Yesterday the world suffered a tragic loss with the passing of Rabbi Dovid Oberlander, a 38-year-old father of 5 from Ashdod. Dovid & his father, renowned askan Rabbi Moshe Yosef
Just prior to Elul Zman, the Yeshivos of Chasdei Belz are reinforcing the message to maintain proper hygiene as proscribed by the Health Ministry, and have issued a directive from
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, underwent surgery Thursday to remove a growth from his vocal cord that was causing his notably raspy voice. Fauci, who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, underwent outpatient surgery for the polyp and was home and resting, an institute spokesperson told The […]
The coronavirus recession struck swiftly and violently. Now, with the U.S. economy still in the grip of the outbreak five months later, the recovery looks fitful and uneven — and painfully slow. The latest evidence came Thursday, when the government reported that the number of workers applying for unemployment climbed back over 1 million last […]
A live air-to-air missile discovered at a small central Florida airport has been secured in a munition storage facility at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. The unarmed French S-530 air-to-air missile was found at Lakeland Linder International Airport on Friday. “It is secured and safe and they are just waiting on when and where […]
An Israeli TV channel, Kan 11, featured the return of Rosh Yeshivas Ponevezh, Hagaon Harav Gershon Edelstein, to the yeshivah after a break of six months during which he almost
The Health Ministry reported 1,637 new coronavirus cases as of Thursday morning in the previous 24 hours. There are currently 23,913 active cases, with 403 in serious condition, of whom
U.S. average rates on long-term mortgages rose this week though they remain at historically low levels. The key 30-year loan nudged toward 3%. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that
They’re left without a father and , the youngest is 4 years old. , David Sher Z”l was sick with a rare genetic illness called Fabry. David had kidney failure
R’ Yitzchak Neiman, z’l, of Beitar Illit, passed away on Thursday in Shaarei Tzedek Hospital at the age of 74, less than a week after his wife, Mrs. Ayala Neiman,
President Donald Trump on Thursday reaffirmed his plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq as quickly as possible as he met with the prime minister of Iraq to discuss ways to rein in pro-Iran militias in the country and counter residual threats from Islamic State sleeper cells. “We look forward to the day when […]
More than two dozen major fires were scorching California on Thursday, largely the result of an unprecedented lightning siege that dropped nearly 11,000 strikes over several days. “This is definitely a historic lightning event,” said Daniel Berlant, an assistant deputy director with the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. “The last time we had […]
We have successfully secured Bushkill Falls Resort for this אלול זמן We have arranged accommodations for several hundred בחורים. We will be learning the same לימוד as Mir in Yerushalayim. There will be a
Border security officers in Ben Gurion airport have noticed that dozens of passengers in the past few days, many of them Chareidim, have been presenting negative COVID-19 tests all from
El Al Airlines announced on Tuesday that it is extending its freeze on almost all passenger flights until September 30. The company is also extending the unpaid leave of the
Airbnb is banning house parties worldwide as it tries to clean up its reputation and comply with coronavirus-related limits on gatherings. The San Francisco home sharing company will limit occupancy
Coronavirus brought negative changes to all of us, but it brought positive changes for many of us as well. Elul is a time for recognizing those new changes and making
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, one of Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics, lay in a coma Friday at a Siberian hospital, the victim of what his allies said appeared to be a poisoning engineered by the Kremlin. Navalny’s organization was scrambling to make arrangements to transfer him to Germany for treatment; a German group said it […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Hagaon HaRav Zalman Nechemiya Goldberg ZT”L (88), son-in-law of HaRav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and a major Posek in Eretz Yisroel. Rav
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