This past Wednesday evening, a small and intimate group gathered in the Bell Works event space for a networking meeting to benefit the Mir Yeshiva. Gracing the dais was the venerated Mirrer Rosh Yeshiva, Hagoen Reb Leizer Yehuda Finkel shlit”a who arrived from Eretz Yisroel just prior to the event. Alongside the Rosh Yeshiva sat […]
A frum teen was the victim of an unprovoked attack on Friday night in Flatbush, and a second was targeted shortly thereafter. Flatbush Shomrim tells YWN that the victim says
The United States is evacuating almost all of the staff from its embassy in Kyiv as Western intelligence officials warn that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is increasingly imminent. A
A tense standoff at a U.S.-Canadian border crossing crucial to both countries’ economies appeared to be dissolving peacefully Saturday as Canadian police moved in to disperse the nearly weeklong blockade and protesters began leaving without resistance. Many demonstrators drove away from the Ambassador Bridge spanning the river between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, as scores of […]
Paris police fired tear gas Saturday against a handful of demonstrators on the Champs Elysees Avenue who defied a police order by taking part in a vehicle protest against virus restrictions inspired by Canada’s horn-honking “Freedom Convoy. ” Police set up checkpoints into the French capital on key roads and said they successfully stopped at […]
As Republicans impose new restrictions on ballot access in multiple states, President Biden has no easy options for safeguarding voting rights despite rising pressure from frustrated activists. Unlike on other issues such as immigration or environmental protection, the White House has little leverage without congressional action as the November elections creep up. “If there were […]
Japan is considering easing its stringent border controls amid growing criticism that the measures, which have banned most foreign entrants including students and business travelers, are hurting the country’s economy and international profile. “I plan to look into easing the border controls,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters Saturday. Kishida did not provide a timeline […]
UTJ MK Uri Maklev, who served in the past as the Deputy Transportation Minister, said that if the government raises the costs of public transportation, Chareidi cities will begin operating
Several thousand New York City public workers could lose their jobs Friday if they don’t show they’ve complied with the city’s mandate requiring they receive at least two shots of the COVID-19 vaccine. Though they represent about 1% of the 370,000-person city workforce, including teachers, firefighters and police officers, the mass firings will mark a […]
Germany’s foreign minister said Thursday that nuclear talks with Iran are entering a “final phase” and that, despite Israeli reservations, a return to a nuclear agreement would make the region safer. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock spoke at a joint press conference in Tel Aviv with her Israeli counterpart, Yair Lapid, during an official visit to […]
President Joe Biden told Russia’s Vladimir Putin that invading Ukraine would cause “widespread human suffering” and that the West was committed to diplomacy to end the crisis but “equally prepared for other scenarios,” the White House said Saturday. Biden also said the United States and its allies would respond “decisively and impose swift and severe […]
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, National Security Council head Eyal Haluta and other top security officials over the weekend held an emergency meeting over escalating fears of
The Biden administration on Friday escalated its dire warnings about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying it could take place within days, even as diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis continued. The White House said it still didn’t know if Russian President Vladimir Putin had made a decision to invade, but it said Putin […]
Two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee have made a shocking revelation: the CIA keeps a secret, undisclosed data center stuffed with information about American citizens. Worst of all, the
In a Thursday night interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, President Joe Biden denied the findings of a damning Army report that his administration wasn’t prepared for the Afghanistan withdrawal. Holt asked Biden, “I have to draw your attention to that Army report, an investigative report that’s come out about the lead-up to the withdrawal from […]
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in a Thursday interview on Newsmax that he believes that current Mayor Eric Adams’ measures to fight rising crime in the city are “idiotic.” “I mean, he is getting a honeymoon, while New Yorkers are being killed, and it’s outrageous,” Giuliani said. “He ran on a law-and-order platform for a […]
Disgraced former Congress member and ex-convict Anthony Weiner will host a weekly radio show with failed NYC mayoral candidate and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, WABC-AM radio officials announced. The pair, who both have run losing campaigns for New York City mayor, will argue politics on a show called “The Left vs. The Right,” WABC […]
Police in Phoenix, Arizona say that five policers and another woman were injured after being shot by a suspect who barricaded himself inside a home early Friday morning. Police were
A fire broke out in a home in Flatbush on Friday morning. The FDNY had transmitted a two alarm assignment for a fire on the second floor of a two story private dwelling located at 1560 East 7th Street near Avenue O. Flatbush Hatzolah and Flatbush Shomrim were both dispatched as well. Thankfully, there were no […]
We regret to inform you of the petirah of Rebbetzin Chava Hecht, the wife of Rabbi JJ Hecht and matriarch of a large family, who passed away on Tuesday, 7
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