Hundreds of chassidim from various kehillos, including Vizhnitz, Boyan, Gerrer, and others, held a protest outside the Beit Lid military prison on Motzei Shabbos to protest the continued detention of
Melania Trump took the unique step of crafting a letter that calls for peace in Ukraine, having her husband President Donald Trump hand-deliver it to Russian President Vladimir Putin during
The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group on Friday vowed not to disarm, saying last week’s decision by the national government to remove the Iran-backed group’s weapons by the end of the year serves Israel’s interests. Naim Kassem said the government’s decision to remove “the defensive weapons of the resistance, its people and Lebanon during […]
Israeli leftists launched a general strike across the country early Sunday morning against the government’s plan to continue to fight Hamas in Gaza and not capitulate to the terror group’s
The Israeli Navy carried out an attack on a power station in Sanaa early Sunday morning, causing power outages in several areas of the Houthi-controlled capital. Yemeni media reported that
The Hirschman family is facing a moment of both great joy and overwhelming challenge. Their daughter’s wedding is fast approaching, yet the weight of years of severe medical hardship has
Thousands of anti-Israel demonstrators surged through midtown Manhattan on Saturday, banging cowbells and waving placards that demanded an end to U.S. aid to Israel while chanting “Free, free Palestine” and “Palestine will live forever.” Organizers branded the rally “Stand with Gaza.” What echoed loudest—and sparked the fiercest backlash—was the call for a “global intifada,” a […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump reversed course in the wake of his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to say an overall peace agreement — not the ceasefire that he has long championed — is the next step in ending the 3 1/2-year war in Ukraine. In talks with European allies after Friday’s summit in Alaska, […]
Hurricane Erin exploded in strength to a Category 5 storm in Atlantic waters just north of the Caribbean on Saturday, rapidly powering up from a tropical storm in a single
YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Rabbi Berel Wein ZT”L. He was 91. The levaya will take place Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. at Beis Knesset Hanassi in Jerusalem. Kevurah will be on Har HaZeisim. Rabbi Wein was born in Chicago into a family descended from Lithuanian rabbanim. After working as a […]
A family of 12, parents and 10 children, has left the Lev Tahor cult in Guatemala and arrived in Israel, Ynet reported on Thursday. The family is receiving support from
A yeshiva bochur was arrested on Friday by traffic police and was transferred to the military police for draft dodging, Kikar H’Shabbat reported on Motzei Shabbos. The bochur is a
Israel’s Health Ministry announced on Motzei Shabbos that a toddler passed away from measles on Shabbos. The death of the toddler, an 18-month-old from Beit Shemesh Ramah Daled, follows the
This holy siddur is the very one from which the holy Admor Rabbi Meir Yosef Weiss of Spinka, author of Imrei Yosef, poured out his heart in prayer, infused with
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was indicted Friday in what prosecutors called a yearslong scheme to hide a relationship with her bodyguard, who is accused of being paid as if
Shoppers spent at a healthy pace in July, particularly at the nation’s auto dealerships, even as President Donald Trump’s tariffs start to take a toll on jobs and lead to some price increases. But the figures also underscore anxiety among Americans: all the uncertainty around the expansive duties appears to be pushing them to step […]
President Donald Trump greeted Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Friday with a handshake, a smile and a ride in the presidential limousine before talks aimed at ending the conflict in Ukraine, an unusually warm reception for a U.S. adversary responsible for launching the largest land war in Europe since 1945. Trump and Putin gripped hands for an extended period of […]
The nation’s capital sued to block President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department in court on Friday, hours after his administration escalated its intervention into the city’s law enforcement by naming a federal official as the new emergency head of the department. Washington’s police department chief said Trump’s move would threaten law and order by upending the […]
Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed over 280 people in India and Pakistan and left scores of others missing, officials said Friday, as rescuers brought to safety some 1,600 people from two mountainous districts in the neighboring countries. In Pakistan, a helicopter carrying relief supplies to the flood-hit northwestern Bajaur region crashed due to bad weather, killing […]
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