The number of stop-and-frisks conducted by cops plummeted by an astonishing 34 percent between the first and second quarters of the year, The Post has learned. A city official with
The price of regular unleaded gasoline along New Jersey toll roads went up Friday morning for the fourth straight week after 10 weeks of decline. The price of regular unleaded
Mitt Romney lashed back at Harry Reid on Thursday in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, saying the Senate majority leader needs to “put up or shut up” after
An immense Kiddush Hashem took place on Wednesday evening as law enforcement officials witnessed firsthand the derech eretz and simchah with which the crowd of nearly 100,000 Yidden conducted themselves at the Siyum HaShas at New Jersey’s Met Life Stadium. Chief Christopher Trucillo of the New Jersey Transit System shared with Misaskim the positive impression […]
A college student from Texas believes he is lucky to be alive after a terrible crash. He was texting and driving when his truck flew off of a cliff. Chance
Trucks will be out spraying parts of Staten Island and Queens in an effort to reduce the risk of West Nile virus. Spraying will begin at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, weather
Deputy Health Minister (Yahadut HaTorah) Rav Yaakov Litzman had words of praise for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu after the latter decided to exclude the Barzilai Hospital fortification project from the ministry’s budgetary cuts. The project involves building an emergency room and other areas of the hospital capable of withstanding rocket attacks from Gaza, and realizing […]
With Governor Cuomo’s signature today, Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal’s new law will crack down on violators of New York’s kosher law, whose unscrupulous actions do untold harm to New Yorkers’ closely held religious beliefs by increasing the penalties associated with fraudulent packaging, sale and certification of kosher food. Assemblymember Rosenthal introduced this legislation after the […]
A young woman has been charged with yelling harassing comments to a group of Chasidic Jews walking along the Millponds last week, a day after Monroe Village Police charged a
Sales of tobacco to minors in the U.S. reached an all-time low in 2011 under a federal and state inspection program intended to curb underage tobacco use, according to a
[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Hundreds of Netanya children today had a first hand look at the operations of Ichud Hatzalah volunteers from the Sharon District, Thursday afternoon. The children were
The IRS is paying out billions of dollars in fraudulent tax refunds to identity thieves; a problem that the tax service’s inspector general told CNBC is a “growing problem” involving numbers that are increasing “exponentially.” In a new report to be issued Thursday, the inspector general for the IRS says that tax thieves are stealing […]
In an interview with Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) host Razi Barkai on Monday, Roni Bar-Ohn, a former Kadima finance minister explained the government’s biennial state budget is not legitimate, for in essence, it is two one year budgets, adding “they put 1.25 billion aside for the Knesset Finance Committee [headed by MK Rav Moshe Gafne] […]
The Emergency Committee for Israel, a combative conservative group, is set to release a sharp-edged new ad targeting older Jewish voters in Florida over the Obama administration’s lack of clarity
F.B.I. agents on a hunt for leakers have interviewed current and former high-level government officials from multiple agencies in recent weeks, casting a distinct chill over press coverage of national
HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita gave a warm bracha to Dr. Avishai Yakobowitz, who heads the Clalit HMO women’s services in Modi’in Illit. A special time was set aside for the doctor to meet with the gadol hador as the HMO boasts increasing medical services for the women of the torah community, including increased clinic […]
A vehicle returning to Camp Ruach Chaim in the Catskills from the Siyum HaShas at MetLife Stadium, was involved in a serious crash, early Thursday morning. CatskillScoop.com reports that a total of 9 people were inside the mini-van which was travelling on Route 17 near Exit 114, when it collided with a tractor-trailer. Catskills Hatzolah was dispatched to […]
With Tal Law expired chareidi teens will receive their first draft notice at the age of 16.5-years-old along with the general population. This compels future inductees to begin the process,
The FBI, for the the first time, has admitted publicly that it knew the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was returning to the US in October 2002 and that an
[VIDEO & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] For the past few days, YWN has been publishing hundreds of photos and videos from dozens of Siyumei HaShas from around the globe, and this morning we present you with the largest gallery yet. Our photographers have worked through the night, and we have loaded more than two thousand photos […]
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