A French court ordered Switzerland’s largest bank, UBS, to pay 4.5 billion euros ($5.1 billion) in fines and damages for helping wealthy French clients evade tax authorities, wrapping up one of France’s biggest-ever tax evasion trials. The Paris court convicted Zurich-based UBS AG on Wednesday of aggravated money laundering and illegal bank soliciting, issuing what […]
Journalist Yifat Erlich, one of the new promising personalities who joined the Bayit Yehudi list, receiving the third slot which was reserved for a woman, has dropped off the list
YWN-Israel reported that as part of his efforts to persuade Bayit Yehudi to sign the deal with Otzma Yehudit, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu promised to place someone from Bayit Yehudi
Samsung unveiled a highly anticipated smartphone with a foldable screen in an attempt to break the innovation funk that has beset the smartphone market. But it’s far from clear that
On Wednesday, Israeli police held a wide-spread sting operation in the city of Bnei Brak handing out tickets for traffic violations during a period of heightened enforcement. Most of the
A New York City police detective killed by friendly fire while responding to a chaotic robbery scene was hailed at his funeral on Wednesday as a consummate law enforcer with people skills befitting his lifelong nickname: “Smiles.” Brian Simonsen , whose posthumous promotion to detective first grade prompted a lengthy standing ovation in a crowded […]
Police are investigating the death of a man who was killed in an accident at a crowded subway station in midtown Manhattan. It happened just before 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at
The Labor party in Israel began to run a public transportation bus last Shabbos in Tiveria. This was done as part of the party’s election campaigning in order to encourage
Hunkered down behind a wall of snow, two U.S. Marines melt slush to make drinking water after spending the night digging out a defensive position high in the Sierra Nevada.
I’m hoping this letter will serve as an eye opener to all of our frum brothers and sisters out there looking to relocate to any of Lakewood’s neighboring towns. I’m only publicizing this this disturbing chillul Hashem I just witnessed, in hopes to avoid any kind of recurrence chas v’shalom. I live at the crossroads […]
YWN recently reported that police intervened and broke up a chasunah in the “shawl cult”, involving a 13-year-old kallah and a 16-year-old chosson. The “shawl cult” refers to an extremist sub-group which requires women to wear full-body ‘burqa’-style coverings. The group has been condemned by the vast majority of mainstream Gedolei Torah and rabbonim. In […]
CVS Health is setting 2019 earnings expectations well below Wall Street forecasts, as the company struggles to fix part of its business while blending in a major acquisition and attempting
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday reached a preliminary election deal with two fringe religious-nationalist parties in a bid to unify his voting bloc ahead of April elections. Netanyahu’s Likud party announced it would reserve the 28th spot on its Knesset list for the Bayit HaYehudi party and grant it two Cabinet ministries in […]
With their second summit fast approaching, speculation is growing that U.S. President Donald Trump may try to persuade North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to commit to denuclearization by giving
Paris officials say that an individual has been arrested for a torrent of hate speech directed at Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut during a Saturday march by yellow vest protesters. The
A historical event at the Chief Rabbinate of Israel – 789 rabbonim and dayanim were ordained in a moving ceremony. Thousands of rabbonim and their families gathered in the afternoon
Agudath Israel of America is pleased to congratulate Rabbi Abba Cohen, Washington director and counsel and long-standing vice president for federal affairs, on being named to the broader position of vice president for government affairs. Appointed to the Agudah’s fledgling office in Washington D.C. thirty years ago by Rabbi Moshe Sherer z’l, Rabbi Cohen has […]
A school bus with children on board slid out-of-control, and slammed into a tree in Monsey on Wednesday afternoon. Rockland Hatzolah, along with other emergency personnel, were at the scene
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said he will not accept regular monthly tax transfers from Israel if it carries out its decision to deduct amounts the Palestinians pay to
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