Hundreds of people gathered at the Kosel late Thursday night at an emergency atzeres tefilah in response to the wildfires raging in Northen Israel and the lack of rain in
Yidden around Eretz Yisroel gathered to say tehillim tonight, the second of Chanukah, in regards to the horrific wildfire in Northern Eretz Yisroel. A large Atzeres tefillah was also held
The following is an article by the Baltimore Sun: Black community and civil rights leaders are calling for a Jewish neighborhood patrol group to be disbanded pending an investigation after
One of London’s biggest hospitals has ordered a rabbi to remove a nine-foot chanukiah from its main entrance, just one week after granting permission for it to go on display. The Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead told Rabbi Yossi Simon of Lubavitch outreach organisation Tzivos Hashem, which displays menorahs across London at this time of […]
Below are the remarks made by President Barak Obama just one hour ago at the White House Chanukah party. In his opening remarks the President offered his deepest condolences to
ALL UPDATES, VIDEO & PHOTOS BELOW: 9:40AM EST: As YWN reported earlier, a massive wildfire is currently raging in Northern Israel. Villages have been evacuated as well as a prison. Although details are still sketchy, a bus evacuating people from the area has caught fire while escaping the blaze, and then overturned. As of this point, there […]
Mayor Bloomberg called Israel’s Acting Consul General in New York, Ido Aharoni to reiterate that, like always, New York City’s stands closely with Israel this afternoon. The Mayor asked if there’s anything New York can do to help with the fires raging in the North. [The Mayor also mentioned in his call that FDNY Commissioner […]
The House on Thursday voted to formally censure Rep. Charlie Rangel for financial misconduct despite pleas from the New York Democratic lawmaker and some of his colleagues for a less
Congressional Democrats rammed a bill through the House of Representatives Thursday indefinitely extending the Bush-era tax cuts only for families making $250,000 a year or less. It would maintain the
ZAKA volunteers working in the area of the bus incident have discovered a pile of about 15 bodies, one on top of another. This shocking and horrific sight would suggest
Special to Yeshiva World News by Rabbi Tuvya Melonsky: In an unprecedented speech, Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, one of the two Grand Rabbis of Satmar, spoke out sharply against the standards of Kashrus in the Ashkenazic Jewish community. Rabbi Teitelbaum harshly denounced the practical supervision standards involved when a shechita knife is found to be invalid. His […]
Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments, which he made earlier this evening on the massive fire currently raging on Mt. Carmel, near Haifa: “At this hour a terrible fire is ravaging Mt. Carmel; there are many casualties. We are mobilizing all of our forces to deal with this disaster, to rescue the injured and […]
President Obama’s clarification of his stance on the mosque to be built near ground zero shows that he needs new advisers, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says in an interview published in the magazine GQ. “The president, I think, needs some better advisers,” Bloomberg says in the interview. “He campaigns, ‘I’m gonna do A,’ and […]
The trustee seeking to recover funds for the victims of Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme sued JPMorgan Chase on Thursday for $6.4 billion, accusing it of profiting from the huge fraud in its role as the primary banker for Mr. Madoff’s investment company. The lawsuit, filed in federal bankruptcy court, is seeking to recover nearly […]
The following is a CNN report: Amazon dumped the controversial site WikiLeaks from its computer servers on Wednesday. But WikiLeaks, which is known for publishing state secrets, apparently has found
Sweden’s royal family has been rocked by a new scandal which has exposed the hidden Nazi past of the Queen’s father. The latest revelations concern Walther Sommerlath, the late father
NYU’s Hospital for Joint Diseases shut down a 10th-floor treatment area after a patient said she saw a bedbug. The woman’s claim forced the evacuation of the hospital’s infusion center
Authorities say the shutdown on the New York State Thruway in suburban Buffalo has been extended to 16 miles (26 kilometres) of eastbound lanes, while a 10-mile (16-kilometre) westbound stretch
The Census Bureau will announce later this month that the New York Congressional delegation will shrink to the smallest it has been in 200 years, continuing to erode the state’s clout in Washington. The 435 seats in the House of Representatives are apportioned every decade on the basis of population. As a result of the […]
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