As President Trump has expressed displeasure with several aspects of the just-passed COVID relief package, the nation awaits its fate. What effect the President’s surprise announcement will have on his possible veto, or his possible signature, remains uncertain. Agudath Israel of America is closely monitoring these developments. As the legislation currently stands, however, Agudath Israel […]
(JOIN THE EVENT TONIGHT AT 8 PM ON Yeshiva World News!) In spite of the Covid-19 pandemic, the doors of Brooklyn’s legendary Yeshiva Derech Chaim were not shut. The selfless Rebbeim are doing Whatever It Takes to keep the holy gates of Torah open. Challenges piled up. The Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Yisroel Plutchok ZT’L, tragically […]
The United Arab Emirates’ highest Islamic authority, the UAE Fatwa Council, has ruled that coronavirus vaccines are permissible for Muslims even if they contain pork gelatin. The ruling follows growing alarm that the use of pork gelatin, a common vaccine ingredient, may hamper vaccination among Muslims who consider the consumption of pork products “haram,” or […]
An Israeli court ordered Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) to compensate a Jewish couple for anti-Semitic remarks made by its staff in Vienna last year, Globes reported. In April 2019, the
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Israel utilized the recent visit of US Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to convey several messages to the incoming Biden administration about Iran and other regional issues, Axios reported on Wednesday. Since Milley is expected to continue in his position through the US administration’s transition, Israel views him as a […]
Coronavirus cases spiking nationwide. A chill, existential and literal, setting in once more. And now: a winter likely to be streaked by a soundtrack of sirens instead of silver bells. It was winter when the pandemic began, and it will be winter long before it’s over. Weary and traumatized from months of death and confinement, […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petirah of Mr. Paul Miller Z”L at the age of 104. Mr. Miller, the child of Jewish Lithuanian immigrants, taught math for over
France relaxed its coronavirus-related ban on trucks from Britain on Tuesday after a two-day standoff that had stranded thousands of drivers and raised fears of Christmastime food shortages in the
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A New York City health care worker suffered a “significant allergic reaction” to a COVID vaccine, the city Health Department said Wednesday. “With more than 30,000 COVID-19 vaccinations administered in New York City, we have received a single report of a serious adverse event in a health care worker. The health care worker, who had […]
Sudan’s Justice Ministry said Tuesday the U.S. Congress has moved forward on Washington’s promise to end the African country’s pariah status, passing legislation that grants Sudan some immunity from legal action by Americans against its involvement in terror attacks. The legislation, part of a massive relief package that Congress approved Monday, restored to Sudan what […]
A gunman who had beaten and taken his partner hostage in southern France killed three policemen who came to her aid and fled, prompting a wide manhunt, authorities said. He was later found dead. France’s interior minister, Gerard Darmanin, headed Wednesday to the scene, near the town of Saint-Just southwest of Lyon. A woman called […]
The Belzer Rebbe added his signature to the Rabbanim and Dayanim of the Machzikei Das of the chassidus on Tuesday, calling for his chassidim to be vaccinated against the coronavirus,
German doctors treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after he was poisoned with a nerve agent have detailed the case in an article for a major medical journal. Berlin’s Charite hospital said Wednesday that Navalny had given his permission for the article to be published in The Lancet journal. Navalny fell ill suddenly on a […]
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A new unknown photo of HaGaon HaRav Yisrael Meir HaCohen of Radin, the Chofetz Chaim, z’tl, was recently discovered by Rav Dan Schlesinger, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. The rare picture was
New York expects to have received 930,000 coronavirus vaccine doses by the end of next week, a supply that should be used in an inoculation push at nursing homes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday. Cuomo told reporters he’s asking health care providers to work through the holidays in hopes of vaccinating all nursing home […]
An IDF Golani soldier was removed from his unit for failing to open fire on an Arab who hurled a Molotov cocktail at him in the northern Shomron on Motzei
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