YWN regrets to inform you of the Petirah of R’ Dovid Levin Z’L, a veteran member of Lakewood Hatzolah, who was Niftar this morning following a lengthy illness. R’ Dovid was one of the first members of Lakewood Hatzolah, (Unit # L-04). He suffered from an illness for approximately 15 years R”L. He was approximately 53 years […]
With a last-minute budget deal, Congress averted a federal government shutdown Friday night. But the epic clash between Democrats and Republicans was just the first of a series of fiscal
A Manhattan hearing on homeland security exploded yesterday after an Arab-American activist testified that she was taught as a youngster to “hate Jews” and “hate America,” enraging a Brooklyn lawmaker
Over the past 48 hours, in response to the incident in which a children’s bus was hit with an anti-tank missile near Sa’ad on Thursday, combined Israel Air Force, Armored and Infantry forces are operating in the Gaza Strip in order to restore the calm to Israel’s southern communities. IAF aircraft and armored forces targeted […]
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When the GOP-led House voted in January to repeal President Obama’s health care law, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he wouldn’t even take up the measure in his chamber
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Despite protests from Jewish groups and an appeal to Liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Holland is set to ban shechita, following the Socialist party’s decision to support a proposal from the pro-animal party, the world’s first such party to be elected to parliament in 2006. The proposal, which claims that there is evidence that shechita […]
At least 27 people are dead after Syrian security forces opened fire on tens of thousands of protesters across several cities Friday, according to Al-Jazeera. Hundreds of others were wounded
Washington, DC – After Judge Richard Goldstone’s retracted key conclusions of his flawed anti-Israel report, U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and James Risch (R-ID) introduced a bipartisan Senate resolution today calling on the United Nations Human Rights Council to rescind the report. The Senators also urged the UN panel to stop carrying out the report’s […]
The NYPD’s multi-agency training exercise that simulates a dirty bomb attack on New York City is entering its fourth day Friday. On Thursday, police, FDNY and Coast Guard vessels managed
Imprisoned US Ponzi scheme fraudster Bernard Madoff alleged that some senior executives at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. “knew what was going on” and that all the banks were given
An NYPD Detective was arrested for drunk driving late Thursday night after he flipped his car on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, cops said. Det. Thomas Handley of the 90th Precinct in
Four additional rockets were fired at Ashkelon Friday and three were intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system, the IDF announced, adding that it had bombed the terror cell that
Israel’s Yad Vashem museum on Friday said it had uploaded footage of the entire trial of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann YM”S to YouTube to mark the 50 years since the groundbreaking court case. Eichmann, who was captured by Israeli agents in Argentina in 1960, was brought to Israel and put on trial on April 11, […]
In selecting Cathleen P. Black as schools chancellor, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was, in many ways, playing to type: a man famous for ignoring advice, relying on his own instincts and doing the opposite of what an ordinary politician would do had chosen as leader of the nation’s largest school system a woman with no […]
What happens when you apply an 1884 law to BlackBerries? Mass confusion. The Antideficiency Act, passed by Congress during Chester Arthur’s administration, prevents non-essential federal employees from working when the
New York, NY – The city’s Department of Environmental Protection commissioner will propose a 7.5 % increase in the water rate, which will continue more than 15 years of rising rates if it’s approved. But the proposal is the first rate increase under 10% in five years and significantly less than this year’s 12.9% hike. […]
The Israel Security Agency (ISA) and the IDF arrested members of a terrorist cell in Ramallah in the first weeks of January, 2011. The cell admitted to having planned a kidnapping of Israeli civilians or soldiers to gain leverage for the release of Palestinian prisoners. The cell’s activities serve as an example of the high […]
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