Why are you not in Kirestir? Hundreds are flying to Kirestir, Hungary to daven at the tzion of R’ Shayale Kirestir during his 94th yahrtzeit. But thousands more will be there in spirit having partnered with R’ Shayale in his legacy of chesed. Rav Lehoshia, founded by the grandchildren of R’ Shayale have been […]
Bitter over the Mueller report, Democrats consider a subpoena for the unredacted report, voting to hold Barr in contempt of Congress.
Despite the State Attorney’s intention to recommend indictments against Shas chairman Aryeh Deri, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit gave his approval for the appointment of Deri as minister in the fifth
Connecticut’s Attorney General gave state lawmakers the legal go-ahead Monday to pursue legislation that would prevent parents from exempting their children from vaccinations for religious reasons, a move that several states are considering amid a significant measles outbreak. The non-binding ruling from William Tong, a Democrat, was released the same day public health officials in […]
Special counsel Robert Mueller was expected to step down days after concluding his investigation in March. Yet he remains a Justice Department employee — and the department won’t say why. That’s just one of the complications at play in the high-stakes, secret negotiations over whether Mueller will testify before Congress. Whatever role Mueller now has, […]
One of the central issues at the center of the coalition negotiations between the chareidi factions and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is the draft law of the Yisrael Beiteinu MK
After a long trend toward greater safety in air travel, there has been an uptick in airline accidents and deaths in 2018 and 2019. Many aviation experts regard that recent
There have been reports that Yahadut Hatorah has decided to halt coalition negotiations with Likud representatives due to the Chilul Shabbos expected to surround the Eurovision Song Contest. In response
Police are looking for a man that inappropriately touched a Jewish girl while walking on a Boro Park street on Chol Hamoed Pesach. The NYPD says that on Wednesday, April
The second span of the new Kosciuszko Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens will open to traffic in September. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the end date Monday during a
YWN-Israel regrets to inform you of the petira of HaGaon HaRav Avraham Tucker ZT”L, who was niftar in Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Hospital on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, at the age
There was a fire at the Skulener Bais Medrash in Boro Park, early Tuesday morning. The FDNY was on the scene just after 2:00AM for a fire in the basement
Hate has once again reared its ugly head in Williamsburg, as a Hasidic man was assaulted in an unprovoked attacked this past Shabbos. The incident happened at around 1:15AM on
A building has collapsed on Avenue P and East 5th Street in Flatbush, after an out-of-control vehicle slammed into it on Monday night. The incident prompted a massive response from Hatzolah, FDNY and NYPD, just before 11:30PM. After an extensive search, it appeared that there was no one trapped in the rubble. The first floor of the […]
Hate is on the rise. Anti-Semites and Neo-Nazis are everywhere and coming out of the woodwork. YWN is not in the business of exposing every last Jew-hater out there, but
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has made it official: The administration won’t be turning President Donald Trump’s tax returns over to the Democratic-controlled House. Mnuchin told Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., in a Monday letter that the panel’s request “lacks a legitimate legislative purpose” as Supreme Court precedent requires. In making that determination, […]
Accusing Beijing of “reneging” on commitments it made in earlier talks, the nation’s top trade negotiator said Monday that the Trump administration will increase tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods Friday, a sharp escalation in a yearlong trade dispute. At the same time, a Chinese trade delegation is expected to arrive in Washington to […]
A video showing children speaking in Arabic about sacrifice and chopping off heads wasn’t vetted before being posted on the Facebook page for the Muslim American Society’s Philadelphia chapter, and it does not represent their values, the executive director of the national group said Sunday. Executive Director Ayman Hammous said the Muslim American Society learned […]
Israeli crop protection service teams identified isolated details of locusts in four communities in the central Aravah. The Ministry of Agriculture is concerned about the flying of the grasshoppers, which
Capping a week in which her testy exchange with Attorney General William Barr went viral, Sen. Kamala Harris on Sunday told a crowd of thousands gathered at a dinner hosted by the country’s oldest NAACP chapter that Barr “lied to Congress” and “is clearly more interested in representing the president than the American people.” The […]
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