[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Once again, vandals have targeted bus stops on Yechezkel Street in the Geula/Meah Shearim area of the capital. The bus stops are new and the damage is quite significant. No reason was given for the attack. See the photos: YWN PHOTO LINK: Click HERE for photos. (YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem […]
[AUDIO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Keeping up his fight on the Mayor Bloomberg administration, NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio elaborated about his call last week for the commissioner heading the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs to resign, in an interview on the Dov Hikind show Saturday night. Mr. de Blasio, is also running for mayor […]
Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita has been transported to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital today, Sunday, 22 Tammuz, where he will be undergoing back surgery. The rav was recently released from the hospital after doctors failed to find the cause of his excruciating back pain. Family members on Sunday report the rav’s pain has […]
[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] There was a fire in Korns Bakery late Motzei Shabbos. The fire, which started around 11:20PM on the second floor above the bakery located at 4314
There is a saying ‘Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.’ Senator Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn) seemed to have adopted “A fence for wisdom is silence” (Pirkei Avos 3:17), since his
The Rev. Al Sharpton says Mayor Michael Bloomberg must clarify his intentions on or apologize for the controversial remarks he made in defense of the New York City Police Department’s
Edward Snowden’s continent-jumping, hide-and-seek game seems like the stuff of a pulp thriller — a desperate man’s drama played out before a worldwide audience trying to decide if he’s a hero or a villain. But the search for the former National Security Agency contractor who spilled U.S. secrets has become something of a distracting sideshow, […]
A growing chorus of critics has challenged Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s approach to fighting crime, pushing back against policies that he credits for making New York the safest major city in America. With a few months left in office, Bloomberg can say crime fell 34 percent over a decade during his tenure. For much of his […]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s remark that police “disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little,” as compared with murder suspects’ descriptions, is prompting criticism from police reform advocates and some mayoral candidates. Bloomberg spoke Friday on WOR-AM. City lawmakers voted Thursday to make it easier to bring racial profiling claims against police. Eighty-seven percent of […]
Republicans accused New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie of getting too cozy with President Barack Obama after Superstorm Sandy. But during a visit Friday to a Republican stronghold, the governor went
The Supreme Court issued a pair of decisions this week with major consequences for efforts to legalize or bar same-sex marriage. One ruling opened the way for California to become
A blazing heat wave expected to send the mercury soaring to nearly 120 degrees in Phoenix and Las Vegas settled over the West on Friday, threatening to ground airliners and
The following was submitted to YWN by Bikur Cholim of Los Angeles: An excessive heat warning remains in effect for this weekend with sweltering temperatures expected to reach between 100 – 108 degrees. Children, the elderly, and people with chronic ailments are the most susceptible to heat-related illness. Many elderly live alone with no family […]
Given the wild trading of late, it was a calm close to the month. After flitting between tiny gains and losses most of Friday, the stock market closed mostly lower,
A Texas woman was indicted Friday on charges that she sent ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in an attempt to frame her estranged
After refraining from commenting in recent days, HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef on Thursday commented on the upcoming elections for new Chief Rabbis of Israel. The rav said “Based on the many requests I have received and other information, it is clear to me that I have the best chance of being elected”. According to a […]
The pressure on Dayan Rav Tzion Boaron to bow out of the race to become the next Rishon L’Tzion continues. The rav however has indicated he plans to see this trough to then end, confident he stands a good chance of being elected. Nevertheless, it appears that Shas remains determined to persuade the rav to […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Holocaust survivor and the world’s most famous mohel, Rabbi Romi Cohen formally endorsed Rev. Erick Salgado for mayor of New York City. At a gathering in
The president of the NAACP is portraying the New York City Council’s vote to step up oversight of police as an important chapter in the organization’s 104-year-long campaign for civil rights. Benjamin Jealous spoke at a City Hall rally Thursday afternoon. He’d been in the council chambers for the early morning vote to create a […]
Jerusalem City Hall will be moving the caravan used by Maran Rav Elyashiv ZT”L to the Ramat Shlomo community of Yerushalayim to permit the Gadol Hador’s grandson to use it. Degel Hatorah officials in Jerusalem City Hall and aides to Mayor Nir Barkat reject allegations that the mayor is timing the move with the upcoming […]
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