The following is from the Financial Times: Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will address the UN General Assembly on Friday next week, setting the stage for a potentially dramatic
Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the Obama administration’s policy towards Israel, just days after a Republican won a local congressional election in which dissatisfaction with the president’s support for Israel became a campaign issue. Bloomberg was asked if he has any reservations about the Obama’s Middle East policies during a press conference in Queens on Thursday. […]
The number of New Yorkers who smoke has dropped to 14 percent, down from 22 percent in 2002. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday that there are 450,000 fewer adult smokers
Misaskim was contacted by the Brooklyn Medical Examiner’s Office and the 66th Detective Squad regarding information about a deceased individual that has not been claimed by family for two weeks. It is imperative to identify this individual in order to prevent an autopsy should he be of the Jewish faith. The deceased’s body was found […]
Following the Zaka precedent of placing a bus targeted by terrorists in front of The Hague, Israel is contemplating placing the school bus hit by a rocket from Gaza in front of the United Nations, to coincide with the opening of the General Assembly on 23 September. 16-year-old Daniel Viflic HY”D, a resident of Beit […]
There is a most interesting din Torah pending in Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak. The case was brought before the Av Beis Din, HaGaon HaRav Nissim Karelitz Shlita, to adjudicate
There has not been an Ashkenazi chief rabbi in Netanya for some 20 years, but now, the city council is going to convene to discuss the matter. For the past
A cab of a tractor trailer found abandoned with Arabic literature inside this morning, sent police on a search and put the department on high alert. At about 4:30 AM, a cab – without its load – was found with its engine on near a office building off New Hampshire Avenue, leading police to believe […]
A vaad that was established in Elad, seeking to return the community to its previous realities, is pleased that to date 15 shopkeepers have agreed to shut their doors by
The New York City Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) held a hearing this week on a proposed project that threatens to reduce available parking and increase irritation for residents
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Republican Bob Turner was officially sworn in today as the representative from New York’s 9th Congressional District. The 70-year-old retired media executive took the oath of
Assemblyman David Weprin is blaming President Obama for his stunning 54–46 percent loss to former television executive Bob Turner on Tuesday, claiming that he would have won the southern Brooklyn district if the Commander in Chief was doing a better job — yet many say the Democrat sunk his own ship with several campaign missteps, […]
El Al is going to accept the FAA’s regulation and beginning on Monday (Sept 19th), it will be banning any liquids on board flights from Tel Aviv to the United States. Passengers will be compelled to leave all liquids behind or place them in luggage. They will no longer be permitted to bring them on […]
Three days ago, YWN published a letter written by NYC Councilman Lew Fidler to the MTA, urging them to disallow and/or remove a series of planned anti-Israeli subway ads. The
A special Vaad Ruchniyos has been established in the Sanzer Chassidic community in Eretz Yisrael, in Kiryat Sanz in Netanya. This vaad made make critical decisions pertaining to the use
Five Israeli Arabs were arrested on suspicion of planning terror attacks, including targeting policemen in their northern area village of Daburiya as well as taking their weapons. Arrests were made
The New York State Republican Party rolled out the red carpet for an Democratic lawmaker who crossed party lines to back Bob Turner’s successful bid for Anthony Weiner’s congressional seat. State GOP chairman Ed Cox recognized Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov. Hikind at the party’s annual dinner at the Sheraton Midtown tonight. The party faithful enthusiastically applauded […]
[PHOTO LINK BELOW] Eighteen frum inductees entered Israel Police this week, beginning their 13 months of training towards being certified as policemen. They are part of a new Mechina program
Rabbi Dr. Yuval Sherlow, rosh yeshiva of the Petach Tikvah Hesder Yeshiva has come out in support of the IDF in the matter of the officers’ training cadets who walked out of a kol isha performance. As a result, four of the soldiers were ousted from the program after they refused to apologize, as five […]
One of the great perks of running a country such as Iran is that you are simply not accountable to anyone; at least this is what Ahmad Ahmadinejad seems to believe. In his latest tirade, the Iranian leader accused Israel of perpetrating terror, adding it is the “Zionist regime” that was responsible for both World […]
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