With inflation punishing consumers and threatening the economy, the Federal Reserve this week will likely signal its intent to begin raising interest rates in March for the first time in three years. The Feds challenges will get only harder from there. Among the central bank officials, there is broad support for a rate increase […]
Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin was facing a new legal challenge over his executive action that aimed to let parents opt out of school mask mandates as his order took
Chaya Sarah Malka, 38-year old mother of 3 from Los Angeles (Fairfax area) is in a very tough battle against cancer. She has lost her sight in one eye and is
The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy to the proxy voting system that Democrats put in place in response to the coronavirus pandemic. McCarthy
The Washington, D.C. chapter of Black Lives Matter complained that police officers who are shot in the line of duty are automatically treated as heroes. Their concern over who is
The United Arab Emirates and the U.S. military intercepted two ballistic missiles fired by Yemens Houthi rebels over the skies of Abu Dhabi early Monday, authorities said, the second attack in a week that targeted the Emirati capital. The missile fire further escalates tensions across the Persian Gulf, which previously had seen a series of […]
Less than two weeks before the opening of the Winter Olympics, a few dozen COVID-19 cases in Beijing have prompted authorities to test millions of people in the capital and extend that to anyone buying cold medicine. The tough new measures came even as the city of Xian, a major tourist destination that is the […]
A letter signed by Dati Leumi Rosh Yeshivos on Friday expressed support for bnei yeshivos who refuse to donate blood via Magen David Adom due to the omission of mother and father from the MDA donation forms, and encouraged them to continue the battle against the incursion of liberal values in the Jewish state. “We […]
The World Health Organizations director-general on Monday warned that conditions remain ideal for more coronavirus variants to emerge and its dangerous to assume omicron is the last one or that we are in the endgame. But Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the acute phase of the pandemic could still end this year if some key targets […]
The British government announced Monday that it is scrapping coronavirus testing requirements for vaccinated people arriving in England, news hailed by the travel industry as a big step back to normality. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that to show that this country is open for business, open for travelers, you will see changes so that […]
People who arent vaccinated against COVID-19 are no longer allowed in Frances restaurants, bars, tourist sites and sports venues unless they recently recovered from the virus. The new law came into effect Monday requiring a vaccine pass that is central to the governments anti-virus strategy. France is registering Europes highest-ever daily coronavirus infection numbers, and […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the passing of former NYS Speaker Sheldon Silver at the age of 77. A native of the Lower East Side, Silver was a longtime
Anti-Semitic flyers were distributed over the weekend to hundreds of homes in two South Florida cities with large Jewish populations, authorities said. Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber tweeted that flyers
Whenever a bus arrives at the Greyhound station in Plattsburgh, New York, a small band of taxi drivers waits to drive passengers on a half-hour trip to a snowy, dead-end
It’s mayhem on the subways. The NYPD reported more subway assaults in 2021 than in any other year going all the way back to 1997. The NYPD says that there
A short but major storm dubbed “Elpis” is expected to arrive in Israel on Wednesday, with a significant amount of snow expected in the morning in the north, and central
The crisis in Ukraine is hardly going away a showdown of two world views that could upend Europe. It carries echoes of the Cold War and resurrects an idea left over from the 1945 Yalta Conference: that the West should respect a Russian sphere of influence in Central and Eastern Europe. Since coming to […]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won the first stage of his effort to overturn a U.K. ruling that opened the door for his extradition to U.S. to stand trial
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Former Supreme Court President Miriam Naor, z’l, suddenly passed away on Monday at the age of 74. Naor, z’l, who was the chair of the state commission of inquiry into
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