With COVID-19 cases spiking, New York City officials said Wednesday they’re opening more testing sites and restricting visiting at city-run hospitals and jails — but having crowds in Times Square for New Year’s Eve is still a go, for now. Mayor Bill de Blasio said no decision had been made on banning people from the […]
Recent polls have confirmed what has been apparent to many political analysts for months: Americans are becoming increasingly fed up with President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress. In a
A large and growing number of NYPD officers are out sick with Covid-19 infections, with over 2,700 officers – some 8% percent of the police force – having become infected
בס”Jerusalem Estates’ Central Road Officially Named by City Municipality We are happy to announce that we have received official recognition from the city municipality, with the formal naming of the
The Covid-19 pandemic may have just met its match. Scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research are expected to announce within weeks that they have successfully developed a
The pipeline is built and being filled with natural gas. But Russia’s Nord Stream 2 faces a rocky road before any gas flows to Germany, with its new leaders adopting a more skeptical tone toward the project and tensions ratcheting up over Russia’s troop buildup at the Ukrainian border. The pipeline opposed by Ukraine, Poland […]
Readers’ hearts and minds were captured this week by the devastating story of a young frum father who is in serious danger. According to a letter from Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein
A chilling story was told at the shiva of Pnina Moskowitz, z’l, of Ashdod, a mother of 16 children who passed away several days ago at the age of 66
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose for the third straight month in November, reflecting strong demand, low mortgage rates and intense competition for a relatively few number of properties
Some Israelis are feeling a sense of déjà vu in recent days as the government implements more and more restrictions against the Omicron variant, stirring memories of the days when the pandemic first began. One phenomenon that occurred during those early days of the pandemic was that of international shidduchim being finalized in countries outside […]
As left-wing Democrats direct their venomous anger at Senator Joe Manchin over his unwillingness to support President Joe Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ spending bonanza, a growing number of Republicans are
China on Wednesday ordered the lockdown of as many as 13 million people in neighborhoods and workplaces in the northern city of Xi’an following a spike in coronavirus cases, setting off panic buying just weeks before the country hosts the Winter Olympic Games. State media reported that city officials ordered all residents to stay home […]
U.S. consumer confidence rose this month as Americans shrugged off concerns about rising prices and COVID’-19?s highly contagious omicron variant. The Conference Board, a business research group, said Wednesday that its consumer confidence index — which takes into account consumers’ assessment of current conditions and the their outlook for the future — rose to 115.8 […]
As Israel experiences the third day of the Carmel storm, with cold temperatures, strong winds, rain, and thunder and lightning, the flame of Torah continues to burn brightly. Thunder hit a power line on Tuesday night in Bnei Brak, cutting off the electricity for thousands of families and many mosdos, including Yeshivah Ponevezh. Rosh Yeshivas Ponevezh […]
CityMD, the chain of urgent care clinics drawing long lines for COVID-19 testing, is temporarily closing 13 locations in New York City, saying it’s doing so “to preserve our ability to staff our sites.” The closures, effective Wednesday, include four clinics in Manhattan and three each in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. Three locations in […]
Rabbi Nechemya Malinowitz, head of the Igud of Yeshivas and Seminaries tells YWN that he has just been notified by the Israeli Airport Authorities of the following breaking news. Any
As YWN has been reporting, family members of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky have recently been subject to death threats, curses and insults from anti-vaxxers. Anti-vaxxer women came to the kabalas kahal of Rav Chaim’s daughter, Rebbetzin Leah Koledetsky, and called her a “murderer” and other derogatory terms and said they won’t leave until the Rebbetzin […]
The Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday the discovery of remnants of two shipwrecks off the Mediterranean coast, replete with a sunken trove of hundreds Roman and medieval silver coins. The
President Joe Biden appears determined to return to the negotiating table with Sen. Joe Manchin, the holdout Democrat who effectively tanked the party’s signature $2 trillion domestic policy initiative with his own jarring year-end announcement. But Republicans are voicing greater confidence now that they can beat back much of what they don’t like in the […]
President Joe Biden has once again raised eyebrows – and questions – about his health after he repeatedly coughed through a Tuesday address in which he announced the White House’s
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