewer dropped
The following is a Washington Post exclusive report: Senior White House advisers asked former President Bill Clinton to talk to Joe Sestak about whether he was serious about running for
The busy Memorial Day holiday is almost here. If you speed, drink and drive, or commit other offenses you better watch out. New Jersey state troopers will be out in
It appears the growing boycott by the chareidi community against the Electra Company may have succeeded in persuading the company to seek a solution surrounding the excavations in Jaffa. YWN-Israel
Quebec’s education ministry has obtained a court injunction to shut down a private Jewish school in Montreal for not maintaining scholastic standards. The Acadmie Yeshiva Toras Moshe has offered an extensive religious education to Jewish boys in Montreal’s tony Outremont neighbourhood for half a century. The yeshiva receives no provincial funding and does not hold […]
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