Levi Aron, accused of killing 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky of Borough Park one week ago, is expected to be indicted this week. Over the weekend, investigators continued to scour the 35-year-old’s home in Kensington, Brooklyn, taking dozens of pieces of new evidence, including pieces of furniture and his car. Authorities were busy not only at Aron’s […]
A flying car retailing for $227,000 could be on roads in a matter of months — and customers are already lining up to be the first to get their hands
Ray Kelly, the police commissioner who should be the next mayor of New York, seems to show you his best in the city’s worst moments. This he did the other
Investigators yesterday centered on that section of the Brooklyn home where Levi Aron is accused of murdering 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, as they build their case in the heinous slaying. Dressed in white haz-mat suits, investigators hauled out two chairs, a couch and a carpet—each wrapped in brown paper—from the Kensington living room of the 35-year-old […]
Over 33 years after his death in South America, Dr. Josef Mengele’s written archive is being put up for sale by a US auction house. “The Auschwitz Angel of Death”
Opening statements in the case against Mohammed Wali Zazi, the father of an admitted terrorist, were set for Monday in a Brooklyn federal court. Prosecutors arrested Zazi last year and
A pair of bizarre trespassing incidents at two of the region’s major airports, including one in Newark on Saturday, have heightened concerns about airport perimeter security. Early Saturday night, officials said a man with a knife in his pocket jumped over a retractable barrier at a vehicle gate near Terminal C at Newark Liberty International […]
Nearly a month after the State Legislature passed a bill drastically expanding access to taxi service in New York City, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has yet to signal whether he will sign the measure — providing hope to the city’s larger taxi fleet operators who oppose it. The fleet owners have stepped up efforts to […]
NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver conceded Sunday that President Obama has a problem among Jewish New Yorkers, but said electing a Republican to fill ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner’s seat is not the answer. Former Mayor Ed Koch is urging voters in Weiner’s old district to vote against Democrat David Weprin in the special election as a […]
Herman Cain says voters across the country should have the right to prevent Muslims from building mosques in their communities. In an exchange on “Fox News Sunday,” the Republican presidential
Stanley Patz has been conditioned to expect his telephone to ring whenever a child goes missing, so he was bracing when he heard about the disappearance of an 8-year-old boy,
Dear Readers, The recent calamity that took place in our community has had a permanent effect on each and every one of us without exception. In one way or other we were all embarrassed, inspired or traumatized by the last week’s inexplicable cold-blooded murder of an innocent young boy by one of our own. Klal […]
9:10PM EST: A reported drowning at Sportsmen’s and Bennett roads at the Rondout Creek - near Satmar Camp – was a falsely reported incident, according to the Ulster County sheriff. The Ulster County Sheriff’s Office, Catskills Hatzolah, and fire and rescue personnel responded to the scene shortly after the 911 call of a reported drowning […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Rav Abba Dunner ZATZAL, after an illness, at the age of 74. Rav Dunner was one of the most prominent Jewish personalities in Europe, and part of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE). Several years ago, he lost his son, R’ Ben Zion Dunner in a serious car […]
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, hospitalized since April and due to stand trial in August, is in a coma, his lawyer said on Sunday, although state television said the hospital
London’s police chief said Sunday that he intends to resign from his post as a result of the widening phone-hacking scandal that has rocked his department. “I have taken this
Washington – U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York says that if airlines don’t start reimbursing their rising fees when passengers’ bags are lost, he’ll introduce a bill to force the issue. The Democrat says that under a new rule airlines would only have to reimburse their baggage fees if the luggage is lost forever. […]
Construction workers are trying to stabilize the historic upper east side synagogue badly damaged in a fire. Workers began removing debris from the roof and inside of congregation Kehilath Jeshurun
A fire broke out in Jerusalem Forest Sunday, near Mount Herzl and Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, and is currently ablaze and spreading. Police have evacuated the museum and blocked all main roads in the area, and eight teams of firefighters are on the scene. Firefighting planes have also been alerted. The fire is ablaze and spreading […]
Leiby Kletzky’s grieving father put on a brave face to attend Sabbath services yesterday morning – just days after his son’s brutal murder. Nachman Kletzky drew strength from the religious services at the Bais Medrash Heichal HaTefillah synagogue near his home in Borough Park, worshipers said. “He is taking comfort in his belief in God,” […]
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