The sudden blast of Mother Natures fury on Thursday lasted just minutes, but left a path of destruction across the tri-state area. The National Weather Service confirmed Friday that two tornadoes and a microburst struck the New York City area on Thursday evening. The weaker of the two, with gusts up to 80 miles per […]
The National Weather Service confirmed Friday that a tornado did indeed touch down in Ocean County, New Jersey during a severe storm that ripped through the area Thursday evening. According
Taken Erev Yom Kippur 5771, as the Gadol Hador, Maran Hagon Rav Chaim Kanievsky “Shlugs Kapparos”.
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Hamas on Friday threatened retaliation over the killing of Iyad abu Shilbayeh, formerly a senior operative in the organization, who was killed during an IDF raid east of the West
Investigators in Britain arrested five men on suspicion of terrorism Friday and promptly reviewed security arrangements for the Pope’s trip to the island, authorities said. Some news reports said the
An unhinged man was nabbed for hatching a plot to rob a Brooklyn synagogue and then fight off cops with pipe bombs and guns, authorities said. Elias Narvaez, 21, allegedly
The following are Mayor Michael R. Bloombergs remarks as delivered Thursday night near 111th Street and 52nd Avenue in Queens Number one, the car behind me that you see, damaged but fortunately the man who was driving it Ive just talked to and hes okay. Hes a bit shaken up. Unfortunately there has been […]
The following is meant as a convenient review of Halachos pertaining to Rosh Yom-Kippur. The Piskei Din for the most part are based purely on the Sugyos, Shulchan Aruch and
6:35PM EST: As YWN had posted earlier, a massive storm ripped through NYC at approximately 6:00PM. Although it has not been confirmed, the damage can only be described as a tornado, or something very close to it. In Brooklynon the Gowanus Expressway, Hatzolah was operating at the scene of three overturned tractor trailers. Eye witnesses […]
Over a thousand bochurim and avreichim participated in a massive siyum at the Mir Yeshiva in Yerushalayim, marking the completion of maseches kiddushin. A large part of the Mir Yeshiva
Hundreds of people gathered at the kever Yitzchak Avinu (which was open at night for the first time in a while) for an atzeres slichos leilui nishmas HaRav Mordechai Eliyahu
By Rav Aryeh Z. Ginzberg Chofetz Chaim Torah Center My favorite yom tov story is the one about Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, zl, on the night of Yom Kippur. The story goes as follows: It was the holy night of Yom Kippur and all the Jews in the town of Berditchev gathered together at […]
Someone carved a swastika and the word Jew in freshly poured concrete outside Holy Name Medical Centers emergency room on Grange Road late Wednesday or early Thursday, authorities said. Police also took three boys into custody ages 14, 15 and 17 for stepping on and writing in the soft concrete, though they were […]
The Department of Transportation installed the first countdown pedestrian signals in Park Slope earlier today. When the traffic lights at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and 9th Street turn red,
Brooklyn Councilman David Greenfield has requested that the Federal government dispatch monitors to random polling sites to oversee the November 2nd general election in New York to ensure the preservation of New Yorkers rights to a secret ballot. In a letter to the U.S. Department of Justices Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez, Councilman Greenfield […]
1:00PM EST:[UPDATES BELOW] A man who shot and wounded a doctor at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, later killed himself and a third person on Thursday, police said. The suspect shot a faculty physician at the hospital just after 11 a.m., police said. The doctor was rushed to surgery and is expected […]
The Palm Beach Post reports: When Jews at Congregation Chabad-Lubavitch west of Boynton Beach gather Friday for the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest of Jewish holidays, they will be
On a recent summer day, Rabbi Shloime Isaacson received an urgent call: A 98-year-woman was having difficulty breathing. Isaacson was on his way to a meeting with a potential donor
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