While there have been recent events signaling the possibility of elections for the chief rabbis of Yerushalayim, it is unlikely that this election will be held anytime soon. While it
[UPDATES IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Flights are being delayed as workers in Ben-Gurion International Airport launched a wildcat strike during the busiest period of the year. At tens of thousands of yomtov travelers are making their way to Uman, 770 and other destinations, employees at the nation’s airport decided to launch a job action. They are […]
More than 280 graduates, their family members and friends joined together at the Rabbinical College of America in New Jersey to celebrate the hard work and dedication of a group
Secretary Panetta, General Dempsey, members of our Armed Forces, and most importantly, to the families –survivors and loved ones — of those we lost, Michelle and I are humbled to
A fatal vehicular accident occurred on Monday afternoon near Herodian in the eastern Gush Etzion area. Dr. Shira Abramson A”H, a resident of Tekoa was killed in the accident. The
A large crowd was on hand at the Kosel on Monday night the eve of 24 Elul 5772 to join in with rabbonim affiliated with the dati leumi tzibur in
S.D., the secret state witness in the Holyland real estate trial against former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday, brought new faces into the trial arena, telling the court he gave money to Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita via Shas mosdos. Interestingly, in Monday’s testimony, 23 Elul, the witness admitted lying earlier, referring to […]
[SEE UPDATE IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] It is exactly eleven years ago when that moment in history changed the world for ever. Of course, when it happened, many of us knew we’d never forget that day. Yet time dulls even the most painful memories. And this year, eleven years after the attacks, the commemoration which takes […]
FROM THE YWN ARCHIVES: [VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] It’s a heart-breaking bird’s eye view of New York’s darkest day. As we mark a decade after the 9/11 attacks, a powerful 17-minute video taken from an NYPD helicopter on that fateful day surfaced on the Web not long ago. Obtained by the National Institute of Standards and […]
FROM THE YWN ARCHIVES: The following are excerpts of a Wall Street Journal article, and re-posted from the YWN archives: FIVE FLOORS ABOVE, Shimmy Biegeleisen phoned his wife from his office at money-management firm Fiduciary Trust International Inc. “There’s been an explosion next door,” the 42-year-old vice president said. “Don’t worry. I’m OK.” After a […]
FROM THE YWN ARCHIVES: The following is from Jewish Action: When the terror attack occurred, Avremel was fifty-five; his friend Ed, a quadriplegic, was forty-two. Both worked at Empire Blue
FROM THE YWN ARCHIVES: [VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Former President George W. Bush outlines for the first time in a new documentary how events unfolded for him following the 9-11
In the shadow of stepped-up terrorist activities in Sinai and a new Egyptian leadership, one viewed as increasingly sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian intelligence officials have released a warning of planned attacks against the Israeli and American Embassies in Cairo. According to the report appearing in the al-Masry al-Youm newspaper on Tuesday, the Global […]
State investigators are finally going after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. The Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which had been under fire for investigating only Assemblyman Vito Lopez in the wake of the Brooklyn boss’s harassment scandal, approved an expanded investigation Monday into Silver’s handling of the fallout, sources told the Daily News. Commission Chairwoman Janet […]
With Rosh Hashanah approaching police in the southern city of Eilat are busy with many acts of chessed, acts directed at the city’s senior citizen population. Staff-Sergeants Roni Oknin, Tal Simchi and Yair Cohen are quite busy in fact, addressing the security and safety needs of the city’s elderly population towards educating resident to permit […]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited a Harlem church on Sunday to talk about the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy and agreed with the suggestion that parents could prevent crime by frisking their
Yana Gorelik, the 30-year-old visiting Canadian who arrived for a family wedding has found herself behind military bars. Yana, who is also Israeli, was arrested and thrown into military prison
The Obama campaign has finally notched a win in its money war with Mitt Romney. The president’s campaign, combined with the Democratic National Committee, raised more than $114 million in August, narrowly topping the Romney camp’s haul for the first time since April. Romney and the GOP raised roughly $111.6 million in August. In a […]
GoDaddy, the massive Web hosting company, went down on Monday, taking an untold number of websites with it. A person affiliated with the hacking collective Anonymous — named @AnonymousOwn3r on
Assemblyman Dov Hikind is facing his first challenge from a frum Jew in recent memory. Moshe Tischler, a student a Touro College is challenging the powerful Assemblyman in Thursday’s Democratic
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