New York City Fire Department officials are telling children it is time to change the batteries in their homes’ smoke alarms, with the return of Daylight Standard Time. Daylight Saving

A private bill calling to raise workers’ salary by 350% on Saturdays was presented by Knesset members on Monday in attempt to prevent working on Shabbos. The bill proposes fighting

Lakewood, NJ – One person was killed in a four-car accident that happened about 4 p.m. Shabbos afternoon police said. One person involved in the accident was airlifted to Jersey

When Israeli solider Gadi Yarkoni lost his sight in Lebanon 15 years ago, it only took a short time before he decided he wasn’t going to live in the dark anymore. “After I got blind, ten months after it I said to my wife and my friends, I said, ‘I need a guide dog because […]

A man was shot by a police officer this morning, shortly after he allegedly broke the windshield of a police car in Brooklyn. An on-duty New York City Police Department officer saw the man smash a cobblestone into the windshield and driver’s-side window of a police car, which was parked in front of a NYPD […]

Keith Olbermann, MSNBC’s primetime firebrand host, has been suspended indefinitely for violating the ethics policies of his employer earlier this year when he donated to three Democrats seeking federal office,

Imagine having to wait more than an hour for an ambulance to show up in a medical emergency, or being told that you can’t stay with your three-year-old child at the emergency room. Such is the state of emergency medical care in Moscow, leading the city’s Jewish community to muster its resources in support of […]

President Barack Obama will not be protected by a vast armada of 34 US warships when he visits Mumbai this weekend, officials said, calling reports from India on security preparations

Sources tell YWN, that the bomb squad in Yerushalayim is confirming a suspicious device to be explosive. The drama unfolded on Friday afternoon, when someone called the police for a

Don’t forget to “fall back” and check smoke detectors this weekend. On Sunday, Nov. 7 at 2 a.m., time will revert back to standard, giving everyone an extra hour to sleep in. Since 2007, the time change has reverted to standard time on the first Sunday of November and changed to daylight savings time on the […]

The following is from the NY Daily News: Does the thought of bacon soda turn your stomach? Wait until you try it. A parade of New Yorkers grimaced and retched after sips of the pig-inspired pop unveiled by Jones Soda Co. – or just at the sound of it. “That tastes disgusting,” griped Tyrone Wallace, 26, […]

Leumi, Israel’s biggest bank, is requiring US clients to declare their deposits to the Internal Revenue Service, amid heightened scrutiny of offshore accounts by US authorities. The bank is asking

The Mexico Police said Friday that two suspects have been arrested in the murder of Israeli businessman Moshe Aroch and his daughter Sapir in their apartment in Mexico City last

The Canada Border Services Agency calls it an “unbelievable case of concealment.” The federal border services agency is investigating after a passenger allegedly boarded an Air Canada flight from Hong

The following is a NY Post exclusive: NYC Yellow-cab fleet owners want a whopping fare increase that would boost the price of a cab ride by 19 percent and increase the base fare to $3 — in the same year the MTA is set to hike subway and bus fares. If approved by the Taxi and […]

In the wake of Tuesday’s shellacking, outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, has been widely expected to step down as the Democratic leader and leave Congress. Not so