A Trump administration national security official has sought help from advisers to a think tank that disavows climate change to challenge widely accepted scientific findings on global warming, according to
On Tuesday evening, a large fire broke out in a four-story building on Musayof Street in the Bucharim neighborhood of Jerusalem, as reported by YWN-Israel. Five fire and rescue crews
This is how children R”L get killed. This incident occurred in Boro Park this week, as a school bus had stopped to drop off children returning home from Yeshiva. As the bus comes to a stop, a totally reckless driver blows past the school bus. Recently, a new law was being passed in NY where divers caught […]
President Donald Trump says Vice President Mike Pence doesn’t automatically have his backing should he mount his own run for the White House in 2024. Asked on Friday in an interview with Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” whether he would lend his endorsement to Pence in advance, Trump said, “You can’t put me in […]
Police are looking for a man that inappropriately touched a woman while walking on a Boro Park street earlier this week. The NYPD says that on Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Mistakes happen. Most mistakes, though, don’t cost $25 million. This one (almost) did. A misread of the Smart School Bond Act (SSBA) caused millions of dollars in lost technology equipment to New York yeshiva students. Fortunately, Agudath Israel of America and its partners, in the culmination of nearly four years of advocacy, were able to […]
The U.S. military released a video Friday it said showed Iran’s Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the oil tankers targeted near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, suggesting Tehran wanted to hide evidence of its alleged involvement. Iran denied any role in Thursday’s apparent attacks, which have again roiled the Persian […]
The greater Monsey community hosted an event last week at the Atrium, endorsed by numerous leading chessed organizations, offering a wealth of education and literature on the importance of vaccinations
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) There is Chillul Hashem. And then there is something that we can call, “Avi Avos Chillul Hashem.” What happened Thursday in the state legislature
Agudath Israel of America has previously described that, with a measles vaccination rate in NY Orthodox Jewish schools of 96%, vaccination is our “clear societal norm” and that “it is imperative to build on the Orthodox Jewish community’s already high vaccination rate.” It has also decried an anti-vaccination rally held amidst the outbreak, and the […]
Calling Iran “a nation of terror,” President Donald Trump on Friday publicly accused the Persian Gulf nation of responsibility for recent attacks on oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Trump said Iran’s culpability was “exposed” by the United States. While calling into Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” he said of the Thursday […]
HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky arrived Thursday for a special visit to Yerushalayim and to the Kosel, as he does each year in the days immediately after Shavuos. Prior to arriving at the Kosel, he visited the three story Sukkas Dovid Yeshiva Ketana which was founded by Rav Menachem Batzri zt”l. Rav Chaim gave a bracha […]
Over 100,000 yidden around the globe look forward to experiencing The Siyum of Daf Yomi, which will be hosted by The Agudah for the thirteenth time in world history. While
It is called “Bill 21,” and if this proposed law passes – which it likely will, it will ban all public servants from wearing religious garments and icons while performing their public duties. Those affected would be Jewish wearers of Yarmulkahs, Muslim wearers of hijabs, and Sikh wearers of turbans. The ban may also affect […]
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President Donald Trump says he won’t fire White House counselor Kellyanne Conway after a federal watchdog agency recommended her removal for repeatedly violating a law that limits political activity by government workers. Trump tells Fox & Friends that he was briefed on the Office of Special Counsel investigation Thursday and says “it looks to me […]
Americans stepped up their retail spending last month, a sign that recent worries about cautious consumers dragging on growth may have been overdone. The Commerce Department said Friday that retail sales rose 0.5% in May, after a smaller gain of 0.3% in the previous month. April’s figure was revised up from an earlier estimate that […]
Some of the younger candidates in the crowded Democratic presidential primary are suggesting that the early front-runner, 76-year-old Joe Biden , is too mired in the past. Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke , 46, and Pete Buttigieg , the 37-year old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, have stepped up questions this week about whether Biden […]
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