It was an educational evening with potentially life-saving ramifications for more than a dozen Rabbonim from the Passaic area who attended a conference arranged by Agudath Israel of New Jersey.

Another top official has left the Democratic National Committee in the wake of an email hack last month that revealed embarrassing messages. Jordan Kaplan, the party’s national finance director for

A majority of countries on a U.N.-mandated panel on Friday called on the U.N. General Assembly to consider launching multilateral negotiations on nuclear disarmament, voting in a process that has

The following story is via the National AP wire and is unedited by YWN. It is headlined “Woman’s funeral had no attendees, so 30 strangers showed up”. ORANGETOWN, N.Y. –

A federal judge hearing the case of two former allies of Republican Gov. Chris Christie in the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal has ruled that recent filings are to

[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] In the attached videos currently viral on social media, there are two clips combined. The clips were taken in the past two weeks at two separate Satmar day camps. The first part of the video was taken at a camp affiliated with the Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, HaRav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum�Shlita. […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times Dayan Yechezkel Roth Shlita is one of the premier Poskim in the United States, and formerly the dayan of the Satmar Rebbe zatzal, Rav Yoel Teitelbaum. Dayan Roth heads the Beis Talmud L�Hora�ah Karlsburg which has a number of illustrious dayanim, and heads of the […]

Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned on Friday in the wake of campaign shake-up and revelations about his work in Ukraine. In a statement issued as he arrived in

An Orthodox Jewish man has been stabbed on a street in the French city of Strasbourg by an attacker reportedly shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’. The attack took place at about 11:45AM

A Miami Beach official says there’s been no confirmation that mosquitoes have spread the Zika virus in the tourism-dependent city. In a statement emailed late Thursday, City Manager Jimmy Morales

The city of Baltimore terminated its contract with a lawyer Thursday after a published report said he supported Neo-Nazi groups. Glen Keith Allen worked on complex litigation for the city’s

For the first time since declaring his presidential run, Republican Donald Trump offered an extended apology to those who may have been hurt by his caustic comments, saying that he

The following is via OnlySimchas.com: Jewish groups and Holocaust survivors are outraged over a bus in the Czech Republic advertising a satirical holiday tour of the Auschwitz death camp. The double-decker tour bus is emblazoned with the camp�s notorious sign �Arbeit Macht Frei� along with a Star of David and images of Jewish holocaust victims. […]

Despite the ongoing mantra calling on chareidim to �mainstream� by sharing in the burden by serving in the IDF and agreeing to include secular subjects in schools, when it comes down to it, chareidim in Israel remain unwanted and the target of discrimination in schools, the IDF and workplace. In its latest move, Israel�s Council […]

The New York Times is shutting down its NYT Now smartphone app because the company says it hasn’t lived up to its hopes in the two years since it was

A firm run by Donald Trump’s campaign chairman directly orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine’s ruling political party, attempting to sway American public opinion in favor