After months of heartbreaking stories of ‘COVID tragedies’ in the last year, a story came out today which shocked and moved even the most desensitized. Osnat Benshitrit was a 31-year-old
Lakewood Police are investigating a shooting at Coventry Square, Sunday night. The shooting happened just before 8:00PM on a residential street. Residents tell YWN that they heard gunshots, and quickly
The destruction was absolutely devastating. The talmidim of the yeshiva were left in utter shock. The blaze that broke out at Yeshiva Chayei Olam’s building on Faraday in Lakewood on Motzoei Shabbos leveled the structure, leaving ruin and damage in its wake. Sadly a Sefer Torah perished in the blaze as well. The fire, which broke out at 3 a.m., is […]
A quick-fire joke about Israel’s vaccination rollout on US comedy show Saturday Night Live has caused uproar and demands for an apology. In a parody of a news report, one of its actors joked that Israel – which has had the quickest rollout of any nation – has only been vaccinating its Jewish citizens. “Israel […]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday issued a decree ordering the respect of freedom of expression ahead of legislative elections in May, a step demanded by Palestinian factions who discussed
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Equatorial Guinea would move its embassy to Jerusalem in the latest sign of improving ties with African nations. It would become the
The strongest Segula for parnasa, health, simchas hachaim and protection against a pandemic! Hamekubel R’ Chaim Palagi writes in the name of R’ Chaim Vital the segula in the time of a pandemic wear a red stone on yourself, a ruby, or a diamond…. ruby is the best of all and it should touch the […]
An Italian Holocaust survivor’s attempt to encourage other older adults to receive the anti-COVID-19 vaccine has triggered a wave of anti-Semitic comments and other invective on social media. Liliana Segre, 90, received the first of the two-shot vaccine series in Milan on Thursday. She urged people who reach her age “to not be afraid and […]
Reb Shlomo Aharon Galaster, z’l, who was hospitalized in HaEmek Medical Center in Afula with the coronavirus, was tragically left alone in his last moments of life on Thursday when
Scientists have cloned the first U.S. endangered species, a black-footed ferret duplicated from the genes of an animal that died over 30 years ago. The slinky predator named Elizabeth Ann, born Dec. 10 and announced Thursday, is cute as a button. But watch out — unlike the domestic ferret foster mom who carried her into […]
Israel’s coronavirus czar Prof. Nachman Ash gave a press briefing on Sunday night and warned that despite the lifting of restrictions on Sunday, the coronavirus is not yet over and
All members of a San Francisco Bay Area school board resigned days after they were heard making disparaging comments about parents at a virtual board meeting they didn’t realize was being broadcast to the public. The four members of Oakley Union Elementary School District Board had stepped down by Friday amid growing outrage that began […]
Stop any survivor strolling down 13th Avenue and ask them who do you turn to when your German check doesn’t arrive on time, when you don’t have enough money for food, or good exercise class, or a slice of pizza and good shmooze? Their eyes will light up when they will answer you of course” NACHAS.”Nachas Health […]
A 32-year-old pregnant woman passed away of the coronavirus on Motzei Shabbos at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem after doctors exerted intensive efforts to save her. Sadly, although doctors
Israel reopened its economy on Sunday morning, signaling a return to routine after almost half of its population has been vaccinated. The day comes a year after Israel confirmed its
Fifty pregnant women ill with the coronavirus are currently hospitalized in Israel’s hospitals, with 10 in serious condition, 8 in critical condition, 7 ventilated, and one attached to an ECMO
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog met Sunday with Iran’s atomic chief ahead of plans to partly suspend United Nations inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities, state TV reported. Iran’s parliament in December approved a bill that would suspend part of U.N. inspections of its nuclear facilities under a 2015 nuclear deal if European signatories […]
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The U.N. human rights office said Friday that it has asked the United Arab Emirates for evidence that an Emirati princess held against her will for almost three years is
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