A single ticket sold in Wisconsin matched all six numbers in the Wednesday night Powerball drawing to win the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history. Due to strong ticket sales,
Israel confirmed Thursday it carried out an airstrike the night before in northern Syria while a war monitoring group said the attack killed an Iranian and six Iraqi fighters allied with President Bashar Assad’s government forces. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the strike on Wednesday night targeted an Iranian weapons depot […]
As reported on YWN, Rockland County has declared a measles state of emergency, the very first of its kind. There is no question that there is a serious problem in the Orthodox Jewish community, especially in Rockland. Measles outbreaks once thought under control continue to spread despite the very best efforts of responsible leaders and medical […]
The European Union is moving to require cars and trucks to have technology that would help keep drivers from speeding as well as data recorders that would document the circumstances of accidents. Those were among the safety features included in a provisional agreement announced Wednesday by the EU’s executive commission. The package would mandate so-called […]
Thousands of Beit Shemesh homes were without water early Thursday morning due to a burst water main. The main line broke during the morning hours, leaving many without water in
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of HaRav Elyakim Rosenblatt ZATZAL, the Rosh Yeshiva of Kesser Torah in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Rav Rosenblatt was a a Talmud
President Trump, in an exclusive wide-ranging interview Wednesday night with Fox News’ “Hannity,” vowed to release the full and unredacted Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants and related documents used
It was a most unusual sight in the Bnei Brak cemetery as forty Satmar Chassidim from the local community visited the kever of HaGaon Rav Eliyahu Katz Z”L, a member
Strangers have raised more than $3,000 for Verizon employee Maurice German who was suspended by the company after he used his bucket truck to rescue a cat that had been stuck on a telephone pole for more than 12 hours. Princess Momma’s owners — who had been trying to retrieve the cat since the early hours […]
MK Moshe Gafne, the chairman of the Degel Hatorah party as well as the Knesset Finance Committee, sends a video message to the head of the Blue and White party,
B’chasdei Hashem, Mrs. Susan Wolf, who was injured by the rocket fire on the family home in Moshav Mishmeret earlier this week said: “I will probably leave the hospital today,
The following is via CBC News: The Quebec government wants to further tighten the rules for home-schooling children, two years after the previous government introduced its own measures to deal with a controversy surrounding Hasidic schools. Education Minister Jean-François Roberge says the changes proposed Wednesday to the existing law would ensure students are taught a […]
In 2016, President Donald Trump compared Hillary Clinton’s campaign to the lumbering federal bureaucracy. Now he’s building one of his own. From an office tower across the Potomac River from Washington, from the bowels of the Republican National Committee’s headquarters on Capitol Hill and from field offices across the country, Trump is assembling an army […]
Pesach 2019 in Orlando, Florida will be on FIRE with A Perfect Pesach hosted by celebrity kosher foodie star Kosher Guru himself. With exclusive and brand new luxury villas from
More than 40 volunteers from United Hatzalah participated in a training drill on the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) that simulated a mass casualty incident on a burning tourist boat. The volunteers, who hailed from Tiberias (Tevaria) and the surrounding area in the Galilee and Golan, joined together with police from Israel’s northern command, the maritime […]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Wednesday released her tax return for 2018, showing she paid $29,170 in federal taxes on an income of about $214,000. The New York Democrat became the
Egyptian mediators rushed to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and Hamas’ supreme leader emerged from his hideout as an unofficial cease-fire between Israel and the Islamic terror group appeared to take hold. The Egyptian delegation sought to cement the truce that ended two days of heavy fighting between the bitter enemies. They face a key […]
Using his Facebook page, Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi sent a message to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, beginning his Arabic post, “I wanted to send you this message by fax or
The United States came under sharp criticism from the 14 other Security Council nations Wednesday for its decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights in violation of council resolutions. Speaker after speaker at the open meeting supported Syria’s sovereignty over the strategic plateau and opposed Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights and President […]
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