Israel Police stationed on Har HaBayis attempted to arrest Rabbi Nachum Rabinowitz Shlita, rosh yeshiva of the Maale Adumim Hesder Yeshiva as the rav led his talmidim on the Mount.
President Shimon Peres, Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger Shlita and Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar Shlita on Monday visited Tuba el-Zangaria, the community in the Galil in which a mosque was
President Obama responded to New Jersey’s pugnacious Republican governor’s criticisms yesterday as Christie plans to reveal his decision on a White House campaign by tomorrow. “The guy’s thinking about running for president. He’s going to say a lot of stuff, and I think, in Republican primaries, saying nasty stuff about me is probably — polls […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] A police officer is recovering after being hit by a stray bullet while off duty. Sources say the 38-year-old female officer was hit in the arm
Earlier in the week, Israel TV news proudly showed David Gerbi, an exiled Libyan Jew who traveled back to Libya armed with a sledge hammer breaking the cinderblock wall that
An indictment was filed against a 47-year-old chareidi man, a resident of Meah Shearim, on Monday morning (5 Tishrei). The defendant stands accused of smuggling cocaine into the country. The
US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is in Cairo today (6 Tishrei) and hopes to leave with Ilan Grapel, the Israeli imprisoned in June for allegedly spying for Israel. Grapel also holds US citizenship. While media reports indicate this is the primary mission surrounding the secretary’s visit, Panetta declined comment in his remarks made in […]
The High Court of Justice today (6 Tishrei) will hear a petition which seeks to compel chareidi mosdos to include ‘core subjects’ in their curriculum. Today’s situation does not compel yeshivos to teach English, math, science or other core subjects as a prerequisite to receiving state funding. Professor Amnon Rubinstein, a former minister of education […]
Fannie Mae, the mortgage finance giant, learned as early as 2003 of extensive foreclosure abuses among the law firms it had hired to remove troubled borrowers from their homes. But the company did little to correct the firms’ practices, according to a report issued Tuesday. Only after news reports in mid-2010 began to describe the […]
By: Joe Scarborough for Politico: Republicans need New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to run for president. So do Independents. I would even argue that Democrats, who loathe his very existence,
Yahoo News, which has more unique visitors than any other news Web site, is forming a partnership with ABC News to share stories and feature Web video series. The alliance, announced on Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” was described by ABC News as a “game changer” for the network news division. ABC News has […]
The IDF will try to reeducate chareidi inductees beginning this week. An existing program is being modified for inductees heading for the Netzach Yehuda Battalion [more affectionately known as Nachal Chareidi], part of the Machal program. (Machal is an abbreviation for Volunteers from abroad – ?????? ??? ????) The program is not new, and Hebrew […]
Protests against Wall Street spread across the country Monday as demonstrators marched on Federal Reserve banks and camped out in parks from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, in a show
An off-duty cop was shot in the arm this afternoon after being caught in the middle of a wild Brooklyn shootout. The 38-year-old female officer — who has 17 years
Kfar Chabad resident Sara Kochava Karavani planned to spend Rosh Hashanah at home, with her family. Shortly before candle lighting on erev Rosh Hashanah she developed a sudden and strong nasal bleed. After it was apparent that it was not stopping, she went to Assaf HaRofeh Hospital in Rishon L’Tzion for treatment. According to a […]
The petition site at the White House named “We the People” changed its policy this afternoon: An issue will need 25,000 signatures in order to get an official response from
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Rav Aryeh Leib Baron zt”l, one of the last remaining talmidim of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Shanghai. He was niftar at Shaarei Tzedek Hospital earlier today. Rav Baron was 100 years old. In addition to having learned at the Mirrer Yeshiva in Europe, Rav Baron was from […]
It is now permitted to report that a number of Price Tag activists were apprehended on erev Rosh Hashanah, apparently on the way to carrying out an attack. A gag
The 54-page decision handed down by Israel’s National Labor Court is clear, the Agudas Yisrael kindergarten network is guilty of discrimination regarding the dismissal of employees and/or worsening of working conditions of 16 veteran chareidi teachers affiliated with the network. The decision was in response to an appeal to the court after a regional labor […]
Mordechai Ben-David, known more commonly as MBD, is about to release his latest album later this week, titled Kissufim and featuring the Shira Chior. According to MBD, this album will be his last, but he is not retiring from the music world. According to multiple articles appearing online, MBD explained that with current realities, it simply doesn’t […]
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