[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Ichud Hatzalah and Magen David Adom responded to a small plane crash near the northern entrance to the southern resort city of Eilat on Thursday evening,
President Barack Obama is meeting with lawmakers to discuss surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency. The private Oval Office meeting is to discuss concerns about privacy. Obama’s national
When President Shimon Peres recently flew to Lithuania and Latvia his staff leaded a private Arkia flight at the cost of 77,000 NIS. Officials in the President’s Residence when asked to explain stated that while Mr. Peres usually makes a point of taking regularly scheduled flights to save money, in this case the flights available […]
The White House says it’s extremely disappointed in Russia’s decision to grant asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. White House spokesman Jay Carney says Snowden isn’t a whistleblower or a dissident. He says it’s not a positive development for U.S.-Russia relations and says the move undermines Russia’s record of law enforcement cooperation with […]
The word in the streets of Meah Shearim is the accused want-to-be-spy for Iran, a member of Neturei Karta, is known to be mentally unstable. One resident, Yossi Kroizer, who is mispallel with the suspect in the same shtieble, explains “he is simply missing a few screws.” Kroizer says that while some community members are […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday, 24 Menachem Av 5773 rejected a petition filed by a number of organizations seeking to compel the immediate induction into the IDF of 608 chareidim.
The man convicted of holding three women captive in a house he turned into a prison for a decade, and treating them in a manner too horrific to publish on YWN, was sentenced Thursday to life without parole plus 1,000 years. Ariel Castro, 53, apologized to his victims in a rambling, defiant statement before he […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] As a young EMT on a Jerusalem ambulance, Eli Beer realized that, stuck in brutal urban traffic, they often arrived too late to help. So he
Attorney General Eric Holder says outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller set the standard for leading the agency during the last 12 years. At a farewell ceremony at the Justice Department
Republican mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis, appearing on the Zev Brenner Show Wednesday night, expressed his great admiration of NYC’s Jewish community. Speaking about his outreach to Jewish voters in the
With great sadness we inform you of the petirah of Harav HaGaon R’ Shlomo HaLevi Wahrman zt”l. Rabbi Wahrman, who resided in Kew Gardens Hills, NY, was born and grew
An alleged cop-killer who faces life in prison was freed without bail this week because the Brooklyn DA prosecutors failed to start his trial fast enough, the NY Post reports.
Stocks rose on Wall Street Thursday morning, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 index above 1,700 points for the first time. The S&P 500, which investors follow closely as a
Standing in Borough Park aside his choice for Brooklyn DA, Tuesday noon, Assemblyman Dov Hikind expressed his support for Ken Thompson, saying he’s “the best choice for the Orthodox Jewish
The reaction from the opposition to the passing of the first reading of the Governance Bill was possibly unprecedented, as Arab and chareidi MKs became close allies against the coalition.
The FBI has arrested two New York men in an alleged $100 million-plus Ponzi scheme. FBI spokeswoman Kelly Langmesser confirms the arrests took place Thursday morning. Brian Raymond Callahan was arrested at a relative’s home in Old Westbury, on Long Island. He’s the target of an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission investigation. Judd Manson was […]
It is a painful sight, seeing the rainbow to’eva flag lining Rupin Blvd. and other areas in the capital as Yerushalayim is set to host a to’eva parade R”L on Thursday night, 25 Menachem Av 5773. During the hours of 17:00-20:00 many streets will be closed, including King George from the Mashbir department store to […]
[Communicated Content] A child on his way to cheder today faces more challenges during his 10-minute ride than a yungerman faced in his entire lifetime only 50 years ago. Today, adults and children alike face challenges that never existed before. The secular world has become more hedonistic, the seeming pleasures not only more enticing but […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the petira of Rav Hirsch Diskind ZT”L, who was Niftar on Wednesday afternoon in Baltimore. Rabbi Diskind was the beloved Dean of Bais Yaakov
The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office is alerting citizens that a rabid fox was captured in the northeast section of the Town of Bethel last week. On July 24, 2013 at approximately 10:30 AM, a resident on School House Road, which is just off of State Route 55 between Swan Lake and Kauneonga Lake, noticed a […]
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