This past Monday afternoon, history was made when a delegation of 24 Bukharian Rabbonim entered the Be’er Hagolah Yeshiva building. In fact, they had been invited by the Chief Rabbi of the Bukharian community of the USA and Canada, Rabbi Yitzhak Yisraeli. The invitation letter sent to each Rav, read in part, “As a Rav […]
The parent company of British Airways is buying up to 42 Boeing 777 long-haul passenger jets in a multi-billion dollar deal. Thursday’s announcement by the International Airlines Group consortium comes
The NYPD on Wednesday arrested a young boy in connection to a disturbing array of anti-Semitic graffiti found drawn in chalk on a Queens playground last week. Dozens of swastikas
President Donald Trump says he doesn’t think North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was involved in the mistreatment of American college student Otto Warmbier, who died after being detained in the North. Trump says of Kim: “He tells me that he didn’t know about it, and I will take him at his word.” Trump has […]
The number of pedestrians killed on U.S. roads last year was the highest in 28 years, according to a report from a safety organization. Using data reported by states, the Governors Highway Safety Association estimates that 6,227 pedestrians were killed last year. That’s up 4 percent from 2017 and 35 percent since 2008. The association […]
A woman who authorities believe was living in her car was rescued after a snowplow inadvertently bumped into her vehicle, which was buried in snow. South Lake Tahoe, California, city
Six Baltimore City firefighters were injured while battling an early-morning fire on Wednesday. Black, thick smoke filled the air in the 400 block of North Glover Street in East Baltimore.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested a woman who allegedly assaulted a man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat earlier this month. Rosiane Santos was detained by federal agents
A lawyer for a man charged with “terror murder” over the killing four people at a Jewish museum in Belgium set about dismantling the case against his client Thursday, accusing investigators of meddling with evidence, prosecutors of intimidating witnesses and some of the witnesses of lying. Gesticulating and bickering with prosecutors in a display that […]
Yisgadel V’yiskadeish… Yisgadel v’yiskadeish shmay rabba… with those profound words, do we send up the neshomos to higher heights, so they get to their destined place in Gan Eden. However, some neshomos cannot reach this because of their place of burial. After Communism fell, a terrible scene transpired all over Europe. Hundreds of Botei Chaim […]
Amazon, which has wrestled with counterfeit products on its site for years, has developed a fleet of tools that allow sellers to remove items from Amazon.com themselves and to prevent fake goods from making it to the site at all. To speed the removal process, Amazon said that it’s now allowing some companies to remove […]
In another tragic event in Israel, a 3-year-old boy was struck by a vehicle and R”L killed in Moshav Bnei Tzion in central Israel. Making this tragedy even more horrific, the vehicle was driven by his own mother. Police report that the accident occurred at the corner of HaSdot HaAkaliptus in Bnei Tzion, near the entrance to […]
A fight between two train conductors unleashed a speeding, unmanned locomotive that slammed into a barrier and exploded in the Egyptian capital’s main train station Wednesday, killing at least 25 people, authorities said. Railway officials said the single railcar collided head-on with the buffer stop, causing a huge explosion and fire. At least 47 people […]
The nuclear summit between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un collapsed Thursday after the two sides failed to reach a deal due to a standoff over U.S. sanctions on the reclusive nation, a dispiriting end to high-stakes meetings meant to disarm a global threat. Trump, in a news conference after the summit […]
Every year in March, Nefesh B’Nefesh, the organization dedicated to making Aliyah easier and helping olim integrate into Israeli society, in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, The Jewish Agency, KKL and JNF-USA, holds a Mega Event in the tri-State area. This year’s event will be held on Sunday, March 10th, at the […]
Leading up to the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump directed his personal attorney at the time to threaten legal action against the colleges and high school he attended if they
The state has responded to the High Court of Justice regarding the practice of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, which prohibits bringing chametz into hospitals during Pesach. A meeting was held with a number of participants, including Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and Rishon L’Tzion HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef. At that meeting, an agreement was reached. […]
The incitement against the Otzma Yehudit party continues, as on Wednesday, 27 February 2019, during a panel discussion in the Ben-Gurion High School in Petach Tikvah, Labor Party MK Michal
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following the publishing of a letter from a father of a girl rejected from every seminary she applied to, YWN has received well over one hundred letters about seminaries – both pro and con. They have not been edited in any way. Here is the third batch: LETTER #1 I read and reread all the letters […]
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