Boro Park, BY – A Brooklyn man said the ASPCA all but forced him to stop the controversial tradition at his feather-strewn business yesterday. “[The ASPCA workers] were ready to call the Health Department,” said the man, who runs the seasonal “Satmar Kapparos Center” out of a parking lot at 12th Avenue and 48th Street […]
The days pass by in a whirlwind, as you dash from work to Yom Tov to family obligations. Busy as a bee, it can be all too easy to forget
As Yom Kippur approaches, everything we need in the coming year – health, wealth, happiness – is constantly on our minds. Of course, at the top of any parent’s list is the upbringing of their children. This Elul, Acheinu presents “An Evening of Chizuk and Chinuch,” featuring a fascinating video presentation of answers and hadracha […]
Worshipers were shocked to see swastikas and hate graffiti at the entrance to the Chabad Shul in Moldova. Congregants at Moldovas largest synagogue were horrified to find hate graffiti and
New York state Senator Eric Schneiderman prevailed among five Democrats to win the party’s nomination for attorney general. He will face Republican Dan Donovan, Staten Island’s district attorney, in the Nov. 2 election. Schneiderman, 55, captured 34 percent of the vote with 90 percent of election districts reporting, the Associated Press said. His closest competitor, […]
Chase is experiencing an online outage that has left millions of its customers without access to their banking accounts and services. The Chase bank website is down because of technical
Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino declared victory in Tuesday’s GOP gubernatorial primary, defeating former U.S. Representative Rick Lazio in the biggest surprise of the night. Paladino, a millionaire businessman who had
Volunteer firefighters were battling a raging house fire Tuesday night on Truman Avenue off Washington Avenue, the village’s main access road. The Journal News reported that one person was reported
Lakewood, NJ – YWN regrets to inform you of the tragic Petira of R’ Avrohom Chaim Nussbaum Z’L (70-years-old), who was struck by a car in Lakewood earlier this evening. Lakewood Hatzolah was called to the scene on 8th Street near Madison Avenue, and transported him to the Jersey Shore Trauma Center with head injuries. […]
[PHOTO LINK BELOW] This afternoon, thousands of boys from local yeshivos along with leading Gedolim and Rabbonim gathered at the Bobover beis medrash in Boro Park for the 16th annual Tehillim Gathering arranged by Tzorchei-Tzibur Haolami – a Misaskim Project, on behalf of all the sick people R”L among Klal Yisrael. The children recited several kapitlech […]
TheZone.org, the website of Oorah’s Jewish boy’s and girl’s camps, was attacked during the anniversary week of 9/11. The hackers left a message on the website that linked back to another site with the warning: UYARI: TURKISH INTERNATIONAL MUSLIM HACKERS and “Sisteme zarar verilmemistir. Aciklarinizi kapatiniz” (Turkish for “Shut down the system”) along with an […]
Dovid Gutshtein lost his pregnant wife, his son, father in law, mother in law, two brother in laws and one sister in the recent tragic accident, when the minivan he
[UPDATED PHOTO & VIDEO LINKS BELOW] The Presidential Administration has ruled out the possibility that the 10 Hasidic pilgrims that were detained in Uman (Cherkasy region) on September 10 were deported for religious or nationalist reasons. The presidential press service announced this in a statement. “The Ukrainian authorities consider the incident that took place between […]
France’s Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban wearing the Islamic full veil in public. The proposed measure was already backed by the lower house of parliament, the
Mayor Bloomberg slammed the city Board of Elections over problems voters are encountering with the new electronic voting machines, such as poll workers turning up too late, breakdowns and long waits to cast the new ballots. He called it a “royal screw-up” and “completely unacceptable,” reports the NY Daily News: Mayor Bloomberg Calls NYC Primary […]
A Silver Spring, Maryland Orthodox Jew’s claim that judges in the Montgomery County Circuit Court violated his religious rights by refusing to recess his medical malpractice suit over the Jewish holiday of Shavuos is now before the state’s highest court. Alexander Neustadter is charging that the judges considered the “efficiency of the docket” to trump […]
The High Court of Justice has authorized the Education Ministry’s plan to grant a request by parents of girls studying in an Emanuel school’s to open an independent educational establishment
If Republicans sweep the House and win key Senate seats in November, it’s not just elected Democrats who will be unemployed — more than 1,500 Democratic staffers could lose their jobs, with layoffs stretching from low-wage staff assistants to six-figure committee aides. While turnover and job loss is a fact of life for those who […]
Even as Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the proposed Ground Zero mosque, attempts to redefine his image as an ordinary American, he is reportedly being assailed in his private life by Union City officials as a “terrible landlord.” The Star-Ledger reports the new city lawsuit seeks to place two apartment buildings owned by […]
Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar said the security of Jewish sites in Kyrgyzstan must be guaranteed. “Berel Lazar has sent an urgent letter to the Kyrgyz government, requesting that Jewish centers be protected,” the rabbi’s spokesman Andrey Glotser told Interfax-Religion. Lazar’s letter, which was in reaction to a synagogue explosion in Bishkek, says that […]
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