In a rare step, Minister of Religious Affairs (Shas) David Azoulai approved the election of ten women to the body that elects the Chief Rabbinate on his behalf. The elections
State wildlife officers have seized three king cobras among the more than 300 reptiles kept in a New York home. The Department of Environmental Conservation says officers obtained a warrant
Former presidential adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman said Sunday she secretly recorded conversations she had in the White House, including her firing by chief of staff John Kelly in the high-security
Consumer prices climbed 2.9 percent in July from a year earlier, a rate of inflation that suggests Americans are earning less than a year ago despite an otherwise solid economy.
The following is via Antisemitism UK: An investigation by the Daily Mail has found evidence suggesting that Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK’s Labour Party, laid a wreath and participated
The incitement against the chareidim in Ashdod crosses all the red lines: The headquarters of one of the candidates for mayor of Ashdod, who wants to conquer the Russian voice
Yosef Kanofsky, Director of Government Programs for Teach NYS, a division of the Orthodox Union’s Teach Advocacy Network, was recently named to the State Education Department’s CAP and Mandated Services
A suspicious package that fell from the sky over New Jersey caused some alarm because it contained a note that mentioned President Donald Trump. South Brunswick police say the package,
The theft of an empty plane by an airline worker who performed dangerous loops before crashing into a remote island in Puget Sound illustrated what aviation experts have long known:
Sunday, Rosh Chodesh Elul, marked the beginning of the new zman for avreichim around Eretz Yisrael. This includes the many whose days are spent in a beis medrash in Mir
Is it possible to leverage 17,000 votes into a national political movement? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is trying. The 28-year-old liberal activist, who was nearly unknown outside of Queens and the Bronx
The incitement against the chareidim in Eretz Yisrael continues. Yediot Achronot columnist Ra’anan Shaked raised a storm on Twitter when he attacked the chareidi families who were traveling with their
A quick-thinking Transportation Security Officer jumped into action when a bag started to spontaneously combust on the x-ray belt in Savannah, South Carolina. On surveillance video, TSA Lead Officer Darrell
(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) On his first trip abroad since assuming office, Yitzchak Herzog, The Jewish Agency for Israel’s new Chairman of the Executive, visited Jewish Federations in New York,
An Indian lawmaker has appeared in Parliament dressed like Adolf Hitler with a toothbrush moustache and wearing a khaki coat with swastika symbols on his pocket and arm. His demand:
For all the talk of a blue wave sweeping Democrats back into the House majority this fall, their efforts could be thwarted in one of the nation’s bluest states. Voters
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petirah of Rav Chaim Meir Gantz Z”l of Brooklyn. Rav Chaim Meir was well known for his many acts of Chesed, many of
Members of the Otzma Yehudit party took part in a flag parade in the Israeli Arab municipality of Um el-Fahm. Israel Police permitted the march, albeit with many restrictions, including
If teens are so attached to their phones and all things connected, why do so many of them wind up in no-device summer camps with smiles on their faces? Thirteen-year-old
Popular Posts