Transit officials today are announcing a pilot program to install high-tech intercoms on platforms and near subway station entrances. The intercoms will be posted every 150 feet or so, and
Southwest Airlines, the nations largest low-fare carrier, said on Monday that it had agreed to buy its smaller rival AirTran Airways in a transaction valued at $1.4 billion, expanding its foothold in New York and Boston and allowing it to move into the nations largest airport, Atlantas Hartsfield-Jackson. Southwest said the purchase had been approved […]
Deputy Education Minister Meir Porush took part in a cornerstone laying ceremony in Hebron on Monday and said: “We must learn from the Arabs how to stand firm and not
The computer virus, known as Stuxnet, has spread to the personal computers of staff working at the Bushehr nuclear power station weeks before the facility is to go online. Mahmoud Jafari, project manager at Bushehr, said a team is trying to remove the malware from several affected computers, though it “has not caused any […]
Assemblyman Felix Ortiz says he has drafted a new bill that would toughen the penalty for drivers who text behind the wheel. It comes on the heels of an accident
Abbott Laboratories, a pharmaceutical health care company, has recently announced that they are recalling 5 million cans of specified Similar brand powdered infant formula. Apparently, the Similac recall was due
Maran Hagon Rav Elyashiv Shlita visited the Kosel early Sunday morning to shake his Arba Minim. Click HERE to view the photos taken by Kuvien Images (Yehuda Boltshauser & Co)
Tens of thousands of people converged by the Kosel on Sunday morning for birchas kohanim. While most came closer to mussaf, many made the trek to the Kosel in the
A trove of unpublished manuscripts from the late gadol and posek hador, Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, has been discovered and is being readied for publication in a series of seforim. Included are Rav Moshes writings on the entire Shas, as well as hundreds of Responsa on complex halachic issues. Some of the materials date from […]
With little more than a month to go before the midterm elections, President Barack Obamas approval rating has hit an all-time low. nly 42 percent of Americans now approve of how Obamas handling his job as president, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll. Fifty-four percent disapprove of his performance. The figures represent a […]
This Sunday Chol HaMoed, the annual Darchei Chinuch Sukkah Expo will open its doors to the public, showcasing hundreds of model sukkahs built by children. Dubbed “sukkah land”, it is
A contentious issue between Israelis and Palestinians that some say could derail Mideast peace talks is set to reach a milestone on Sunday. Israel’s moratorium on settlement construction in the
Mayor Bloomberg distanced himself from embattled Brooklyn Democratic boss Vito Lopez amid a growing scandal over the management of a network of not-for-profits he is closely connected to. After being reelected to a two-year term as party leader Monday night, Lopez told reporters he expected a call from the mayor. I think the mayor probably, […]
The Jewish people are particularly sensitive to the long struggle for religious freedom and the ability for people of all faiths to celebrate their rich heritage. While our Constitution and
An Israelipoliceman caused a slight ruckus when he evicted a man making a bracha on his arba minim in a sukkah despite a sign stating that it was permitted. The situation was eventually resolved as the masses were allowed to use the sukkah until the chief rabbis arrived. (Kuvien Images – YWN)
The photographers of Kuvien Images, Yehuda Boltshauser & Co. are hard at work in Eretz Yisroel, running from one Simchas Bais HaShoeva to another, capturing images & videos for the
With thousands of Frum people travveling on Chol Hamoed trips on Sunday morning, please keep the following traffic alert in mind: Due to the annual “Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers
Bright and early in the day, over a thousand people came to the Kosel to daven vasikin on the first day of Chol HaMoed, as well as gedolei yisroel including
An electrical fire broke out on Motzei Yom Tov inside the Aron Kodesh of the Viznits Shul in Bnei Brak, destroying 11 Sifrei Torah R”L. Hundreds of people were evacuated
A married couple have revealed how they turned their backs on their violent neo-Nazi past after discovering they were both Jewish. The one-time skinheads grew up as part of a hate-filled white power gang in Warsaw, the capital of Poland and once the site of the largest Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe. But now […]
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