On Tuesday evening, a large fire broke out in a four-story building on Musayof Street in the Bucharim neighborhood of Jerusalem, as reported by YWN-Israel. Five fire and rescue crews

This is how children R”L get killed. This incident occurred inBoro Parkthis week, as a school bus had stopped to drop off children returning home from Yeshiva. As the bus comes to a stop, a totally reckless driver blows past the school bus. Recently, a new law was being passed in NY where divers caught […]

President Donald Trump says Vice President Mike Pence doesnt automatically have his backing should he mount his own run for the White House in 2024. Asked on Friday in an interview with Fox News Channels Fox & Friends whether he would lend his endorsement to Pence in advance, Trump said, You cant put me in […]

Police are looking for a man that inappropriately touched a woman while walking on a Boro Park street earlier this week. The NYPD says that on Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Mistakes happen. Most mistakes, though, dont cost $25 million. This one (almost) did. A misread of the Smart School Bond Act (SSBA) caused millions of dollars in lost technology equipment to New York yeshiva students. Fortunately, Agudath Israel of America and its partners, in the culmination of nearly four years of advocacy, were able to […]

The U.S. military released a video Friday it said showed Irans Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the oil tankers targeted near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, suggesting Tehran wanted to hide evidence of its alleged involvement. Iran denied any role in Thursdays apparent attacks, which have again roiled the Persian […]

The greater Monsey community hosted an event last week at the Atrium, endorsed by numerous leading chessed organizations, offering a wealth of education and literature on the importance of vaccinations

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) There is Chillul Hashem. And then there is something that we can call, “Avi Avos Chillul Hashem.” What happened Thursday in the state legislature

Agudath Israel of America has previously described that, with a measles vaccination rate in NY Orthodox Jewish schools of 96%, vaccination is our clear societal norm and that it is imperative to build on the Orthodox Jewish communitys already high vaccination rate. It has also decried an anti-vaccination rally held amidst the outbreak, and the […]

Calling Iran a nation of terror, President Donald Trump on Friday publicly accused the Persian Gulf nation of responsibility for recent attacks on oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Trump said Irans culpability was exposed by the United States. While calling into Fox News Channels Fox & Friends, he said of the Thursday […]

HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky arrived Thursday for a special visit to Yerushalayim and to the Kosel, as he does each year in the days immediately after Shavuos. Prior to arriving at the Kosel, he visited the three story Sukkas Dovid Yeshiva Ketana which was founded by Rav Menachem Batzri ztl. Rav Chaim gave a bracha […]

Over 100,000 yidden around the globe look forward to experiencing The Siyum of Daf Yomi, which will be hosted by The Agudah for the thirteenth time in world history. While

It is called Bill 21, and if this proposed law passes – which it likely will, it will ban all public servants from wearing religious garments and icons while performing their public duties. Those affected would be Jewish wearers of Yarmulkahs, Muslim wearers of hijabs, and Sikh wearers of turbans. The ban may also affect […]

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President Donald Trump says he wont fire White House counselor Kellyanne Conway after a federal watchdog agency recommended her removal for repeatedly violating a law that limits political activity by government workers. Trump tells Fox & Friends that he was briefed on the Office of Special Counsel investigation Thursday and says it looks to me […]

Americans stepped up their retail spending last month, a sign that recent worries about cautious consumers dragging on growth may have been overdone. The Commerce Department said Friday that retail sales rose 0.5% in May, after a smaller gain of 0.3% in the previous month. Aprils figure was revised up from an earlier estimate that […]

Some of the younger candidates in the crowded Democratic presidential primary are suggesting that the early front-runner, 76-year-old Joe Biden , is too mired in the past. Former Texas Rep. Beto ORourke , 46, and Pete Buttigieg , the 37-year old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, have stepped up questions this week about whether Biden […]

HaGaon Rav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita, visited the Aish World Center, Dan Family Building across from the Western Wall. The entrances of the Aish World Center were packed with people trying to get a glimpse of Rav Chaim. Rav Chaim entered the building through Aishs Kotel Plaza Hochstein Entrance and took the elevator up to the […]

Justice Esther Hayut, the President of Israel’s Supreme Court, in her address on Thursday to a conference of former presidents and vice presidents of the court, spoke out harshly against

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