China’s burgeoning space program achieved a first on Thursday: a landing on the so-called dark side of the moon that brings the country closer to its goal of becoming a space power. Three nations — the United States, the former Soviet Union and more recently China — have sent spacecraft to the near side of […]
In the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood of Jerusalem, in a small apartment, a family of six is dealing with the stuff of nightmares. Chaya and Shmuel Avramsky, loving parents to four
(VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Hundreds of youths gathered in two caravans which were set into place by the council about three weeks ago on the site of Amona, near Ofra
On the return trip from NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s re-innauguration ceremony on Ellis Island, Congressman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) explained the Talmudic reasoning behind the timing of Krias Shema Shel Shachris.
Snowfall continues on the top of Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights, bringing smiles to the faces of operators of the ski lodge. On Thursday morning, they reported 30cm (11.8
Of all the Democrats considered potential candidates for president in two years, former Vice President Joe Biden makes the “best case,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. Cuomo, a Democrat who begin his third term as governor on Tuesday, said Biden demonstrates the credibility that he said any Democrat must have in order to […]
It is yet another example of left-wing liberalism reigning supreme in Israeli higher education. In the latest embarrassment, Dr. Carola Gilfrich of Hebrew University’s Humanities Faculty on Tuesday berated a
The United Nations Security Council has five new members, and one of them — the Dominican Republic — is starting out as the group’s president. Belgium, Germany, Indonesia and South Africa also are starting their two-year terms. All five new members are being recognized with a ceremony Wednesday marking the installation of their flags outside […]
A southern New Jersey man has filed suit after his town prosecuted him for displaying three toilets and Confederate flags in his front yard. The Courier-Post of Cherry Hill reports Michael Speece displayed the toilets — one white, one red and one blue — outside his home along with other decorations including the flags. Speece […]
A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman. Ultima
A man with stab wounds that were apparently self-inflicted drove into an SUV early Wednesday, killing three people, including two members of a string band that had competed the day before in Philadelphia’s New Year parade, police said. Keith Campbell, 29, of Delaware, appeared to have stabbed himself before the wreck about 1:45 a.m. near […]
Apple acknowledged that demand for iPhones is waning, confirming investor fears that the company’s most profitable product has lost some of its luster. The reckoning came in a letter from Apple CEO Tim Cook to the company’s shareholders released after the stock market closed Wednesday. Cook said Apple’s revenue for the October-December quarter — including […]
A Jerusalem police spokesman reported on Wednesday that a 29-year-old suspect is in custody, a man who appears to have purchased himself a Porsche with money he embezzled from thousands
Five days after 33-year-old Daniel Ben Zehava from Bnei Brak collapsed unconscious, he has B”H made significant strides towards recovery. As YWN had reported, the Bris of his first son
A toddler, her young mother and a man died when their vehicle drove into a frigid river while being chased by Milwaukee police officers who suspected they were involved in
President Donald Trump is, at once, demanding billions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury for a border wall and insisting the wall won’t really cost America anything. As he’s done
No one budged at President Donald Trump’s closed-door meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday, so the partial government shutdown persisted through Day 12 over his demand for billions of dollars to
Human feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in fragile areas were beginning to overwhelm some of the West’s iconic national parks on Monday, as a partial government
Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and incoming Utah senator, has quickly set himself apart from other Republicans in the new Congress with a blistering attack on President Donald
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