Shas’ spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef on Tuesday protested Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lack of backing for Eli Yishai in regards to the interior minister’s responsibility for the Carmel fire failures. Rabbi Yosef made the remarks in a private meeting with the prime minister’s bureau chief, Natan Eshel, which focused on urgent political issues as […]
Jewish leaders Tuesday began talking to Williamsburg public school students after a rash of hate crimes in the neighborhood targeting Hasidic residents. Hasidic and Hispanic residents have lived side by side in the neighborhood for years – but rarely talk to each other or understand much about each others’ worlds. For the students at Intermediate […]
New York City says its public school system will remain open despite the snow. School Chancellor Cathie Black made the announcement at 5 a.m. today. But she said all field
A ferocious winter storm that tore across the southeastern seaboard slammed into New York City overnight, forcing the cancellation of thousands of flights and threatening train, bus and rail service
The federal government has accused New York City of overbilling Medicaid by “at least tens of millions of dollars” by improperly approving 24-hour home care for thousands of patients. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan also insinuated that the city had cheated the federal government after a 2006 change […]
The New York City Police Department is using less lethal force as it protects and serves. With eight people shot and killed by officers in 2010, the year marked the
After a Glock-wielding gunman killed six people at a Tucson shopping center on Jan. 8, Greg Wolff, the owner of two Arizona gun shops, told his manager to get ready
YWN regrets to inform you of the sudden Petira of R’ Yossi Pressburger Z”L, of Flatbush. R’ Yossi who worked for Kedem Wines, was on business in Detroit when he suffered a massive heart attack. R’ Yossi, was the Gabbai at Agudas Yisroel Snif Zichron Shmuel in Flatbush, and was involved in many acts of Chessed and Tzorchei […]
New Jersey State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes andNew Jersey emergency managers are asking residents and visitors of the Garden State to be mindful of a potential winter storm tomorrow.
4:50PM EST: At the direction of the Mayor, the public is hereby advised that significant snowfall has been forecast for tonight. The public is urged to avoid all unnecessary driving
North Miami Beach, FL – Reports of a shooting has two schools on lockdown just as students were about to go home for the day. According to North Miami Beach
Brisbane, Australia - Three quarters of the state of Queensland has been declared a disaster zone after torrential rain threatened the worst flooding in the state capital in 37 years. Ten people were confirmed dead in flash flooding Tuesday which swept through the town of Toowoomba, about 125 kilometers (80 miles) west of Brisbane, on Monday […]
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) has a “101 percent” chance of surviving, her doctor said Tuesday following a news conference at which it was announced that the lawmaker is now capable of breathing on her own. Giffords, who remained in critical condition Tuesday, has “a 101 percent” chance of surviving, Dr. Peter Rhee, Chief of Trauma […]
11:55AM EST: People arriving for the “early morning Kollel” on Tuesday morning were shocked to find Swastikas scrawled on the Waterbury Shul, YWN has learned. The swastikas were accompanied with
The Flatbush Shomrim is once again preparing for a snowstorm expected to bring us between 8 to 14 inches of snow. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm
A short while ago, in a joint IDF-ISA operation, an Israeli Air Force aircraft targeted an operative of the Islamic Jihad, Mohammed Najar. Najar, born in 1987, was involved in
On the day after X-Mas, a request came into the Bermuda airport: a private plane needed to be pulled out of its hangar and readied for takeoff. The pilots seemed
A major snowstorm is once again making its way to Greater New York. New York City is in line for seven to 14 inches of snow, although the National Weather Service mentions a chance that more snow is possible east of the city. Near blizzard conditions should overwhelm much of the region — especially coastal […]
As city officials scrambled to prepare for another snowstorm slated to begin Tuesday night, a top deputy to Mayor Michael Bloomberg testified on Monday that an emergency declaration might have
A serious MVA in Flatbush this morning, sent to people to Kings County Hospital with serious injuries. The SUV lost control, jumped the curb, hit two pedestrians waiting for a
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