Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But increasingly, people are grappling with the diseases and disabilities of modern life, according to the
Due to “enormous US pressure”, the diplomatic process between Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority) will resume within three months, in Jordan, al-Hayat reports. The report is based on statements made by Jordan’s King Abdullah II who is visiting the UK. The last effort to bring the sides to the negotiating table took place in […]
For around $50, a person can download software that can continuously track the whereabouts of someone better than any private detective. It’s frighteningly easy and effective in an age when
Graffiti using profanity on a monastery gate in the Valley of the Cross area of Jerusalem has sounded an alarm for police and state officials. In the latest attack, the vandals, who also wrote “Happy Chanukah”, slashed the tires of three vehicles parked at the location. A similar attack occurred two months ago, that time […]
Thousands of people took part in a hadlokas neiros Chanukah in Kever Yosef HaTzaddik in PA (Palestinian Authority)-occupied Shechem on the fifth night. The event was arranged by the Shomron Regional Council and the One Shechem organization, in coordination with the IDF. Council head Gershon Mesika went outside of the tziyun to drink a l’chaim […]
Israel is deeply concerned by the latest launching of a long-range missile by North Korea in defiance of the relevant UN Security Council Resolutions. The Foreign Minister released the following
New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission has approved a plan that will let riders use their smartphones to “e-hail” yellow cabs. Under the plan approved Thursday, downloaded apps will
The world’s most popular online mapping system returned late Wednesday with the release of the Google Maps iPhone app. The release comes nearly three months after Apple Inc. replaced Google
Over 60 soccer players, many from the English Premier League and other first division teams in Europe, recently called upon UEFA to rescind its agreement to hold the upcoming Under
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) denounced the Bolivian case against Jacob Ostreicher and called for his immediate release. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Nadler called the Bolivian conduct around the case “a serious miscarriage of justice,” and again called on the Administration to push Bolivian authorities to provide justice for […]
A film about a Polish village whose residents help massacre their Jewish neighbors in World War Two has forced Poles to confront one of the most troubling episodes of their past. Most historians take the view that during the war the vast majority of Christian Poles were victims of the Nazi aggression that killed millions of Jews. […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of HaRav Shmuel Elchonon Brog ZATZAL. Rav Brog was a Maggid Shiur at Yeshiva Chaim Berlin for many decades, where he was
Bayit HaYehudi leader Naftali Bennett plans to be a significant player in the 19th Knesset and he is not willing to settle for being a member of the opposition or
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner charged on Thursday that the White House seems willing to “slow-walk our economy right up to – and over – the
In a major event, with general elections just weeks away on 11 Shevat 5773, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein announced on Thursday afternoon, 29 Kislev 5773 that he plans to move
Speaking to Kol Chai Radio on Wednesday night, the eve of 29 Kislev, Rav Amnon Yitzchak, who heads the Power to Influence Party, stated he is not competing with Shas, “But Shas is competing with me and they are scared to death”. Rav Yitzchak explained “the people don’t want a traditional Sephardi party that addresses […]
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has announced that he plans to move ahead with a criminal indictment against Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who heads the Yisrael Beitenu Party. The announcement came
The arrest by police of the head of Asra Kadisha, HaRav Dovid Smeidal is not going away for the time being. Notices decrying the actions of the “Zionist police” in the name of the Union of Rabbis from the USA and Canada and other organizations are being distributed. One such poster is signed by a […]
A chareidi male in his 20s was assaulted by three Arabs, 16 and 17-year-olds, as he made his way to the Kosel on Wednesday night the eve of 29 Kislev
The head of NATO said on Thursday he thought the government of President Bashar al-Assad was nearing collapse, and condemned the use by Assad’s forces of Scud missiles to attack
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