The NYPD has released new footage of the Friday night hate attack in Williamsburg. As reported on YWN, the victim was walking home from Shul with his young son and had stopped to talk to another man in the area of 68 Throop Avenue, when a man approached one of them from behind and punched the […]

For two years, the Trump administration has unabashedly slashed U.S. aid to the Palestinians. Now, amid signs it may finally roll out its long-awaited Middle East peace plan, the administration

Officials say criminal proceedings against a Seattle man accused of trying to run over two Jewish men outside a Los Angeles synagogue have been suspended amid questions about his mental

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Robert Mueller is back. After a quiet few months in the run-up to the midterm elections, the special counsel’s Russia investigation is heating up again with a string of tantalizing new details emerging this week. None of it answers the central question: Did Donald Trump and his campaign coordinate with Russia to help him win […]

Rockland County Legislator Aron Wieder at the NYC Board of Education responding to the recent guidelines released by the NYS Education Commissioner Elia for private religious Jewish schools

Leaders of the world’s largest economic powers have agreed to overhaul the global body that regulates trade disputes, but they faced resistance from President Donald Trump over the Paris accord on climate change. Here are some of the main developments at the Group of 20 summit, which wrapped up Saturday: ___ WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION All […]

HaRav Reuven Feinstein Shlita, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva of Staten Island, is set to join the Shuvu Mission to Israel, this coming January. The Shuvu Mission is a 4-day, 3-night

The following statement was given to YWN on Sunday night, upon the tragic passing of the Hatzolah medical Director, Dr Richard Friedman. As YWN reported, Dr. Friedman was tragically struck

Russian President Vladimir Putin got his chance to talk with U.S. President Donald Trump after all — but their brief exchange over Ukraine didn’t accomplish much. Russia put on a brave face after Trump abruptly junked a much-awaited sit-down with Putin, blaming it on internal U.S. politics and “anti-Russian hysteria.” But Trump’s snub was a […]

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One lied about his knowledge of Russian-hacked emails, another about a Russian real estate deal, a third about dialogue over sanctions with a Russian ambassador. A pattern of deception by

The once anonymous English couple who lost an engagement ring down a Times Square utility grate is thanking the New York Police Department for finding it. John Drennan and Daniella

The United States and China reached a 90-day ceasefire in a trade dispute that has rattled financial markets and threatened world economic growth. The breakthrough came after a dinner meeting

Clock’s Ticking: Win a Luxury $1,000,000 Yerushalayim Apartment? Yes, you read that right! With just 1 raffle ticket, a $1,000,000, brand-new, luxury apartment in the heart of Yerushalayim can be

George Herbert Walker Bush and George W. Bush had only so much in common as presidents. They shared one big thing besides name, family and party, though. They were both

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin lit Chanukah candles for the first night of Chanukah with IDF combat soldiers from various Charedi units. Among those present were soldiers from Tomer in Givati,

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Saturday took aim at Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of trying to “muck around” in the U.S. midterm elections, of duplicity in arms control and of acting irresponsibly in last weekend’s naval confrontation with Ukraine. In remarks at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, Mattis said […]

Britain’s opposition Labour Party ramped up the pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May Sunday, saying it will call a no-confidence vote if Parliament rejects her Brexit deal on Dec. 11.

New York police are on a daylong manhunt for a suspect who escaped from a cruiser while handcuffed. Police say 24-year-old Tyrone Johnson escaped from custody Saturday while being transported to a precinct in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood. Johnson was taken into custody at 4:30 a.m. Saturday when police stopped him in his car, apparently for […]

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