Excitement is building in Brooklyn, as a major ballgame will be held in just a few weeks. As YWN has reported in the past, Flatbush Hatzolah has been playing weekly
All across the globe—from the more than 50,000 visitors expected at the Ohel in Queens, N.Y., to gatherings and study groups in community centers, synagogues, camps and private homes—people from all walks of Jewish life, in communities large and small, are coming together this week and next to mark the 25th anniversary of the passing […]
Scientists from 17 nations, including the United States, Russia and China, are preparing for a yearlong mission to the central Arctic to study the impact climate change is having on the planet’s frigid far north. Mission leader Markus Rex said Wednesday that researchers plan to anchor the German icebreaker RV Polarstern to a large floe, […]
Hiddush is an Israeli-based organization that will often pursue anti-Torah hashkafos. In 2017, it petitioned the Israeli Court to require that the IDF’s regulations be amended to permit military burials that would also allow for clergy that deny the tenets of classical Judaism. The IDF agreed to change its regulations, according to an announcement made […]
A mother and a child were seriously injured after they were stuck by a vehicle in South Blooming Grove, NY, Thursday night. The incident happened on Route 208 at around
As YWN readers are aware, this past November, State Education Department Commissioner MaryEllen Elia released new rules to require all private schools to teach essentially the same classes as the
Jerusalem district police arrested an Arab resident of the eastern capital who posed as a physician, working in a local clinic, treating patients seeking “aesthetic changes” as well as prescribing
Non-native iguanas are multiplying so rapidly in South Florida that a state wildlife agency is now encouraging people to kill them. A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission news release says people should exterminate the large green lizards on their properties as well as on 22 public land areas across South Florida. It doesn’t say […]
The buzz word today in the right-wing camp is ‘achdus’ as efforts to unite parties with Bayit Yehudi ahead of elections continue. Bayit Yehudi chairman, Rabbi Rafi Peretz, continues calling
The Chief Rabbis of Israel, HaRav Dovid Lau and Rishon L’Tzion HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef Shlita met with the Chief Rabbi of the Ethiopian community in Israel, Rabbi Reuven Wabeshet (?????) together with community leaders and agreement was reached to calm the situation after the violent demonstrations as well as ending the violent protests. The […]
Four people from the Gadera municipal council, including senior officials, stand accused of extortion by threatening a chareidi official from the council, that if he does not resign, a video will be distributed showing him in a very embarrassing situation in his shul. The council member: “For me, this is not blackmail – I did […]
A series of Facebook video ads for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign shows what appears to be a young woman strolling on a beach in Florida, a Hispanic man on a city street in Texas and a bearded hipster in a coffee shop in Washington, D.C., all making glowing, voice-over endorsements of the president. “I […]
Investigators are moving forward with the investigation into the shooting death of the 18-year-old unarmed Ethiopian man by an off-duty policeman earlier in the week. The Police Investigation Unit of
The Ministry of Health announced it is easing the process for those requiring a license for medical cannabis. For a first time, there will be regulation on pricing and splitting
A Hawaii man who painted his face black with a marker for his sentencing hearing has been ordered to serve life in prison. A judge sentenced Mark Char Monday to
Many can fondly remember the candy cigarettes that used to be available, some chewing gum and they even had a powdery substance at the tip mimicking smoke from a real
At least 15 people have been killed and thousands more remain homeless after torrential rains caused severe flooding in the Irkutsk district of Siberia, Russia, near the border with Mongolia.
Sova Smachot (???? ?????) bakery informs consumers that there is a suspicion of the presence of Listeria monocytogenes bacteria in a cream cake. The bakery informs consumers that a sampling
The Old West desert town of Needles, California, is where the beleaguered Joad family crossed the Colorado River into California in John Steinbeck’s classic novel “The Grapes of Wrath” and was a boyhood home to “Peanuts” creator Charles Schulz. These days, Needles is gaining notoriety for another reason. Leaders have declared it a “sanctuary city” […]
The case of whether hackers may have tampered with elections in Georgia has taken another strange turn. Nearly two years ago, state lawyers in a closely watched election integrity lawsuit
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