A convicted former union boss for New York City corrections officers wants to serve his nearly five-year prison term at home because of the coronavirus pandemic. Lawyers for Norman Seabrook said in a court filing last week that he is at “acute risk” of becoming infected because he has pulmonary disease. They say an alternative […]
Israeli has placed its embassies worldwide on high alert in the wake of Iranian threats of reprisal for the assassination of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in a village
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Hagaon HaRav Elya Meir Sorotzkin ZATZAL, the Rosh Yeshiva of Springfield Yeshiva in NJ. He was approximately 62. Rav Sorotzkin took
An Iranian scientist who led the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program was assassinated Friday. The Fars news agency said the attack happened in Absard, a small city just east of the capital, Tehran. It said witnesses heard the sound of an explosion and then machine gun fire. The attack targeted a car that Mohsen Fakhrizadeh […]
Chof Alef Kislev is a special day in Satmar. It marks the day that Hagon HaRav Yoel Teitelbaum ZATZAL, the founder of Satmar Chassidus in America, escaped from the Nazis YM”S during the Holocaust in 1944. The day is usually marked with celebrations held around the world. In New York, there are two massive annual events […]
Quebec’s highest court has declared consecutive life sentences to be unconstitutional, reducing the sentence given to the man who murdered six people in a Quebec City mosque in 2017. Alexandre Bissonnette, 30, was sentenced in February 2019 to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 40 years. Thursday’s decision by the Quebec Court […]
The infection of a single cafeteria worker was all it took to close classrooms in the small Lowellville school district in northeastern Ohio, forcing at least two weeks of remote
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that officials are working on a winter plan for the coronavirus that will add metrics for how the state designates virus hot zones.
Israel’s Health Ministry confirmed 1,069 new coronavirus cases on Thursday morning, the highest number of daily cases in over a month, with tests showing a positivity rate of 1.8%. The
Rishon L’Tzion Rav Yitzchak Yosef met with a delegation of Bahrain royals at the King David hotel in Jerusalem on Wednesday. The delegation is visiting Israel as part of a
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Two NYPD officers who were shot and wounded Tuesday while responding to a domestic violence call in Queens were released from a hospital on Thanksgiving. Video shows officer Christopher Wells,
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said on Wednesday that he’s being attacked by anti-vaxxers for his role in encouraging Israelis to be vaccinated for the coronavirus. Anti-vaxxers have dubbed him “Mengele”
In a historical move, Israel’s ZAKA organization signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday with DIHAD, the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Development organization in the United Arab Emirates. The
The leader of Djibouti, a strategically located country in the Horn of Africa, said that the Muslim-majority country won’t consider normalizing ties with Israel at this time. “The conditions aren’t ripe,” Djibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh told the Africa Report. “We neither have a problem with the Jews as a people nor the Israelis as […]
Swiss federal police said Wednesday a woman suspected of carrying out a knife attack that injured two other women and is being investigated as possible terrorism had formed a relationship online with a jihadi in Syria, and had attempted to travel there. The 28-year-old woman, a Swiss citizen, was arrested after Tuesday’s attack in a […]
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A leading Saudi women’s rights activist who’s been imprisoned for 2 1/2 years and drawn attention to the kingdom’s hard limits on dissent will be tried by a court established to oversee terrorism cases, her family said Wednesday. The referral of Loujain al-Hathloul’s case to the Specialized Criminal Court is a setback for efforts to […]
Australia’s prime minister said he’s “thrilled and relieved” after Iran released in a prisoner swap a 33-year-old academic who was imprisoned for more than two years on spying charges, but added it would take time for Kylie Moore-Gilbert to process her “horrible” ordeal. Iran first announced on state television that it had freed the British-Australian […]
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