A man from Queens, New York, leaves onlookers stunned as he hunts out bits of diamonds, rubies, platinum and gold from the sidewalk cracks of Midtown’s Diamond District. Raffi Stepanian, 43, of Whitestone, comes armed with tweezers and a butter knife, and pans” the precious particles like an old-fashioned prospector-by hand, in a small metal […]
A plan to bring 1,000 missionaries to Israel, under the guise of newly converted Jews seeking to settle the Shomron, is picking up steam, Yad L’Achim has learned. The plan, which calls for the missionaries to undergo “conversion” to Judaism in the United States and then immigrate under the Law of Return, was hatched by Baruch […]
[PHOTOS & VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] The Levaya of Hagon Rav Yitzchok Dov Koppelman ZATZAL, Rosh Yeshiva of Lucerne Yeshiva in Switzerland, took place on Sunday evening at the Mir Yerushalayim, where tens of thousands of people gathered to give the proper Kavod to the Zekan Roshei HaYeshivos, (the world’s senior Rosh HaYeshiva). Rav Koppelman […]
With time ticking down on the legislative session in Albany, the Bloomberg administration made a new proposal on Sunday to accomplish one of its most highly publicized goals of the
Citizens voted to reject an expansion project for the Gate David synagogue at 5363 Hutchison in the Plateau borough of Montreal Sunday. The result of the referendum was 53.41 percent
A Brooklyn dad angry over a bunch of teen hoodlums hanging out on his stoop and terrorizing his quiet block snapped — opening fire on them with a military-style assault
In the 17 months between now and Election Day 2012, innumerable theories, some esoteric, will be advanced about how President Obama can get reelected. Math provides a starker answer: Win
The New York Mets have accused a kosher hot dog firm of surreptitiously recording conversations between executives at concessions giant Aramark—and then employing a cover-up to hide the tapes from a federal judge. Kosher Sports Inc. counters that the tapes prove the Mets violated a court order by trying to knock the vendor out of […]
7:40PM EST: Just moments ago, YWN recieved word from our sources at Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in Yerushalayim, that the doctors have completed the surgery on Maran Hagon Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Shlita. The surgery was to correct a leaking artery leading to his heart. Dr. Daniel Clair, who is a world-renowned vascular surgeon from Cleveland, OH, was […]
Charlotte Bloomberg, the mom with moxie who watched her son rise from restless schoolboy to become New York’s three-term mayor, died Sunday, several neighbors said. She was 102. “She died
Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann suggested Friday that President Obama is deliberately trying to let Medicare go broke, with the goal of forcing senior citizens to participate in his health care reform plan. “The president’s plan for senior citizens is Obamacare,” the Minnesota congresswoman said at the Republican Leadership Conference. “I think very likely – and […]
The following is from the Jewish Chronicle: Shomrim is notoriously private. The strictly Orthodox security organisation does not have a website or a phone number listed online and it does
Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan has been asked to forgo his diplomatic passport, and Channel 2 reported on Sunday that the move comes as a response to Dagan’s recent comments
[PHOTO LINK IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] The Aron carrying Hagon Rav Yitzchok Dov Koppelman ZATZAL, Rosh Yeshiva of Lucerne Yeshiva in Switzerland, has arrived at the Mir Yerushalayim, where tens of thousands of people have gathered to give proper Kavod to the Zekan Roshei HaYeshivos, (the world’s senior Rosh HaYeshiva). Rav Koppelman was Niftar on Erev Shabbos […]
On Motzoei Shabbos Shlach, dedicated Misaskim volunteers were again called upon to play a key role in community service. A medical team and their sensitive equipment needed to get through airport security. These doctors are scheduled to perform emergency heart surgery on the posek hador, Maran haGaon Rav Yosef Shalom Eliyashiv shlit’a, at the Shaare […]
As the world is being Mispallel for the successful surgery of Maran Hagon Rav Elyashiv Shlita, which is scheduled for 1:30PM EST (8:30 Israel time), Maran Hagon Rav Aron Leib Shteinman Shlita was doing the same – but at the Kever of Rav Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron. The attached photos [taken a short while ago] […]
Two Bochrim drag racing down 13th Avenue, barreled through a red light, and collided with a vehicle driving down 52nd Street, early Sunday morning. Residents said the collision sounded like a bomb exploded – as a total of eight cars were struck. In the car driven by the Bochrim, police officers from the 66th Precinct found a […]
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner ditched the suits, grabbed the clubs and played 18 holes of golf Saturday at a military base outside the nation’s capital. They were
President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign could get a social media boost after some major changes announced today. The big news: the president himself will be tweeting on occasion, according
An emissary on behalf of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to arrive in Syria in the next 24 hours with a “warning message” to President Bashar Assad,
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