Israel’s new education minister’s remarks in favor of “conversion therapy,” a controversial technique that seeks to turn gays into heterosexuals, came under widespread criticism and led hundreds to protest Sunday.
A Manhattan power outage that temporarily turned off the bright lights of the big city only lasted for a few hours, but left plenty of lingering questions and calls for
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Police say they will be reviewing any available video to help them identity protesters who trespassed and pulled down the American flag in front of an immigration detention center in
American Airlines said Sunday that it will keep the Boeing 737 Max plane off its schedule until Nov. 3, which is two months longer than it had planned. In a
Residue of a dangerous drug was found in the blood of the baby girl on Friday, after she arrived at Wolfson Hospital in Holon. The one-year-old patient lives in nearby
A 69-year-old man armed with a rifle threw incendiary devices at an immigration jail in Washington state early Saturday morning, then was found dead after four police officers arrived and
All the Sephardi rabbonim in Elad, including the city’s chief rabbi, HaGaon HaRav Mordechai Malka Shlita, last month signed a psak halacha barring residents from having dogs. According to the
Tropical Storm Barry dumped rain as it slowly swept inland through Gulf Coast states Sunday, appearing to spare New Orleans a direct hit, but stoking fears elsewhere of flooding, tornadoes
For years, the Kanievskys have been there for us – individually, for those fortunate enough to visit Rav Chaim or the rebbetzin personally, and as a klal through the Torah
In response to the planned closure of an Afula park during the summer to non-residents, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit stated, “An order permitting the temporary opening of the park must
President Donald Trump on Sunday assailed a group of Democratic congresswomen of color as foreign-born troublemakers who should go back to the “broken and crime infested places from which they
HaRav Shmuel Menachem Mendel Schneerson was NIftar on SHabbos. He was among the elders of the Chabad community in Yerushalayim, 91, and a member of the directorate of Collel Chabad
There have been a few measles cases in Sullivan County the past few weeks, YWN has confirmed. One of them was a confirmed exposure at Nachlei Emunah Bungalow Colony on
A U.K. newspaper published more leaked memos from Britain’s ambassador in Washington on Sunday, despite a police warning that doing so might be a crime. In one 2018 cable published
Criticism can be heard from Ehud Barak’s Democratic Israel party against the rotation agreement between the leaders of the Blue & White party, referring to the rotation of the premiership
Highly credible sources have just confirmed to YWN that the body of Rav Reuven Bauman Z”L who heroically jumped into the ocean to save a student, has been found. He
President Donald Trump on Sunday defended conditions at the border detention facilities visited by his vice president, painting a rosier picture than Mike Pence encountered. Trump tweeted that the children’s
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