Brooklyn — Councilman David Greenfield has requested that the Federal government dispatch monitors to random polling sites to oversee the November 2nd general election in New York to ensure the
1:00PM EST: [UPDATES BELOW] A man who shot and wounded a doctor at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, later killed himself and a third person on Thursday,
The Palm Beach Post reports: When Jews at Congregation Chabad-Lubavitch west of Boynton Beach gather Friday for the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest of Jewish holidays, they will be
On a recent summer day, Rabbi Shloime Isaacson received an urgent call: A 98-year-woman was having difficulty breathing. Isaacson was on his way to a meeting with a potential donor
One in seven Americans is living in poverty, the highest number in the half-century that the government has kept such statistics, the Census Bureau announced Wednesday. Last year was the
For over 75 years, the Rabbinical Seminary of America, popularly known as Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim, has been fulfilling its two-fold objective: to provide young Jews with an outstanding Torah education
A man was slapped with a parking ticket as he lay dead in the driver’s seat of his car, cops and family said Wednesday. Nicholas Rappold, 21, of Flushing, was
A former teacher at the prestigious Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan is being held Wednesday on charges he tried to send assault weapons to terror groups in the Mideast. Investigators
Knesset Member Moshe Gafni lashed out at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, saying it kept on ruling against Israel’s Charedi residents. “You know what we will do? We’ll stop paying
As the double three-day Yom Tov of Sukkos approaches, (with no Yeshiva World News to read…), Israel Bookshop Publications is offering a special 20% discount exclusively to YWN readers, who
The brother of murdered Australian Yankel Rosenbaum has expressed no surprise that his killer is lying in a coma after being stabbed in the head with an ice pick. “He
A three-member team of FDNY Emergency Service first-responders won a worldwide life-saving competition this month in Poland, defeating more than 40 teams from 16 foreign countries, the FDNY has announced.
A homeowner in Brooklyn shot and seriously wounded a would-be burglar early this morning, police said. Larry Goldstein, 62, of Mill Basin was awoken shortly before 2 a.m. when he
The Tel Aviv District Court has sentenced Benzion Miller to three years behind bars, for his involvement in the drug smuggling story which landed three Bnei Brak Yeshiva Bochrim to
Chase’s online banking service was back Wednesday, but service was sporadic. The intermittent service was apparently the first time that some Chase customers have been able to access their online
A Long Island man is scheduled to appear in court today on charges he unwittingly funded the failed attempt earlier this year to set off car bomb in Times Square.
The BBC reports: West Ham boss Avram Grant will miss the Hammers’ league game at Stoke on Saturday to observe Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement is a key date
Israeli Police have arrested 400 passengers returning to Israel from Uman, Ukraine. Of them, 91 are suspected of evading mandatory army service and others of debt-related offenses. Two days ago,
The protester who burned pages from the Koran outside a planned mosque near Ground Zero has been fired from NJTransit, sources and authorities said Tuesday. Derek Fenton’s 11-year career at
After considering the issue for months, Mayor Michael Bloomberg today is expected to announce the expansion of the city’s Smoke Free Air Act. The legislation will snuff out smoking at
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