The following are Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s remarks as delivered Thursday night near 111th Street and 52nd Avenue in Queens “Number one, the car behind me that you see, damaged
The following is meant as a convenient review of Halachos pertaining to Rosh Yom-Kippur. The Piskei Din for the most part are based purely on the Sugyos, Shulchan Aruch and
6:35PM EST: As YWN had posted earlier, a massive storm ripped through NYC at approximately 6:00PM. Although it has not been confirmed, the damage can only be described as a
Over a thousand bochurim and avreichim participated in a massive siyum at the Mir Yeshiva in Yerushalayim, marking the completion of maseches kiddushin. A large part of the Mir Yeshiva
Hundreds of people gathered at the kever Yitzchak Avinu (which was open at night for the first time in a while) for an atzeres slichos leilui nishmas HaRav Mordechai Eliyahu
By Rav Aryeh Z. Ginzberg Chofetz Chaim Torah Center My favorite yom tov story is the one about Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, z’l, on the night of Yom Kippur.
Someone carved a swastika and the word “Jew” in freshly poured concrete outside Holy Name Medical Center’s emergency room on Grange Road late Wednesday or early Thursday, authorities said. Police
The Department of Transportation installed the first countdown pedestrian signals in Park Slope earlier today. When the traffic lights at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and 9th Street turn red,
Brooklyn — Councilman David Greenfield has requested that the Federal government dispatch monitors to random polling sites to oversee the November 2nd general election in New York to ensure the
1:00PM EST: [UPDATES BELOW] A man who shot and wounded a doctor at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, later killed himself and a third person on Thursday,
The Palm Beach Post reports: When Jews at Congregation Chabad-Lubavitch west of Boynton Beach gather Friday for the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest of Jewish holidays, they will be
On a recent summer day, Rabbi Shloime Isaacson received an urgent call: A 98-year-woman was having difficulty breathing. Isaacson was on his way to a meeting with a potential donor
One in seven Americans is living in poverty, the highest number in the half-century that the government has kept such statistics, the Census Bureau announced Wednesday. Last year was the
For over 75 years, the Rabbinical Seminary of America, popularly known as Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim, has been fulfilling its two-fold objective: to provide young Jews with an outstanding Torah education
A man was slapped with a parking ticket as he lay dead in the driver’s seat of his car, cops and family said Wednesday. Nicholas Rappold, 21, of Flushing, was
A former teacher at the prestigious Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan is being held Wednesday on charges he tried to send assault weapons to terror groups in the Mideast. Investigators
Knesset Member Moshe Gafni lashed out at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, saying it kept on ruling against Israel’s Charedi residents. “You know what we will do? We’ll stop paying
As the double three-day Yom Tov of Sukkos approaches, (with no Yeshiva World News to read…), Israel Bookshop Publications is offering a special 20% discount exclusively to YWN readers, who
The brother of murdered Australian Yankel Rosenbaum has expressed no surprise that his killer is lying in a coma after being stabbed in the head with an ice pick. “He
A three-member team of FDNY Emergency Service first-responders won a worldwide life-saving competition this month in Poland, defeating more than 40 teams from 16 foreign countries, the FDNY has announced.
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