The following is via the WSJ: On the map showing the dozens of bike-share stations that will soon freckle northwestern Brooklyn, there is just one neighborhood-size void in the network: the ultra-Orthodox Jewish enclave of South Williamsburg. It won’t be the first time religious residents in the area, many of whom are members of the […]
Motorists might not need change to travel the Garden State Parkway. Officials are exploring whether to switch to a cashless toll collection system as early as next summer. The New
Giant aquariums now soothe pediatric patients at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. It has added welcome signs in 10 languages, a state-of-the-art cardiac operating room and programs to keep chronically
Yassam commando police raided Batei Warsaw on Sunday, arriving at the home of Shalom Baruch Rust, a known head of the sikrikim and an activist in the ongoing control dispute
Sen. Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants and a rapidly rising Republican star, emerged this weekend as the clear favorite of conservative activists to be the GOP vice-presidential nominee,
Employees of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem were shocked upon arrival at work on Monday morning. The entrance of the Holocaust memorial site was targeted in a vandalism attack and graffiti including “Thanks Hitler for the Holocaust”, “The Zionist leaders wanted the Holocaust” and the “Global Zionist mafia”. The graffiti was written in […]
The crash happened before his eyes, but for Jacob Stevens all that remains is the sound: the wrenching noise of the Honda sedan as it slammed into his wife, Clara
It is abundantly clear that in the case of the Ulpana neighborhood in Beit El the government is at fault, meaning the national government along with local officials. Beit El
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that Americans should be “deeply disturbed” over recent leaks detailing administration actions on drone and special forces strikes and said the appointment of two
A potential blockbuster deal would sell the highly desired 12-acre Domino Sugar Factory site to DUMBO’s Two Trees Management Co., the Daily News has learned. The tentative price tag of more than $160 million would give the company control of perhaps the best piece of East River property left in the city — and some […]
Hosni Mubarak is slipping in and out of consciousness eight days after the ousted Egyptian leader was sent to prison to begin serving a life sentence, a security official said
Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita released a message to directors of mosdot connected to Shas’ educational network, stating in no uncertain terms that if a student acts in an unacceptable fashion, the school may not expel the child. The gadol hador’s comments come after a former talmid of a yeshiva who was expelled took […]
HaGaon HaRav Nissim Karelitz Shlita released a p’sak halacha that today, 20 Sivan, is not a preferred day to hold a chupah. The gadol explained in past years, this was a day to remember difficult gezeiros, mentioning the ‘Tach V’tat’ massacres and the blood libel in the time of Rabbeinu Tam. A member of the […]
Last week, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee held a hearing on Human Rights Concerns in Bolivia: The Case of American Jacob Ostreicher. A number of U.S. lawmakers have joined Ostreicher’s family in saying that the U.S. State Department has not provided an adequate response to Ostreicher’s incarceration. Jacob Ostreicher is a 53 year old […]
Graffiti including “Death to Arabs”, “Regarding from Ulpana” and “Regards from Gilad Farm” was left on vehicles and the N’vei Shalom (Wahat al-Salam) School. The tires of a number of vehicles were slashed as well in the erev Shabbos vandalism attack in the mixed community where Jews and Arabs reside. The community situated near Latrun […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petirah of Rebbetzin Sarah Kreiswirth A”H, who was Niftar this morning in Lakewood. Rebbetzin Kreiswirth A”H, is the wife of Hagaon Reb Chaim
Forbes Israel addresses the rabbinical dynasties in Eretz Yisrael; an enterprise which it states “turns billions of NIS annually”. Leading the list is the Abuchatzera family. HaRav Pinchas Abuchatzera, 36, the great-grandson of Baba Sali has an estimated worth of 1.3 billion NIS, most coming from the inheritance from his father Rav Elazar who was […]
[AUDIO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Brooklyn – Mayor Ed Koch, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Assemblyman Dov Hikind, Councilman David G. Greenfield, Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein, Councilman Michael Nelson, Councilman Brad Lander and other elected officials and community leaders will hold a press conference on Monday, June 11 at 9:00 a.m. at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan […]
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