[PHOTO LINK BELOW] Approximately 300 religious leaders, Jewish community representatives and members of the service attended the NYPD pre-Passover briefing held Tuesday at Police Headquarters ahead of the Passover week
The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors Wednesday approved management’s request to move forward with its five-day delivery proposal and stop Saturday service. The USPS says that the five-day plan
Expanding its broad efforts to educate the Orthodox community about the intricacies of the law of the land, Agudath Israel of America will be hosting a Dina DMalchusa legal seminar for businesses, to take place at Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin, 2913 Avenue L in Brooklyn, Sunday morning, April 18, from 10:15 AM to 12:45 PM. […]
A decades-long crony of Bernard Madoff on Wednesday become the sixth man charged in America’s biggest Ponzi scheme. Daniel Bonventre, who joined forces with Madoff back in 1968, was accused
Hey New Yorkers…send back those census forms! That’s the message Mayor Bloomberg was trying to get out on Wednesday as officials learn the city is lagging behind the nation in mailing their census forms back. WCBS reporter Paul Murnane says the city is launching an outreach-education effort. Parts of Sound View in the Bronx and […]
The High Court of Justice has handed down a decision that is indeed a victory for Ashdod Chief Rabbi Yosef Sheinen Shlita in the ongoing saga of a bakery owned by a Jew for J, owned and operated by Penina Comforti. As was reported a number of months ago by YWN Israel, a lower court […]
The NYPD is once again targeting drivers who illegally use hand-held cell phones while driving, it was announced this evening. The citywide 24-hour crackdown will begin at midnight, as police
As the fires surrounding the Ramat Shlomo crisis between Jerusalem and Washington are extinguished, the final approval for the construction of 20 housing units on the grounds of the Shepherd Hotel in the Shimon HaTzaddik area of the capital was given, an area regarded by the White House as occupied East Jerusalem. The privately funded […]
The NY Post reports: The widespread talk in political circles after the extremely lopsided loss of the candidate he strongly backed for a Boro Park City Council Seat is about
The well-respected head of New York State’s Office of Homeland Security announced Thursday he is leaving his post for a job in the private sector. Officials said Thomas Donlon’s departure is not connected to the scandal that has rocked the Paterson administration and resulted in the resignation of five other administration and state police officials. […]
The FBI has launched a new website to help catch armed bank robbers in New York and New Jersey. BanditTrackerNortheast.com features security camera photos of wanted robbers and descriptions of
Eyal Gabbai, the director-general of the Prime Ministers Office on Wednesday visited Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon as the committee appointed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu begins its task, to investigate the facts surrounding the planned construction of a fortified emergency room for the hospital. Accompanying Gabbai were a number of officials representing the Ministry of […]
Dear YWN, Last week, my wife had a scheduled court appearance for a traffic ticket, and I was scheduled to bring her there. The problem is I was stuck baking
Despite vocal public opposition, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board approved a series of proposed service cuts in a Midtown meeting, which will spell the end of the W and V
Tragedy has struck the frum community of Nvei Yaakov, the petira of Rav Yitzchak Haas on Wednesday morning, with the niftar leaving a wife and ten children, the youngest being 4.5. Earlier in the week, the niftar celebrated the bar mitzvah of a son in the Nachlas Shmuel Hall. The rav did not suffer from […]
[PHOTO LINK BELOW] The driving rain couldnt deter the 150 dedicated volunteers yesterday in Lakewood at the Kimcha DPischa Fund of Lakewood Pesach distribution center.The all day event ran from 10 a.m. until 1:00 a.m. as the volunteers readied the Pesach packages and delivered them to more than 500 Lakewood families. The packaging took place […]
[VIDEO & PHOTO LINKS BELOW] Sof Zman especially following Purim, is a time when the learning in a Yeshiva sometimes takes a little dip, with the hasmodo (diligence) not as good as it should and could be. Prevention being the best cure, the Hanholas Hayeshiva of Yeshiva Ketana Adass Yisroel Melbourne came up with the […]
[VIDEO & PHOTOS BELOW] On the 2nd of Nissan 5770 Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger visited the Jewish community of Krefeld. He was accompanied by HaRav Arie Goldberg, Director
The NY Post reports: Shmura matzohs may look the same but they dont taste the same. Each major Hasidic sect in Williamsburg has its own matzoh bakery and each bakery zealously guards its methods and its recipe. But which factory produces the tastiest shmura (if those words arent themselves a contradiction in terms)? We put […]
NYS Senate Democrats want to legalize medical marijuana as a way to generate nearly $15 million in licensing fees to help plug the state’s $9 billion budget gap. “It is
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