It has become evident that when the OU Kashrus Department visits Orthodox communities through its Harry H. Beren ASK OU Outreach program, the reaction in those neighborhoods is amazing. Following
Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. wireless carrier, sold through its initial inventory of Apple Inc. iPhones in less than a day after starting to offer the device to its current
A vehicle carrying a Charedi family from Yerushalayim to Teveria, has overturned, leaving their 12-year-old son R”L dead, and 6 others injured, YWN Israel has learned. The vehicle was reportedly travelling on Route 90 (Kvish Habikah), when it overturned in the area of Tziporah. Hatzolah & MDA Paramedics were rushed to the scene. Many of the […]
The Township Committee on Thursday named the section of Third Street along the entrance to the township police department in honor of slain Officer Christopher Matlosz. The street now will be called ceremoniously Matlosz Way. “Chris (Matlosz) did not die in vain,” Mayor Menashe Miller said. “The unity brought about by Officer Matlosz’s death will […]
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, says recent anti-government riots in Tunisia and Egypt are “a sign of the awakening of Islam inspired by the Islamic Revolution’s victory in Iran.”
Ever since Barack Obama announced his intentions to run for US president, he was seen as a mere effigy of former President Jimmy Carter. Parallels were drawn linking their message,
Today, the New Jersey Assembly Commerce & Economic Development Committee voted 5-0 to support A.2810, the Opportunity Scholarship Act, which would establish a pilot tax credit scholarship program in some
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is suing six Web-site operators, accusing them of illegally selling cigarettes to New Yorkers and costing the state hundreds of millions in lost sales-tax revenue.
Virginia’s attorney general has asked the Supreme Court to fast-track his state’s legal challenge to the federal health care overhaul, saying state governments and businesses deserve to know the fate
Nearly a year and a half into the economic recovery, some 43.6 million Americans continued to rely on food stamps in November. More than 14% of the population drew food
The Senate tonight passed a bipartisan resolution from a pair of influential lawmakers calling on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to immediately start transferring power to an interim government. The Senate resolution was offered by John Kerry, the Democratic chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and John McCain, R-Ariz. A handful of other senators, including Lindsey Graham, […]
The worst of the winter storm that slammed the United States this week may have passed, but flights remained a mess across much of the nation for a third day
Senior executives at JPMorgan Chase expressed serious doubts about the legitimacy of Bernard L. Madoff’s investment business more than 18 months before his Ponzi scheme collapsed but continued to do business with him, according to internal bank documents made public in a lawsuit on Thursday. On June 15, 2007, an obviously high-level risk management officer […]
Christiane Amanpour of ABC News just posted the following on ABC: I’ve just left the presidential palace in Cairo where I met for about 30 minutes with president Mubarak. He
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that found an Ohio judge’s courtroom display of the Ten Commandments unconstitutional. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled
If the planet is warming, why is a third of America locked in a deep freeze, with record-low temperatures as far south as the Mexican border, where the thermometer in
[The following Op-Ed was written by Tevi Troy] As America marks the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth, we will be remembering one of our country’s greatest leaders with speeches, tributes and television specials. Friends of Israel will have a special reason to celebrate: Reagan made the Republican Party into the unambiguously pro-Israel party that […]
In the aftermath of the “Great Recession”, it has become harder than ever for frum families to achieve economic stability. Costs are rising while salaries have fallen – and many frum families, whose expense sheets include tuition, kosher food, and large families, have nowhere to cut back. Meanwhile, many young fathers who are contemplating leaving […]
FBI and Army officials repeatedly ignored multiple warning signs that could have prevented the November 2009 massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, according to a long-awaited report released Thursday by two
A neo-Nazi organization whose events have attracted sometimes violent counterprotests will hold a rally in front of the Statehouse on April 16, said the group’s New Jersey representative, Jason Hiecke. The National Socialist Movement will hold a two-day conference in the area, including a rally of 75 to 150 people on the second day, Hiecke […]
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