When disaster strikes, phone and Internet service often takes a hit, right when its needed the most. Here are some tips for communicating with emergency services and loved ones as Sandy collides with the East Coast: – Cellphones may work even if the power goes out, but you cant count on them. The phones themselves, […]
A superstorm that sent water rushing onto city streets has left a large swath of the lower part of Manhattan without power. Consolidated Edison spokesman Chris Olert said Monday evening
Rabbi Shay Piron, a senior personality in the Tzohar Rabbonim organization and the Petach Tikvah Hesder Yeshiva has accepted the second position on the Yesh Atid Party list headed by
Almost all the chareidi media this past shabbos, 11 Cheshvan 5773 carried a story on the first yahrzeit of legendary Mir Rosh Yeshiva HaGaon HaRav Nosson Tzvi Finkel ZTL. The actual yahrzeit was on shabbos, and family members and talmidim visited the late rosh yeshivas kever on erev shabbos. Surprisingly, the only chareidi newspaper/magazine not […]
For some homeowners, the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy could bring a whole second round of troubles. After the storm passes, they may have to negotiate with their insurers to get the cash they need to repair wind and water damage. Homeowners insurance companies have gotten tougher as weather has become more cataclysmic. Theyve raised rates, […]
A young man in his 20s who presented an American passport to officials at Tel Avivs Montefiore Hotel spent shabbos behind bars after he was not able to raise the funds for bail. The story began on Wednesday, 8 Cheshvan 5773 when the young man checked into the hotel. He went to the book a […]
Consolidated Edison Inc, the New York City power provider, warned customers in lower Manhattan it may shut down power on Monday evening as Hurricane Sandy barrels toward the East Coast.
** MK (Ichud Leumi) Dr. Michael Ben-Ari has been ousted from the party and will be running under and independent ticket with Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben-Givir, all followers of Rabbi Meir Kahane HYD. Their first election poster shows the three of them under the caption The only ones who understand Arabic. Polls show that […]
Israel would use a lot fewer cluster munitions in any future war with Hezbollah than it did in their 2006 conflict, even though it would go into southern Lebanon earlier
Authorities reported that the body of an Israeli male was found in eastern el-Arish in Sinai on Friday 10 Cheshvan 5773. The body was transported to Israeli authorities and to
Sen. John McCain claims the Obama administration might be conducting a massive cover-up with the deadly terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. On CBS News Face the Nation Sunday, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee said President Obama has been incompetent with the way he […]
Tefilos are requested for a Har Nof, Yerushalayim toddler, ????? ????? ?? ??????, who fell from a fifth floor window from his Shaulzon Street home on Sunday evening 12 Cheshvan 5773. When HaChovesh Har Nof EMS personnel arrived on the scene the child was conscious and Bchasdei Hashem is listed in moderate condition, not worse. […]
HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein Shlita visited the community of Elad on erev shabbos, 10 Cheshvan 5773. The gadol was received warmly by talmidim as he visited mosdos in the city.
The following was sent to YWN by the Achiezer Organization: We have been strongly advised that noone should attempt evacuating at this point. Numerous roadways are closed, or flooded out.
This chareidi gold dealer from Europe had good reason to bench gomel as he emerged from a life-threatening situation unscathed. According to the Chadrei Chareidim report, the chareidi businessman is
This attached photo was taken just a few minutes ago, on Monday afternoon, in Lawrence NY. It shows a few Yeshiva boys, playing in their flooded street with a boat, and swimming in the flood waters. They perhaps areunawarethat should a live wire hit the water, they be electrocuted. Just look to the last hurricane, […]
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney were virtually tied in a Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll released on Monday, with the Democrat leading by a single percentage point eight days
[PHOTOS IN EXTENDEDARTICLE] As the first yartzheit of HaRav Nosson Tzvi Finkel ZT”L fell out this year on Shabbos, the Mir Yeshiva in Yerushalayim marked the yartzheit with a visit to his kever on Har HaMenuchos on erev shabbos to recite tehilim followed by a siyum hashas melave malka in the yeshiva on motzei shabbos […]
Rockland Hatzolah has just contacted YWN to please disseminate the following important information, and request that people in all neighborhoods of NY pleasereadit as well. Not wanting a repeat of a recent incident where the emergency lines to Rockland County Hatzolah were down for a few hours, an emergency backup number was set up to […]
In past years, organizers of the Yitzchak Rabin memorial contemplated canceling the event rather than face the embarrassment of the waning participation. One of the events set for this motzei
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