A leading Saudi women’s rights activist who’s been imprisoned for 2 1/2 years and drawn attention to the kingdom’s hard limits on dissent will be tried by a court established to oversee terrorism cases, her family said Wednesday. The referral of Loujain al-Hathloul’s case to the Specialized Criminal Court is a setback for efforts to […]
Australia’s prime minister said he’s “thrilled and relieved” after Iran released in a prisoner swap a 33-year-old academic who was imprisoned for more than two years on spying charges, but added it would take time for Kylie Moore-Gilbert to process her “horrible” ordeal. Iran first announced on state television that it had freed the British-Australian […]
According to a report in Israeli media that appeared on Wednesday, Israel’s First Lady, Sara Netanyahu, is leaving the Prime Minister’s Residence on Balfour Street and heading to the family’s
Cleaning wipes are harder to find on store shelves, and businesses are reassuring customers with stepped up sanitation measures. In New York, the subway system is shut down nightly for
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A Satmar twitter account @HQSatmar (“Satmar Headquarters”) tweeted their thanks to an individual for offering to pay the $15,000 fine given to them after making their “secret wedding” in Williamsburg.
A Jewish man was assaulted in Monsey Glatt on Thursday afternoon. Sources tell YWN that a delivery truck was unloading at the store, when a Hispanic male told the driver
The bomb was meant to explode in a Paris suburb during a huge rally being held by an exiled Iranian opposition group. It could have caused carnage. Instead, the explosion
A new day center facility for the elderly in the Chareidi community is being built in the Romema neighborhood of Jerusalem. The new center, which will allow the elderly from
As YWN reported last night, in a landmark vindication of religious rights, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an injunction, just minutes before midnight late Wednesday, against New
Thousands of people in Russia’s Far East region of Primorye remained without heating or electricity on Wednesday, as local authorities and emergency services wrestled with the consequences of an unprecedented ice storm that hit the region last week. According to Russia’s Energy Ministry, 5,800 Primorye residents as of Wednesday were still cut off from power, […]
Israel’s IDF dropped flyers in the Syrian Golan Heights warning its armed forces to desist its affiliation with Iran and Hezbollah, Syrian media outlets reported on Wednesday. “We will not allow anyone to disturb the stability here,” the IDF states in the flyers, stressing that it will “take action against Hezbollah and Iranian operatives at […]
Home Depot has reached a $17.5 million settlement with the attorney generals of 46 states and the District of Columbia over a 2014 data breach that exposed the payment card information of some 40 million customers. The Massachusetts Attorney General’s office detailed the settlement in a statement Tuesday, saying Home Depot agreed under its terms […]
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Just after 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Avraham Levy was returning home from staffing an all-night municipal election vote-count in the city of Tel Mond. He was driving one of the organization’s ambulances back from the event when he received an emergency alert from dispatch directing him to a man who […]
Toronto police said Wednesday that they have identified a person of interest in the killing of Canadian drug company billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife nearly three years ago. Police
Germany’s top administrative court has ruled the country’s government can’t be forced to ensure that U.S. drone strikes controlled via an American military base on German territory are in line with international law. The decision Wednesday by the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig overturns a ruling last year that held the German government partly responsible […]
Rabbi Simcha Feuerman, LCSW-R, DHL, noted psychotherapist, recently completed his Psychology of the Daf commentary on Maseches Eruvin and has started Maseches Pesachim. JCN: What inspired you to attempt to
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu??’s planned trip to Bahrain next week has been postponed until late December in accordance with the kingdom’s request, Walla News reported on Wednesday. Netanyahu had contacted
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