An FBI agent Wednesday showed jurors a fake bomb and deactivated Stinger missile with which four upstate men allegedly hoped to blow up two Riverdale synagogues and shoot down military

A letter containing bullets and death threats to Jews was sent to a synagogue in a northern Paris suburb, where an infamous transit camp for Jews was set up during

Dov Weisel is a modest man who runs from honor, but the truth is that he is the manager of Israel’s largest anti-poverty organization.  His office sports a wooden desk crowded with drafts and documents, a small round table for  discussions, several chairs, and a large bookcase. It’s an important office for important meetings, but […]

6:15PM EST: NYPD Detectives have charged the suspect being held in the brutal murder of Yoseph Robinson HY”D. As YWN had reported yesterday, detectives had picked up the suspect early Tuesday morning, and now highly credible sources confirm to YWN that the suspect, 33-year-old Eion Klass, a black male, has been arrested on charges of 1st and 2nd […]

Wholesale egg prices are up about 40% since the start of a major recall, and consumers will likely see increases at the store, too, industry analysts say. The wholesale price

Google Inc said users of Gmail will now be able to call telephones directly from their email, putting it in direct competition with Web calling service Skype and companies such

A cabdriver was attacked Tuesday by a knife-wielding passenger who made anti-Muslim remarks, the police said. The passenger, Michael Enright, 21, of Brewster, N.Y., hailed the cab at Second Avenue

Brooklyn — Councilman David Greenfield hit a home run with his first annual Greenfield Classic, a softball game that saw Shomrim Boro Park Division take on the 66th Precinct at Gravesend Park last Wednesday, August 18th. Throughout the seven hard-fought innings, Shomrim Boro Park and the 66th Precinct played their hearts out for a crowd […]

New home sales unexpectedly fell in July to the lowest level on record as the housing market continued to suffer from the end of the homebuyer tax credit boost. New

The following message was sent to YWN by Baltimore Shomrim: As you all know our community was hit with hate crime(s) this past week. The Police Commissioner is coming to

12:45AM EST: YWN regrets to inform you of the tragic Petira of Mrs. Reva Esther Robins A”H, who was R”L killed in a car accident in Twin Mountain New Hampshire on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Robins, a resident of Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, davened at Rabbi Welscher’s Shul, and was beloved by her community. According to reports […]

The Mir Yeshiva in Yerushalayim has upgraded their generator with 2 fuel tanks. A special Liebherr mobile hydraulic crane with a telescopic boom was called in to lower the tanks

For the second time in 10 days, a Yeshiva in Lakewood made a decision not to reopen on the opening day of school. Yeshivah Keter Torah, an Sefardic elementary school,

The next time you order a bagel you may want to hold off on the cream cheese or other toppings. Under orders from cash-strapped Albany, state tax officials have begun

WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website that infuriated the Pentagon when it published thousands of classified military reports, said it will release a fresh set of documents Wednesday. The group posted on

Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger last Thursday visited the West Bank settlement of Kochav Hashachar, east of Ramallah, in order to hand out award to outstanding students. The rabbi was

Sen. John McCain slid to an easy victory over former congressman J.D. Hayworth in Arizona’s Republican Senate primary election, overcoming early predictions that Hayworth represented the biggest threat to his

The judge who presided over Sholom Rubashkin’s fraud trial did nothing improper when she met with federal agents prior to the massive 2008 immigration raid at Agriprocessors, Inc., prosecutors argued Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Linda Reade was only told about a planned raid that would involve hundreds of illegal immigrant arrests, Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter […]

Officials in Moldova seized 1.8 kilograms (about 4 pounds) of smuggled uranium and arrested three of seven suspects, an interior ministry spokesman said Tuesday. Tipped off in early July, authorities

During opening arguments today, federal prosecutors outlined their case against four men accused of plotting to blow up two Bronx synagogues and shoot down military planes last year, focusing on

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