NATO estimated on Wednesday that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in four weeks of fighting in Ukraine, where the countrys defenders have put up stiffer-than-expected resistance and denied Moscow the lightning victory it hoped for. A senior NATO military official said the estimate was based on information from Ukrainian officials, what Russia […]
Rabbi Yeruchim Silber, director of New York government relations for Agudath Israel, joined elected officials from Queens, as well as religious leaders, advocates, and families to call on New York
OJPAC on Tuesday released statistics it obtained from the New York State Education Department showing massive increases in the number of students enrolled in yeshivos over the past 20 years.
Rabbi Eliyahu Greenberg is used to distressed phone calls. As the head of a chesed organization that helps impoverished families in Eretz Yisroel, his phone is constantly ringing with urgent
Channel 12 News reporter Yair Cherki published a rare video of the levaya of HaRav Chaim Kanievksy’s father, the Steipler, z’tl, in Bnei Brak in 1985. Since 1985, the world
YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Mrs. Devorah Chana Phillipson of Monsey. She was 55. Devorah Chana a”h, was born in Boro Park to Mr. and Mrs.
U.S. securities regulators say they have legal authority to subpoena Tesla and CEO Elon Musk about his tweets, and that Musks move to throw out a 2018 court agreement that his tweets be pre-approved is not valid. The Securities and Exchange Commission also disclosed publicly that it is investigating Musks Nov. 6, 2021 tweets that […]
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded his endorsement of Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks in his states Republican Senate primary, dealing a major blow to the congressmans campaign. In a statement, Trump cited Brooks performance in the race and what he perceived as Brooks attempt to move Republicans beyond Trumps false 2020 election fraud claims. […]
In response to a question about one of her previous judicial rulings, Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson asserted that the Black Hebrew Israelite group is a cultural and
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said new forms of digital money such as cryptocurrencies and stablecoins present risks to the U.S. financial system and will require new rules to protect
Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state, has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday. She was 84. President Bill Clinton chose Albright as Americas top diplomat in 1996, and she served in that capacity for the last four years of the Clinton administration. She had previously been Clintons ambassador to the United […]
With Europe facing its most precarious future since World War II, President Joe Biden will huddle with key allies in Brussels and Warsaw this week as the leaders try to prevent Russias war on Ukraine from spiraling into an even greater catastrophe. Biden embarked Wednesday on a four-day trip that will test his ability to […]
Following the petirah of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, z’tl, a video was published of HaRav Chaim and Rebbitzen Batsheva reciting Birchos HaShachar and answering Amen to each other’s brachos. The
Years before the Sept. 11 museum was built at the World Trade Center, a storefront visitor center across the street opened to offer tours led by victims relatives, survivors and others with personal ties to the trauma and tragedy of 9/11. Sixteen years and five million visitors later, what is now the 9/11 Tribute Museum […]
As war continues to ravage Ukraine, many Americans are beginning to notice that it’s not just gas prices going up – food prices are creeping up, too. Global food industry
Three Democrats in the House of Representatives have introduced a bill to give $100 stimulus checks to individuals for the rest of the year for every month in which gas
A synagogue in Detroit says it received a false bomb threat last Friday, presumably by an antisemite seeking to strike fear in Jews. In a message sent from Adat Shalom’s
Prof. Yuval Elbashan is the Dean of the Law Faculty at Ono Academic College and in the past was a community lawyer and social advocate for the poor. He met
Residents in the New Orleans area were digging out and assessing damage Wednesday after tornadoes lashed the area, flipping vehicles, ripping off rooftops and depositing a house with a family
Even a raging war can’t extinguish the flame of Torah. In Kryvyi Rih (Krivoy Rog in Russian), a city in the Dnepropetrovsk region of Ukraine and the birthplace of Ukrainian
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