U.S. regulators on Friday authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week. The Food and Drug Administration’s action follows its advisory panel’s unanimous recommendation for the shots from Moderna and Pfizer. That means U.S. kids under 5 — roughly 18 million youngsters — are eligible […]
Naftali Moster, the ex-chassid who has devoted his life to being a thorn in the side of yeshivos, has resigned from YAFFED, the organization he founded that advocates for Government
Dear Yiddin, On Pesach 2021, Rav Chaim Har-Kesef took his family on a Chol Hamoed trip. The family got into a terrible crash. What was supposed to be an enjoyable
A great friend of the Jewish community in Brooklyn, retired NYPD Deputy Chief Charles “Chucky” Scholl passed away on Friday morning. He was 65. Sources tell YWN that Scholl was
Former President Donald Trump’s “Truth Social” network has a new member. California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he joined the network on Thursday morning to “call out Republican lies.” “I just joined Trump’s Truth Social,” Newsom said in a tweet. “Going to be on there calling out Republican lies. This could get…interesting.” “My first post — […]
The British government on Friday ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges, a milestone – but not the end – of a decade-long legal saga sparked by his website’s publication of classified U.S. documents. WikiLeaks said it would challenge the order, and Assange’s lawyers have 14 […]
Democratic and Republican senators were at odds Thursday over how to keep firearms from dangerous people as bargainers struggled to finalize details of a gun violence compromise in time for
Florida is the only the state that hasn’t preordered COVID-19 vaccines for toddlers in anticipation of their final approval by the federal government, and Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that he won’t facilitate their distribution, though he said they’ll be available to those who want them. White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre, who confirmed Florida’s outlier […]
The Torah scrolls that were burned in the devastating fire that engulfed the Chabad Center in Tallahassee, will be buried in a public ceremony in Florida. The Moris and Lillian
President Joe Biden told The Associated Press on Thursday that the American people are “really, really down” after a tumultuous two years with the coronavirus pandemic, volatility in the economy and now surging gasoline prices that are slamming family budgets. He said a recession is not inevitable and bristled at claims by Republican lawmakers that […]
Donald Trump’s closest advisers viewed his last-ditch efforts pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to halt congressional certification of his 2020 election defeat as “nuts,” “crazy” and even likely to incite riots if Pence followed through, witnesses revealed in stark testimony to the Jan. 6 committee on Thursday. Gripping new evidence disclosed Trump’s heated conversation deriding […]
North Korea reported a new “epidemic” of an intestinal disease on Thursday, an unusual announcement from the secretive country that is already contending with a COVID-19 outbreak and severe economic turmoil. It’s unclear how many people are infected in what the official Korean Central News Agency said was “an acute enteric epidemic” in southwestern Haeju […]
The federal government is taking preliminary steps toward revising racial and ethnic classifications that have not been changed in a quarter century following calls for more accurate categories for how
Far-left socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is upping her fight against the moderate wing of the Democratic Party ahead of New York’s June 28 primaries, blasting officials who support increased funding
Record-low mortgages are long gone. Credit card rates will likely rise. So will the cost of an auto loan. Savers may finally see a noticeable return. The unusually large three-quarter point hike in its benchmark short-term rate that the Federal Reserve announced Wednesday won’t, by itself, have a huge effect on most Americans’ finances. But […]
Stocks tumbled on Wall Street Thursday as worries roared back to the fore that the world’s fragile economy may buckle under higher interest rates. The S&P 500 fell 3.3% in a widespread rout to more than reverse its blip of a 1.5% rally from a day before. Analysts had warned of more big swings given […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman This is an amazing story about the power of emes and how it averted a pogrom in the town of Bostovice, Moravia. Rav Shmuel Ben Nosson Ha-Levi Kahlin (c. 1720–1806) was a Rosh Yeshiva and Posaik known for his absolute honesty. He is most famous for his authorship of the Machatzis […]
A stunningly large majority of New Yorkers – 92% – say that crime is a “very serious” or “somewhat serious” problem in the state, according to a new Siena College poll – and they want tougher gun laws to tackle it. “Four years ago, marking the fifth anniversary of New York’s Safe Act – at […]
Appeals judges at an international tribunal sentenced two members of the militant Hezbollah group to life imprisonment Thursday for their roles in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik
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