A.K. (name on file), an activist affiliated with the ‘Yerushalmi branch’ which follows HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Auerbach Shlita was convicted on Sunday 8 Elul of insulting a chareidi IDF soldier during a tefilla in Beit Knesset Beit Yisrael in the Ezras Torah area of Yerushalayim. He is also convicted of insulting police at the station. […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has sent a public message to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) in light of the latter’s insistence on Israeli acceptance of preconditions prior to resuming diplomatic talks. Following is Mr. Netanyahu’s message. I am sure many of you have heard the claim that Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, the West […]
North Korea on Friday, 6 Elul, once again tested a nuclear weapon. It was Pyongyang’s fifth and according to reports, the most powerful. Israel’s Foreign Ministry issued a condemnatory statement, which follows. “Israel condemns the nuclear test conducted by North Korea. This act violates international norms and Security Council resolutions. The nuclear test, and the […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Senior Fox News Correspondent Rick Leventhal reported that Hillary left the 9/11 ceremony at Ground Zero with some type of medical episode and appeared to have
Rosh Yeshivas Kiryat Melech HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Yaakov Bornstein was not feeling well during Shacharis on Shabbos and transported to Mayanei HaYeshua Hospital in Bnei Brak, where he has been
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opted to use the open portion of the start of the weekly cabinet meeting to speak to the media on the anniversary
Councilman David G. Greenfield is hosting a celebration of the 18th Avenue Park reopening this Sunday, and will be at the park giving out snacks and candy from noon to
Bonano passed away last year from a 9/11-related cancer. Even 15 years later, it’s important to remember that we are still losing people to the attacks.
Gerbasi was just 26 on 9/11. His arm was almost severed by falling debris when the second plane hit. He was determined to return to the job and is still
The government’s homeland security secretary says the United States is safer now than it was in 2001 against what he calls “another 9/11-style attack.” But Jeh (jay) Johnson — making the rounds of the Sunday news shows — says the country is “challenged when it comes to the prospects of the lone-wolf actor, the homegrown […]
FROM THE YWN ARCHIVES: [VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] It’s a heart-breaking bird’s eye view of New York’s darkest day. As we mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a powerful 17-minute video taken from an NYPD helicopter on that fateful day surfaced on the Web a few years ago. Obtained by the National Institute of […]
President Barack Obama is joining the nation in remembering the nearly 3,000 people who died in the Sept. 11 attacks 15 years ago. The White House says Obama observed the
FROM THE YWN ARCHIVES: [VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Former President George W. Bush outlines for the first time in a new documentary how events unfolded for him following the 9-11 attacks. In the National Geographic Channel special, “George W. Bush: The 9-11 Interview,” the former President talks about the chaotic moments after the attacks and […]
Edmund Glazer even laughed quietly. He was a calming, logical man, a problem solver, an unassuming gentleman for whom swearing was anathema. Even though he was the youngest of four
FROM THE YWN ARCHIVES: The following are excerpts of a Wall Street Journal article, and re-posted from the YWN archives: FIVE FLOORS ABOVE, Shimmy Biegeleisen phoned his wife from his office at money-management firm Fiduciary Trust International Inc. “There’s been an explosion next door,” the 42-year-old vice president said. “Don’t worry. I’m OK.” After a […]
FROM THE YWN ARCHIVES: When the terror attack occurred, Avremel was fifty-five; his friend Ed, a quadriplegic, was forty-two. Both worked at Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield as program analysts on
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Many Relatives of Sept. 11 victims are marking the anniversary of the terror attacks at ground zero with grief, gratitude and appeals to keep the toll
[AUDIO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] It is exactly fifteen years ago when that moment in history changed the world for ever. Of course, when it happened, many of us knew we’d never forget that day. Yet time dulls even the most painful memories. It also marks the eights year that 9/11 will be recognized as a […]
The man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan has been released from a Washington mental hospital for good, more than 35 years after the shooting. A spokeswoman for the
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