The United States will not pay $60 million to a U.N. cultural and educational agency after it voted Monday to accept the Palestinian mission as a full member, triggering a
Officer cadets from IDF Base 1 were invited to a kabolas Shabbos ceremony last Friday night, Parshas Noach. A number of the cadets who are shomer Shabbat turned to their
A Jerusalem cabbie on Sunday, 2 Cheshvan, picked up two youths in the Sorotzkin neighborhood of Yerushalayim, and to his surprise, shortly after they got into his vehicle, they brandished
As I put pen to paper and contemplate a topic that�s on everyone�s mind, I�m left writing about the Gilad Shalit exchange deal.� As a huge fan of Israel, I needed to find a subject that is connected with the Holy Land! On Tuesday, the 20th day of Tishrei, the fourth day of Chol Hamoed […]
Gov. Chris Christie took to the airwaves this morning to talk about recovery from the storm, saying work crews are out in force to get the power back on. “From
There will be An Atzeres Tefiloh held tonight in Flatbush, bizchus Refua Shleima for HaRav Moshe Yitzchok Fisher shlita, the Mara DAsra of Khal Bais Yeshaya and Rosh Hayeshivas Derech
Four Arabs who rented an apartment in Tzfat insist they moved out of the apartment as a result of threats from local chareidim. According to a Walla News report, the four, members of Israel�s Druse community, signed a lease for the apartment in the southern area of the city, planning to reside there while they […]
MF Global filed for bankruptcy protection for the United States parent company on Monday, the first American financial casualty of the European debt crisis. In the Chapter 11 filing in
Acting on a growing fear that Israel will be launching a military assault against Iran without prior coordination with the White House, the US is seeking harsher sanctions against Iran,
Brooklyn �The Orthodox Jewish communities of Boro Park & Williamsburg are experiencing an unprecedented number of Shigellosis cases over the last two months according to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). In a typical year the entire city of New York, with a population of 8.4 million, experiences between 200 […]
[By: Nachama Ehrenpreis Meyer & Yocheved Orlofsky] How does someone fit a lifetime into 34 years? What if, for seven of those years, he lay sleeping?� For the thousands who knew and loved the� young talmid chacham, R’ Akiva Ehrenpreis (known as Akiva Shammai ben Ahava Rivka to the thousands worldwide who for so many […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the sudden Petira of Hagon HaRav�Don Ungarisher ZATZAL, the Rosh Yeshiva of Bais Medrash Elyon in Monsey. Rav Ungarisher suffered a massive heart attack overnight, and was rushed by Hatzolah Paramedics to Good Samaritan Hospital. He was Niftar a few minutes before 8:00AM, Monday morning. Rav Ungarisher is the […]
Moammar Khadafy is dead — and his unlikely pen pal, a retired Jewish florist from Brooklyn, never got to say goodbye. Louis Schlamowitz, 81, had been writing to Khadafy since the late �60s and over the years amassed a pile of letters and autographed pictures from the Libyan dictator. �He was a good pen pal,� […]
The new Iron Dome rocket intercept system intended to provide protection for the Ashdod area simply failed over the weekend. Officials state that the technical malfunction was detected, calling it
MK Dr. Ahmed Tibi on Sunday, 2 Cheshvan, visited Fatah Tanzim faction leader Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences in Hadarim Prison. Following the visit, the member of Knesset explained that Barghouti �remains unwilling to surrender to the Israeli occupation�. It is reported that Barghouti called on Tibi to keep the issue of […]
A 17-year-old seminary student crossing Golda Meir Boulevard in Yerushalayim on Sunday, 2 Cheshvan, was hit by a bus, sustaining a serious head injury. Ichud Hatzalah and Magen David Adom
The PA (Palestinian Authority) was voted in as a member of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in a 107-14 vote. The granting of full membership to the
Thousands of Rockland residents are expected to remain without power until the middle of the week after Saturday’s freakish nor’easter. An estimated 27,214 customers were without power as of 5
The pilot of a JetBlue plane stuck on the tarmac for seven hours full of increasingly angry and frustrated passengers pleaded for assistance from airport officials, telling them he “can’t
Yael Navon, a resident of Betar Illit, boldly granted Channel 2 News an interview to speak out against the bus gender segregation, unwilling to be subjected to it any longer.
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