Below are thousands of photos taken at Lag BaOmer events around the world. YWN thanks our photographers – most notably JDN, and all those who submitted photos to YWN. You help us keep our photo albums updated daily, which is by far the largest of its kind on the Internet – will more than one million photos published. […]
The surprise exercise in which 2,000 IDF soldiers and officers were activated to emergency duty in northern Israel is being labeled a success. Military officials stress the exercise was planned
MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Meir Porush is preparing a unique bill aimed at curbing violence in Israel’s public schools. The bill links violent incidents in schools to state funding. Rav Porush feels the funding incentive will compel school officials to do whatever necessary to reduce the number of violent attacks, which are on the rise. The […]
MKs Shuli Moalem-Refaeli (Bayit Yehudi), Dr. Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid) and Zahava Gal-On (Meretz) are behind the impetus demanding a fair number of women on the committee that appoints dayanim who serve on the nation’s rabbinical courts. In his plenum address MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Moshe Gafne expressed his opposition, directing comments to Moalem-Refaeli. “One who […]
Three new suspects were taken into custody in the investigation of last month’s deadly Boston Marathon bombing and will face charges of interfering with the probe, not planning or carrying
The U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on May 9 to examine the deadly Boston marathon bombings and their impact on national security. Boston Police
According to a “?? ???????” report, Eida Chareidis officials are planning a major protest rally to be held outside the IDF’s Jerusalem Induction Center on Rashi Street, in the Makor Baruch neighborhood of the capital. An exact date/time have not yet been set as plans for the major protest against the planned induction of bnei […]
A piece of an airplane wing that was found near the World Trade Center site and is believed to be part of a 9/11 jetliner has been moved. Officials moved
When poison-laced letters were sent to President Barack Obama and two other officials, it didn’t take long to track down a suspect based on a phrase often used by an
Leading admorim from Eretz Yisrael are weighing the possibility of traveling to the United States for a major kenos to address the new government policies vis-à-vis the drafting of bnei yeshivos. It appears askanim affiliated with Agudas Yisrael are trying to revitalize the idea of a major gathering in the USA on the subject, an […]
In a deliberation on Thursday, April 25 the Jerusalem Magistrate Court made a precedent making decision specifically stating that the state is discriminating against Jews on Har Habayis. The ruling
Ramat Gan Chief Rabbi Yaakov Ariel Shlita has expressed his opposition to the so-called Ariel Bill, the bill that is in the works to lift the maximum age ceiling of
The father of terror victim Evyatar Borovsky HY”D, Baruch, spoke with Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) a number of hours after the fatal attack. The bereaved father spoke with the media hours before his son was being laid to rest. He explains that he heard about the attack in the news and had an uncomfortable feeling […]
Relatives of the deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect will claim his body now that his wife has agreed to release it, an uncle said Tuesday. Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body has been
Five bnei yeshiva on Tuesday afternoon 20 Iyar 5773, were taken into custody for attacking plainclothes police detectives in the Kiryat Moshe area of the capital. According to reports, the
Saying it was damaging to U.S. interests to keep holding prisoners in legal limbo at Guantanamo, President Barack Obama renewed an old vow on Tuesday to close the camp, where
There was a ruckus in the Tuesday 20 Iyar 5773 session of the Knesset Interior Committee regarding the issue of women davening in the ezras noshim of the Kosel. Women
For Nuri Chananya Tuesday, 20 Iyar 5773 will be a day he will never forget. Nuri, who runs the tziyun of Shimon HaTzaddik, is frequently in the Shimon HaTzaddik area of the capital, a predominantly Arab-occupied area of the holy city. The attack occurred at about 13:00 as he was traveling through the so-called Wadi Joz area […]
Eastern Union, one of the largest and fastest growing commercial real estate financing firms in the US, is now offering a free, concise and comprehensive real estate course to the
Israel Fire Chief Shachar Ayalon on Tuesday 20 Iyar 5773 called on the tzibur to reduce the number of bonfires on Lag B’Omer. “We have exceeded the limits of good taste” he exclaimed, adding “I am going to turn to the rabbis and leaders of the chareidi community to set guidelines and limits for the […]
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