The Pope told a Mass attended by more than 50,000 in England on Sunday that the world felt “shame and horror” at suffering inflicted by his German homeland in World
Iran’s loopy dictator, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is headed to the Big Apple this week for the meeting of the UN General Assembly. In the spirit of “peace” in his region, Ahmadinejad
President Obama is preparing to seek Congressional approval for a huge arms sale to Saudi Arabia, chiefly intended as a building block for Middle East regional defenses to box in
With praise and thanks to Hashem, the Jewish community of Northeast Philadelphia is happy to announce the formation of Philadelphia Hatzolah. The program has been formed utilizing a core of
A horrific traffic accident in Orange County has left at least six people dead. Seven other people were critically injured. It happened on the New York State Thruway, not far
The sudden blast of Mother Nature’s fury on Thursday lasted just minutes, but left a path of destruction across the tri-state area. The National Weather Service confirmed Friday that two tornadoes and a microburst struck the New York City area on Thursday evening. The weaker of the two, with gusts up to 80 miles per […]
The National Weather Service confirmed Friday that a tornado did indeed touch down in Ocean County, New Jersey during a severe storm that ripped through the area Thursday evening. According
Taken Erev Yom Kippur 5771, as the Gadol Hador, Maran Hagon Rav Chaim Kanievsky “Shlugs Kapparos”.
To our loyal readers, supporters, and dear friends: With the world in its most uncertain and unstable times, we would like to wish all of you a Gmar Chasima Tova, and may we all be inscribed & sealed in the books of life, peace, health, and prosperity. May this I”H be the year that Hashem will fulfill Kol […]
Hamas on Friday threatened retaliation over the killing of Iyad abu Shilbayeh, formerly a senior operative in the organization, who was killed during an IDF raid east of the West
Investigators in Britain arrested five men on suspicion of terrorism Friday and promptly reviewed security arrangements for the Pope’s trip to the island, authorities said. Some news reports said the
An unhinged man was nabbed for hatching a plot to rob a Brooklyn synagogue and then fight off cops with pipe bombs and guns, authorities said. Elias Narvaez, 21, allegedly
The following are Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s remarks as delivered Thursday night near 111th Street and 52nd Avenue in Queens “Number one, the car behind me that you see, damaged but fortunately the man who was driving it I’ve just talked to and he’s okay. He’s a bit shaken up. Unfortunately there has been […]
The following is meant as a convenient review of Halachos pertaining to Rosh Yom-Kippur. The Piskei Din for the most part are based purely on the Sugyos, Shulchan Aruch and
6:35PM EST: As YWN had posted earlier, a massive storm ripped through NYC at approximately 6:00PM. Although it has not been confirmed, the damage can only be described as a tornado, or something very close to it. In Brooklyn on the Gowanus Expressway, Hatzolah was operating at the scene of three overturned tractor trailers. Eye witnesses […]
Over a thousand bochurim and avreichim participated in a massive siyum at the Mir Yeshiva in Yerushalayim, marking the completion of maseches kiddushin. A large part of the Mir Yeshiva
Hundreds of people gathered at the kever Yitzchak Avinu (which was open at night for the first time in a while) for an atzeres slichos leilui nishmas HaRav Mordechai Eliyahu
By Rav Aryeh Z. Ginzberg Chofetz Chaim Torah Center My favorite yom tov story is the one about Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, z’l, on the night of Yom Kippur. The story goes as follows: It was the holy night of Yom Kippur and all the Jews in the town of Berditchev gathered together at […]
Someone carved a swastika and the word “Jew” in freshly poured concrete outside Holy Name Medical Center’s emergency room on Grange Road late Wednesday or early Thursday, authorities said. Police also took three boys into custody — ages 14, 15 and 17 — for stepping on and writing in the soft concrete, though they were […]
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