Yet another city in Israel is sponsoring Chilul Shabbos R”L, as Modi’in is now offering bus service to the beach on Shabbos. It is not the first city to do
Leaks. Pointed accusations. A top official’s resignation. And above all, increasingly dire conditions for migrants – those who make it across the border and those who fail, as captured in the searing images of a father clutching his child, both drowned , on the banks of the Rio Grande. Ever engulfed in turmoil under President […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company is evaluating how it should handle “deepfake” videos created with artificial intelligence and high-tech tools to yield false but realistic clips. In an interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival Ideas Festival in Colorado on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said it might make sense to treat such videos differently from other […]
NBC’s coverage of the first Democratic debate of the 2020 campaign season has been interrupted by a technical snafu that forced the network to go into a lengthy commercial break. At the top of the debate’s second hour, NBC appeared not to have switched off the microphones of its previous moderators when Rachel Maddow and […]
The IDF Spokesman said that the “Tri-Lightning” exercise was completed on June 25, 2019. This was an exercise led by the American Air Force and with the participation of the
en Democrats seeking the presidency tussled on a Miami stage Wednesday night in the opening debate of the 2020 campaign, with 10 more on tap Thursday. A look at some of their statements and how they compare with the facts: JULIAN CASTRO, former federal housing secretary: “I would do something starting with something we should […]
SpaceIL, the Israeli company that attempted but failed to put an unmanned craft on the moon earlier this year, says it will not try a second moonshot. The company issued a statement Tuesday saying its lunar mission in April has been widely hailed as “an exceptional success,” despite crash landing on the moon. It says […]
Ministry of Labor & Social Affairs Minister Chaim Katz has launched a plan to address safety on construction sites. The initiative addressed 37 local authorities, including Jerusalem, Yavneh, Charish, Be’er
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Wednesday, June 26, 2019, approved changing the name of Natzrat Illit (Upper Nazareth) to Nof HaGalil. Mayor Ronen Flut conducted a referendum among residents of
New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding big changes in corporate governance. DiNapoli, writing in his capacity as trustee of the state retirement fund, said he will vote against the nominees for Facebook’s board of directors at next year’s annual investor meeting unless the company agrees to a […]
The two-year-old boy who is in critical condition after drowning in a pool in the community of Meitzad on Wednesday is in need of Rachmei Shomayim. HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky
North Korean and U.S. officials are holding “behind-the-scenes talks” to arrange a third summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the fate of the North’s expanding nuclear arsenal, South Korea’s president said, four months after a second meeting between the leaders in Vietnam collapsed without any agreement. There have […]
The “Ezras Nashim” Organization held a CPR demo open to the public in front of Amnon’s Pizza on 13 Avenue in Boro Park. The organization put up a small tent
What appeared to be just another apartment in the chareidi city of Modi’in Illit was in fact used for drugs. The Petach Tikvah Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday released the chareidi
Talmidim of the Philadelphia Yeshiva say the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ and sing the National Anthem before their graduation ceremony. Philadelphia Yeshiva is led by Hagaon HaRav Shmuel Kamenetzky Shlita, one
A U.S. judge cast aside prosecutors’ demand for a decades-long prison sentence for an American woman who admitted supporting the Islamic State, instead giving her four years behind bars Wednesday on defense assurances she wants to mend her ways. With credit for time served, Sinmyah Amera Caesar will end up only serving about 18 months […]
Did you know that one of Israel’s greatest heroes went by the name of Kamel Amin Thaabet. It sounds unlikely, but this was actually the pseudonym of Mossad agent extraordinaire Eli Cohen who infiltrated the Syrian power elite in the 1960s and used his privileged position to send confidential plans about the country’s military and […]
An elderly woman was robbed in the heart of Flatbush, and the NYPD is asking the public for assistance in apprehending the suspect. The New York City Police Department tells YWN that on Monday at 12:47PM, an 88-year-old female victim was walking in front of 1116 East 21st Street, between Avenue I and Avenue J, when an unidentified […]
Jerusalem area police operating in the southern capital apprehended a PA (Palestinian Authority) resident with a yarmulke and tzitzis on Tuesday, believing he was going to disguise himself to permit
Employees at online home furnishings retailer Wayfair walked out Wednesday to protest the company’s decision to sell $200,000 worth of furniture to a government contractor that runs a detention center for migrant children in Texas. The protest triggered a broader backlash against the company, with some customers calling for a boycott. Several hundred people joined […]
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