Thanks to the Williamsburg Shomrim (WSPU) Patrol, two suspects were arrested early Tuesday morning, while trying to break into the Aron Hakodesh (Holy Ark) in the Vishnitzer Shul in Williamsburg.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Dr. Yuval Steinitz and Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich on Monday, presented the reform of the nation’s fire service. In the framework of the reform, a national fire and rescue service will be established to replace the local fire services in the local authorities; the fire service budget will […]

Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz a short time ago announced his party’s decision to resign from the coalition government after reaching an impasse regarding efforts to draft a law to address chareidi conscription. Following are excerpts from his remarks. I was willing to make major concessions but had red lines and time simply ran out. […]

The avreichim seriously injured in a motor vehicle accident on erev shabbos while traveling from Betar Illit to Beit Shemesh are reportedly doing better. A total of seven people were

A few short weeks after Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz accepted the post of deputy prime minister, signing a coalition agreement, the party is once again heading for the opposition benches. Mofaz’s move was not received with enthusiasm by many Kadima members who felt he should have gone to the polls, but the party leader was […]

An attack against an Israel Air Force deputy squadron commander of the rank of major by soldiers on an air force base has caused more than a stir on that

Jerusalem District Labor Court Justice Daniel Goldberg ruled that a chareidi male who did Sheirut Ezrachi in a facility working with special needs individuals does not qualify for the preferred

A London-bound passenger plane had to divert to Canada while halfway across the Atlantic after dropping more than 20,000 feet. Passengers said the aircraft suddenly ‘dipped like a ferry’ and

Moshe Feiglin, who heads the Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction in Likud, is calling for a rally to demand an end to religious discrimination against Jews on Har HaBayis. “Recently, Israel Police have prohibited 18 mispallalim, among them Temple Institute founder Rabbi Yisrael Ariel from ascending to Har HaBayis. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has already […]

The European Jewish Congress called on the Hungarian Government and authorities to immediately locate and arrest Laszlo Csatary, who is suspected of playing a key role in the deportation of over 15,000 Jews to Auschwitz in 1944, many of whom were subsequently murdered. “The Hungarian Government has a moral responsibility to do all it can […]

President Obama is weaning himself off his teleprompter. At recent campaign events in Pennsylvania, Virginia and again Monday in Ohio, Obama spoke to crowds in high school gymnasiums and at

The FBI says it has launched an investigation into the discovery of sewing needles in four turkey sandwiches on separate Delta Air Lines flights from Amsterdam to the United States.

Yahadut HaTorah released a statement firmly opposing ongoing efforts to draft chareidim into the IDF or national service. The chareidi party explains that it opposes efforts to introduce the chareidi

The Chukas Mishpat Beis Din in Ashdod has come out against the city’s separate beach since the passage to the modest swim area is open and the immodesty is in full view of all to see. The beis din released a notice to the tzibur that one should not visit the beach since one cannot […]

Elchanan Ostrowitz is not expressing remorse for the graffiti price tag attack against Yad Vashem, as was reported by YWN-ISRAEL. Defense attorney Yair Nehorai appealed on behalf of his client to the Jerusalem District Court to have his client released on bail to house arrest after the magistrate’s court rejected the request. Ostrowitz reportedly explained […]

After 64 years of operation, the print edition of the daily Maariv newspaper is about to become history. Israel’s Journalist Association is challenging the move and a hearing will be held later in the week in a labor court but it appears that the Maariv print edition joins the growing number of print newspapers unable […]

If diplomatic achievements were measured by the number of countries visited, Hillary Clinton would be the most accomplished secretary of state in history. While historians will debate and eventually rate

A JetBlue pilot suffered a minor eye injury Sunday when a laser pointer shone into the plane, the airline confirmed. Officials said a green laser shone through the windshield of

Residents in one Brooklyn neighborhood say their streets are overrun with raccoons that are creating a health hazard by spreading trash across entire city blocks and leaving behind piles of droppings that host parasitic roundworms, according to a published report. Now the Greenwood Heights community wants the city to intervene. “You go outside expecting to […]

A number of avreichim traveling home before neitz on eretz shabbos, from Betar Illit to Beit Shemesh were involved in a motor vehicle accident near Nes Harim. Some of the