Federal prosecutors say the New York City headquarters of a kosher food manufacturer has a rodent problem. The New York Times reports Friday that inspectors from the Food and Drug
The retrial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was aborted on Saturday when the presiding judge withdrew from the case and referred it to another court, causing an indefinite delay
Guards clashed Saturday with prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison as the military sought to move hunger strikers out of a communal section of the detention center on the U.S.
China and the United States will set up a working group on cyber-security, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday, as the two sides moved to ease months
The leader of Egypt’s dwindling and aging Jewish community, known for her tireless work preserving synagogues and a once-sprawling Jewish cemetery, died Saturday at the age of 82. Carmen Weinstein
Between 9:00AM – 11:00AM on Saturday April 13, 2013, scheduled electrical work will require sections of the Rockaways to experience two (2) brief interruptions in electric service lasting approximately five
In light of reports in today’s Albany Times Union that a 10th grade teacher at Albany High School asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany as part of a writing assignment, Councilman David G. Greenfield is calling on the school district to immediately terminate the teacher in […]
School district officials in Albany say they’re mulling disciplinary action for a high school English teacher whose writing assignment asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany. School district spokesman Ron Lesko says Friday that administrators are discussing what official action the 10th-grade teacher at Albany High School could face […]
A national poll released on Friday found 50 percent of Americans believe the United States is running well, the first time that at least half of respondents answered positively in
An Albany, New York high school English teacher who asked students to imagine they were Nazis and give reasons why Jews were evil may be disciplined, a school district spokesman
Two people were struck by trains and one was electrocuted on the tracks in three separate cases Friday. FDNY said a man was hit by an F train at First
The head of NYC Transit has been picked to be the chairman of the MTA, replacing Joe Lhota, who left last year to run for mayor. Tom Prendergast was named
Brooklyn – Councilman David G. Greenfield is proud to announce that a total of five projects totaling $1.1 million will be completed throughout Boro Park, Midwood and Bensonhurst after 1,610 residents of the 44th Council District voted as part of the participatory budgeting initiative, which allows voters to decide which projects they would like funded. […]
Dear Michael: We were very saddened by your nationally-syndicated talk-radio show this past Monday, April ninth. On your show, heard by eight million people on almost 200 radio stations, you viciously attacked the most fundamental commandment of the Jewish religion—Ritual Circumcision, Bris Milah. Bris Milah initiates the Jewish child into the Covenant of Abraham and […]
A Williamsburg Hatzolah Paramedic was just held at gunpoint, and his vehicle stolen. The incident happened in Brooklyn at 360 Johnson Avenue near Morgan Street. Sources tell YWN that the NYPD is looking for a Hispanic male who reportedly held the Hatzolah member at gunpoint, then placed him in handcuffs before stealing his vehicle. The vehicle is a […]
Like most four-and-a-half year olds Jayden Roll colors and plays with her friends, however in February she was diagnosed with a life-threatening blood disease, leaving her family scrambling to find
The following is from Politico: Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) on Thursday endorsed Anthony Weiner for mayor of New York City. “Anthony’s a good guy in my opinion. Now, he should’ve came clean once he got busted, you know, and I’m sorry he didn’t do that – but he’s sorry he didn’t do that and his […]
A new poll shows New Yorkers strongly support Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal to keep cigarettes out of sight in stores. Sixty-eight percent of city voters back the idea in a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday. Thirty percent oppose it. Bloomberg wants to require cigarettes to be out of public view until a customer requests them. […]
Twenty years ago in the drab pre-fab housing blocks outside the east German town of Jena, swaggering youths gave Sieg-Heil salutes and flaunted their far-right views, as the structures of
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Hagon HaRav Yaakov Chai Yosef ZATZAL, who had been fighting a most difficult illness for about two years. He was 67 years old. As was reported by YWN, HaRav Yaakov Yosef had announced at one of his Shiurim “My chances for recovery are slim but in […]
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