[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] 5:25PM EST: The NYPD is investigating a hate crime in Williamsburg, YWN has learned. Williamsburg Shomrim received numerous reports of Mezuzos burned off the doorposts of homes inside the “Taylor Houses”, at 85 Taylor Street. Upon their arrival, they found more than 11 homes with their Mezuzos burned. The NYPD was immediately called, a crime […]
City and town governments having serious financial difficulty in New York state will have their names released in the coming weeks by the state’s top financial watchdog, using a new
Israeli President Shimon Peres recalled Monday how his grandfather told him at the train station in Poland as he left for Israel to “be a Jew.” Peres was speaking At the “Unto Every Person There is a Name” Ceremony at the Knesset in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Peres recited the names of several family […]
A slideshow presentation shown to US Army Reserve recruits classifies Christians, including both evangelicals and Roman Catholics, as religious extremists, placing them in the same category as skinheads, the Ku
Presidential campaigns are long in the making, quick to be forgotten. But one part of them lives on for years: the victor’s promises. President Barack Obama paved his path to
The following the is the latest ruling in the Doheny Meat scandal, reported extensively on YWN: At a meeting attended by Rabbonim of both major Kashrus Supervisory agencies, the RCC and Kehilas Kosher, regarding Doheny Glatt Kosher Meat Market, it was unanimously decided that there is no Halachic need to Kasher utensils whether in private homes, business […]
[VIDEO & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] The music of Mordechai Ben David inspires millions around the world. But a private performance for the children and families of Chai Lifeline brought new meaning to the word for all who heard the singer’s ethereal notes and words. The idea for the very special event came from a […]
As her mother’s political machine gears up for a potential 2016 presidential run, Chelsea Clinton says politics could be in her future, too. “Right now, I’m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative. If at […]
U.S. airlines scored their second best performance last year in the more than two decades that researchers have been measuring airline quality, with Virgin America the leader, says an annual
I join people here in the United States, in Israel, and around the world in observing Holocaust Remembrance Day. Today, we honor the memories of the six million Jewish victims
Austria’s government has paid its respects to the first passengers shipped by train from Vienna to the Dachau concentration camp by the Nazis 75 years ago. A delegation led by Transport Minister Doris Bures placed a wreath Monday at Vienna’s Westbahnhof, the railway station where the first trainload of Jews and political prisoners departed for […]
A kindergartner who can’t have the chickenpox vaccine because she has an infant sister is being kept out of her Staten Island school, her family says. Elizabeth Wagner says her
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] The first TV ad of the mayor’s race will hit the airwaves Monday, skewering its front-runner, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. The 30-second spot, heavy with
Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks on the passing of Margaret Thatcher: “Today I mourn the passing of Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher. She was truly a great leader,
The NY Daily News blog reports: Those close to Gov. Cuomo are vehemently denying a report this morning that the governor is considering making a move on Assembly Speaker Sheldon
An advance team of U.N.-mandated experts has gone to Cyprus and is awaiting permission from the Syrian government to investigate allegations of chemical weapons attacks, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
Google has developed a way to stop ‘robocalls’ – nuisance calls which play a recorded message. The search giant has won a contest run by the US Federal Trade Commission
Why are you not up in arms, New York Times and Washington Post? Why so quiet, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Sacramento Bee? Weekly newspaper editors, students at the Columbia School of Journalism, government employees who have quietly revealed wrongdoing to reporters – why are you not raising hell about what is happening to Fox News […]
Margaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady” who dominated British politics for two decades, died on Monday following a stroke, a spokesman for her family said. She was 87. Britain’s only woman
Israel came to a standstill for two mournful minutes Monday as sirens pierced the air in an annual ritual to remember the 6 million Jews systematically murdered by German Nazis
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