As Barack Obama prepares for his last Asia trip as U.S. president, with stops in China and Laos, The Associated Press asked six ordinary people across the continent, “How has Barack Obama’s presidency changed the way you view the United States?” ——— NGUYEN VAN NAM, 79, a retired mechanic in Hanoi, Vietnam: “Obama has done […]
There is a political storm surrounding remarks made on Tuesday 26 Menachem Av by Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich in his address to an Israel Bar Association conference in Eilat. Not too much time passed before Alsheich issued a clarification amid an awareness his remarks had offended Israel’s Ethiopian community. Alsheich was asked to respond […]
A Brooklyn woman who tossed hundreds of live crickets and worms on a crowded subway train last week as part of a video prank was arrested Tuesday. Zaida Pugh, 21,
With the increase of hostilities on the Russian-Ukrainian border in recent weeks, 211 new olim from Ukraine landed in Ben-Gurion International Airport on Tuesday morning 26 Menachem Av, most of
[COMMUNICATED CONTENT] Mosaica Press is proud to present Edges of Truth Perspectives on Life Based on the Writings of the Sfas Emes By R. Simcha Leib Grossbard Although the Sfas Emes al HaTorah is famously full of novel ideas, Kabbalah, and enlightening interpretations, its main objective is not simply intellectual. The ideas are meant to help […]
New York is expanding its medical marijuana program. The state’s Department of Health says Tuesday that it will soon allow nurse practitioners to authorize the drug for patients, and allow
What now appears to be a bit of muscle flexing by the Ministry of Education and principals of the ‘seminaries’ (frum girl’s high schools) may indeed escalate to a conflict that precipitates a strike of all ninth grades in the frum girl’s schools. Earlier YWN-ISRAEL reported the principals of ten girl’s schools from the chareidi […]
Hillary Clinton is wrapping a fundraising blitz in the Hamptons, where she has racked up millions during a three-day swing. The Democratic presidential nominee hopped from mansion to mansion in
Israel Police has been instructed to compensate a chareidi man in the amount of NIS 106,000 for unjustifiable violence used against him during an arrest, including the use of a
While the global economy will dominate at this weekend’s summit of the Group of 20 industrialized and emerging-market nations, politics and security issues form the backdrop to the gathering of
For a fifth consecutive summer, hesder yeshiva talmidim used their bein hazmanim to become certified EMTs in the hope of contributing in the future. the courses are sponsored by Magen
Seventy years after the most daring attempt of Jewish Holocaust survivors to seek revenge, the leader of the plot has only one simple regret — that to his knowledge he didn’t actually kill any Nazis. Joseph Harmatz is one of the few remaining Jewish “Avengers” who carried out a mass poisoning of former SS men […]
The police dispatcher on Tuesday night 26 Menachem Av received a call from a bus driver after he found a girl on the bus as he checked the vehicle at
The Islamic State group’s spokesman and chief strategist, who laid out the blueprint for the extremist group’s attacks against the West, has been killed while overseeing operations in northern Syria,
Leaders of the chareidi factions in Knesset, Ministers Aryeh Deri and Yaakov Litzman and Moshe Gafne, met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday 26 Menachem Av to discuss the
President Enrique Pena Nieto awoke to a storm of criticism from Mexicans over his decision to meet Wednesday with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who is widely reviled in Mexico
A wildfire that tore through brush east of Los Angeles forced 700 people from their homes for several hours Tuesday and destroyed a small building, officials said. The fast-moving fire
Three people were killed and 11 injured Wednesday when an apparent high-speed, two-car crash triggered another collision of four more vehicles on the Long Island Expressway in Queens. The three
Parents of children in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Maalot Daphne are threatening to begin the new school year with a strike after the decision was made by the city to
Five kayakers were injured Tuesday when they were struck by a ferry departing a Manhattan pier and tossed into the Hudson River, police said. It happened just before 6 p.m.
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