The Hirschman family is facing a moment of both great joy and overwhelming challenge. Their daughter’s wedding is fast approaching, yet the weight of years of severe medical hardship has
Thousands of anti-Israel demonstrators surged through midtown Manhattan on Saturday, banging cowbells and waving placards that demanded an end to U.S. aid to Israel while chanting “Free, free Palestine” and “Palestine will live forever.” Organizers branded the rally “Stand with Gaza.” What echoed loudest—and sparked the fiercest backlash—was the call for a “global intifada,” a […]
The Chesed Fund is proud to announce the launch of Scratch 4 Chesed, an innovative new fundraising campaign model that combines donor excitement with powerful results. By introducing an element of
U.S. President Donald Trump reversed course in the wake of his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to say an overall peace agreement — not the ceasefire that he has long championed — is the next step in ending the 3 1/2-year war in Ukraine. In talks with European allies after Friday’s summit in Alaska, […]
Hurricane Erin exploded in strength to a Category 5 storm in Atlantic waters just north of the Caribbean on Saturday, rapidly powering up from a tropical storm in a single
YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Rabbi Berel Wein ZT”L. He was 91. The levaya will take place Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. at Beis Knesset Hanassi in Jerusalem. Kevurah will be on Har HaZeisim. Rabbi Wein was born in Chicago into a family descended from Lithuanian rabbanim. After working as a […]
A family of 12, parents and 10 children, has left the Lev Tahor cult in Guatemala and arrived in Israel, Ynet reported on Thursday. The family is receiving support from
A yeshiva bochur was arrested on Friday by traffic police and was transferred to the military police for draft dodging, Kikar H’Shabbat reported on Motzei Shabbos. The bochur is a
Israel’s Health Ministry announced on Motzei Shabbos that a toddler passed away from measles on Shabbos. The death of the toddler, an 18-month-old from Beit Shemesh Ramah Daled, follows the
This holy siddur is the very one from which the holy Admor Rabbi Meir Yosef Weiss of Spinka, author of Imrei Yosef, poured out his heart in prayer, infused with
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was indicted Friday in what prosecutors called a yearslong scheme to hide a relationship with her bodyguard, who is accused of being paid as if
Shoppers spent at a healthy pace in July, particularly at the nation’s auto dealerships, even as President Donald Trump’s tariffs start to take a toll on jobs and lead to some price increases. But the figures also underscore anxiety among Americans: all the uncertainty around the expansive duties appears to be pushing them to step […]
President Donald Trump greeted Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Friday with a handshake, a smile and a ride in the presidential limousine before talks aimed at ending the conflict in Ukraine, an unusually warm reception for a U.S. adversary responsible for launching the largest land war in Europe since 1945. Trump and Putin gripped hands for an extended period of […]
The nation’s capital sued to block President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department in court on Friday, hours after his administration escalated its intervention into the city’s law enforcement by naming a federal official as the new emergency head of the department. Washington’s police department chief said Trump’s move would threaten law and order by upending the […]
Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed over 280 people in India and Pakistan and left scores of others missing, officials said Friday, as rescuers brought to safety some 1,600 people from two mountainous districts in the neighboring countries. In Pakistan, a helicopter carrying relief supplies to the flood-hit northwestern Bajaur region crashed due to bad weather, killing […]
Erin strengthened into a hurricane on Friday as it approached the northeast Caribbean, prompting forecasters to warn of possible flooding and landslides. The storm is expected to remain over open
A senior lawyer in Australia has apologized to a judge for filing submissions in a murder case that included fake quotes and nonexistent case judgments generated by artificial intelligence. The
The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage fell this week to its lowest level in nearly 10 months, giving prospective homebuyers a sorely needed boost in purchasing power that
Dr. Jason Graham, Chief Medical Examiner of New York City — who oversees the largest medical examiner’s office in the world — toured Achiezer’s state-of-the-art tahara facilities this week, accompanied by top members of his leadership team. The Achiezer facility is the only halachically-compliant tahara center in New York City outside of Brooklyn. Dr. Graham […]
A fourth person has died in connection with a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City, health officials disclosed Thursday as they revealed that some cooling towers that tested positive for the bacteria are in city-run buildings. The outbreak in Central Harlem has sickened dozens since it began in late July. Seventeen people were hospitalized […]
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