A German sausage museum apparently won’t move to the site of a former Nazi camp for slave laborers after news of the plan triggered strong criticism. The German Bratwurst Museum was slated to move to an area on the outskirts of the eastern town of Muehlhausen that was once a satellite site for the larger […]
The Ateres Shlomo institutions are in final preparation for the mass fundraising events to be held this week – Tuesday and Wednesday, Rosh Chodesh Adar I. As part of the fundraising campaign, Ateres Shlomo is expected to reach the target they have set for themselves – to manage to get to the $5 million mark, […]
Israel’s attorney general has rejected Benjamin Netanyahu’s plea to postpone his decision on whether to indict the prime minister on corruption charges until after elections in April. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit sent a letter to Netanyahu’s attorneys on Friday saying that there was “no impediment” to publishing his decision before elections. The development is a […]
Two years into Donald Trump’s presidency, his allies in Congress are quietly trying to influence and even reshape his “America First” foreign policy agenda. The Republican-led Senate is reasserting itself as a check on Trump’s instincts, while individual GOP lawmakers are seeking sway — defense hawks vying with noninterventionists — over policy in the Middle […]
The pashkavil on Sunday, February 3, 2019, questions “How long” regarding the drafting and imprisonment of women who are refusing to be drafted into the IDF. The protest on Sunday
Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, fares for some New York City taxis and ride shares became more expensive. New York rolled out its first phase of congestion pricing, a controversial
These facts are terrifying and unimaginable but are sadly happening now to a Jewish family in Israel. An entire “family” hit by Cancer They were once one happy family of
President Donald Trump heads into his State of the Union address dogged by bruising midterm losses and sinking poll numbers, wounded by a blistering standoff with Democrats. But for the stately speech, he plans to embrace unity — at least for the night. “Choosing Greatness” is the official White House theme. Addressing the nation at […]
A number of suspicions persons who were coming close to the Gaza border fence in southern Israel were taken into custody by IDF forces patrolling the area on Sunday morning,
In response to the event involving four members of Knesset from the Arab List visiting Turkey, Minister of Culture & Sports (Likud) Miri Regev commented “Their place is in Gaza,
According to a report, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is negotiating a deal to unite with the Bayit Yehudi party in the upcoming elections, to run on a joint Likud/Bayit Yehudi
State police and other law enforcement agencies are conducting a STOP-DWI campaign across New York this weekend to crack down on Super Bowl revelers. The campaign targeting impaired driving will
The federal Bureau of Prisons said Saturday that work to restore power to a detention center in New York City where inmates have gone without heat and electricity for a
It may be hard to believe as a large swath of the U.S. thaws out from a bitter polar vortex, but spring is coming early, according to handlers for some of the country’s most famous prognosticating groundhogs. Just before 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Punxsutawney (puhnk-suh-TAW’-nee) Phil emerged from his burrow in Pennsylvania at sunrise and didn’t […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the sudden Petira of Rav Yitzchok (Edwin) Katzenstein Z”L, he was 82. His passing leaves the Washington Heights community in shock, as he was
Resisting widespread calls for his resignation, Virginia’s embattled governor on Saturday pledged to remain in office after disavowing a blatantly racist photograph that appeared under his name in his 1984 medical school yearbook. In a tumultuous 24 hours, Gov. Ralph Northam on Friday apologized for appearing in a photograph that featured what appeared to be […]
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of the Zutchka Rebbe, HaRav Nosson Dovid Rosenbaum ZATZAL. He was 74. The Rebbe suffered from an illness, and was hospitalized numerous
Jerusalem’s Chief Rabbis, HaGaon HaRav Aryeh Stern Shlita and HaGaon HaRav Moshe Shlomo Amar Shlita are calling on the tzibur to accept a day of fasting on erev Rosh Chodesh
Some 12,000 protesters took to the Gaza border fence on Friday during Hamas’ weekly protests. The violent protest included the throwing of improvised eplosive devices, hand grenades, and large stones
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