Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin has called on bringing limudei gemara to the state’s public schools. His comments were part of his bracha to those completing the 12th cycle of limud Shas Bavli. Rivlin stated “Last week we marked the siyum of shas in many Jewish communities around the world, those studying daf yomi, a 7.5 […]
It’s bein hazmanim and the children are home, and for many residents in Elad it was less than pleasant when faucets ran dry on Monday night. Many homes were left without water on Monday night the eve of 19 Menachem Av 5772. It began on Monday night at about 21:00, when families began realizing the […]
Military police earlier in the week arrived at the homes of three talmidei yeshiva during the predawn hours to arrest them for not reporting to the military draft. Residents of
The Breslov campaign to subsidize tickets to Uman for Rosh Hashanah is attracting many people, as over 9,000 tickets have already been sold. On Monday night, the community’s leader Rabbi Eliezer Berlind Shlita left for the U.S. where he hopes to raise significant funding to assist in covering the cost of the Uman Rosh Hashanah […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Last week 26 doctors, nurses and hospital administrators from 20 countries arrived at Rambam Health Care Campus for a unique seminar. The two-week course, held in conjunction with Israel’s Foreign Ministry has a simple – and essential – goal: to share Rambam’s rich experience and knowhow in treating trauma victims with […]
The Muslim Brotherhood is blaming Israel’s Mossad Intelligence Agency for the Kerem Shalom terror attack which claimed the lives of 16 Egyptian policemen in a Sinai base. These words were echoed by Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza. The terror organizations are trying to sell their theory, that Israel is responsible for the attack […]
The head of the Ohz V’Hadar enterprise HaRav Yehoshua Laufer Shlita visited Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita on Monday morning. Rav Laufer presented the gadol hador with a new text from Ohz V’Hadar. According to a shtieble.net report, Rav Yosef expressed interest in the project, culminating with the Rav Ovadia showering Rav Laufer with […]
The Federal Aviation Administration said a small plane violated Presidential airspace Monday night. Two F-15 fighter jets were scrambled to escort the homemade aircraft to MacArthur Airport in Islip. The
A hachnasas Sefer Torah is scheduled for Tuesday evening 19 Menachem Av 5772 in Beis Medrash Tifferes Yaakov – Laluv in Kiryas Yifei Nof Beit Shemesh, in the presence of the rebbe shlita. The Sefer Torah was donated by the mispallalim of the beis medrash who wished to take part in the mitzvah ???? ???? […]
Mitt Romney will be back in New Jersey this week for a fundraiser in Lakewood hosted by attorney Larry Bathgate II and Ocean County GOP Chairman George Gilmore. The Romney
UPDATE 12:00AM EST: The missing person has been found. Flatbush Shomrim has launched a search for a missing person seen in the attached photo (PHOTO REMOVED). He is missing since
Ten years after being seriously wounded in a bombing attack in Karnei Shomron, Shira Chazan, today 25, completed the first portion of Israel Police training academy as she hopes to
TGI has published its findings pertaining to the circulation of Israel’s chareidi dailies & weeklies. The survey compares the past year (July 2011 – June 2012) compared to the year 2011 as a whole, this trend can be seen in changes that occurred during the past six months. Yated Ne’eman Hebrew emerges the victor with […]
Thousands of people were scrambling to book tickets with El Al Airlines to Israel, Monday morning, after tickets appeared online for less than $400 round-trip. The tickets appeared on Orbitz,
The following is from the Post Gazette: An Orthodox rabbi from Pittsburgh has filed a federal lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Board of Funeral Directors and two other state officials, saying
IDF soldiers along Israel’s border with Syria on shabbos shot and wounded a would-be Syrian infiltrator along the southern Golan Heights fence. The soldiers opened fire when they detected the man cutting the barbed wire at the border at 15:20 after he ignored verbal orders to halt. In line with open fire orders they fired […]
The following message is dated August 3, 2012. U.S. citizens are encouraged to take precautions in travel to the Sinai. There have been multiple kidnappings in the Sinai of U.S.
Just a few days ago, YWN published an article about a driver who drove his vehicle off a cliff while texting, and now, the NY Daily News is reporting about
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz on Tuesday visited the Kerem Shalom area, where he was briefed by Brigadier-General Tal Russo on the terror attack at the crossing point
Philanthropist Sami Rohr z”l was niftar on Sunday, 17 Menachem Av 5772. The niftar was in his 80s, Chabad Online reports. Rohr, who found his financial success in real estate, donated tens of millions of dollars to batei Chabad around the world, undertaking the establishment of many mosdos in the former Soviet Union and other […]
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