Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s said on Thursday that there is a 50 percent chance it will downgrade the U.S. government’s credit rating within three months because of the

[By Rabbi Y. Eisenman ] All of us, – Jew and Gentile – have been traumatized by the events of this past week. Personally, I feel as if I have been hurt and violated in a way that I cannot recall in my entire life. So many of the ‘assumptions and truths’ which allowed me […]

[By Bracha Goetz] Our children all over the world were praying for Leiby to be protected.  Instead Leiby is now able to help all these same children be more protected.  The children were asked to daven, and so afterward they asked what happened.  Our pure and innocent korbon is finally enabling many other innocent children […]

An amateur sleuth armed with determination and intuition helped cops crack the murder of Leiby Kletzky by tracking his path to doom. Yaakov German isn’t a cop or a private detective. He’s a property manager and father of 12 with a reputation as a do-gooder. By banging on doors and scrutinizing grainy video, he uncovered […]

[By Asher E. Taub, Esq.] This September 13, 2011, an election of historic proportion will take place in the 9th Congressional District of New York. The 9th CD is the most Jewish district in the entire United States. Approximately 50% of the district is Jewish.  30% of the registered voters are religious Jews. The district includes the […]

The FBI has launched an investigation into Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. after a report that employees or associates may have attempted to hack into phone conversations and voice mail of

Newly released emails show the Obama administration communication team privately discussed whether to exclude Fox News from interviews in late 2009, despite claims at the time that the White House

[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] This video was taken Thursday afternoon in the courthouse, where Aron Levi appeared. Levi Aron entered no plea Thursday to charges of first-degree murder and kidnapping,

[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] I am numb with pain, grief, and heartbroken over the horrifying news that 9-year-old Leiby Kletzky A”H was murdered. Most of us never knew Leiby, yet

YWN regrets to inform you of the tragic Petira of Mrs Suri Crawford A”H, who was R”L killed after being struck by a car in Manhattan. She is the mother-in-law

Accused Brooklyn child-killer Levi Aron apparently went to a relative’s wedding at a New Square catering hall the same day he killed 8-year-old Leiby Kletsky, police said. New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said that police believe Aron did go to the wedding Monday night but he did not take the boy, whose dismembered […]

2:55PM EST: Levi Aron entered no plea Thursday to charges of first-degree murder and kidnapping, and was ordered held without bail. He is accused of snatching Leiby Kletzky off the

NYPD Detectives were at the home of Levi Aron,Thursday morning, and are reportedly digging up his yard, to try and uncover more evidence. It is unknown if the evidence they are looking for involves the murder of Leiby Kletzky or not.  Aron is slated to be arraigned later today. According to the NY Post, he was […]

The following is a letter from the Director of the Center for Applied Psychology (CAPs) at Bikur Cholim (Rockland County) to staff members and other members of the community. I, as all of you, was deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the horrific events of the past days.  Unfortunately, the acts of violence that […]

Everyone is horrified by the events of the past two days and that a young child walking home could be abducted and murdered.  How do we explain this to our children?  How do we help them, and for that matter ourselves, make sense of this?    It is important to have an age-appropriate conversation with […]

The Levaya is over. The lights have been turned off. There was an eerie moonlight glow over the cemetery. The feeling of knowing I was standing only a few feet

[PHOTO, AUDIO & VIDEOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] The following are audio and video clips of the massive Levaya of Leiby Kletzky A”H, which was held on Wednesday night in Boro Park at Bais Medrash Heichal Hatefillah, on 56th Street and 16th Avenue. The NYPD says more than 10,000 people were at the Levaya. Hespeidim were given […]

Brooklyn loner Levi Aron gave people the creeps long before he was charged with slaughtering an innocent child. The 35-year-old plumbing-supply store stockboy made his neighbors’ skin crawl with the

[By: Yaakov Gold] The last few days have felt as if a blur, Monday blended into Tuesday, and tonight, after paying my respects at the Levaya, I realized with a

A key Senate chairman says Congress needs to pass legislation to protect customers from unauthorized third-party charges on their phone bills because the telephone industry has failed to prevent the

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