The Obama administration, aiming to encourage health insurance companies to offer child-only policies, said Wednesday that they could charge higher premiums for coverage of children with serious medical problems, if state law allowed it. Earlier this year, major insurers, faced with an unprofitable business, stopped issuing new child-only policies. They said that the Obama administrations […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Rebbetzin Esther Epstein A”H, wife of Hagon Rav Chaim Epstein Shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Zichron Melech (Brooklyn). She is also
Anyone notice how recent press releases are disseminated to the public during election season, with endorsements on behalf of “Jewish Leaders?” What exactly is a “Jewish leader” and how does
Brooklyn, NY – At an important ceremony at City Hall, Councilman David Greenfield presented Proclamations on behalf of the New York City Council to the four members of the Boro Park Shomrim Safety Patrol who were recently shot while confronting a known criminal. On September 2nd, the Boro Park Shomrim Safety Patrols Abe Kaztow, Abraham […]
All 33 miners trapped in an underground mine for more than two months in Chile have been rescued. Sometimes almost as quickly as once every half hour, a man climbed
Top legal officers of all 50 states opened a joint investigation into home foreclosures, saying they will seek an immediate halt to any improper practices at banks and mortgage companies.
On Sunday, Attorney General Candidate Dan Donovan met with Jewish Community Leaders from the Five Towns of Long Island and Far Rockaway. He was accompanied by State Senate Minority Leader
12:20PM EST: Rabbi Yehuda Levin, who introduced Gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino to the “Orthodox Jewish Community” has officially just severed his ties with the campaign, and pulled his endorsement. At
The mother of 13-year-old Sarah Erdan came forward Tuesday to defend the speeding teen driver who killed their daughter. He has been devastated by what has happened, said Pam Erdan, the Borough Park mom who lost her daughter Oct. 3 when 16-year-old Eric Hakimisefat crashed a minivan into a house. Hakimisefat sat with the devout […]
Gedoley Hador Shlita have released aKol Koreh against the IDF conversion track, while expressing support for marriage registrars who do not recognize former soldiers as Jews. A notice issued Tuesday morning in Charedi newspapers Yated Neeman and HaMevaser following the public and legal debate surrounding the legal and halachic validity of these conversions, claimed this […]
A fire broke out at approximately 1:30AM in the Kiryas Yoel main Shul located at 9 Garfield, spewing heavy smoke into the street. Moses Witriol, the Kiryas Joel Public Safety Director tells YWN that the fire originated in a room next to the Mikva, which was usedto storetowels and laundry. “Thanks to the quick response […]
Ever feel like you’re talking to a brick wall on Twitter? That might be because 71 percent of tweets get absolutely no response from the world. Toronto-based social media analytics
A federal judge on Tuesday denied requests for a mistrial from four men charged with plotting to bomb Bronx synagogues and ordered jurors to continue their deliberations. The defendants sought
Microsoft Corpissued its biggest-ever security fix on Tuesday, including repairs to its ubiquitous Windows operating system and Internet browser for flaws that could let hackers take control of a PC. The new patches aim to fix a number of vulnerabilities including the notorious Stuxnet virus that attacked an Iranian nuclear power plant and other industrial […]
11:12PM EST: The first of 33 miners trapped for 69 days in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground has reached the surface. Florencio Avalos, 31, a foreman, was winched to freedom inside a slim capsule pulled through the 28-inch-wide shaft that had been drilled to reach the mens underground refuge. He emerged to ecstatic cheers […]
The C-4 explosives recovered in an East Village cemetery over the weekend were made more than a dozen years ago, initial police tests show. Bomb experts with the New York
The Orthodox Union met with Democratic AG nominee Eric Schneiderman recently, a meeting that apparently was portrayed by an ad by a campaign sympathizer – though not the campaign, according
The second edition of an online al Qaeda magazine has surfaced with frank essays, creatively designed imagery and ominous terror tips such as using a pickup truck as a weapon
Sources tell The Post that the AG is demanding that the biggest mortgage lenders Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and GMAC Ally Financial halt foreclosures in the state
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