The Wall Street Journal reports: Al Pacino, preparing for the role of Shylock in the Public Theater’s upcoming production of “The Merchant of Venice,” took his research into Brooklyn this
The Senate passed late Thursday night the most sweeping regulatory overhaul of the financial system since the New Deal. The bill, which passed 59-39, imposes more oversight and stronger capital
Gov. David A. Paterson is considering a new strategy in his effort to pass a soda tax, hoping to win over reluctant lawmakers and the beverage industry by pairing the
In a symbol of the growing anti-Washington sentiment across the country, Rep. Joe Sestak defeated five-term senator Arlen Specterin the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary and in Kentucky, Tea Party-backed candidate
Hundreds of Eida supporters took part in the Thursday afternoon levaya for the Barzilai bones after the Eida received permission from the Ministry of Religious Services to conduct a levaya
The president’s top intelligence adviser, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, has announced his resignation, effective Friday. Blair, a retired four-star Navy admiral, has served in the post since
Stocks logged their biggest drop of the year Thursday as investors worried about two events coming Friday a German vote on the EU bailout and options expiration. Plus, a vote in the Senate to end debate on financial reform cleared the path for a final vote tonight or tomorrow, which added another layer of […]
As June 25th rapidly approaches, a day that will mark Gilad Shalits fourth anniversary in Hamas captivity, Israel on Thursday morning released senior Hamas terrorist Mahmoud Abu Tir, who was arrested along with other Hamas ministers following the cross-border terror attack in which Gilad Shalit was taken captive. Tir and others are held in detention […]
The Eida Chareidis has decided to bury the bones exhumed from Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon; with rabbonim indicated no one seems willing to undertake the responsibility for doing so. A
A father and son from Toms River drowned Monday while playing with a remote control boat on a popular fishing pond, Lakewood PD tell YWN. The following statement was released
At a New York City Council hearing on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Councilman David Greenfield got into a heated exchange with NYC ACS Commissioner John Mattingly on the proposed elimination
Watch as Mispalilim in the Breuer’s Shul (KAJ) located in Washington Heights, NY, decorate their Bais Medrash for Shavuos. The tedious job starts 48 hours before Yom Tov starts.
Forty years ago, in the shadow of the Six Day War, the Editor of the Panim El Panim Newspaper, Shmuel Avigdor HaKohen, made his way to Williamsburg, where he was
Whether you will be traveling, at home, with family or with friends; YWN would like to wish all of our devoted readers and advertisers,a wonderful Yom Tov of Kabolas Hatorah. NOTE: (NYC) Alternate Side Parking regulations will be suspended on Wednesday and Thursday, May 19-20 for Shavuos. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in […]
From the YWN archives: In one of his shiurim, HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein explained that his father-in-law, Maran HaGaon Rav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita would on erev Shavuos visit the
The Justice Ministry Internal Affairs Unit questioned the Jerusalem police chief following a complaint filed by chareidim regarding the brutal arrest of a Toldos Aaron chossid. According to a report
The Food and Drug Administration said Monday it is expanding its investigation of a Johnson & Johnson manufacturing division tied to the recent recall of children’s drugs. On May 1,
NBC New York reports: An investigation is underway at LaGuardia Airport into how a man was able to pass through security and board a flight even though the name on
By Mordechai Kuber; Rav, Beis Medrash Nachlas Tzvi Ohel Avraham (Telzstone, Israel) Synopsis: Shulchan Aruch permits fish flesh worms because they form in the permitted fish flesh, yet scientific research has discredited spontaneous generation. For the past 150 years, many Poskim resolved this conflict by saying that these flesh worms appear to form in the […]
It’s decision day for hundreds of school districts and hundreds of thousands of voters across New York State. For many Long Island homeowners, it’s a choice between rising property taxes
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