Facing his most crucial legal battle so far, Julian Assange, the founder of the antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks, appeared on Monday at a hearing on whether he would be extradited to
Hundreds gathered for a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Sunday afternoon, in honor of the opening of the new Hatzolah Garage, donated by Mrs. Klara Ringel and family. The garage was donated in memory of Mr. David Ringel. The event, which took place at the garage located at the intersection of Central Avenue and New Central Avenue, was […]
Brighton, NY – An ambulance transporting a patient from the Jewish Home in Brighton on its way to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester on Sunday afternoon was struck by a
A Paramus police officer shot several times in the stomach was in critical but stable condition Monday morning following a pursuit on Route 17 that ended near the entrance to
More than a week after his mysterious disappearance in Egypt, Google executive and political activist Wael Ghonim will be released from government detention on Monday, according to his family and
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is headed to Albany to discuss just how hard the city will be hit by the governor’s budget proposal. The mayor is scheduled to testify before state
In the popular imagination, New York City’s streets can resemble an arcade-style obstacle course, a daily life-or-death gamble for pedestrians and drivers alike. But data to be released Monday by the city’s Department of Transportation may undercut the prevailing view of a menacing metropolis: New York City, it turns out, is among the safest cities […]
A federal judge who participated in controversial court hearings after the huge immigration raid in Postville says the 2008 legal proceedings were “a travesty.” District Judge Mark Bennett, who sentenced 57 of the 389 immigrant workers arrested at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant, makes his allegations in a new documentary film about the raid’s aftermath. Critics, […]
AOL Inc. agreed to buy the Huffington Post for $315 million as the Internet company spun off from Time Warner Inc. increases its investments in online content to help revive
Bloomberg News reports: Albert Cameo, leader of what remains of the Jewish community in Syria, says he’s trying to fulfill an obligation to his religious heritage. The 70-year-old is organizing the restoration of a synagogue called Al-Raqi in the old Jewish quarter of Damascus, the Syrian capital, built during the Ottoman Empire some 400 years […]
If politics is more your game, there was another, much-hyped showdown to watch before Sunday’s Super Bowl: President Barack Obama vs. Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. The two haven’t sat down since 2008, when Obama was a presidential candidate. Since then, his administration has been at odds with the cable news outlet, with former communications […]
The NY Post reports: Over the past 10 years, city cops fired 4,702 bullets, accidentally pulled the trigger 323 times, and missed 78 percent of their intended targets, according to
Khal Zichron Yaakov in Lakewood was the site of a dinner hosted by Professional Career Service (PCS) on behalf of their successful accounting program. Over 250 current and former students
The power of healing through proper nutrition is well documented. In Chinese medicine, it is a discipline that goes back thousands of years. But even in Western medicine, and even without medications, changes in one’s diet can reap phenomenal results. As we age, the three common diseases about which we are all worried are high […]
In a letter sent recently to President Barack Obama, former White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum called upon the President to free Jonathan Pollard, who has spent the past 26 years in a federal prison for passing classified information to Israel (the full text of the letter appears below). With his public appeal for Pollard’s release, […]
Just a few hours before the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers face off in the Superbowl, YWN had the opportunity to interview the only Shomer Shabbos Jewish Superbowl
Florida senator Marco Rubio is condemning the possibility that a U.S. government subcontractor jailed in Havana for 14 months may be given a 20-year sentence. Rubio issued a statement regarding the news that Cuban prosecutors will seek a 20-year prison sentence for U.S. aid worker Alan Gross. “I condemn in the strongest possible terms the […]
Hundreds of Egyptians queued outside banks to withdraw funds as lenders opened for the first time in more than a week amid protests demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.
Drivers beware: all this bad weather is taking its toll on the roads and several drivers learned the hard way Saturday about the massive pot holes around the area. About
Moments before a gang of smugglers managed to sell over a million dollars’ worth of Judaica artifacts stolen from Milan’s most prominent synagogue this past Saturday, police raided the Jerusalem
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