An IDF officer was seriously injured on Wednesday morning in a ramming attack on Route 443 between the yishuv of Beit Horon and the Maccabim checkpoint, near the city of
YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Mrs. Chaya Felder, the rebbetzin of Harav Tzvi Mordechai Felder of K’hal Bais Aharon (“Felder’s Shul”) on 18th Ave. in Boro
Two Newark police officers were in stable condition Tuesday after being wounded in a confrontation with a gunman being sought in connection with another shooting, authorities said. The afternoon shooting
An Arab man tried to force a Chareidi woman in her 20s into his car on a street in Tiveria on Tuesday. B’Chasdei Shamayim, she managed to escape from him
Two new polls have found that with just a week to go before Election Day, Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin is either barely leading or a smidge behind incumbent Democratic Gov.
The vast majority of Americans will find multiple options for health insurance coverage for 2023 on HealthCare.gov after open enrollment began Tuesday under the Affordable Care Act. People searching for
A chassan in Ashdod went to the polls to be mekayeim the mitzvah of voting moments before his chuppah. A video circulated on social media showing the chassan at his voting station dressed in his shtreimel and kapota. The chasunah is taking place in Bnei Brak. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
President Joe Biden’s education secretary has tested positive for COVID-19. Miguel Cardona, who has been vaccinated and boosted against the virus, tested positive Tuesday and has mild symptoms, the Education Department said in a statement. He tested positive the morning after he attended Halloween festivities at the White House. Biden and his wife, Jill, hosted […]
SpaceX launched its mega Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in more than three years Tuesday, hoisting satellites for the military and then nailing side-by-side booster landings back near the pad. Thick fog shrouded NASA’s Kennedy Space Center as the rocket blasted off at midmorning. The crowd at the launch site couldn’t even see […]
With Election Day just a week away, Republican gubernatorial candidate Rep. Lee Zeldin, NY-17 Congressional candidate Mike Lawler, and former NY Gov. George Pataki, met with various leading rabbanim and
Bucking the trend of nearly every major Orthodox Jewish voting bloc giving their full-throated support to Lee Zeldin, who has vowed to protect yeshivas, in the New York governor’s race,
North Korea issued a veiled threat Tuesday to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history,” an escalation of its fiery rhetoric targeting the ongoing large-scale military drills between its rivals. Animosities on the Korean Peninsula have been running high in recent months, with North […]
Russia reinforced its fighting force Tuesday with an annual fall draft of 120,000 men, and doubled the number of civilians it’s trying to evacuate in anticipation of a major Ukrainian push to recapture the strategically vital southern port city of Kherson. Russian military officials have assured that conscripts to be called up over the next […]
Exit polls in Israel on Tuesday indicate that former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies may have won enough seats to return to power in a nationalist and religious
Families of the 17 children and staff members Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz murdered cursed him to hell, wished him a painful death and called him a coward Tuesday as
I didn’t sleep last night. Or the night before, or the night before that. Every night, I go to bed exhausted and wait for sleep to envelop me. But it
The crazy is only getting crazier. Rapper Kanye West, who has caused a firestorm in recent weeks due to his insane antisemitic diatribes, now suggests that his “Jewish doctor” wanted
The vast majority of candidates running to become their states’ chief election officers oppose hand counting ballots, a laborious and error-prone process that has gained favor among some Republicans embracing conspiracy theories about voting machines. An Associated Press survey of major party secretary of state candidates in the 24 states found broad skepticism about hand […]
Around 40 years ago, Hagaon HaRav Avigdor Miller was asked at his weekly Shiur about an upcoming election where Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman was running for Congress in New York’s 16th congressional district. QUESTION: What can we learn from the election of Elizabeth Holtzman (Democrat, House of Representatives, New York)? RAV MILLER’S ANSWER: “We can learn that […]
The clip-on devices that use light to measure oxygen levels in the blood are getting a closer look from U.S. regulators after recent studies suggest they don’t work as well for patients of color. The devices, called pulse oximeters, usually snap onto a finger and are widely used in hospitals across the globe to help […]
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