Shas leader and Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai has called on Israel Police to protect rabbonim. The statement came following the Sunday night (November 13th) stun grenade attack outside the

Brooklyn – Councilman David Greenfield will host a community safety forum with representatives of the NYPD and the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office at 7pm tonight in response to Friday’s hate

On September 12th, in a media event, Google maps announced it was beginning to photograph Israeli streets towards inclusion in its global database. YWN-ISRAEL reported the project was already approved

In his remarks marking the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, 16 Cheshvan, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made reference to the IAEA report released last week, which he

Tonight, Monday, November 14, 2011, marks the end of the shiva for Mir Rosh Yeshiva HaGaon HaRav Nosson Tzvi Finkel ZT”L. An azkara will be held in the yeshiva. Among

On Monday morning, HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita visited the kever of his rebitzen, Batsheva Esther A”H, in the Zichron Meir Beis HaChaim on the outskirts of Bnei Brak. Today

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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to President Obama’s signature law on health care, it said Monday in an announcement that has nearly as much impact on partisan

[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] A black bear has been roaming the street of a Monsey neighborhood for weeks, and concerned residents say the police have done nothing to protect them

President Obama didn’t rule out a military option with Iran to deal with its nuclear program at a press conference Sunday. He said that sanctions have had “enormous bite and

When United recently announced that it would install inflight Internet on all its mainline aircraft beginning next year, it might not have seemed like a big deal. After all, airlines

Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released Hate Crime Statistics, 2010 based on information submitted by law enforcement agencies throughout the nation. These data indicate that 6,628 criminal incidents involving

Small business owners in Lower Manhattan are planning a counter-protest Monday against the Occupy Wall Street crowd. They say the motley crew hanging around Zuccotti Park is destroying their businesses.

Prominent journalist Akiva Novik spoke with Kol Chai Radio’s Mordechai Lavi on Monday morning, 17 Cheshvan, providing details on the attack on the home of Rabbi Yeshayahu Pinto Shlita. The

[LETTER FROM EIDA IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Eida Chareidis affiliated rabbonim convened in special session on Sunday night; the eve of 17 Cheshvan to discuss what they feel is the alarming

Fed up with a decade of the police spying on the innocuous details of the daily lives of Muslims, activists in New York are discouraging people from going directly to

IDF investigators have already determined that the soldier who opened fire at a suspicious vehicle on Friday morning and killed Otniel resident Rabbi Dan Martzbach z”l, 55, did not act

Hawaii – President Barack Obama says the interrogation technique known as waterboarding constitutes torturing, disputing Republican presidential candidates who say they would reinstate the practice. Obama called waterboarding “torture” and

As President Obama seeks out a reluctant China and Russia to help press Iran on ending its nuclear program, one Republican senator said he’d be willing to take the U.S.