A West Virginia news publisher has filed an antitrust suit against Google and Facebook, who together receive roughly half of all digital ad dollars in the U.S. and are facing
***Update From The Yeshiva Of Belle Harbor*** Major expenses have risen as we have moved all of our bochrim to our temporary dormitory. We are scrambling to set up the
Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, thousands of people took to the streets Sunday across Russias vast expanse to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up the nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin. Over 5,100 were detained by police, according to a monitoring group. Russian authorities mounted a massive effort […]
2020 was a year fraught with complex challenges, on both personal and professional levels. A year that was anything but simple. It brought extensive restrictions and the halt of international
HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Scheiner, z’tl, Rosh Yeshivas Kaminetz and member of Degel HaTorah’s Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah, was niftar of the coronavirus on Sunday at the age of 98. The bitter
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Hagaon HaRav Meshulam Dovid Halevi Soloveitchik ZATZAL, Rosh Yeshivas Brisk. He was 99. Thousands of people joined the levaya at 11
As a Kehilla, we have endured overwhelming tragedy over these many months. Again a tragedy of unbelievable scope, a young wife and mother plucked from her family. Bashie Rand was
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Rabbi Dr. A.J. Twerski beloved author, Talmid Chacham, and psychiatrist. He was Niftar after contracting COVID-19 last week and had been hospitalized in a a hospital in Eretz Yisroel. He was 90. Rav Twerski has authored more than 60 Seforim and books, and is a […]
New Yorks attorney general has joined calls for the state to loosen a partial immunity from lawsuits and criminal prosecutions it had granted to nursing homes at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring. In a report issued Thursday, Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, documented how a number of homes failed to follow […]
A 10-year-old San Antonio boy made a killing by selling GameStop stock he was gifted more than a year ago. Jaydyn Carrs mother, Nina, spent $60 for 10 shares of the video game chains stock in December of 2019 that she gave him for Kwanzaa to reflect Ujamaa, one of the festivals seven principles that […]
A huge fire engulfed a recycling plant overnight in northern New Jersey and raged into Saturday as firefighters battled flames, wind and frigid cold that turned the water from their
Two men identified as members of the Proud Boys have been indicted on federal conspiracy and other charges in the Capitol riot as prosecutors raise the stakes in some of
Back in March, when Covid closed Judaism’s central institutions, the most essential aspects of Jewish life soldiered on – Kosher supermarkets, the Chevra Kadisha, and Mikvahs remained opened. That is,
President Joe Biden and aides showed touches of prickliness Thursday over growing scrutiny of the new presidents heavy reliance on executive orders in his first days in office. The president in just over a week has already signed more than three dozen executive orders and directives aimed at addressing the coronavirus pandemic as well as […]
The warden brought in to clean up the federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself has abruptly stepped down after a yearlong tenure marred by the rampant spread of the coronavirus, inmates complaints about squalid conditions, a smuggled gun and an inmates death. Marti Licon-Vitale, 54, quit the Metropolitan Correctional Center this week. Her abrupt […]
My father is imprisoned in a foreign country for no injustice in his palm. Please save him. I miss him. I want him back home. Dear friend It happened suddenly
The Los Angeles Times reports that one of the largest vaccination sites in the nation temporarily shut down Saturday because dozen of protesters blocked the entrance, stalling hundreds of motorists
Travelers on airplanes and public transportation like buses and subways will be required to wear face masks starting next week to curb the spread of COVID-19. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a mask-wearing rule late Friday that builds on an order announced Jan. 21 by President Joe Biden. The rule will […]
The governments top infectious disease expert said Friday he hopes to see some kids starting to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in the next few months. Its a needed step to securing widespread immunity to the virus. Vaccines are not yet approved for children, but testing already is underway for those as young as 12. If […]
The Democratic push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour has emerged as an early flashpoint in the fight for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, testing President Joe Bidens ability to bridge Washingtons partisan divides as he pursues his first major legislative victory. Biden called for a $15 hourly minimum wage […]
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