In response to mounting requests to place geniza (shamos) bins in chareidi areas of the capital and provide funding to deal with the growing volume of geniza, Jerusalem City Hall has agreed to allocate funding. Working with chareidi city councilmen, a city’s Religious Affairs unit has formulated guidelines to deal with geniza, HaMevaser reports. 100,000 […]
YWN will be publishing our Sukkos edition newspaper this Friday morning, packed with in-depth articles, and many new features which have been added. There is also a very large special Sukkos section, guranteed to have the readers looking at the paper over and over throughout Yom Tov. Please be advised that there are still a few ad slots available […]
Zaka director Yehuda Meshi-Zahav has come a long way from his days as the Operations Officer for the Eida Chareidis, leading shabbos protests on Shmuel HaNavi Street and pelting passing
Today, Monday 8 Tishrei 5773 the Maccabi HMO is hosting its pre-Yom Kippur halachic hotline for members wishing to speak with physicians and rabbonim ahead of the fast day. Rabbonim who will be ruling on caller’s questions include HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Dovid HaCohen Gross (Rav Chassidei Gur and Badatz Ashdod), HaGaon HaRav Moshe Schlesinger (Director […]
Addressing the tzibur on motzei Shabbos Shuva, HaGaon HaRav Nissim Karelitz Shlita explained there are those among us who are confident they will not fall prey to the pitfalls of
Drivers should consider using mass transit this week as the UN General Assembly gets under way which includes an appearance by President Barack Obama who has a full slate of
[VIDEO & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] As Yom Kippur approaches, yidden all over Eretz Yisroel start their preparations for sukkos, be it buy schach and decorations or even assembling their
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Speaking to America’s 60 Minutes, US President Barak Obama made his position clear regarding calls from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s call to the US to place “red lines” in place regarding Iran’s nuclear program as “Israel’s noise”. “When it comes to our national security decisions, any pressure that I feel is […]
While details are not being released as the police investigation into the case continues, the Sefer Torah stolen from the Erlau Beis Medrash in the Katamon neighborhood of Yerushalayim on
[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Anyone unfamiliar with the Jewish customs of tashlich and kapparos who happened to take a drive through Lakewood, NJ this week would have been left very
Whatever one’s feelings, the verdict handed down on Monday, 8 Tishrei 5773 by the Jerusalem District Court against former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is the talk of the political community. The court detailed the severity of the guilty verdict on “breach of trust”, betraying his oath of office, but ultimately, the sentence handed down in […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Today, Monday, 8 Tishrei 5773 marks the second yahrzeit of the Lelover Rebbe zt”l whose kever is on Har HaZeisim. At 16:00, the rebbe’s sons shlita will hold a central tefilla at the tziyun. Egged announces it will increase the frequency of the 51 bus to accommodate those wishing to travel […]
[VIDEO & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Be it shlugging kaparos in the streets of Yerushalayim, or preparing the new Beis Medrash of Bnei Hayeshivos in Ramat Eshkol for Yom Kippur,
[VIDEO & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Talmidim from the Rishon Letzion Shuvu junior high school got a special treat during aseres yomei teshuva – a visit to Maran HaRav Shteinman
It appears that the IDF soldiers who were ambushed at the Egyptian border on Erev Shabbos were trying to see to the needs of Africans seeking to cross the border. One of the officers responsible for the border force is quoted anonymously by the daily Yediot Achronot saying “With all due respect to the needs […]
In the erev shabbos Yated, the newspaper had harsh words for the Tov Party, the so-called “new chareidim” as they have been dubbed in Eretz Yisrael, accusing them of distancing themselves from gedolei yisrael and being too modern. The column is viewed as a response to the report of the new seminary in Yerushalayim, ????? […]
There were literally thousands of objections to the plan to construct 1,800 housing units in Ramat Beit Shemesh Gimmel-2, but those are now a thing of the past and the
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Early in the 2012 campaign season, predictions were that a major film would reach theaters in the fall, shine a spotlight on one of the presidential candidates, and possibly influence the outcome of the election. And that’s how it happened, except the movie wasn’t “Zero Dark Thirty,” the surefire Hollywood blockbuster […]
This Brooklyn Dem is seeing red. Simcha Felder, running for a hotly contested state Senate seat against Republican incumbent David Storobin, is hammering out a deal to caucus with the GOP if elected, insiders said. “He will go to the highest bidder — which is ironic because he is running for Carl Kruger’s seat,” said […]
Beit Shemesh officials are quite concerned after learning the Finance Ministry plans to cancel a planned 800 million NIS allocation to redo Route 38, the main access road to the
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