[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] A man who shot four members of Boro Park Shomrim when they surrounded him after receiving numerous complaints of public lewdness, claimed self-defense at his trial Tuesday. David Flores, 36, is charged with with attempted murder in the incident first reported by YWN in September 2010 “They couldn’t wait for the police […]

Former senior Yasser Arafat YS”VZ aide Jibril Rajoub tells it like he see it, and in this case, he states loud and clear that “all of the State of Israel is on occupied Palestinian land”. Today, Rajoub remains a member of the Fatah directorate. Israel wishes to advance peace negotiations with Fatah, not Gaza, for […]

One of the staunchest critics of government surveillance programs said Tuesday that the national intelligence director did not give him a straight answer last March when he asked whether the

The Obama administration declassified a handful of details Tuesday that credited its PRISM Internet spying program with intercepting a key email that unraveled a 2009 terrorist plot in New York.

Following the death earlier this week of Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk, government ministers and state officials have been tripping over themselves lamenting the loss. Among those is Minister of Culture

Google is asking the Obama administration to allow the Internet company to disclose more details about the U.S. government’s closely guarded demands for emails and other information that people transmit online. The request was made Tuesday in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller. Google is trying to debunk media […]

There can be no doubt that the race for new Chief Rabbis of Israel is well underway. This was evident on Monday night, the eve of 3 Tammuz 5773, the 19th yahrzeit of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneershon, the Lubavitcher Rebbe ZT”L. Among the prominent guests seated at the main farbregen in Kfar Chabad were Rabbi […]

House Speaker John Boehner says it is “inconceivable” that top White House officials didn’t tell President Barack Obama once they learned the Internal Revenue Service had been targeting conservative political

MK (Yahadut HaTorah) Yaakov Asher is working with the Knesset Interior Ministry and the Ministry of the Interior to ease the bureaucratic process surrounding an application for a reduction in

Many chareidim entered the Shachar program in the IDF, serving in a technical capacity. Some of them are now being retrained to identify the dead in line with their assignment

There is much controversy among the tzibur regarding the Satmar organized protest in Manhattan against the planned draft of bnei yeshivos in Eretz Yisrael. There are those who praise the

After a chareidi filibuster in Knesset, at about 04:00 on Tuesday, 3 Tammuz 5773, the new law pertaining to the appointment of dayanim passed its second and third readings. This

Thousands of people are arriving at the New York City Kever of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, to mark the 19th Yartzheit. Rabbi Menachem Schneerson led the Chabad Lubavitch movement based in

With the Senate ready to cast the first floor votes on a landmark immigration bill, House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday he thinks there’s a good chance the legislation can