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(By Menachem Posner) Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz has ALS and can no longer walk or talk, but that hasn’t stopped him from motivating 10,000 people in 15 countries to do extra
Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman has made his position crystal clear. He will not vote in favor of the state budget prior to the approval of the new daft law
In an emotional gathering, representatives for thousands of Ethiopian Jews announced Wednesday they will stage a mass hunger strike if Israel eliminates funding to allow them to join their families
Germany’s dpa news agency reports that a Russian-backed hacker group has infiltrated the German government’s secure computer networks. Dpa cited unidentified security sources saying the group APT28 hacked into Germany’s
President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort maintained his innocence on Wednesday to new charges he acted as an unregistered foreign agent and directed an international money-laundering conspiracy. Manafort
[From the YWN 2008 archives] Dear Friend, Last Purim started off like all others from years past, but it was almost the last Purim of my life. Beginning two weeks
The chairwoman of the Meretz faction in Knesset, MK Zahava Gal-On, announced on Wednesday, 13 Adar, that she is retiring from political life. She has removed her name from the
White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump’s closest and most loyal aides, is resigning. The departure of one of the president’s longest-serving advisers, who worked as
Please note that YWN will be updated throughout Purim with any major news stories, and will resume normal postings after Purim. Please be aware, that the NYPD will have zero
The Transportation Security Administration began testing new suicide vest-detection technology at New York City’s Penn Station Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said. Schumer pushed for the technology to be tested
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat arrived in the city’s Bayit Vegan neighborhood to take part in a ceremony for the new park after the city pulled out the old one, leading
Over 100 Bochurim of Yeshiva Chemdas Hatorah will celebrate this Leil Purim with a serious learning Seder in their Yeshiva, followed by Simchas Purim with their Rebbeim. You can have
President Donald Trump is hailing a legal victory for his promised border wall, but says sections in California will not built “until the whole Wall is approved.” Trump tweeted Wednesday:
Many are surprised to learn that the tombs of Mordechai & Esther are maintained to this day in Iran. Despite being a Muslim country, they are still regarded as important
Israel is disputing a Palestinian teenager’s account of being shot in the head, an incident which his family claim led his cousin, protest ‘icon’ Ahed Tamimi, to slap Israeli soldiers.
President Donald Trump renewed his verbal attacks on his attorney general Wednesday, describing as “disgraceful” his handling of Republican complaints that the FBI abused its surveillance power during the early
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