NYC taxi passengers taken for a ride by an illegal fare scheme could get some of their money back. The Taxi and Limousine Commission says their goal is to reimburse
Following the failure of LibertyPointe Bank on Thursday, the FDIC has announced another New York bank failure, The Park Avenue Bank, bringing the 2010 bank failure total to 28. The
The Ministry of Education on Sunday ordered the closure of a Beis Yaakov School operating in the Shomron chareidi community of Emanuel. Municipal officials were ordered to see to the
Yes, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham’s opinion is important, as is America’s support, but this support does not eliminate Israel’s raison d’être, to serve as the homeland of the Jewish People. This right is indeed G-d-given, and one who denies this truly hasn’t claim to the land, for the UN Resolution accepting the declaration […]
Until such time that terrorists are released from Israeli prisons in prisoner exchange deals, many opt to avail themselves of the may services offered them, including completing high school diplomas
Several tens of protestors were on hand in the Nachal I’ron (Wadi Ara) area of northern Israel, the site of the planned chareidi community of Harish. The new community is planned to be the home to 100,000 residents, but protestors explain the move contradicts planning board recommendations and it will compromise the nature areas of […]
Vandals targeted a Holocaust memorial in Poland, situated near Krakow, spray painting anti-Semitic epithets. They messages were painted in German and English local media reports, including messages including “Jews out!” and praising Adolph Hitler YS”V. Today, Sunday, a memorial is planned to mark 67 years since the dismantling of the ghetto from which many were […]
By flooding the city’s 311 line with phony building complaints, someone has put thousands of homeowners in Queens under a state of bureaucratic siege. And while no one has been identified with certainty as the source of the calls, citizen investigators have pieced together enough scraps of information to draw the outline of a money-making […]
FIRST REPORT 9:00PM EST: (UPDATE BELOW) YWN has learned that two people were R”L killed just after Shabbos in Teaneck, NJ after a tree fell on them. According to highly
[PHOTO LINK BELOW] Saturday’s storm left behind a mess of downed power lines and trees in New York City. Falling trees did such a number on power lines that the
Israeli Ambassador to Washington Dr. Michael B. Oren was summoned by US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, who had harsh words for Israel’s recent announcement to construct 1,600 new housing units in Jerusalem’s Ramat Shlomo neighborhood. Steinberg echoed the condemnations heard from his boss, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the White House, and […]
Meretz MK Nissan Hurwitz was on hand on motzei shabbos, taking part in a Paris Square protest in Yerushalayim against mehadrin bus lines. They accused Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz
IDF forces operating in the Ramallah district nabbed Mahar Udda, 47, a very senior Hamas commander who has been on the wanted list for over a decade, a man who is linked to the deaths of some 70 Israelis. Some of the heinous attacks attributed to Udda include the September 9, 2003 attacks in Jerusalem’s […]
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rav of the Kosel and holy sites, has turned to senior Muslim leaders asking them to ensure the Monday evening re-dedication of the Churva Shul in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City passes without Islamic violence. In his request, the rav pointed out the Old City is a symbol of […]
Responding to weekend violence and attacks coupled with intelligence information pointing to planned Islamic violence, Defense Minister Ehud Barak has extended the weekend closure on PA residents until Tuesday, extending it for three additional days. Islamic violence continues to spread in the frequency and intensity of attacks, this time, blaming it on Israel’s announcement that […]
It would appear that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu jumped the gun last week after issuing an apology to visiting US Vice President Joe Biden and the subsequent announcement that “the political crisis between America and Israel is behind us”. It begins with the growing number of nations issuing condemnatory statements against the planned construction of […]
Last Sunday, YWN-Israel reported Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak underwent surgery to remove his gallbladder in a German hospital. He has not been seen since and this resulted in serious rumors throughout Egypt that their leader was dead. State officials however insist the rumors are just that, lacking any factual reality. Officials add the president’s condition […]
NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly warned Thursday that the city’s budget woes will plunge the number of cops on the street to the lowest levels since 1990. Kelly told a City Council budget hearing that financial constraints will trim the NYPD to a 20-year low of 32,817 officers in the 2011 budget. The NYPD would lose 892 […]
New York – The head of the Port Authority wants you to dig deeper in your pockets for the billions the agency needs to fix up its airports, bus terminals,
A Jerusalem Municipal Court canceled legal action against two avreichim, tenant and landlord, for permitting shabbos davening in the private home in the Kiryat Yovel area of the capital. The
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