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A Jewish hockey player and his junior team have reached a compromise (after a dilemma reported HERE on YW) that will let him play...

German police have made an arrest in a week-long hunt for a man of Mediterranean appearance who stabbed Rabbi Zalman Gurevitch (Chabad Shliach of...

A swastika and other graffiti were found smeared on the exterior of a synagogue in western Germany, the Associated Press reported. The graffiti - which...

We regret to inform you of the Petira of Mr. Ira Feigenbaum (RL-17) Z"L after a long illness. The Levaya is taking place today...

Dear readers of YW: Since its inception more than two years ago, YW has grown from a small blog into a massive news website...

The NY Times & Ynet report: Israel believes that North Korea has been supplying Syria and Iran with nuclear materials. According to one Washington...

Click HERE to open page with a printable Pruzbul. NOTE: There is a Machlokes if a Pruzbul is needed this year (before Shemita), next...

The State of Israel has announced the highest state of alert throughout the country over Rosh Hashanah. Military sources said that they have eight...

Police are searching for suspects who vandalized signs at three synagogues in Montgomery County over night - defacing signs signs supporting Israel. The possible...

By Mayer Fertig: Click HERE for additional photos of the Levaya. Rabbi Herschel Billet said he felt relieved, on Sept. 11, 2001, to learn...

Nochum, a seven-year-old boy from Lakewood, came to shul on Shabbos and was looking for the "lolly man." The gentle soul who usually hands...

Rabbi Chaim Veshnefsky of the Jewish Learning Center Community Synagogue, told Greater Media Newspapers that he and about 25 of his congregants had come...

In advance of the Yomim Tovim, the Anti-Defamation League has once again urged Jewish synagogues and community institutions across the country to take stock...

The Associated Press reports: County School Board members voted to allow the first taxpayer-funded Hebrew-language charter school (reported HERE on YW) to resume classes,...

The Yereyim Chapel vehicle - carrying a Niftar - was just involved in a serious MVA on the Gowonous Expressway (Bklyn bound) @ 38th...

Columbus, Ohio: Three children were injured on Tuesday afternoon while riding a school bus on the city's east side. The injuries occurred at about...

Lakewood Police are looking for a man believed to be responsible for two armed robberies early this morning. Lakewood PD told the Asbury Park Press...

CNN is reporting that last weeks incident (reported HERE on YW) in which Israeli planes reportedly invaded Syrian airspace, was actually an attack on...

Click HERE to listen to the frightening radio transmissions of frantic Hatzolah members screaming for help as the World Trade Center collapsed on-top of...

Click HERE to watch a video of Hagon Rav Shteinman Shlita delivering a Shiur at Mir Brachfeld. Taken exclusively for Yeshivaworld by Grafix Mediaworx....

UPDATE 9/11/07 9:10AM EST: The Levaya of Mr. Mark Davidman Z"L (RL-51) will take place this afternoon at the Young Israel of Woodmere, 859...

Police have arrested two women who threatened to blow up a synagogue during prayer service. Rabbi Charles Sherman's prayer was interrupted when the women...

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Shaya Boymelgreen's New York-based Boymelgreen Developers has sold the 172-unit Hudson Park apartment complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side for $75 million, or about...

Eight Israelis accused of belonging to a neo-Nazi cell that attacked Jews and painted swastikas in Shuls were charged on Tuesday on counts including...

A Court in Washington ordered the Iranian government to pay $12.9 in compensation to the family of Marla Bennett, who was killed in a...

6:55PM EST: Yeshivaworld has just received word that a Kassam Rocket has struck the Zikim IDF base in Southern Israel. According to preliminary reports,...

Lakewood Police are investigating a shooting incident at Lakewoods Woodlake Village at 1:45AM (Monday morning). According to the Asbury Park Press, the incident occurred...

Just two days after a Neo-Nazi group was busted in Petach Tikvah (as reported HERE on YW), there is a report by Ynet that swastikas...

Hatzolah Israel has informed Yeshivaworld that a car driving on the road near Ein Gedi overturned and rolled into a ravine a short while...

This past Shabbos morning, there was a break in to Rav Ingber's Shul (Birchas Yaakov) - which is located on Martin Luther King Drive....

According to a report by Ynet, a person complaining of severe stomach cramps was transported to Bikur Cholim Hospital. The cause of the pain?...

The intersections of New Hampshire Avenue and Oak Street will be closed for a few hours, as the Lakewood PD conduct an investigation from...

The Times Herald Record reports: There was a time that the 86-year-old shul on Route 52 in Woodbourne was full on of Rosh Hashanah...

The trial of the three man accused of vandalizing the Jewish cemetery of Herrlisheim, in eastern France, where 117 tombstones had been painted with...