With health care a top issue for American voters, Congress may actually be moving toward doing something this year to address the high cost of prescription drugs. President Donald Trump,
The following is via NJ1015: The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization, is calling upon the Toms River Township council to follow the lead of two other Ocean
The Chief Rabbis of Israel and Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Aryeh Stern, have joined the battle against continued chilul Shabbos in the construction of the Yehudit Bridge in Tel Aviv. The
Nearly everyone in this small South Carolina town has a theory for the city’s billion-dollar mystery: Who won the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot announced last October? Maybe the winner was so overwhelmed upon seeing the winning numbers that she or he died on the spot? Maybe the winner is on the run from police […]
Billionaire Warren Buffett says the company he built through decades of acquisitions continues to perform well even though he hasn’t found any major deals at attractive prices recently. Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders on Saturday. He wrote that investors should continue betting on the American economy because Berkshire has prospered […]
Hoping to finally stem the growth of its worst measles outbreak in decades, New York City hospitals are enacting new policies that would require visitors to present proof of immunity
On Erev Shabbos, HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky had visitors in his home, visitors who showed him new extremely large hand-baked shmura matzos. Rav Aharon Yosef Kurnitzer of the Tiv Matzos
A Northern California sheriff’s department has released graphic video of a deputy fatally shooting an armed suspect – an illegal immigrant with a long rap sheet and multiple deportations. Napa County Undersheriff Jon Crawford said Wednesday that the video was captured by the deputy’s body-worn camera Sunday night and appears to show Mexican citizen Javier […]
The eight border-wall prototypes President Donald Trump inspected during a visit to California in March are going to be torn down to make way for a second barrier separating California
Yeshiva Nesivos Ahron: Torah and Mussar Return to the Legendary Chatzer Strauss Built in 1896 under the encouragement of Rav Simchah Zissel Ziv of Kelm zt”l, the legendary Chatzer Straus campus was once home to the great mussar giants of previous generations. After an Arab uprising in 1936, the Torah scholars of the Chatzer were […]
B’chasdei Hashem, alert border police at the Kalandia Checkpoint along Jerusalem’s northern border, on Sunday afternoon, apprehended a PA (Palestinian Authority) resident, a female resident of Ramallah, who was concealing
In a bizarre occurrence that took place on Shabbos in Modi’in Illit, a deranged young man carrying a hammer proceeded to smash the windows on no less than 20 parked
No one was hurt after a fast-moving blaze tore through a Boro Park apartment, Sunday afternoon. The FDNY says they were called at around 3:50PM to reports of a fire
A North Dakota man has been sentenced to time served and a year of supervised release for stealing a forklift that he planned to use to attack President Donald Trump’s limousine during a visit to a refinery in 2017. Forty-two-year-old Gregory Leingang is already serving time for unrelated offenses at the North Dakota State Penitentiary. […]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s alliance with an ultranationalist political party has raised significant concerns among U.S. Jews, a top leader in the Jewish American community said Sunday. Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said the alliance is “very disturbing” to many American Jews. He said there […]
The first 15 members of Shas assigned to the party’s lineup for the 21st Knesset elections gathered on motzei Shabbos in the Jerusalem Old City home of Chacham Shalom Cohen
As their company was swirling around the financial drain in the early 2000s, General Motors executives came up with an idea to counter its gas-guzzling image and point the way to transportation of the future: an electric car with a gas-engine backup that could travel anywhere. At Detroit’s auto show in 2007, they unveiled the […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following the publishing of a letter from a father of a girl rejected from every seminary she applied to, YWN has received well over one hundred letters about seminaries – both pro and con. They have not been edited in any way. We will be publishing them in batches over the next few days. Here is […]
A flight bound for Dubai from Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, made an emergency landing Sunday in Chittagong, Bangladesh, after a man attempted to hijack the plane, officials said. The suspect, a Bangladeshi, asked to speak to the country’s prime minister before dying from injuries in an exchange of gunfire with military commandos, officials said. The flight, […]
President Donald Trump is trying to manage expectations for his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, predicting a “continuation of the progress” made last time. Trump tweeted Sunday that he was leaving early the next day for the meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, adding a tantalizing nod to “Denuclearization?” He also said Kim […]
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