Tens of thousands are expected to gather at CitiField this evening to attend the internet Asifa organized by Ichud Hakahillos. While those gathered explore the negative impact technology may have

After speaking with HaRav Matisyahu Solomon Shlita, HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita has released a letter ahead of Sunday night�s asifa at CitiField, which will address the position of rabbonim shlita against unfiltered internet and other electronic devices which are viewed as a threat to the Jewish home. Below is the text of the rav�s […]

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing above Scotland which killed 270 people, has died at home in Libya, his brother has told news agencies. Megrahi,

Even before rabbonim shlita in the United States decided on the internet kenos being held in CitiField on Sunday night, Rabbonim and mashpi�im in Chabad decided to hold an internet kinnos this week in the 770 building in Ramat Shlomo in Yerushalayim. The impetus behind the kinnos is Rabbi Dovid Weiss, the director of Merkaz […]

If you want to take advantage of the Wall Street Journal�s subscription offer you may, from any countries around the world. Interestingly, in the Mideast one has the option of �Israel� or �Palestine�. One must wonder which areas of Eretz Yisrael are viewed as Palestine by the WSJ. (YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)

HaRav Yosef Yechiel Bamberger of Haifa last week informed avreichim of the Nachlas HaLevi�im Kollel in the N�vei Sha�anan neighborhood of the city, which he heads, that anyone with internet in their home or using a non-kosher cellular telephone may no longer be eligible for kollel funds. The rav�s kollel is the largest in the […]

In an interview with Walla News, Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of the Interior (Shas) Eli Yishai stated the Tal Law was not implemented because the government did not do enough, adding

12:29 IL: An Arab terrorist tried to stab and IDF soldier at Gush Etzion Junction. The soldier managed to overcome the attacker an Arab male in his 40s, who was seriously injured by the knife and/or IDF gunfire. The attacker�s condition is serious and he is being treated at this time by IDF medical personnel. […]

Brooklyn remains the city�s bloodiest borough � accounting for about 38% of last year�s murders, NYPD statistics released Friday show. In delivering an analysis of last year�s homicides, the NYPD revealed that there have been 136 murders this year � a reduction of 20% from the same period last year. But shootings are up 6% […]

An airline pilot is accused of trying to board a flight at Buffalo for New York City with a loaded revolver in his bag, and authorities believe he’d been flying

Three men accused of making Molotov cocktails had been planning to attack President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s home and other targets during this weekend’s NATO summit, prosecutors

Californian company SpaceX aborted the landmark launch of its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station (ISS) at the last second early Saturday due to technical problems. The unmanned SpaceX

Vice President Biden said he understood the frustration that led many West Virginia Democrats to vote for a felon over President Obama in the state’s presidential primary. Asked what he

It looks like Mayor Bloomberg really was taking a snow day during the 2010 X-Mas Blizzard. Bloomberg�s public schedule for 2010 fails to account for his whereabouts for more than 24 hours as the deadly snowstorm began to batter the city, records obtained by the Daily News show. His public schedule shows he attended midnight […]

A blind Chinese legal activist who was hurriedly taken from a hospital and put on a plane for the United States on Saturday has arrived at New Jersey’s Newark Airport.

Free checking at Wells Fargo is officially over. Effective August 7, all Essential Checking customers will pay a $7 monthly service fee. Until recently, some former Wachovia customers were still

Thieves are very busy preying on residents of Teaneck, New Jersey. The problem is being called an epidemic of identity theft and credit card fraud with more than 200 victims

Federal investigators say the driver in last year’s deadly bus crash in the Bronx may not have had the sleep he claimed in the days leading up to the accident.