As Britain enjoyed a summertime lull in COVID-19 cases, the nation’s attention turned to the end of pandemic-related restrictions and holidays in the sun. But scientists are warning the public not to be complacent, saying high levels of infection in the community are likely to lead to another spike in cases this fall. The reason […]
Close to 300 eager community members gathered last Thursday night at Bergen Hatzalah’s inaugural community awareness event. The event displayed much of the equipment generously sponsored by members of the community including Emergency Response Vehicles, LUCAS automatic CPR devices, and EMT responder equipment including responder bags, AEDs, and other vital lifesaving tools. The event took […]
Israeli health officials sounded an alarm this week, warning Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that there could be thousands of coronavirus patients requiring hospitalization within weeks. In a meeting on Tuesday
Top Republicans are battling school districts in their own states’ urban, heavily Democratic areas over whether students should be required to mask up as they head back to school — reigniting ideological divides over mandates even as the latest coronavirus surge ravages the reddest, most unvaccinated parts of the nation. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of […]
A Jewish man was the victim of a gunpoint robbery in the heart of Williamsburg’s Hasidic Community, early Thursday morning. Sources tell YWN that the victim was in front of
Volunteers and county employees set up cots and stacked hundreds of bottles of water in an air-conditioned cooling center in a vacant building in Portland, Oregon, one of many such
Earlier this afternoon, YWN published an article stating that the massive Gerrer wedding scheduled for next Tuesday in the Rockland County College was cancelled by the Health Department. Shortly after,
Mossad head Dovid Barnea revealed secret information on Iran’s new president Ebrahim Raisi to US Central Intelligence Agency chief William Burns, who arrived in Israel for a visit on Tuesday.
Poland’s parliament passed a law on Wednesday that would prevent former Polish property owners, including Holocaust survivors and their descendants, from regaining property expropriated by the country’s communist regime. Israel condemned the legislation, with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid saying it “damages both the memory of the Holocaust and the rights of its victims.” Meanwhile, Gideon […]
Almost 120 years ago, African American domestic workers settled in the Como neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas, where they held Fourth of July parades, patronized shops on Horne Street and
According to the ruling handed down on Tuesday by the Regional Labor Court of Tel Aviv, employers are allowed to require employees or staff members to get the vaccine or
As we have reported, the historic wedding in the court of Ger had been scheduled to take place at the Bell Works arena in New Jersey, but had been moved
California will become the first state in the nation to require all teachers and school staff to get vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing, as schools return from summer break
We, the undersigned organizations of Achiezer, Chaveirim, Chevra Hatzalah, Misaskim, and Shomrim, would like to publicly thank the New York Police Department and their Deputy Chief Ruel Stephenson as well
President Joe Biden overcame skepticism, deep political polarization and legislative gamesmanship to win bipartisan approval in the Senate this week of his $1 trillion infrastructure bill. But as the bill moves to consideration in the House alongside a $3.5 trillion budget that achieves the rest of Biden’s agenda, the president is facing an even more […]
We all know some version of the song that takes center stage in Rabbi Krohn’s story this week. ‘Shabbos, Shabbos Heilige Shabbos….’ You will be spellbound by the fascinating tale
Israeli Border Police Officers in Pisgat Ze’ev were startled to find two children, aged 10 and 5, sitting in the trunk of a car that was being driven by their
In a shocking and unprecedented secret agreement, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett demanded that hospitals commit to refraining from reporting or warning the media about hospital insufficiency regarding the treatment of
A federal judge cleared the way Wednesday for a defamation case by Dominion Voting Systems to proceed against Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lindell, allies of former President Donald
Harassment allegations cost New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo his job. Now, many want to see him answer for a scandal that cut to the heart of his reputation as a pandemic hero and may have had life-and-death consequences — his administration’s handling of outbreaks in nursing homes. Months before a blistering investigation found Cuomo harassed […]
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