The following was written by an El Al passenger stranded in Athens, Greece after their flight was too late to continue on to Israel before Shabbos: This Shabbos I had
Hundreds of teenagers from the Gaza Periphery protested the ongoing violence in the area during a mass protest in Kibbutz Mordechai after Shabbos. The protests were aimed at sending a
From the ashes of a mobile home and RV park, President Donald Trump said Saturday he came to the heart of California’s killer wildfire to fully grasp the scale of the desolation wrought on the landscape. “We’re going to have to work quickly. … Hopefully this is going to be the last of these because […]
Exhausted commuters pointed fingers and demanded answers Friday, a day after a modest snowstorm stranded motorists on slippery roads for hours, paralyzed the public transit network serving New York City
Democrat Andrew Gillum ended his hard-fought campaign for Florida governor Saturday with just hours remaining for counties to turn in official recount results, conceding to a Republican whose party has
LAKEWOOD, NJ: The Ocean County Health Department (OCHD) has released a statement that the number of confirmed cases of measles in Lakewood has gone up. There are now 14 confirmed
The current vaccination crisis is one of the most hotly debated topics right now; a recent survey by YWN had more than 10,000 people weighing in on the topic. With the repercussion becoming tangible and relevant to the day-to-day running of schools and other institutions, and affecting the ways families choose to address their children’s […]
A feel-good tale of a homeless man using his last $20 to help a stranded New Jersey woman buy gas was actually a complete lie, manufactured to get strangers to
A local Palestinian police chief has been suspended for helping Israeli soldiers fix a flat tire in the West Bank. Police spokesman Loae Izrekat said on Thursday that Col. Ahmad Abu al-Rub was suspended and referred to an “investigative committee.” Earlier this week, pictures emerged of the Hebron district chief helping Israelis change their jeep’s […]
Ford and Walmart are teaming up to test a self-driving grocery delivery service. The pilot program in Florida’s Miami-Dade County will incorporate Postmates, a logistics company that operates a network
A former Ben-Gurion Airport duty free employee was arrested on suspicion of smuggling Georgian nationals into Israel. The Israeli police arrested a 34-year-old Lod resident on Wednesday, on suspicion of
(VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) The following video is perhaps no less shocking than the fact the Government of Israel recently approved Qatar turning over $15 million in cash to the
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of R’ Avrohom Yitzchok Stern Z”L, a longtime Williamsburg Hatzolah member. He was 56. R’ Avrohom Yitzchok, known in Hatzolah as “W17”, was a very active member for more than 30 years, until he became ill a little more than one year ago. Fellow Hatzolah members tell […]
It came as a shock to the political community, but perhaps no one is more troubled by the resignation of Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman than the chareidi parties, which feel a sense of betrayal. The heads of the chareidi factions in Knesset, Shas’ Aryeh Deri, Degel Hatorah’s Moshe Gafne and Agudas Yisrael’s Yaakov Litzman are […]
U.S. health officials say a record number of tick-borne diseases were reported last year. The 2017 tally of more than 59,000 cases is a 22 percent increase from the previous
In a major new effort to curb smoking, a top U.S. health official pledged Thursday to try to ban menthol from regular cigarettes, outlaw flavors in all cigars and tighten
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to immediately return the White House press credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta. U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly, an appointee
Israel moved closer to early elections Friday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main coalition partner, the Bayit Yehudi party, said it wants a vote “as soon as possible,” and will press for consultations on a date on Sunday. The call for early elections came after a meeting Friday between Netanyahu and Education Minister and Bayit […]
Facebook said it’s making progress on detecting hate speech, graphic violence and other violations of its rules, even before users see and report them. Facebook said that during the April-to-September
Likud Minister Tzachi Hanegbi, known to be among those close to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, caused a storm on Thursday when he announced that there is a difference between Gaza
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