Federal agents descended on the suburban Maryland house with the flash and bang of a stun grenade, blocked off the street and spent hours questioning the homeowner about a theft of government documents that prosecutors would later describe as “breathtaking” in its scale. The suspect, Harold Martin, was a contractor for the National Security Agency. […]
North Korea said Saturday that an Australian student who it detained for a week had spread anti-Pyongyang propaganda and engaged in spying by providing photos and other materials to news outlets with critical views toward the North. Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, said North Korea deported Alek Sigley on Thursday after he […]
The Justice Department says it will press its search for legal grounds to force the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census, hours after President Donald Trump said he is “very seriously” considering an executive order to get the question on the form. Trump said Friday his administration is exploring a number of […]
A group of immigrant workers fired from President Donald Trump’s golf clubs say they want to meet with him at the White House to make the case that they should not be deported. The 21 maids, groundskeepers and other workers fired earlier this year from five of Trump’s clubs asked their former employer in a […]
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is proposing $100 billion in federal grants to pay for down payment and closing costs to help close what she says is a racial wealth
Five IDF soildiers were injured in a suspected car-ramming attack on Motzei Shabbos near the West Bank town of Hizma, northeast of Jerusalem. MDA and United Hatzalah treated the victims
Officials in Southern California expressed relief Saturday that damage and injuries weren’t worse after the largest earthquake the region has seen in nearly 20 years, while voicing concerns about the possibility of major aftershocks in the days and even months to come. No fatalities or major injuries were reported after Friday night’s 7.1-magnitude earthquake, which […]
German authorities said Tuesday that they have imposed a 2 million-euro ($2.3 million) fine on Facebook under a law designed to combat hate speech. The Federal Office for Justice said the social networking company had failed to meet transparency requirements for its handling of hate speech complaints. The agency said Facebook’s report for the first […]
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) About a week ago, a junior at the prestigious Bronx High School of Science was taking the US History Regents exam. On his lap, during the test, was a cellphone. A proctor spotted him texting and looking at his iPhone (for some reason iPhones are more popular with teens […]
It was a sad end to a deeply misguided soul. On the outside, Simone Burns appeared to be an international human rights lawyer who was concerned about the plight of the Palestinian people. But on a flight from Mumbai to London last year, she physically and verbally abused an Air India cabin crew – leaving […]
Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden says it would be “great” to have a female vice president, but he won’t say whether he’d pick Sen. Kamala Harris for the No. 2 spot if he receives his party’s nomination. In an interview aired Friday on CNN, Biden said, “I think it helps having a woman on the […]
An elderly Holocaust survivor delivered a short but moving few words while standing in front of the vintage German train car – currently on display in NYC – used to transport men, women and children to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps. Reb Leibish (Lipot) Rubinstein was outside Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage, where the car […]
President Donald Trump celebrated the story of America as “the greatest political journey in human history” in a Fourth of July commemoration before a soggy but cheering crowd of spectators, many of them invited, on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial. Supporters welcomed his tribute to the U.S. military while protesters assailed him for putting […]
Yisrael Beitenu party chairman, MK Avigdor Lieberman has chosen a new chareidi target, this time, the Gerrer Rebbe Shlita. Lieberman has reiterated that following the next election, he will not
They are a very prominent enemy in the Jewish bible. As a youth, King David defeated one of their mightiest of warriors – Goliath. Samson killed a thousand of their warriors with the jawbone of a donkey. Verses in the bible tell us that they were from Caftor. They appear in the ancient writings of […]
U.S. employers sharply stepped up their hiring in June, adding a robust 224,000 jobs, an indication of the economy’s durability after more than a decade of expansion. The strength of the jobs report the Labor Department issued Friday could complicate a decision for the Federal Reserve late this month on whether to cut interest rates […]
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, […]
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