The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, in conjunction with the Ocean County Association of Chiefs of Police, announced today a simple yet effective way to drive home the message to drivers of automobiles who text while driving endanger other persons using the roads as well as expose themselves to serious criminal consequences. Noting that New Jersey […]

The drought that’s drying up the Heartland isn’t just an American problem. It’s causing food prices to surge worldwide. Food prices jumped 6% in July, after three months of declines,

Unwilling to accept the appointment of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu as the head of Magen David Adom’s Vaad Rabbonim, Israel’s Reform Movement is challenging the appointment. Seeking to influence the major contributors that the appointment of the Chief Sephardi Rabbi of Tzfas is not appropriate, the Reform leaders sent a letter to ARMDI (American Friends of […]

The Knesset Health Committee approved a bill seeking to reduce the price charged for calling an ambulance if the patient is not transported to hospital. The new arrangement will set

A federal review cites poor judgment by a security guard who found a bag outside a government building in Detroit last year and stashed it under a desk where it

Everything in the world is from G-d. Everything that happens is His will. We all have challenges, but G-d gives us the strength to overcome these challenges. My wife Esther,

Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today announced the guilty plea of Levi Aron, 36, to Murder in the Second Degree and Kidnapping in the Second degree. He will receive a sentence of 40 years to life in prison when he is sentenced on August 29, 2012. “With this guilty plea, I hope the […]

The following are Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s remarks as delivered at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens this morning, following the shooting of an NYPD Officer: “I’m here tonight with Police Commissioner Kelly, District Attorney Richard Brown, Chief of Internal Affairs Charles Campisi, Chief James Secreto is the CO of Queens South, Deputy Chief of […]

The following story is circulating in the chareidi media throughout Eretz Yisrael. A well-known Yerushalayim talmid chacham bought a pair of tefillin 18 years ago. After 12 years, after one

The following is an official statement given to YWN by El Al: EL AL Israel Airlines is announcing that the tickets which were purchased on a variety of travel internet

The following was written by Phil Stilton in the Jackson Family Magazine. In his article he rips the media for their inaccurate reporting when Mitt Romney visited Lakewood, Wednesday evening. A few strange things happened at Mitt Romney’s visit to Lakewood Township today, where guests dropped $1,000 each to see the candidate. The motorcade did come crashing […]

In an interview with Israel’s Reshet Bet Radio Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday, denied reports that Israel received a warning message from the United States, with the latter receiving the warning from Saudi Arabia. The reports stated Israeli fighter planes entering its airspace would be shot down if Israel tries to launch a military […]

MK (Ichud HaLeumi) Prof. Aryeh Eldad is sponsoring a Har HaBayis bill, seeking to legislate a law that will guarantee Jewish rights to daven on Har HaBayis on certain prearranged days. He feels an arrangement that is similar to the Ma’aras HaMachpela would be the correct direction to take. Eldad envisions a law that would […]

HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita has canceled his kabolas khal for this week, adding the time to his daily limud Torah, explaining this is the ultimate ????? ???? that he

Terrorists have learned there are more way to perpetrate terrorism against Israel than shooting and bombs, and this summer, one of the methods that is becoming increasingly popular is arson.

Incoming tourism to Israel continues to break records; 296,000 visitors arrived in Israel in July 2012, 8% more than July 2011. Two million visitors have arrived since the beginning of the year – 1.7 million of whom are tourists; 7% more than the same period last year. Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov: “Given the constant increase […]

As efforts continue to draft a new Tal Law alongside ‘share the burden’ protests in Israel, dozens of chareidim and non-chareidi shomer mitzvos young men will report to the Bakum Induction Center to join the ranks of Netzach Yehuda, better known as Nachal Chareidi. In the interim, Defense Minister Ehud Barak has instructed Defense Ministry […]

Thinking about rolling through that stop sign the next time nobody’s looking? Think again. On top of red-light cameras and speed cameras, some jurisdictions are starting to install stop-sign cameras in their seemingly never-ending quest to monitor drivers and catch them in the act of some ticket-able offense. California has already rolled out cameras at […]