2:00pm IL: The Jewish kehila in Paris announced that the city�s chief rabbi, HaGaon HaRav David Mashash ZT�L was niftar within the last hour after battling a difficult illness. He was 70-years-old. The rav served as the chief rabbi of Paris for twenty years and was a son of HaRav HaGaon Shalom Mashash ZT�L, a […]

Jack Abramoff wants his name back. But House Democrats own it and they are going to keep it. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee owns the rights to the Web domain name �jackabramoff.com,� having secured it in 2006. But Abramoff, the former GOP lobbyist at the center of one of of Washington�s biggest scandals in recent […]

Regional police, state and federal authorities in Germany will work more closely together to prevent future neo-Nazi terrorist acts, the interior minister announced Friday after a meeting with the justice

It appears the Thanksgiving school bus debate in Lakewood is calming as bus companies say they�re willing to send out drivers on morning routes and private school say they don�t necessarily need buses on the holiday. About 18,000 students � or three-fourths of the school-age kids in the central New Jersey town � attend Orthodox […]

A New Jersey couple who gave their three children Nazi-inspired names — including “Adolf Hitler” — said the state has taken custody of their newborn. The Express-Times reported late Friday

The school bus workers� union has threatened to strike as early as next week in a move that would throw more than 152,000 public school students and their families into chaos, city officials warned today. The strike threat stems from the union�s bid to secure from the city what amounts to lifetime job guarantees for […]

CBS 2 reports, that a bird strike forced a Continental Airlines jet bound for Newark Liberty International Airport to make an emergency landing shortly after takeoff from Panama City, Panama

Foreign hackers broke into a water plant control system in Illinois last week and damaged a water pump in what appears to be the first reported case of a malicious

Telecommunications giant Sprint has announced the launch of its Wireless Emergency Alerts program that will deliver messages from the federal government directly to millions of Americans as part of a system set to become mandatory on all new cellphones. �Wireless Emergency Alerts allow the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to accept and deliver warning messages […]

City agencies have submitted budget-saving proposals to the mayor, and the list includes raising ambulance transport rates, eliminating the city’s popular free nicotine kit program and hiking commercial parking rates,

Muammar Qaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam has been captured in southern Libya, a source in Libya confirms to Fox News. Saif al-Islam was captured along with two of his aides who

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said ahead of a meeting Friday with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak that he would warn his Israeli counterpart about the global economic consequences of a

They didn’t occupy Wall Street for long, shut down the Brooklyn Bridge, or win many new fans. And by Thursday night, the thousands of protesters flooding lower Manhattan seemed to

Religious and community organizations rallied and held prayers Downtown Friday to protest what they say is the undercover profiling of Muslims by the New York City Police Department. Muslims from

Arab workers have resumed work on an illegal expansion of a Mosque on Har Hazeitim, according to new evidence obtained by the International Committee for the Preservation of Har Hazeitim. The Jerusalem Municipality, headed Mayor Nir Barkat, had issued a �Stop Order� on construction of a mosque a mere ten feet from the gravesite of […]

YWN-ISRAEL reported last week that it appears the last phone call made by the late Mir rosh yeshiva, HaGaon HaRav Nosson Tzvi Finkel zt�l was to Minister of the Interior Eli Yishai. The rosh yeshiva wished to personally thank him for lifting such a heavy burden from the shoulders of roshei yeshiva, referring to the […]

Forty Republicans sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday pushing him to ask for Attorney General Eric Holder�s resignation. The letter, spearheaded by Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), highlights Holder�s role in the botched gun-tracking operation known as Fast and Furious, which was run under the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Republicans […]

The IDF Rabbinate is working to improving the standard of kashrus in the military, planning to bring most military kitchen�s to a �mehadrin� standard in the coming years. Today, the majority of products used have a mehadrin hechsher. According to a report in the IDF�s weekly BaMachane, mashgichim in the IDF will enter a course, […]

Con Edison wants a judge to give it the green light to evict the would-be developer of a controversial community center and mosque near Ground Zero, arguing he doesn’t have