The hostilities between Israel and Hamas have found a new battleground: social media. The Israeli Defense Forces and Hamas militants have exchanged fiery tweets throughout the fighting in a separate
Egypt’s prime minister prepared to visit the Gaza Strip on Friday in an unprecedented display of solidarity with Hamas militants embroiled in a new escalation of conflict with Israel that
A federal grand jury has indicted a 21-year-old man on charges in connection with a plot to blow up the Federal Reserve in Lower Manhattan. The U.S. Attorney’s office says
The CIA on Thursday said it had opened an “exploratory” investigation into the conduct of its former director David Petraeus, who resigned last week in disgrace. “At the CIA we
The following statement was made by Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday evening, the eve of 2 Kislev 5773. Citizens of Israel, we are now 28 hours into Operation Pillar of Defense. The IDF has dealt a severe blow to Hamas and its terror infrastructure. In the last twenty four hours, over 250 rockets have […]
Egypt’s Islamist president may hail from the fiercely anti-Israeli Muslim Brotherhood, an ally of Gaza’s Hamas rulers. But in his first major crisis over Israel, he is adopting a stance
Defense Minister Ehud Barak, signaling stronger Israeli military action against Hamas terrorists, said on Thursday they would be made to pay a price for firing rockets toward Tel Aviv. He
As sirens sounded in Tel Aviv just now and residents scrambled for shelter, many New Yorkers were immediately transported back to the worst days of first Gulf War, when the fear of missiles landing in Israels largest city turned into reality. I was in Israel in January of 2009 and witnessed first-hand the terror of […]
TheEmergency Sandy Chesed Fundadvisory committee says that thanks to your donations through YWN, over $80,000 has already been distributed to 73 families for their immediate needs. There are many more in the pipeline, but funds are running out.To date we have raised approximately $130,000.00. Dozens of families have been completely wiped out by the storm […]
As the month of Kislev comes in, with Chanukah fast approaching, consumers start thinking of what to buy as gifts for their friends, co-workers, and loved ones. Cookbooks have always
Oil giant BP says it has agreed to pay $4.5 billion in a wide-ranging settlement with the U.S. government over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The
Three Lubavitchers have been killed in a grad rocket attack on a Chabad neighborhood of Kiryat Malachi, Israel Thursday morning. The victims were identified as 49-year-old Ahron Smadga, Yitzchak Amsalam,
The U.S. Postal Service posted a record net loss of $15.9 billion in fiscal 2012, much of it due to massive payments the mail agency could not make but still
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi condemned Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip as unacceptable on Thursday, in his harshest public criticism of Egypt’s neighbour since taking office in June. Mursi’s
Sixty years after a landmark accord started German government compensation for victims of Nazi crimes, fund administrators and German officials say payments to Holocaust survivors are needed more than ever as they enter their final years. Most Holocaust survivors experienced extreme trauma as children, suffered serious malnutrition, and lost almost all of their relatives […]
Three people were killed as a result of the Grad rocket attack on Kiryat Malachi Thursday morning, all of them Lubavitchers living in the Chabad neighborhood. The three were killed during or within minutes of the attack, after efforts to save them failed. UPDATE 5:36PM IL:It is now permitted to release the names of the […]
11:30AM EST: Computer problems affecting some United Continental Holdings Inc flights have been resolved, the airline said in a posting to its official Twitter feed on Thursday. “Our system is
[UPDATE IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] It is now clear that a rocket has exploded in the Rishon LTzion area, marking an increase in the warfare with Hamas, now shifting from the south to Central Israel. There are reports of explosions in Cholon, Rishon LTzion, Beer Yaakov and Bat Yam. It is entirely possible that a rocket […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, this afternoon, Thursday Rosh Chodesh Kislev 5773, issued the following statement to the foreign press: “In recent days and weeks, Hamas and the other terrorist organizations
With the situation in Eretz Yisrael growing increasingly perilous, many bnei Torah are seeking the advice of gedolim to know what to do, how to act/react. As Operation Defensive Pillar
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