First they cooperated. Then they stonewalled. Their television interviews were scattershot and ridiculed, their client mercurial and unreliable. But President Donald Trump’s legal team, through a combination of bluster, legal precedent and shifting tactics, managed to protect their client from a potentially perilous in-person interview during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation . His lawyers […]
There was shock among mispallalim of the Tiferes Yisrael Shul in Tzefas, as a Sefer Torah valued at $70,000 was discovered missing on the first day of Yom Tov. Mispallalim opened the Aron Kodesh in the Shul located on Derech Chassidim Street in Tzefas’ Old City, and found the abandoned Eitz Chaim in the aron while […]
Nine bombings of churches, luxury hotels and other sites on Easter Sunday killed more than 200 people and wounded hundreds more in Sri Lanka’s deadliest violence since a devastating civil war in the South Asian island nation ended a decade ago. Defense Minister Ruwan Wijewardena described the blasts as a terrorist attack by religious extremists, […]
Two months before special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed in the spring of 2017, President Donald Trump picked up the phone and called the head of the largest U.S. intelligence agency. Trump told Mike Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, that news stories alleging that Trump’s 2016 White House campaign had ties to Russia […]
A Jewish man was arrested on Sunday morning, the first day of Chol Hamoed Pesach after he prostrated himself on Har Habayis, which is prohibited for Jews to do. YWN
This Chol Hamoed—The Trip Of A Lifetime Thousands to Experience the Incredible Beis Hamikdash Virtual Reality Tour It has been described as a transformative experience for both young and old.
The Kaliver Rebbe Shlita has been showing signs of increased weakness over the past two weeks, preventing the rebbe from attending Yomtov tefilos in his beis medrash. There is much
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena Friday for special counsel Robert Mueller’s report as Congress escalates its investigation of President Donald Trump. “It now falls to Congress to determine the full scope of that alleged misconduct and to decide what steps we must take going forward,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday became the first 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to make a full-throated call for the House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump after the release of the report from special counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller, who investigated whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia during the 2016 election and […]
Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner are in Wyoming for Pesach. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports the couple arrived at Cheyenne Regional Airport in President Donald Trump’s personal Boeing 757 Thursday before heading to Saratoga, a resort town about 150 miles away (population: 1,686). The 153-foot jet emblazoned with the Trump name attracted dozens […]
It was a horrific scene in Moscow on Erev Pesach, as talmidim at Yeshiva Toras Chaim - the largest Yeshiva in Russia – awoke to find devastation from an apparent arson fire. The Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Moshe Lebel, told the media there were 60 students, rabbis and guests in the building at the time of the […]
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tried to do damage control on her credibility Friday, insisting that she hadn’t intentionally misled the American public about FBI Director James Comey’s firing despite telling the special counsel that her claim that “countless” agents had lost confidence in him was not founded on anything. Sanders, who told special […]
The Israeli military has demolished the family home of a Palestinian terrorist charged with the horrific murder of a 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher. Israeli forces bulldozed two apartments belonging to the
President Donald Trump lashed out Friday at current and former aides who cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, insisting the deeply unflattering picture they painted of him and the White House was “total [EXPLETIVE REMOVED].” In a series of angry tweets from rainy Palm Beach, Florida, Trump laced into those who, under oath, had […]
A 10-year-old boy in Israel is in critical condition after he contracted the measles The young boy was hospitalized at Schneider Medical Center in Petah Tikva is attached to a
[By Chaskel Bennett – From the YWN Archives 2016] ?Let’s be honest, the past few weeks and months have been extremely painful for anyone who cares about the reputation of our community. Sadly,the onslaught of media stories alleging impropriety of various natures, leaves Jews and all people of goodwill shaking their heads in dismay and […]
A chemistry professor whose exam question asked students to calculate the lethal dose of a poisonous gas used in Nazi gas chambers during the Holocaust has taken a leave of absence, Middlebury College said. The Vermont liberal arts college said that it’s investigating under the terms of its faculty misconduct policy. “This inexplicable failure of […]
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times) Everyone grew up with it and it signifies the end of the Pesach Seder. Father bought the kid (a sheep
Israel’s Defense Ministry says the country’s military exports were $7.5 billion last year, down 18% from the previous year. The ministry said on Wednesday that despite the drop, the 2018 figures were a “major success” and the second-highest level in the past decade. It said the $9.2 billion of defense exports in 2017 were “out […]
(By Chaim Dayan and Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer) Seder Night is the climax of the Pesach festival. It also presents a considerable challenge concerning our children. Many parents ask themselves what
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