Two eastern Jerusalem Arab residents, minors, were arrested by police on Thursday. They are suspected of recently smashing and damaging 25 tombstones on Har HaZeisim. They explained they smashed the marble to extract copper, which they sell for its value by weight. The magistrates court extended their remand for only one day, explaining they do […]
Rebitzen Leah AurbachA”H was niftar in Yerushalayim on Friday morning. She was the rebitzen of HaGaon HaRav Azriel Aurbach and the daughter of Maran HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita. The nifteres was quite ill during the past months, enduring many yisurim, which ended on erev shabbos kodesh in Shaare Zedek Medical Center shortly after […]
Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Major-General Benny Gantz feels in the coming decade, the government must work towards implementing a system in which everyone is compelled to take part in a compulsory service, whether in the form of military service of another arrangement but no one can be exempt from serving the country in […]
When the Churva Shul in Jerusalems Old City was being rededicated in March of this year, there was a bit of a political storm from the PA (Palestinian Authority), accusing Israel of trying to undermine the status quo in the Old City. Now that the ancient shul is operating, restored to its former glory, a […]
Manchester, England – YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira on the first day of Shavuos of one of the last remaining Talmidim of the Chofetz Chaim ZATZAL, Rav
Washington – On Mother’s Day, Chuck Schumer delivered two commencement speeches upstate, flew back to Brooklyn to eat dinner with his wife, mother and daughters and at 7:38 p.m. toted
Jerusalem Councilman Yosef Deutsch is addressing reports that repeated calls from residents of Adonaiyhu HaCohen Street, reporting garbage receptacles on fire were ignored for at least 20 minutes, adding the
The Wall Street Journal reports: Al Pacino, preparing for the role of Shylock in the Public Theater’s upcoming production of “The Merchant of Venice,” took his research into Brooklyn this
The Senate passed late Thursday night the most sweeping regulatory overhaul of the financial system since the New Deal. The bill, which passed 59-39, imposes more oversight and stronger capital
Gov. David A. Paterson is considering a new strategy in his effort to pass a soda tax, hoping to win over reluctant lawmakers and the beverage industry by pairing the
In a symbol of the growing anti-Washington sentiment across the country, Rep. Joe Sestak defeated five-term senator Arlen Specterin the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary and in Kentucky, Tea Party-backed candidate
Hundreds of Eida supporters took part in the Thursday afternoon levaya for the Barzilai bones after the Eida received permission from the Ministry of Religious Services to conduct a levaya
The president’s top intelligence adviser, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, has announced his resignation, effective Friday. Blair, a retired four-star Navy admiral, has served in the post since
Stocks logged their biggest drop of the year Thursday as investors worried about two events coming Friday a German vote on the EU bailout and options expiration. Plus, a vote in the Senate to end debate on financial reform cleared the path for a final vote tonight or tomorrow, which added another layer of […]
As June 25th rapidly approaches, a day that will mark Gilad Shalits fourth anniversary in Hamas captivity, Israel on Thursday morning released senior Hamas terrorist Mahmoud Abu Tir, who was arrested along with other Hamas ministers following the cross-border terror attack in which Gilad Shalit was taken captive. Tir and others are held in detention […]
The Eida Chareidis has decided to bury the bones exhumed from Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon; with rabbonim indicated no one seems willing to undertake the responsibility for doing so. A
A father and son from Toms River drowned Monday while playing with a remote control boat on a popular fishing pond, Lakewood PD tell YWN. The following statement was released
At a New York City Council hearing on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Councilman David Greenfield got into a heated exchange with NYC ACS Commissioner John Mattingly on the proposed elimination
Watch as Mispalilim in the Breuer’s Shul (KAJ) located in Washington Heights, NY, decorate their Bais Medrash for Shavuos. The tedious job starts 48 hours before Yom Tov starts.
Forty years ago, in the shadow of the Six Day War, the Editor of the Panim El Panim Newspaper, Shmuel Avigdor HaKohen, made his way to Williamsburg, where he was
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