Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was �lawful and appropriate,� a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday. Barr appointed John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, to conduct the inquiry, […]
Fresh out of his job as deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein said Monday that the Justice Department�s investigation into Russian election interference was �justified,� that he would have never allowed anyone to interfere with it and that closing it had not been an option. He also took aim at former FBI Director James Comey, characterizing […]
Just weeks after the horrific anti-Semitic shooting attack at Chabad of Poway that took the life of a congregant and injured three others, the synagogue�s rabbi, himself injured in the shooting, visited the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where more than a million Jews and others were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. He […]
The Annual Congressional Tribute event marking May as Jewish American Heritage Month will take place on Wednesday, May 15, in the US Senate, and �feature an impressive roster of US Senators and House members, government officials, diplomats and national Jewish leaders. The Jewish American Heritage Month celebration honors prominent Jews whose contributions to American society […]
Coalition talks between Likud and Yahadut Hatorah (YH) scheduled for 6:00PM Tuesday evening have been postponed. However, the reason for the postponement is not due to disagreement, as Prime Minister
North Korea on Tuesday called the U.S. seizure of a North Korean cargo ship involved in banned coal exports a �robbery� and demanded that the vessel be returned immediately. The North�s official Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, carried a statement by an unnamed foreign ministry spokesman who accused the United States of betraying the […]
A senior Palestinian official says the U.S. has denied her application for a visa to travel to the United States. Hanan Ashrawi, a top official in the Palestine Liberation Organization,
Sharon Barak is an Israeli chemical engineer and cofounder of the Israeli start-up Solutum, which seems to have developed a unique compound that replaces plastic with a cost efficient, strong
Police entered Meah Shearim at 3:30AM Monday morning in the hope of making arrests. Police say they were looking for the suspects who attacked firemen last Thursday, Independence Day, because
Three people were killed after two sightseeing airplanes carrying cruise ship tourists collided in midair Monday near a southeast Alaska town, the Coast Guard said. Three others are missing after
Consumers can pursue a lawsuit complaining that iPhone apps cost too much, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday, adding to Apple�s woes that already include falling iPhone sales and a European investigation. The lawsuit could have major implications for the tech giant�s handling of the more than 2 million apps in Apple�s App Store, where […]
The NYC Health Department announced Monday that it has closed Yeshiva of Central Queens for failing to comply with an Order of the Health Commissioner in response to the current�measles�outbreak. The Health Department said on May 9 it had ordered the Yeshiva (located at 147-37 70th�Road in Flushing) to prevent unvaccinated students from attending class […]
Joe Biden said Monday that he would be open to breaking up Facebook, a sign of the deep skepticism among many Democratic presidential contenders about the power of massive technology
?I never wrote like this before but as a mother of daughters, I feel compelled to speak out. I got a call last week from a total stranger calling me
This is a good news for Meron’s visitors this year: The Ministry of Transportation will operate a wide-ranging transportation system for Meron to permit getting to the tziyun of the
More than 2,000 people participated in an�Hachnasas Sefer Torah on Sunday evening in the Neve Sha’anan neighborhood of Tel Aviv. The Torah was dedicated to the�Oz V’Emunah�Hesder Yeshiva and shul in the neighborhood in memory of the late Rabbi Achiad Ettinger HY”D from the town of Eli. Rabbi Ettinger was brutally murdered at the Ariel […]
The victim of a recent anti-Semitic hate crime in Williamsburg, Brooklyn spoke exclusively with CBS2’s Lisa Rozner about his harrowing ordeal. As reported on YWN, the incident occurred last Shabbos at around 1:15AM on Broadway near Lynch Street. The victim � wearing his Shtreimel and Bekeshe � was confronted by a group of thugs. Without […]
Amazon, which is racing to deliver packages faster, is turning to its own employees with a proposition: Quit your job and we�ll help you start a business delivering Amazon packages. The offer, announced Monday, comes as Amazon seeks to speed up its shipping time from two days to one for its Prime members. The company […]
The following is via Antisemitism.UK: Central London was brought to a chaotic standstill on Shabbos as thousands marched and rallied against Israel at the �National Demonstration for Palestine: Exist! Resist! Return!� The march saw open anti-Semitism from attendees, many of whom cheered as one speaker told adoring crowds that Jewish organizations are �in the gutter� […]
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the President’s Residence on Monday morning. At the end of the meeting, the president acceded to the prime minister�s request and granted him a further two weeks to form a government. Rivlin tasked Netanyahu with building a coalition within 28 days of the April […]
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