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The Wal-Mart store in the Town of Thompson has failed its fifth consecutive state Department of Agriculture and Markets inspection. As a result, there will be a state hearing in Albany next Wednesday to determine if the store�s food processing license will be revoked. The latest inspection in which the store�s food processing failed its […]

The Plesner Committee working to formulate the new law pertaining to IDF conscription is moving ahead to complete its work in time to permit passing the law by August 1,

According to a report quoting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with Bild.de, Mrs. Sara Netanyahu, the prime minister�s wife, persuaded him to support the release of 1,000 terrorists in exchange of Gilad Shalit, who was held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. In the interview with the prime minister, he is quoted as saying �She told me […]

Regarding a YWN-ISRAEL report from last week�Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef�s Shlita chair was stolen from the Yazdim Shul, Baruch Hashem the gabbai learned the chair was loaned out without his permission, leading to his panic when he realized it was not it its usual place. The chair was loaned to a prominent rav in […]

Three protestors were arrested during a stormy shabbos in the Meah Shearim area as secularist got into a confrontation with chareidim on HaNevi�im Street. According to reports, about 200 protestors were on hand to decry chilul shabbos in the capital; specifically referring to the city�s operating the Karta parking lot. The protest is a weekly […]

Two U.S. attorneys are taking over separate FBI investigations into leaks of national security information that critics have accused the White House of orchestrating to improve President Barack Obama’s re-election

“I am deeply troubled by reports this morning that a Hasidic police cadet was fired for refusing to trim his beard. While the NYPD can exercise control over the personal

A stunning reversal by federal health regulators will affect tens of thousands of people who got cancer after living and working near Ground Zero. Their treatment could soon be covered

Mitt Romney won a valuable seal of approval Thursday night when Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul endorsed him for president – even though Paul’s father, Ron Paul, has not formally withdrawn

The following is from the NY Daily News: A Hasidic recruit at the Police Academy had his dream of becoming a city cop dashed Friday � by the fuzz. Fishel Litzman, who was just a month away from receiving his shield, got the boot after he refused to trim his scraggly beard, insisting it would […]

President Barack Obama on Friday strongly rejected Republican accusations that his administration deliberately leaked classified information about a U.S cyberattack on Iran’s nuclear centrifuge program. “The notion that my White

NYS Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with Milrose Consultants, an architectural and engineering consulting firm with offices in three states, including two in New York State, for failing to reasonably accommodate the religious observance requirements of a prospective employee. After an investigation into Milrose�s practices, the Attorney General determined that the […]

There is currently a warning out to drivers: the number of red-light cameras on Long Island is about to double. But some are wondering if the cameras are there to

A federal judge gave the green light to a lawsuit against police in the arrests of 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters last year on the Brooklyn Bridge. Judge Jed Rakoff

A pair of new national polls show an increasingly tight presidential race, with President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney essentially tied. In a Fox News survey released Friday, the candidates

HaGaon HaRav Aaron Leib Shteinman Shlita has instructed rabbonim visiting him this week �we must increase tefilos towards removing the harsh gezeira�, referring to ongoing efforts to compel chareidim to enlist into the IDF. The rav is quoted in the weekly BaKehilla as saying �if there is a single person who is truly pained by […]

A special unit of the city Finance Department that conducted a sweep of 1,700 stores licensed to sell tobacco products found an astounding 42 percent either peddling untaxed cigarettes or using counterfeit stamps to duck the combined $5.85 city-state tax, The Post has learned. �That is an alarming number,� said Jim Calvin, president of the […]

Three former U.S. residents and one American citizen have been identified by counterterrorism experts as potential successors to the al-Qaida No. 2 killed in a Predator attack early Monday, NBC News reported. One of them is Adam Gadahn, a 33-year-old American known as Azzam al Amriki, or �Azzam the American.� He was once viewed as […]

Following the split chareidi vote on the bill in Knesset to save the Ulpana neighborhood homes�in Beit El, Rav Yisrael Gellis on Wednesday, 16 Sivan 5772 told the following story. Rav Gellis explained the story took place in the time of HaGaon HaRav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld ZT�L and he felt that from this event one […]