MKs (Yahadut Hatorah) Moshe Gafne, Uri Maklev and Asher Weiss visited Elad ahead of Rosh Hashanah, met in City Hall by Deputy Mayor Menachem Shapira. The MKs were taken for

With Rosh Hashana just days away, I find myself oddly at a loss for words. Those of you who know me well understand how rarely I find myself speechless, but

It was back in 2015 when the IDF already announced that due to budgetary constraints, it was shutting down the ‘Netiv’ giyur program that permits soldiers to convert in the

Flu season is about to start, and public health officials are worried that their recommendation earlier this year to avoid using the nasal spray version of the annual vaccine will

The response of the Director-General of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel is that the Finance Ministry’s report on the cost of kashrus in Israel “is cut off from reality”. The

The White House lashed out at Congress on Thursday, a day after Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly overrode President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill to allow families of the 9/11

When New Yorkers were interrupted this month by a cellphone alert urging them to keep a lookout for a dangerous bombing suspect, some may have found the message confusing. Why

[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel is doing his utmost to encourage the continuation of the minhag of kaporos, albeit without Chickens. Ariel said “Kaporos have been

Following yesterdays abrupt cancellation of a charter flight to Uman for Rosh Hashanah which left hundreds without a way to get there, YWN has received word of yet another cancellation

White House staffers, if you want to avoid a headache next year, take our advice and don’t imitate Bill Clinton’s team on your way out. We’re referring to transition pranks,

On Wednesday, YWN was first to report about a privately chartered flight to Uman that was cancelled just hours before its scheduled departure. Hundreds of people were left without a

[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Minister (Likud) Tzachi Hanegbi visited Kever Rochel on Wednesday afternoon 25 Elul to be mispallel. Hanegbi was accompanied by his mother, former minister and Likud underground

Sentencing has been rescheduled for an Ohio man accused of plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol in support of the Islamic State group. Twenty-two-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell pleaded guilty last

Russian officials accused the U.S. on Thursday of siding with “terrorists” in Syria, in a sign of escalating tensions between Moscow and Washington amid the battle for the northern Syrian

With early voting poised to play a bigger role in this year’s election, Hillary Clinton was urging voters in Iowa to start casting ballots on Thursday, more than five weeks