Racism in America is institutional and it is a “white man’s problem visited on people of color,” former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday, arguing that the way to attack the issue is to defeat President Donald Trump and shame the racists he has emboldened. Taking aim at incendiary racial appeals by Trump, Biden said […]
In his latest election video, released on twitter, the chairman of the Yisrael Beitenu party, MK Avigdor Lieberman, warns that a repeat of the outgoing coalition is nothing less than
The Department of Homeland Security is moving $271 million from other agencies such as FEMA and the U.S. Coast Guard to increase the number of beds for detained immigrants and
A new Missouri ban on abortions at or after eight weeks of pregnancy won’t take effect Wednesday after a federal judge temporarily blocked it from being implemented. U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs put a pause on the law as a legal challenge against it plays out in court, which could take months. He added that […]
Following the slew of media reports regarding the cancellation of the Motty Steinmetz and Mordechai Ben David concert in Haifa and the recent fiasco with Teveria mayor Ron Kobi at
As YWN Israel reported, Shmuel Chaim ben Shainda Tzirel is a recently engaged 17-year-old Toldos Aharon Chosid. This past Motzei Shabbos he was seriously injured in a car accident that
Three people were killed and several injured in two explosions in the Gaza area on late Tuesday night, according to a Palestinian Health Ministry report. The two people killed in
Jorge Ortiz, a 50-year-old construction worker, was taking no chances as Tropical Storm Dorian approached Puerto Rico on Tuesday and threatened to brush past the island’s southwest coast at near-hurricane strength. Wiping sweat from his brow, Ortiz climbed up a shaky ladder under the punishing morning sun and tied down pieces of zinc that now […]
In America, those that came back from Europe after having fought Hitler are known as “the Greatest Generation.” In Jewish religious circles, there is another group of people with this
North Carolina’s top prosecutor expanded his efforts to halt e-cigarette sales to teens on Monday by suing eight more manufacturers of vaping products. Josh Stein, the Democratic attorney general in the traditionally tobacco-friendly state, said he is filing lawsuits against eight e-cigarette companies in an announcement timed to grab attention during the first week of […]
A civil rights lawyer representing parents opposed to vaccines for their children said Monday he will appeal a judge’s decision upholding a New York state law that ended religious exemptions from vaccinations required to attend schools and day care programs. The state Legislature repealed the religious exemption in June amid the nation’s worst measles outbreak […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri decided upon a plan to give 3 million shekels to restaurants in the Gaza periphery as a
U.S. home prices rose more slowly in June as some of the country’s most expensive housing markets saw stagnant or even falling prices. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 2.1% in June from a year earlier, down from a 2.4% gain in May. Prices fell 1.3% in Seattle and inched up 0.7% […]
The Blue & White party questions why over recent years there is an increasing number of cases of abuse and neglect in daycare centers. Blue & White blames Prime Minister
In a strongly worded letter addressed to New York State Board of Regents’ Chancellor Betty Rosa, over 200 rabbanim from around the country registered a protest to the regulations proposed by the education department. In unequivocal terms, the rabbis called the new regulations “untenable and unnecessary.” They noted the contribution to society Yeshiva graduates have […]
Two Muslim correctional officers in New York are being reinstated to their positions after being suspended for refusing to shave their beards. The move comes one day after correctional officers Brian Sughrim and David Feliciano filed a federal lawsuit Monday against New York’s prison agency. The suit argues the agency discriminated against the two men […]
The leaders of the not-well-known Noam party, headed by HaRav Tzvi Tau, is contemplating officially dropping out of the election race for 22nd Knesset. According to all polls, the party
Never mind his differences with world leaders on China, trade, Russia, Iran and more. President Donald Trump’s takeaway message from the Group of Seven summit in France was “unity.” In fact, “flawless” unity. During this year’s gathering of leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies, Trump went to great lengths to portray it as something of […]
By Rabbi Eliezer Sandler Facing one of the most searching farhers to date, the Shas Yiden geonim avreichim once again astounded the examiner. Those present, travelling from New York, found the scholarship nothing short of amazing! With comments like: “They own Shas!” “Their accomplishment is just ‘beyond’…” “I thought the claim that they all complete […]
The Brisker Rosh Yeshiva, Hagaon HaRav Dovid Soloveitchik was hospitalized today in Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem medical center. The Rosh Yeshiva had been feeling ill over the past few days and was transported from his home on Amos Street in Jerusalem to the hospital suffering from general weakness. He underwent several tests and it was decided […]
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