What wouldn’t you do to capture Meron in a bottle?  What wouldn’t you give to capitalize on the simcha and yeshuos, and carry it along all year long?   Kollel Chatzos makes it possible, This Kollel of

Lag Ba’omer is a holiday that many people have a tendency to light bonfires. It is with this in mind that United Hatzalah has issued the following precautions to help people avoid injuries big or small and instructions on what to do should the worst occur and a person gets injured. Often these injuries tend […]

An El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna, Austria had to make an unscheduled landing on Tuesday in Larnaca, Cyprus after there were reports of “smelling smoke” in the

With his nine remaining fingers wrapped in blue bandages, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein has become a national icon, advocating for goodness and kindness in the wake of the shooting attack in

Joe Biden is responding to President Donald Trump’s latest attack on his candidacy, saying Trump can’t understand the difficult decisions that struggling families must make. Speaking Tuesday to high-dollar donors in an Orlando suburb, the former vice president referenced Trump’s criticism a day earlier that Biden had deserted his native Pennsylvania by moving as a […]

While the children were still in school on Wednesday morning, Jerusalem Municipality inspectors made the rounds, dismantling dozens of bonfires ahead of Lag B’Omer because they pose too great a

Imagine if you could take away the darkness of the world. Imagine if you could take away the brokenness of disconnected children and the pain of loneliness. Imagine if you could do something that not only fights the darkness – it brings on light, joy and goodness! YOU COULD! The holy Tannah, R’ Shimon Bar […]

There is a legal battle between the Meron Residents’ Committee and Chabad of Meron regarding use of a 600 square meter area in the city during Lag B’Omer. The Nazareth

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday met with Shas party chairman, Minister Aryeh Deri, followed by a meeting with the chairman of the Yisrael Beitenu party, Avigdor Lieberman. However, it

Bnei Brak residents who tried buying Israel Railway tickets to Meron for Lag B’Omer on Tuesday were somewhat surprised and angered when they were told there are no more tickets

A self-driving truck company has partnered with the U.S. Postal Service to test autonomous technology on the long-haul route between Phoenix and Dallas. San Diego-based TuSimple is planning for two

A last-ditch appeal to the United Nations forced French doctors to resume life support Tuesday for a man who has been in a vegetative state for years and whose case

Members of the opposition, the chareidi and religious parties, have done it again in Tiveria. Once again, Mayor Ron Kobi tried to have his city council pass a budget, but

The following is via Anash.org: A Tanya was printed for the first time in the tiny gulf country of Qatar. The new edition, numbered 7276, joins the long list of

Preparations for Lag B’Omer are completed at the tziyun of Shimon HaTzaddik in the Shimon HaTzaddik (Sheikh Jarrah) neighborhood of Yerushalayim. It is the minhag of many Yerushalmim to visit

One out of six Uber and Lyft drivers in the New York City and Seattle areas are driving vehicles with outstanding recalls, according to Consumer Reports. But taking a taxi or limousine isn’t necessarily a safer option: nearly a quarter of traditional for-hire vehicles in New York City such as taxis, limousines and livery cabs […]

A bus caught fire in Ramat Beit Shemesh on Tuesday afternoon, a fire that totally engulfed the vehicle. The bus was in a parking facility when it caught fire, and B’chasdei Hashem, there were no fatalities or injuries. The local fire department brought the fire under control without incident. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem/Photo Credit: […]

California sued Tuesday to block the Trump administration from cancelling nearly $1 billion for the state’s high-speed rail project, escalating the state’s feud with the federal government. The Federal Railroad Administration announced last week it would not give California the money awarded by Congress nearly a decade ago, arguing that the state has not made […]

In a blow to citizens of Israel, the Ministry of the Interior announced an increase in property tax for 2020 by 2.58%. It is explained the increase rate is derived

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