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As pointed out on Sunday in a radio interview with Israel Radio with Mideast expert Dr. Dore Gold, a former Israel ambassador to the...

Fewer than 1 percent of the state's 1,900 private schools run fingerprint checks on job applicants to screen for "offenders" and other criminal behavior,...

They watch and they wait, and increasingly, fishermen up and down the East Coast of the United States worry about the massive oil spill...

According to Greek media reports, the Israel Air Force will be taking part in joint naval exercise with Greece, training that will include long-range...

Seeking to maximize the media spectacle, sources in Gaza report that 100 boats plan to set sail from the Port of Gaza to greet...

According to a report released by Iran’s Fars news agency, quoting an “Iranian official” that country’s first nuclear plant, located in the southern city...

Once again tragedy has struck Boro Park.... YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of  11-year-old Boruch Mordechai Berliner A"H, who was struck by a...

Three attempts to pump mud and 16 tries to stuff solid material into a breached Gulf of Mexico oil well failed to stop the...

In his fiercest defense yet of the mosque proposed near Ground Zero, Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday that it must be allowed to proceed because...

The following is a Fox News report: Like an aging sports star who can't stay away from the game, Bill Clinton's direct role in...

Attorneys for thousands of sickened 9/11 workers wrote a letter to a judge saying they would cut their share of the massive settlement, which...

State troopers patrolling the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway last month wrote about 50 percent more traffic tickets than they did the...

Four children's cough and cold medicines made at a Johnson & Johnson plant shuttered because of manufacturing problems were recalled Friday, a month after...

More than 200 emergency medical technicians, firefighters and police officers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire may have to surrender their licenses after an investigation...

Edison, NJ - Township police chaplain Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg, who was terminated from the paid position Thursday, said he plans to hold a demonstration...

Web search engines make our lives easier: They connect us with what we're searching for in a matter of seconds, and sometimes they bring...

Opposition leader Tzipi Livni, who of late has not hesitated to express her disdain for chareidi Jewry on Thursday, went on another self-righteous tirade....

A number of prominent Bnei Brak rabbonim shlita came out against the violent protests that spread to the Torah city this week. Signing the...

Submitted to YWN by Rabbi Gershon Bess; Rov Congregation Kehilas Yaakov, Los Angeles with the permission of HoRav Elyashiv Shlit”a. As a Rov of a...

Contrary to what some in the Orthodox Jewish/Hasidic communities have come to believe that “Republicans are out of touch with our daily needs,”...

Expect to see even more people on the roads if you're headed out of town this Memorial Day Weekend. AAA says about 28 million Americans...

The following is a Wall Street Journal article: To dial up the best cellphone service in New York, try the Lincoln Tunnel. Seriously. It's wired, and...

The following is a Washington Post exclusive report: Senior White House advisers asked former President Bill Clinton to talk to Joe Sestak about whether he...

The busy Memorial Day holiday is almost here. If you speed, drink and drive, or commit other offenses you better watch out. New Jersey state...

It appears the growing boycott by the chareidi community against the Electra Company may have succeeded in persuading the company to seek a solution...

Quebec's education ministry has obtained a court injunction to shut down a private Jewish school in Montreal for not maintaining scholastic standards. The Académie Yeshiva...

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s Kosel visit on Thursday was a major media event in Israel, receiving prominent air time on the...

A hardhart fell to his death Thursday from the fifth story of a building under construction in Brooklyn, officials said. The death of construction foreman...

The Department of Homeland Security announced terror attacks against the United States are on the rise. According to reports, an unclassified intelligence memo claims, "the...

The self proclaimed champions of human rights making their way to the Gaza shore, hoping to break the Israeli naval blockade on Hamas-controlled Gaza,...

The Jewish community in Victoria, B.C., was stunned to learn that vandals had spray-painted anti-Semitic graffiti on the slides and climbing apparatus in Clawthorpe...

Jerusalem City Hall and the Ministry of Transportation announced on Thursday that beginning next Sunday; the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City will be...

Earlier today, the President took questions from the press at the White House on the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. During...

The Israeli defense establishment will implement the Supreme Court's decision to open Route 443 to Palestinian vehicles today, Friday May 28th, 2010 at 08:00...

Drink up! The water's safe, officials say. There are no harmful levels of pharmaceuticals in New York City drinking water, according to a report released...