President Joe Biden will mark the U.S. crossing 500,000 lives lost from COVID-19 with a moment of silence and candle lighting ceremony at the White House. The nation is expected
The British government declared Sunday that every adult in the country should get a first coronavirus vaccine shot by July 31, at least a month earlier than its previous target, as it prepared to set out a “cautious” plan to ease the U.K.’s lockdown. The previous aim was for all adults to get a jab […]
In a special vaccination operation that took place on Friday among the Belzer community, some 1,500 people, mostly yeshiva students and avreichim, arrived at the main Belzer Beis Medrash in
In a move that comes as no surprise to the Israeli public, the Health Ministry is pushing for the government to impose tightened restrictions on public activity during the upcoming
In spite of the success of Israel’s vaccine operation, the Israeli Corona Cabinet has already decided upon a number of new regulations for the upcoming Purim holiday, in an effort
A 10-year-old Chareidi boy was struck by a bus on Mesillas Yesharim Street in Modi’in Illit. The boy was seriously injured in the accident and treated at the scene by
Its time to join this success! A unique opportunity has arisen to Connect with the heart and soul of our generation. CLICK HERE TO DONATE At Yeshivas Matisyahu/Fischer’s, we’re cut from a different cloth. On our expanded and diverse campus, you will see every kind of bachur from every kind of community. No two students […]
Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei won a silver medal Friday at the Grand Slam international judo competition in Tel Aviv. Mollaei, who competed as a citizen of Mongolia, the country that
In honor of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday announced he would order flags in Florida to be flown at half-staff when Limbaugh’s body is laid to rest. Limbaugh, a Florida resident, died Wednesday after battling lung cancer. DeSantis called him a friend. It’s not clear when the flags will […]
After months of heartbreaking stories of ‘COVID tragedies’ in the last year, a story came out today which shocked and moved even the most desensitized. Osnat Benshitrit was a 31-year-old
Lakewood Police are investigating a shooting at Coventry Square, Sunday night. The shooting happened just before 8:00PM on a residential street. Residents tell YWN that they heard gunshots, and quickly
The destruction was absolutely devastating. The talmidim of the yeshiva were left in utter shock. The blaze that broke out at Yeshiva Chayei Olam’s building on Faraday in Lakewood on Motzoei Shabbos leveled the structure, leaving ruin and damage in its wake. Sadly a Sefer Torah perished in the blaze as well. The fire, which broke out at 3 a.m., is […]
A quick-fire joke about Israel’s vaccination rollout on US comedy show Saturday Night Live has caused uproar and demands for an apology. In a parody of a news report, one of its actors joked that Israel – which has had the quickest rollout of any nation – has only been vaccinating its Jewish citizens. “Israel […]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday issued a decree ordering the respect of freedom of expression ahead of legislative elections in May, a step demanded by Palestinian factions who discussed
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Equatorial Guinea would move its embassy to Jerusalem in the latest sign of improving ties with African nations. It would become the
The strongest Segula for parnasa, health, simchas hachaim and protection against a pandemic! Hamekubel R’ Chaim Palagi writes in the name of R’ Chaim Vital the segula in the time of a pandemic wear a red stone on yourself, a ruby, or a diamond…. ruby is the best of all and it should touch the […]
An Italian Holocaust survivor’s attempt to encourage other older adults to receive the anti-COVID-19 vaccine has triggered a wave of anti-Semitic comments and other invective on social media. Liliana Segre, 90, received the first of the two-shot vaccine series in Milan on Thursday. She urged people who reach her age “to not be afraid and […]
Reb Shlomo Aharon Galaster, z’l, who was hospitalized in HaEmek Medical Center in Afula with the coronavirus, was tragically left alone in his last moments of life on Thursday when
Scientists have cloned the first U.S. endangered species, a black-footed ferret duplicated from the genes of an animal that died over 30 years ago. The slinky predator named Elizabeth Ann, born Dec. 10 and announced Thursday, is cute as a button. But watch out — unlike the domestic ferret foster mom who carried her into […]
Israel’s coronavirus czar Prof. Nachman Ash gave a press briefing on Sunday night and warned that despite the lifting of restrictions on Sunday, the coronavirus is not yet over and
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