Russian President Vladimir Putin is unruffled by the refusal of U.S. President Donald Trump to have a meeting on the sidelines of the weekend Group of 20 summit, the Kremlin
The Trump administration is celebrating the 90-day truce it reached in its trade war with China as a significant breakthrough despite scant details, a hazy timetable and widespread skepticism that Beijing will yield to U.S. demands anytime soon. This is just an enormous, enormous event, Larry Kudlow, President Donald Trumps top economic adviser, said Monday […]
Today the NYPD announced its Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) program, which will be comprised of newly acquired Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), or drones, and the licensed NYPD officers of the
British Prime Minister Theresa May looks to be on a collision course with Parliament over her Brexit plan. Lawmakers are beginning five days of debate Tuesday leading up to a
On Monday, 25 Kislev, Uri Kirshenbaum and Michael Fuah, the administrators of the Facebook page Duma Blood Libel will distribute a new booklet under the name The Duma Blood Libel: How to Frame Someone in the State of Israel. The booklet details how Amiram Ben Uliel and A., the minor in the Kfar Duma arson […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Rabbi Moshe Gottesman Z”L, former Dean at Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC), and a well-known Baal Chesed, and Pillar of
Israel announced on Tuesday that it had begun a military operation to expose and thwart offensive tunnels it said Hezbollah had been building across the Lebanese border. The effort, called
Final preparations are underway as the Rubashkin family prepares to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the great neis of Zos Chanukah 5778 along with their extended family: all of Klal Yisroel. Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkins release – a story that was reported first on YWN […]
(Translated and adapted by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) Rav Sholom Noach Berezovsky (1911 2000), the Slonimer Rebbe from 1981 to his petira, was called by Rav Elyashiv zt”l as the mesilas yesharim of his generation. The following is his first maamar on Chanukah. The Gemorah (Shabbos 21b) asks: What is Chanukah? It answers […]
The US-based Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute (BASE), a dubious organization, has announced that its scholars have (allegedly) pinpointed the location of the Aron Hakodesh from the Bais Hamikdash.
Rep. Nydia M. Velzquez (D-NY) has led Democratic Members of the New York City Congressional delegation in pressing the New York Police Department (NYPD) for answers on how they are combatting what appears to be a recent wave of anti-Semitic acts. The letter comes shortly after a Columbia University professor found swastikas spray-painted in her […]
Met Council on Jewish Poverty owns and operates 19 buildings of affordable housing across New York City. This week, for the first time since the waiting list was closed five
The following is a humorous Happy Chanukah message from Israels Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu . (YWN Israel Desk Jerusalem)
The U.S.-led coalition has targeted a senior member of the Islamic State group involved in the 2014 killing of American aid worker Peter Kassig, a military spokesman said Monday. Col.
An insurgent underdog no more, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is laying the groundwork to launch a bigger presidential campaign than his first, as advisers predict he would open the 2020
A Sofer submitted these photos YWN on Monday. A dog-owner left his Tefillin on his table, and his pet dog destroyed his Tefillin. The Tefillin have to be placed in
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have paid their respects to former President George H.W. Bush at the U.S. Capitol. The nation’s 41st president is lying in state
U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke lit the Menorah at the 40th National Hanukkah Menorah lighting ceremony on the Ellipse in Washington D.C on Sunday night. The event featured performances from
A lawmaker with Hungarys nationalistic Jobbik party says he is resigning his seat in parliament after the leak of a recording on which he could be heard making anti-Semitic comments. Istvan Szavay of the Jobbik party has denied hitting or hurting a Jewish woman, saying his boasts about it heard on the recording reportedly made […]
The Pentagon says that a fourth soldier has died from wounds suffered last week in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan. Sgt. Jason Mitchell McClary died Sunday at the
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