President Barack Obama will take the official oath of office in a small, private ceremony at the White House on Sunday, setting a more subdued tone for his second inauguration
Outgoing Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger is calling to install a new mechitzah at the Kosel, a one-way view mechitzah that will permit women to view the male mispallalim but
Shas’ Aryeh Deri was quick to use Knesset hopeful Ayelet Shaked’s statement from last week to speak out against the Bayit HaYehudi Party, which is without a doubt pulling away some former Shas voters. Shaked last week called for establishing an alternative marriage system for those unwilling to marry or are prohibited from marrying in […]
A major rally will take place Sunday evening at Jerusalem’s Kikar Shabbos in honor of the arrival of the Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, HaRav Zalman Leib Teitlebaum Shlita. At 4:00pm Sunday, 9 Shevat 5773 the rebbe’s flight is scheduled to land at Ben-Gurion International Airport. Dozens of prominent Eida Chareidis tzibur rabbonim will be on […]
Thousands of gun advocates gathered peacefully Saturday at state capitals around the U.S. to rally against stricter limits on firearms, with demonstrators carrying rifles and pistols in some places while those elsewhere settled for waving hand-scrawled signs or screaming themselves hoarse. The size of crowds at each location varied — from dozens of people in […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petirah of R’ Shulem Mermelstein Z”L. R’ Shulem was the director of The Chevra Kadisha for Bikur Cholim in Boro Park for the
In a major blow to the chareidi effort in Charish, the Tender Committee disqualified the bids from chareidi non-profits. The bid submitted represents no less than 13 chareidi non profits
The Har Nof Minhal or community board is opposed to the planned light rail expansion to the frum Jerusalem neighborhood and it is preparing its objection for the city’s district planning board. The committee is expected to convene to approve the continuation of the Jerusalem light rail from Herzl Boulevard to Kiryat Moshe and Kanfei […]
A suburban New York newspaper has removed from its website the names and addresses of residents with pistol permits. Publication of the permit data last month had produced a storm
Syrian forces used non-lethal chemical weapons against rebels in the town of Homs in late December, according to intelligence service sources cited by French daily Le Monde on Saturday. The
President Barack Obama’s ride has a new license plate. The White House said earlier this week that the president had agreed to replace the plates on his limousine so that
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday that President Barack Obama acted within his legal authority when Obama unveiled a set of executive actions to try to reduce gun
As early as next year, more modern and more effective vaccines will hit the market, thanks to investments by the U.S. government and pharmaceutical companies. And even bigger scientific advances
In almost all U.S. states, jobless rates ended 2012 lower than where they began, according to Labor Department data released on Friday that also showed unemployment rates fell from November
New York’s new gun control law may be the nation’s toughest, but it also includes broad new privacy provisions allowing would-be gun owners to shield their identities from reporters and
Honda Motor Co said it is recalling 777,000 late-model Pilot and Odyssey vehicles in the United States and Canada due to a problem with the deployment of driver’s side airbags,
Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away. The Transportation Security Administration says the X-ray scanners will be gone by June because the company
There will be no change to the charges against five Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused in the Sept. 11 attacks after all. At least not yet. A Pentagon legal official has
Last week, a granddaughter was born to a granddaughter of Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita, launching the fifth generation from the Gadol Hador. Needless to say Shas officials and Klall Yisrael wishes R’ Ovadia mazel tov and much nachas from his entire mishpacha! (YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
Flu remains widespread in the United States and 29 children have died of complications from it, but there are signs the epidemic is easing, U.S. health officials said on Friday.
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