President Joe Biden is opening his second Summit for Democracy with a pledge for the U.S. to spend $690 million bolstering democracy programs around the globe. The Biden administration wants to use the two-day summit that begins Wednesday to zero in on making “technology work for and not against democracy,” according to a senior administration […]
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In the wake of the widespread outrage over the politically motivated strike at Ben-Gurion Airport on Monday, Pinchas Idan, the head of the workers’ union at the Israel Airports Authority,
A senior Russian diplomat said Wednesday that Moscow will no longer inform the U.S. about its missile tests, an announcement that came as the Russian military deployed mobile launchers in Siberia in a show of the country’s massive nuclear capability amid the fighting in Ukraine. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in remarks carried […]
With the Fiscal Year 2024 budget season now underway in New Jersey, both houses of the State Legislature have begun holding a series of public hearings. On Monday, Agudath Israel of America’s New Jersey director, Rabbi Avi Schnall, testified at the Assembly Budget Committee’s first public hearing, to ask the members of the committee to […]
Dear YWN Reader, Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz, the famed Chabad shliach of Temecula, CA, was diagnosed many years ago with ALS. Instead of becoming a miserable person, he decided to embrace
On March 27, 2023, the Council of Jewish Organizations of Staten Island’s security Committee (COJO) in conjunction with the NYPD, FDNY and DSNY held its Annual Pre-Passover Briefing at the Aur Torah Sephardic Minyan located in the New Springville section of Staten Island. Host Rabbi Aharon Zeev, Rabbi of Aur Torah, welcomed the honored guests […]
A U.S. Senate staffer remained hospitalized Tuesday after police say he was attacked leaving a restaurant in Washington this weekend by a man who had been released from federal prison a day earlier. The suspect, Glynn Neal, 42, was arrested on a charge of assault with intent to kill after Saturday’s attack. The federal Bureau […]
In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Donald Trump somehow managed to mix up a proposed trade deal called NAFTA with the military alliance called NATO. The former
The U.K.’s MI5 intelligence service on Tuesday raised the terrorism threat level in Northern Ireland’ to “severe” amid an increase in activity by dissident Irish republican militants. Severe is the second-highest rung on a five-point scale and means an attack is considered highly likely. The threat had stood one notch lower at “substantial” for the […]
It was already tough to make ends meet.Now, with Inflation continuing to rise, it’s like having another hungry mouth to feed! The Flatbush Community Fund wants to help at least
It could cost California more than $800 billion to compensate Black residents for generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination, economists have told a state panel considering reparations. The preliminary estimate is more than 2.5 times California’s $300 billion annual budget, and does not include a recommended $1 million per older Black resident for […]
An elderly man was struck and injured by a vehicle on Tuesday night in Boro Park. Hatzolah was called to the scene of the accident at 11th Avenue and 55th
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will travel to Jerusalem next month and speak at a museum event as Israel faces a spiraling domestic crisis, giving the potential 2024 presidential candidate a
A federal judge has ruled that former Vice President Mike Pence will have to testify before a grand jury in the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election. That’s according to two people familiar with the ruling, who spoke on condition […]
A new red line was crossed at the left-wing protests on Monday, with videos appearing on social media showing protesters burning photos of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in downtown Tel
FBI agents knew the gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history left behind big caches of guns, ammunition and explosives when they sought warrants to search his
The Jackson Township Council on Tuesday evening unanimously approved the first reading of an ordinance that will greatly enhance the ability of kehillos in the township to establish shuls and
Conservative commentator and Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro commented on Monday on the battle in Israel over the government’s judicial reform plan. “The judicial reform fight in Israel is a
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