U.S. consumer confidence rose this month as Americans shrugged off concerns about rising prices and COVID’-19?s highly contagious omicron variant. The Conference Board, a business research group, said Wednesday that its consumer confidence index — which takes into account consumers’ assessment of current conditions and the their outlook for the future — rose to 115.8 […]
As Israel experiences the third day of the Carmel storm, with cold temperatures, strong winds, rain, and thunder and lightning, the flame of Torah continues to burn brightly. Thunder hit a power line on Tuesday night in Bnei Brak, cutting off the electricity for thousands of families and many mosdos, including Yeshivah Ponevezh. Rosh Yeshivas Ponevezh […]
CityMD, the chain of urgent care clinics drawing long lines for COVID-19 testing, is temporarily closing 13 locations in New York City, saying it’s doing so “to preserve our ability to staff our sites.” The closures, effective Wednesday, include four clinics in Manhattan and three each in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. Three locations in […]
Rabbi Nechemya Malinowitz, head of the Igud of Yeshivas and Seminaries tells YWN that he has just been notified by the Israeli Airport Authorities of the following breaking news. Any
As YWN has been reporting, family members of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky have recently been subject to death threats, curses and insults from anti-vaxxers. Anti-vaxxer women came to the kabalas kahal of Rav Chaim’s daughter, Rebbetzin Leah Koledetsky, and called her a “murderer” and other derogatory terms and said they won’t leave until the Rebbetzin […]
The Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday the discovery of remnants of two shipwrecks off the Mediterranean coast, replete with a sunken trove of hundreds Roman and medieval silver coins. The
President Joe Biden appears determined to return to the negotiating table with Sen. Joe Manchin, the holdout Democrat who effectively tanked the party’s signature $2 trillion domestic policy initiative with his own jarring year-end announcement. But Republicans are voicing greater confidence now that they can beat back much of what they don’t like in the […]
President Joe Biden has once again raised eyebrows – and questions – about his health after he repeatedly coughed through a Tuesday address in which he announced the White House’s
An Arab terrorist attempted to ram IDF soldiers at a checkpoint near the Mevo Dotan yishuv in the Shomron on Tuesday night. The soldiers opened fire on the terrorist’s car
U.S. health regulators on Wednesday authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of
The U.S. has opened a formal investigation into the potential for Tesla drivers to play video games on a center touch screen while the vehicle is in motion. In a document posted Wednesday on its website, the agency says the feature, called “Passenger Play,” may distract the driver and increase the risk of a crash. […]
New York’s city-run hospitals are again limiting visitation to curb the spread of COVID-19, with some exceptions such as allowing people in labor to have someone with them, parents accompanying hospitalized children and loved ones seeing a person in hospice. The hospitals had been operating under a modified visitation policy since early in the pandemic, […]
South Africa’s noticeable drop in new COVID-19 cases in recent days may signal that the country’s dramatic omicron-driven surge has passed its peak, medical experts say. Daily virus case counts are notoriously unreliable, as they can be affected by uneven testing, reporting delays and other fluctuations. But they are offering one tantalizing hint — far […]
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning and discussed the ongoing negotiations between world powers
Dutch prosecutors on Wednesday demanded life sentences for four suspects in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, saying they caused “deep and irreversible suffering” to relatives of the 298 people killed. Prosecutors said the four recklessly used a Russian missile to bring down the passenger jet, killing all 298 […]
Dangerously high wind will keep NASA’s newest space telescope on the ground for at least an extra day, with the launch now targeted for Saturday — Christmas Day — at the earliest. NASA announced the latest delay Tuesday. Upper-level high wind could force a rocket off-course or even damage or destroy it. The James Webb […]
The Ari HaKadosh revealed that the days of Shovavim the weeks from Parshas Sh’mos to Parshas Mishpatim are a period auspicious for Teshuva and Tikkun. Click Here To Take Part
The Treasury Department on Wednesday announced it was issuing special licenses to ensure that some international aid could flow to Afghanistan, which faces a crisis as its economy collapsed following
Israel Police arrested a man on Tuesday who is suspected of committing a series of horrifying criminal actions and even planning a murder which was thwarted by his arrest. He
NYC Mayor-elect Eric Adams took a swipe at City Councilmembers who are attempting to pass legislation that would ban solitary confinement in the city’s jails. “I am not going to be in a city where dangerous people assault innocent people, go to jail and assault more people,” Adams told reporters outside Rockefeller Center. “You cannot […]
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