U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Friday condemned a reference to migrant workers made by fellow Republican Representative Don Young, calling the comments “offensive and beneath the dignity
The New York Police Department’s new top uniformed officer says the community and police must work together to keep the city safe. Philip Banks III was named the chief of department this week at the nation’s largest police force. He replaces Joseph Esposito, who retired after more than a decade in the post. Banks was […]
A Slovak court has commuted a death sentence imposed on a Hungarian World War Two criminal to life imprisonment although he remains under house arrest in his native country, the
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday afternoon erev Pesach telephoned Rafi Biton, the father of the baby girl Adel who was critically injured in a 14 March terrorist attack near
According to Tourism Ministry estimates, about 150,000 visitors are expected to arrive in Israel for Pesach and the Easter period. Within the framework of routine inspections carried out by the
With three days to spare, New York has adopted its third straight on-time budget. That hasn’t been done in 30 years, and lawmakers, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders said
Israel could withstand any attack involving Syrian chemical weapons, an Israeli general said on Friday, adding it was improbable that Damascus would order such a strike. The fate of Syria’s
It’s a good bet that in the not-so-distant future aerial drones will be part of Americans’ everyday lives, performing countless useful functions. A far cry from the killing machines whose
Education Ministry Director-General Dalit Stauber has sent a letter to municipality leaders and school principals, seeking to implement her vision for marking the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. In her letter she cites the significance of this year’s observance, and the need to do something special. She feels the special anniversary highlights the […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Minister of Finance (Yesh Atid) Yair Lapid’s pre-Pesach video in which he compares himself to Moshe Rabbeinu is making the rounds. Lapid explains that “just like Moshe Rabbanei made the correct decisions, unpopular as they may have been, he too will make the correct decisions, difficult as they will be”. Lapid […]
Defense Ministry officials explained that Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon was summoned to a number of urgent high-level meetings on the day of his daughter’s chupah. The minister was compelled to attend the meetings, some addressing the visit of US President Barak Obama, which ended at a late hour, placing him in a difficult position regarding […]
The Kashrus scandal in Los Angeles continues to brew, with the latest report via the Jewish Journal website. In their article, Daryl Schwartz, the owner of Kosher Club, a retailer and distributor of kosher meats, claims that he witnessed Doheny Kosher Meats repacking meat in boxes labeled “Glatt Kosher” as early as 2010. He also says that he reported what […]
The Arab League has just announced its new Jerusalem Fund, committing to funnel $1 billion to “preserve the Islamic character of Jerusalem”. Qatar has undertaken funding a quarter of that sum, $250 million. Israel Land Fund founder and director Aryeh King issued the following response to YWN-ISRAEL. “The Israel Land fund has been warning for […]
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg marked the tenth anniversary on Wednesday of his ban on smoking in bars and restaurants with a report saying the ban and subsequent anti-smoking
A field hospital has been set into place at Outpost 105 in the N. Golan Heights, the AFP news agency is reporting. According to the report, Israel has already treated
New York City is asking appeals judges to reinstate a ban on supersized sodas and other sugary drinks. The city had vowed an appeal and said Thursday that lawyers had
IDF officials are probing just how an Eritrean illegal alien managed to get into a classified base in the center of the country, a base that hosts undercover units. The man taken into custody got into the base and was walking around for “quite some time” until his presence was detected. Officials report security and […]
City police officers will now have to think twice before sending out a tweet or posting on Facebook. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has issued the NYPD’s first rules telling officers
“End apartheid now. Stop US aide for Israel” reads the new anti-Israel campaign launched in the United States by an organization called American Muslims for Palestine. These new anti-Israel signs are visible in subway stations in the New York City mass transit system, posted just three days after US President Barak Obama returned from a […]
On motzei the first day of Pesach 5773, HaGaon Harav Shmuel Auerbach Shlita visited the Gerrer Rebbe Shlita. Escorting Rav Auerbach was MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Yaakov Litzman. They exchanged divrei
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