Four journalists addressing the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday said world leaders should do more to protect reporters risking their lives in conflict situations with one foreign correspondent calling for
Prominent dati leumi rav and rosh yeshiva Rabbi Dr. Yuval Sherlow feels that Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein crossed a dangerous line by announcing he disqualifies the candidacy for Chief Rabbinate of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu. Rabbi Eliyahu, Tzfas Chief Sephardi Rabbi, is too racist and controversial according to Weinstein, and therefore, Weinstein informed him that if […]
House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday soundly rejected suggestions that the United States boycott the Winter Olympics in Sochi if Russia grants asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.
Air conditioners have been working overtime this week to keep homes cool during the Tri-State Areas latest blistering heat wave, but all that power is putting major stress on the grid. Officials say the equipment is showing a strain. The folks who run our local utilities said Wednesday the situation is slowly getting worse. Its […]
Terrorist Ahmed Jabara YM”S, known as Abu Sukhar, who was responsible for the 1975 Jerusalem Refrigerator terror attack died in Ramallah of a heart attack at the age of 78. The master terrorist was sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the attack that claimed 15 lives. He was released from an Israeli prison […]
Panama said on Wednesday it had called in the United Nations Security Council to investigate a North Korean ship caught smuggling arms from Cuba, piling more pressure on Pyongyang for
There was a bit of excitement in Geula, Yerushalayim on Wednesday, 10 Menachem Av 5773 when pedestrians nabbed a purse snatcher who grabbed the wallet of a shopper a bit
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel Council on Wednesday, 10 Menachem Av 5773 approved the candidacy of Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef in the race for Rishon LTzion. Because the rav serves as a neighborhood rabbi and not the rabbi of a city, the approval was required. It should be pointed out that while not serving in that […]
After some 25 mortar shells landed in the northern Golan Heights on Tuesday morning, Tisha BAv 5773, soldiers were under fire during the evening hours. IDF officials report once again they do not believe the gunfire was directed at the soldiers, but it was more likely stray fire from the ongoing civil war in that […]
House Republicans pressed ahead Wednesday on delaying key components of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, emboldened by the administration’s concession that requiring companies to provide coverage for their
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] The stabbing attack at Shar Shechem on motzei Tisha BAv 5773 made the news. However, the brazen unprovoked attacks by Arabs against Jewish motorists in the same area, in Yerushalayim, were not reported by most media networks. The following video footage uploaded by Arabs shows how they indiscriminately attack Jewish motorists […]
Knesset Finance Committee Chairman MK (Bayit Yehudi) Nissim Slomiansky announced on Wednesday morning 10 Menachem Av 5773 that he and his colleagues succeeded in modifying the 2013-2014 state budget, removing
Firefighters battled a smoky fifth-alarm fire burning through two multi-family homes in the Bronx early Wednesday. The flames broke out between homes at 1509 and 1507 Commonwealth Avenue in the
After nudging New Yorkers to stop smoking and cut out large sodas, Mayor Bloomberg now want them to move more. Bloomberg detailed various steps Wednesday to promote a concept called
HaGaon HaRav Aaron Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita reportedly told Rehovot Chief Rabbi Simcha HaKohen Kook that he should vote for Rabbi David Lau in the race for new Chief Rabbis
When Chris Reynolds opened his June PayPal e-mail statement, something was off. The Pennsylvania PR executive’s account balance had swelled to a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800. That’s $92 QUADRILLION (and change). Money
Delivering his most explicit racial count since losing the mayorship 20 years ago, David N. Dinkins says in a forthcoming memoir that he barely won the New York City mayoral election in 1989 and lost four years later for one reason: because he is black. I think it was just racism, pure and simple, Mr. […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Recently, there have been a few cases of infants R”L dying, after being forgotten in vehicles. YWN Israel reported three such cases in the past two weeks alone. In Israel,Ichud (United) Hatzalah has undertaken a campaign which the EMS organization hopes will save lives. Ichuds over 2,000 nationwide volunteers will be […]
The following is an article from the Toronto Star: Forfeit the playoffs or defy your religious beliefs. Thats the position the Israeli womens lacrosse team could find itself in at the World Cupgoing on this week in Oshawa. And if they have to play on Saturday the Shabbat (Sabbath) as the schedule-makers call for […]
The European Jewish Congress (EJC), the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) and senior representatives of the Polish Jewish community will hold an emergency meeting today in Brussels. The discussions centred
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