The following is a letter from the Director of the Center for Applied Psychology (CAPs) at Bikur Cholim (Rockland County) to staff members and other members of the community. I, as all of you, was deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the horrific events of the past days.� Unfortunately, the acts of violence that […]

Everyone is horrified by the events of the past two days and that a young child walking home could be abducted and murdered.� How do we explain this to our children?� How do we help them, and for that matter ourselves, make sense of this?� � It is important to have an age-appropriate conversation with […]

Brooklyn loner Levi Aron gave people the creeps long before he was charged with slaughtering an innocent child. The 35-year-old plumbing-supply store stockboy made his neighbors’ skin crawl with the

They are the road rules of parenting, the self-defense tips of childhood, the maxims passed down for generations: Don�t talk to strangers. Don�t sit in the last car of the subway train. If you are lost, look for someone in a uniform. If something bad happens, scream! Every day, parents put their faith in those […]

WARNING – GRAPHIC: Hardware store clerk Levi Aron, who was charged Wednesday night with brutally murdering 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, gave cops a chilling confession, describing in graphic detail how he suffocated the child with a bath towel and carved up the body in a �panic.� Leiby vanished early Monday evening while walking home from a […]

Foreclosure filings fell dramatically during the first half of the year as processing delays at the banks, which are strapped with excess inventory of repossessed homes, continued to skew the

Statement from Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes Following the vicious and callous murder and dismemberment of eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky, I have assigned two Senior Trial Assistants from the

There are many emails being sent around regarding the Levaya of Leiby Kletzky A”H, all with incorrect times. YWN has spoken with the Misaskim Organization, who has been tasked with coordinating the Levaya along with the NYPD, and they state that the Levaya�will take place at 8:30PM on 16th Avenue and 56th Street. Besuros Tovos. […]

[PHOTO LINK BELOW] The Ulster County Sheriff�s Office and Catskills Hatzalah have just cancelled the search for a missing 14-year-old Yeshiva Bochur who was attending Spinka Camp in Dairyland. The boy, a Brooklyn yeshiva student, was last seen at 10 p.m. Tuesday at the camp on Milk Road. he was found in the Staten island […]

Police believe Leibby Kletzky, who would have turned 9 this month and was not used to walking home alone, had gotten lost and asked the suspect, Levi Aron, for help.

The body of Leiby Keletzky was found at two locations in Brooklyn this morning and police arrested a suspect in the slaying who had part of the child in his

Texting or using handheld electronics like cell phones and Blackberries while driving is against the law, and as of Tuesday, it�s enough to get motorists pulled over and ticketed. �This bill will save lives, period,� said Governor Andrew Cuomo, who signed legislation to crack down on drivers using electronics. The wife and children of a […]

[By Tevi Troy] Secure America Now has just released a new poll showing that only 43 percent of Jews plan to vote to reelect Obama in 2012. If this holds, it would be a considerable drop from the 78 percent of the Jewish vote Obama received in 2008, and from the standard 75�80 percent of […]

This morning we learned of the shocking death of Leibby Kletzky. Our heart goes out to the entire Kletzy family as they grapple with the loss of their innocent child.