Today, New York City Comptroller, John C. Liu, visited the Manhattan headquarters of the Orthodox Union, the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization. There he met with OU lay and
Johnson & Johnson says it has ordered a voluntary recall of about 4.8 million packages of children’s medicines due to “insufficiencies” in the manufacturing process. A company spokeswoman Bonnie Jacobs
Mayor Bloomberg had a message Tuesday for air travellers outraged by full-body scanners and intrusive airport pat-downs: Get over it. “We have to stop all this shilly-shallying and understand if
New York City – Dangerous or toxic toys can still be found on America’s store shelves, the New York Public Interest Research Group announced today in its 25th annual Trouble
Ottawa, Canada – Canadas decision to stay in Afghanistan past 2011 wont go unnoticed in either the United States or around the world, according to U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman. The
The following is a report by the Indian Express: Mumbai – Rabbi Nachman Holtzberg, father of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg HY”D who was killed in the attack on the Chabad House
The companies with multimillion-dollar contracts to supply American airports with body-scanning machines more than doubled their spending on lobbying in the past five years and hired several high-profile former government
There was a new parking decree Monday from Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Drivers will no longer be “nickeled and dimed” to death when they park on city streets. Instead, they’ll need
A 23-year-old Yeshiva Bochur is in critical condition after being struck by a bus early Tuesday afternoon, YWN Israel has learned. The accident occurred on the corner of Bar Ilan
In a sharp escalation of hostility along their disputed sea border, North Korean and South Korean forces traded fire Tuesday, a deadly skirmish that jacked up diplomatic tensions in a
The following Op-Ed by Rafi Sela, an Israeli airport security consultant, was printed in todays NY Times: The problem with the Transportation Security Administration is that it is both the
In a bid to bring the life-saving emergency service 911 into the 21st century, the FCC is looking at letting citizens report crimes through text messages and even stream video
Iran’s parliament planned to impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and was blocked from doing so by the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing domestic newspaper
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Mrs. Irene Klass, Publisher of the Jewish Press. she was Niftar late Monday evening at Maimonides Hospital. She was in her
Relatives of two New Yorkers murdered in the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, have sued Pakistan’s intelligence agency and the Kashmir-based terror organization that was reportedly behind the operation.
Two F-16 fighter jets briefly took to the sky over Washington on Monday after a small passenger aircraft violated the capital’s airspace restrictions, according to military officials. A portion of
After many hours of debates and political drama the Knesset approved in second and third readings the referendum law which requires a public majority and the votes of 60 Knesset
On Monday, the Orthodox Union, wrote a letter to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, regarding the proposed ballot initiative in San Francisco that would effectively ban Bris Milah, reported on
The developers behind the proposed Ground Zero mosque have applied for about $5 million in federal grant money set aside for redeveloping downtown Manhattan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raided the offices of three hedge funds as part of a high-profile insider-trading investigation, and more could be on the way, according to people familiar
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