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A boycott effort against the Electra Company, which manufactures air conditioners and other appliances, is underway due to the firm’s connection to chilul...

While the removal of the bones at the Barzilai Hospital site has been completed, the matter is not forgotten, not to mention ongoing excavations...

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has arrived in Israel as planned, to celebrate the bar mitzvah of his son. The event was...

The plan to build a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero may have hit a snag, due to an over 20-year pending landmark status. The...

More than 30,000 angry New Jersey residents including union employees and community activists, marched to the state capitol Saturday, delivering a blistering message to...

When Mayor Bloomberg wants something, he has plenty of tools to help him get it - friends in high places, a bully pulpit, six-figure...

New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo formally announced Saturday that he's running for governor. "My campaign is this simple: I represent the people of...

It appears that at least some of the families boycotting the Emanuel Beis Yaakov are unwilling to comply with a High Court of Justice...

A new poll shows Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed budget cuts are hurting his approval rating. Bloomberg's approval rating hit a five-year low today, according to...

As the summer months approach, bringing yet another anniversary of the painful and shameful 2005 expulsion of Jews from their homes in Gush Katif...

Hooligans in Meah Shearim on Thursday night targeted a vehicle belonging to the Shomrim patrol, which protects homes N’vei Yaakov and other Jerusalem border...

Following the latest High Court of Justice decision to end the segregation in the Emanuel Beis Yaakov, ordering parents and Chinuch Atzmai to act...

Two eastern Jerusalem Arab residents, minors, were arrested by police on Thursday. They are suspected of recently smashing and damaging 25 tombstones on Har...

Rebitzen Leah Aurbach A"H was niftar in Yerushalayim on Friday morning. She was the rebitzen of HaGaon HaRav Azriel Aurbach and the daughter of Maran...

Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Major-General Benny Gantz feels in the coming decade, the government must work towards implementing a system in which everyone...

When the Churva Shul in Jerusalem’s Old City was being rededicated in March of this year, there was a bit of a political storm...

Manchester, England - YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira on the first day of Shavuos of one of the last remaining Talmidim...

Washington - On Mother's Day, Chuck Schumer delivered two commencement speeches upstate, flew back to Brooklyn to eat dinner with his wife, mother and...

Jerusalem Councilman Yosef Deutsch is addressing reports that repeated calls from residents of Adonaiyhu HaCohen Street, reporting garbage receptacles on fire were ignored for...

The Wall Street Journal reports: Al Pacino, preparing for the role of Shylock in the Public Theater's upcoming production of "The Merchant of Venice,"...

The Senate passed late Thursday night the most sweeping regulatory overhaul of the financial system since the New Deal. The bill, which passed 59-39, imposes...

Gov. David A. Paterson is considering a new strategy in his effort to pass a soda tax, hoping to win over reluctant lawmakers and...

In a symbol of the growing anti-Washington sentiment across the country, Rep. Joe Sestak defeated five-term senator Arlen Specterin the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary...

Hundreds of Eida supporters took part in the Thursday afternoon levaya for the Barzilai bones after the Eida received permission from the Ministry of...

The president's top intelligence adviser, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, has announced his resignation, effective Friday. Blair, a retired four-star Navy admiral, has...

Stocks logged their biggest drop of the year Thursday as investors worried about two events coming Friday — a German vote on the EU...

As June 25th rapidly approaches, a day that will mark Gilad Shalit’s fourth anniversary in Hamas captivity, Israel on Thursday morning released senior Hamas...

The Eida Chareidis has decided to bury the bones exhumed from Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon; with rabbonim indicated no one seems willing to undertake...

A father and son from Toms River drowned Monday while playing with a remote control boat on a popular fishing pond, Lakewood PD tell...

At a New York City Council hearing on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Councilman David Greenfield got into a heated exchange with NYC ACS Commissioner...

Watch as Mispalilim in the Breuer's Shul (KAJ) located in Washington Heights, NY, decorate their Bais Medrash for Shavuos. The tedious job starts 48 hours...

Forty years ago, in the shadow of the Six Day War, the Editor of the Panim El Panim Newspaper, Shmuel Avigdor HaKohen, made his...

Whether you will be traveling, at home, with family or with friends; YWN would like to wish all of our devoted readers and advertisers, a...

From the YWN archives: In one of his shiurim, HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein explained that his father-in-law, Maran HaGaon Rav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita would...

The Justice Ministry Internal Affairs Unit questioned the Jerusalem police chief following a complaint filed by chareidim regarding the brutal arrest of a Toldos...