A powerful, fast-moving storm swept through the northeastern U.S. early Thursday, making for a slippery morning commute and leaving some residents bracing for blizzard conditions and more than a foot
Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) applauded the NYS Department of Education for finally issuing an apology after this year’s Global Studies Regents examination featured a prejudiced political cartoon portraying Jewish soldiers
Israel Police representatives taking part in Safe Internet Week are concentrating efforts in Jerusalem in Arab areas of the city. “One of our goals during Safe Internet Week is to
It appears statements by Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman to cancel the draft agreement with yeshivos and cut funding as well has not intimidated the ‘Peleg Yerushalmi’ of the litvish community
The expectation of upwards of a foot of snow is bringing out the city’s heavy equipment. The Department of Sanitation expects 2,400 workers and 1,600 plows working 12-hour shifts across
Worried about the nearly 20 million people who buy their own health insurance policies, the Trump administration and congressional Republicans are weighing how to stabilize a wobbly market, government and
A century after the UK declared its support for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Israel, Jewish leaders from around the world and some 700
A man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday on charges that he provided support to the Islamic State group by helping two followers carry through on an attempted
Two Portuguese teenagers who wrote their names on a gate of the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau were fined and handed one-year suspended prison terms by a Polish court
A JNF photographer captured this marvelous site on Wednesday morning in the Hula Valley, 45,400 cranes and 11 famingos visiting the area. (YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem/Photo Credit: Inbar Rubin)
Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman announced on Thursday that he has begun working on cancelling the draft deferment agreement with the Grodna Yeshiva (Ashdod) and Yeshiva Ma’alos HaTorah (Yerushalayim) following
Germany has joined Jordan, Turkey, Britain and France in condemning the Knesset passage of the Regulation Law which intends to legalize over 4,000 buildings throughout Yehuda and Shomron. A spokesman
A new casino has opened in upstate New York for the second time in a week. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined other state officials and local leaders at Rivers Casino
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The operator of an electric mobility scooter was killed in a vehicular crash near the entrance to Kfar Chabad earlier Wednesday morning 12 Shevat. Magen David Adom reports the call
The Senate has confirmed Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney general in the Trump administration. The 52-47 vote broke largely along party lines and capped weeks of divisive battles
In a sign of improving ties, Turkish officials said Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and responded “positively” on two key Turkish demands that
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