A Bnei Brak family enjoying the day at Yam Hamelach (Dead Sea) turned into tragedy, after they were swept out in the salty waters. According to reports, the family arrived at the Ein Bokek Beach on Tuesday to spent some relaxing time there together. As it became close to sunset, the lifeguards on duty began announcing on […]
The following is from the Times Herald Record: Morningside Park Manager Henry Lesczynski has worked there for 20 years — and for all those years he’s feared somebody would get hit by lightning on the lake. He never kept his worry a secret. His workers kidded him about it, called him paranoid because it had […]
Rank apparently has its privileges. Less than a week after the NYPD began using a new computer system to eliminate ticket “fixing,” the department’s top doctor boasted to colleagues that he had found a special cure for the parking summons and towing bill he’d just received—a higher-up pal who fixed his ticket—a well-placed police source […]
New York Knicks Basketball athlete, Amare Stoudemire, just spent one week visiting Israel to explore his Jewish heritage. Stoudemire told The Associated Press on Friday that he believes he has “Hebrew roots” through his mother, Carrie. The 6-foot-10 forward signed a five-year, $100 million contract with the Knicks three weeks ago. He spent his first […]
The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) fired at an IDF position in the Israeli side of the border along the Lebanese border in northern Israel on Tuesday afternoon, as reported earlier
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has denied a request to grant ‘landmark status’ to 45-47 Park Place in Lower Manhattan. Plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque at the building will likely proceed. Opponents of the center include many family members of 9/11 victims who say the mosque is too close […]
Google Inc., AT&T Inc., and Verizon Communications Inc. executives met behind closed doors over the weekend with Federal Communications Commission officials in efforts to resolve a dispute over U.S. Internet
The NYS DOT has canceled plans to study the potential widening of Route 17 in Orange and Sullivan counties because of budgetary constraints, according to a department spokeswoman. The agency had expected to hire a consultant to explore widening the highway from two lanes to three in each direction between Harriman and Monticello – a […]
Lakewood, NJ – A group of 40 New Jersey professionals will bicycle 135 miles over the next two days to raise money for children who are battling serious illnesses. The
For the first time since returning from the hospital, after being hospitalized in Intensive Care, Maran Hagon Rav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita left his home. The Gadol Hador went to visit the kever of his father, Hagon Harav Yaakov Yisroel Kanivsky ZATZAL, known as the Steipler, on the occasion of his Yahrtzerit. Rav Chaim was accompanied by Harav […]
A man whose conviction for the murder of a Williamsburg rabbi was overturned after he spent 15 years in prison, plans to sue the city for $30 million for malicious prosecution. The lawyer for Jabbar Collins, 37, filed notice with the city of the pending lawsuit, claiming that prosecutors—specifically Assistant District Attorney Michael Vecchione—suppressed evidence […]
Dear YWN, An issue that deserves your coverage, is the upcoming referendum in the Town of Ramapo on the new 3,500-5,000-seat baseball stadium at the corner of Route 45 and
A day after rockets were fired at Eilat, loud explosions were reported on the northern border as Israeli and Lebanese forces engaged in massive exchanges of fire. Security sources and
Lakewood, NJ – YWN regrets to inform you of the sudden Petira of R’ Nota Koslowitz Z”L (60), a long-time resident of Lakewood, and a Talmid of Hagon Rav Schneur Kotler ZATZAL R’ Nota was on a Bain Hazmanim vacation in Tannersville, NY, when he suffered a massive heart attack, and was R”L Niftar shortly […]
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. issued a statement to its customers assuring them that their data was secure, a day after regulators in the United Arab Emirates said they’d tussled with RIM over access to that data. Monday’s statement also comes a day before a major product announcement for RIM, which is widely expected […]
New Jersey today opened up a federally funded health insurance plan for people with pre-existing conditions such as cancer, high cholesterol or hypertension. The insurance plan — part of the national health care overhaul passed earlier this year — is open to New Jersey residents with specifically defined pre-existing conditions, who have not had health […]
City paramedics have begun to treat cardiac arrest victims with a procedure that cools the body with cold intravenous fluids to preserve muscle, tissue and neurological functions — all while
NYC is about to put the brakes on thousands of drivers who’ve beaten the red-light camera program out of $47 million, The Post has learned. The red-light runners will be in for a shock when they check their parking-violation records and find past-due summonses dating back to 2003 added to their accounts. And that’s not […]
Two men were convicted Monday of plotting to blow up jet fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a terror plot that authorities said was meant to outdo the
Average retail gasoline prices in New Jersey have fallen 1.1 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.53 per gallon as of Sunday. This compares with the national average
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