A San Francisco man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of making threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi because of her support for healthcare reform. Gregory Lee Giusti, 48,

Saint Vincent’s Hospital may be closing, but its emergency room might have a lifeline. The New York Daily News reports today that at least two health care companies, Mount Sinai

The Honorable Noach Dear has been appointed to the NYS Supreme Court last week, YWN has learned.The announcement was made by the administrative judge of the state courts of New York. Dear was appointed as an Acting Supreme Court Justice following his servicein the civil court system since being elected two years ago. According to […]

One of the topics discussed during the March visit to Ichud Hatzalah Headquarters in Jerusalem by Mayor Nir Barkat included possibly training city inspectors in basic first aid to permit

German police opened an investigation after a large swastika was painted on a memorial for the victims of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp in Hamburg on Tuesday. Officials believe the vandalism

Deputy Health Minister R Yaakov Litzman insists that until he read Ynet report, he too was unaware that the liver transplant patient he assisted is a member of the chareidi community. The case in point refers to a Ynet report carried by YWN-Israel in which Litzman is accused of facilitating the operation, pushing the chareidi […]

Republicans yesterday accused President Obama of plotting to slap a hefty new European-style “value added tax” on Americans after one of his top advisers raised the idea. “To make up

The APP reports: Last week, following a rising tide of protests, the state Department of Environmental Protection ordered a site where thousands of trash bags full of sacred Jewish text

New Square – A top village official Wednesday disputed the Hillcrest fire chief’s contention that 20 students were trapped inside a Yeshiva with padlocked or dead-bolted exits during a fire.

Prague – President Obama and President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia signed a nuclear arms control treaty on Thursday and opened what they hoped would be a new era in

Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:00PM IL: Partial lifting of gag order: Shin Bet Director Yuval Diskin told reporters that the case in point is a most serious security matter, one that compromises state security. Walla News released a statement that the suspect was not employed by Walla at the time the alleged events occurred, […]

The prosecution on Thursday morning requested a change of schedule, explaining to the court that the breaking developments surrounding the Holyland case, which involves Uri Messer, a star state witness

The High Court of Justice on Wednesday slammed the ongoing discrimination in the Emanuel Beis Yaakov, leveling a NIS 5,000 a day fine on Chinuch Atzmai for as long as

[UPDATES BELOW] Federal air marshals subdued a man who authorities say attempted to “light his shoes on fire” on a United flight from Washington Reagan to Denver Wednesday night, federal

The Pesach Yom Tov brought poignant news to the Satmar community: Rabbi Morton Friedman has passed away. Hundreds of mourners joined the Friedman family to pay their final respects and display their abiding affection at the Levayaon Saturday night, March 27, 2010. Individuals from every walk of life, including elected officials, NYPD officers, New York […]

Montreal – Police have asked for an in-house chemical analysis of a bar of soap with a swastika stamped on it to see whether it was made from the corpses

As many as 20 human remains may have been found by anthropologists and other experts called in to help search for and identify victims from the September 11, 2001 attacks.

In accordance with a recent experiment conducted in recent weeks concerning the distribution arrangements between the Israel Postal Authority and the IDF Home Front Command, a nationwide distribution of protection

News of what is being dubbed the Holyland Scandal is spreading rapidly across Israel, a case which some report involves payoffs reaching unprecedented amounts, NIS tens of millions, surrounding the

[PHOTO LINK BELOW] Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) and Councilman-elect David Greenfield were at the Boro Park Y urging the community to complete the 2010 census forms which were recently mailed

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