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On the surface the news looked pretty grim for Garden State residents on Tuesday – thanks to an unanticipated drop in tax revenues of...

Right-wing activist Itamar Ben-Givir has petitioned the Jerusalem District Court in its capacity as an administrative court, seeking to have the Thursday bar mitzvah...

Space shuttle Atlantis landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Wednesday, concluding the final mission of its 25-year career. Fresh off a 12-day mission...

The following was written by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times: Brooklyn, NY - Rabbis from Kashrus agencies across the country gathered...

The following is a NY Post exclusive report: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, desperate to find new revenues to avoid budget cuts, has secretly proposed a...

Newly announced Democratic gubernatorial contender Andrew Cuomo has looked to the state's third largest city for his lieutenant governor running mate, selecting the popular,...

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was questioned by police for eight hours on Tuesday in connection with his alleged illegal actions pertaining to the...

A bill backed by New York lawmakers to give federal benefits to people sickened by toxins at Ground Zero won approval yesterday in a...

Break out the sunscreen. Wednesday's temperatures could inch up into the low and even mid-90s. "We're gonna' have a taste of summer, at least for one...

1:33PM IL: Police in the Dizengoff area, the heart of Tel Aviv, are searching for an Arab couple believed to be terrorists planning to...

California - The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to take up the case of the mother a postal worker slain in the 1999...

A Manhattan community board approved Tuesday the construction of a mosque and Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center site. The measure passed 29-to-1,...

On Monday, Lakewood Police Department received information that Mark L. Johnson, who had been previously charged with bias intimidation and harassment while on probation,...

A group of Chareidi Jews ascended the Har Habayis today, with one man fully prostrating himself in prayer (as can be seen in the attached...

In a rare move, the New York City Council today rejected the application to change the zoning of 4802 18th Avenue from a private...

President Obama told Senate Republicans Tuesday that he's read the controversial Arizona immigration law and is concerned it would allow for discrimination -- but...

While former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is no stranger to police questioning, having been questioned during his tenure as prime minister a number of...

New York – Public Advocate Bill de Blasio today launched an online petition urging Mayor Bloomberg to restore funding for the city’s Priority 7...

The state rested its case against former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin shortly before noon this morning. The jury was sent home until Wednesday morning when...

Following a heated battle between parents and school, the parents of Shulamith of Brooklyn have come to an "tentative agreement" with the school over...

The police union is speaking out about a bill proposed in the State Assembly that would require police to only use the minimum amount...

A group of Yeshiva boys from Yeshiva Birchas Shmuel were on a baseball outing to a local Flatbush park when they came upon large...

The ongoing controversy regarding the Halachic Shaila of "worms in fish" continues. Two weeks ago, YWN posted an article by Rabbi Mordechai Kuber explaining why...

Tel Aviv Chief Rabbi HaGaon HaRav Yisrael Meir Lau made an appearance in Bnei Brak on Monday to affix a mezuzah to the new...

Germany’s kosher consumers can now enjoy a full line of locally produced boutique cheeses and milk that come from a small dairy farm near...

As promised, protests in Jaffa against ongoing excavations did take place with hundreds of chareidim on hand, confronting and defying police, who warned if...

Democratic gov hopeful Andrew Cuomo expects to get thousands of people to sign his campaign pledge to clean up Albany. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver won't...

In his testimony on Monday Rishon L’Tzion Rabbi Bakshi Doron Shlita told the court that he did nothing wrong, pointing a finger of blame...

Police investigators allege the heads of Israel’s four largest bakeries teamed up to create a cartel, arresting a number of senior officials as the...

Mounted policeman David Edri was sentenced to three months of community service on Tuesday by Jerusalem District Court Justice Rivka Friedman-Feldman for his unacceptable...

Israel Police investigators have recommended to the State Attorney General’s office that a criminal indictment be handed down against Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and...

A woman fell in front of an oncoming subway train on Monday night and survived. Emergency crews carried the woman out of the station on...

New York City bus drivers took an average of two months paid days off last year after being spat upon by upset riders. The Metropolitan...

Opponents of a mosque planned near Ground Zero may be getting some unexpected help from the City. The building at 45 Park Place was constructed...

Oil company BP is expected to brief reporters Tuesday morning about its next attempt to contain the gushing oil in the Gulf of Mexico...