In a surprising twist, Religious Affair Minister Matan Kahana’s handpicked selection for the head of the Giyur Authority, Rabbi Binyahu Brunner, said during a shiur that he is opposed to
U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is growing increasingly isolated from some of her party’s most influential officials and donors after playing a key role in scuttling voting rights legislation that many Democrats consider essential to preserving democracy. Leaders of the Arizona Democratic Party voted Saturday to censure Sinema, a symbolic condemnation for the woman who just […]
A 13-year-old Lakewood girl who suddenly went into cardiac arrest while in class several weeks ago has been released from the hospital. The girl, Chaya Malka bas Batsheva Stern, was
On the eve of her 100th birthday Saturday, Ruth Salton told her daughter she was going one way or another to Friday night Shabbat services at Congregation Beth Israel, just days after a gunman voicing antisemitic conspiracy theories held four worshippers hostage for 10 hours at the Fort Worth-area synagogue. “I want to support my […]
Residents of a Pennsylvania county were warned Saturday not to approach a monkey that was missing after a crash involving a pickup that was towing a trailer taking about 100
The Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania plans to send U.S.-made anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine, a move that the United States fully endorsed Saturday amid Kyiv’s escalating tensions with Russia. The defense ministers of the three Baltic states said in a joint statement published late Friday that they “stand united in our […]
The annual anti-abortion rally in the nation’s capital sounded more like a victory celebration as speakers expressed a growing sense of optimism that their long-sought goal, a sweeping rollback of abortion rights in America, was finally in reach. Thousands of protesters rallied in the bitter cold Friday and marched to the Supreme Court, which has […]
In the final moments of a 10-hour standoff with a gunman at a Texas synagogue, the remaining hostages and officials trying to negotiate their release took “near simultaneous plans of action,” with the hostages escaping as an FBI tactical team moved in, an official said Friday. “I think we both kind of realized around the […]
A wind-driven wildfire broke out late Friday in the rugged mountains above Big Sur, forcing residents to evacuate from their homes and authorities to shut down a stretch of Pacific
Kurdish-led fighters advanced slowly Saturday under the cover of U.S.-led coalition air power in Syria’s northeast. Intense clashes with Islamic State group militants took place around a prison where thousands of extremists were held, officials said. Fighting broke out Thursday night when IS unleashed its biggest attack in Syria since the fall of its “caliphate” […]
The death toll from a Saudi-led coalition airstrike that hit a prison run by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has climbed to at least 82 detainees, the rebels and an aid group said Saturday. Internet access in the Arab world’s poorest country meanwhile remained largely down as the coalition continued airstrikes on the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, and […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of HaRav Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Margulies zt”l, the founder and rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Temimah. Born in Europe, Rav Margulies survived the Holocaust and then rebuilt his life in America, creating an edifice of Torah and avodas hashem in Torah Temimah of Brooklyn, and is responsible […]
It didn’t take long for abortion to re-emerge as a flashpoint in state legislatures. Less than a month into the 2022 legislative sessions, battles over the future of abortion already are setting up around the U.S. Republican lawmakers are proposing new restrictions modeled after laws in Texas and Mississippi that present a direct challenge to […]
Two more Roshei Yeshivos in Israel tested positive for COVID on Friday, Rosh Yeshivas Ateres Yisrael, HaGaon HaRav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, and Rosh Yeshivas Kisei Rachamim HaGaon HaRav Meir Mazuz. It is the second time that HaRav Ezrachi has COVID. The 93-year-old Rosh Yeshivah contracted COVID for the first time in October 2020 and b’chasdei Hashem […]
Russia proposed an interim nuclear agreement to Iran involving limited sanctions relief in exchange for the reimposition of some restrictions on Tehran’s nuclear program, NBC News reported over the weekend.
The 22-year-old New York City police officer who was shot to death while responding to a call in a Harlem apartment came from an immigrant family and grew up in a community with strained police relations, but joined the force to make a difference in the “chaotic city,” he once wrote. “I know that something […]
A New York City police officer was killed and another critically wounded Friday night while answering a call about an argument between a woman and her adult son, officials said, making four officers shot in the city in as many days. Just three weeks into their jobs, Mayor Eric Adams — a former police captain […]
The freezing cold weather didn’t stop Flatbush Shomrim volunteers from helping a victim of a crime, Friday morning. A local Flatbush resident had called Shomrim saying that his car was
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is promising statewide coordination as law enforcement and prosecutors go after thieves who have been raiding cargo containers aboard trains near downtown Los Angeles for months,
Intel will invest $20 billion in a new computer chip facility in Ohio amid a global shortage of microprocessors used in everything from phones and cars to video games. After
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