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 […]
HaGaon Rav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita, visited the Aish World Center, Dan Family Building across from the Western Wall. The entrances of the Aish World Center were packed with people trying to get a glimpse of Rav Chaim. Rav Chaim entered the building through Aish’s Kotel Plaza ‘Hochstein Entrance’ and took the elevator up to the […]
Justice Esther Hayut, the President of Israel’s Supreme Court, in her address on Thursday to a conference of former presidents and vice presidents of the court, spoke out harshly against
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Yochi Rubi Z”L. He was a few weeks shy of his 25th birthday. Yochi lived in Boro Park and moved to Lakewood a few years ago. He suffered from multiple illnesses, for nearly his entire life. In the past few years, his lungs did not work […]
To better understand who and what the broader Jewish community has been up against in the vaccination civil war against measles, one only had to look at those gathered in the NYS Assembly gallery on Thursday. As the final vote was announced, jeers and disruptive screams could be heard from identifiable looking orthodox Jews howling and […]
The Swedish Supreme Court rejected an appeal filed by Chabad Shluchim Rav Alexander and Leah Namdar, in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. As a result, they must pay a fine of $67,000 for the ‘crime’ of their children studying Torah. The story begins with Sweden’s passing of a law a few years ago prohibiting one from […]
Twitter says it has deleted nearly 4,800 suspect accounts linked to Iran that the company says secretly pushed that government’s agenda. Twitter is adding those accounts and their tweets to
There is something unique and overwhelming about the Sephardic Bet Hakenesset. It’s not just the stately décor and handsome furniture.It’s the respect for tefillah that reverberates from the walls, the
Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman told Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) correspondent Meir Marziano on Thursday that if the Health Ministry’s budget is cut, he will not enter the coalition government.
Hundreds of Monsey Yeshiva students lined the streets to pay last respects to the late Monsey Fire Dept Chief Richard Lagarde on Tuesday. Lagarde served the Monsey community for 47
Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has hired a new lawyer, a former federal prosecutor who has repeatedly denigrated the Russia investigation. President Donald Trump took notice of Flynn’s new legal representation, praising Sidney Powell on Twitter as a “GREAT LAWYER” and wishing them luck. Powell responded, “Thank you Mr. President!!” and “I’m honored.” […]
Once again, Israelis are facing a price hike as the cost of dairy products increased on Thursday, June 13, 2019. The approval for the price hike was signed by Finance
Lawmakers and experts said Thursday that videos altered with artificial intelligence software pose a threat to national security and the 2020 U.S. election. The technology uses facial mapping and artificial intelligence to produce videos — known as “deep fakes” — that appear genuine, and they “enable malicious actors to foment chaos, division or crisis,” said […]
New York eliminated the religious exemption to vaccine requirements for schoolchildren Thursday, as the nation’s worst measles outbreak in decades prompts states to reconsider giving parents ways to opt out of immunization rules. The Democrat-led Senate and Assembly voted Thursday to repeal the exemption, which allows parents to cite religious beliefs to forego getting their […]
A man in his 50s became the latest fatal drowning in Israel as the swimming season has barely begun. The man drowned in his home and was transported by Magen
The Democratic National Committee is set to announce that as many as 20 presidential candidates have qualified for the first debates later this month. Perhaps the biggest news coming out Thursday is about those Democrats who aren’t in line to make those debates, set for June 26-27 in Miami. That list could include a senator […]
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In an unprecedented move, Hagaon HaRav Shmuel Kaminetzky has joined together with the senior Lakewood Posek and Pediatrician to warn about the dangers of sexual abuse over the summer. As was done last summer for the first time, HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Forscheimer, senior Posek at Lakewood’s Beis Medrash Govoah, Dr. Reuven Shanik, the leading Pediatrician in […]
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