Judge Approves Massive Madoff Settlement
A Manhattan bankruptcy judge has approved a $7.2 billion deal to settle a lawsuit brought against the estate of the biggest beneficiary of Bernard...
United Hatzalah Update from Uman
United Hatzalah officials manning the medical clinic in Uman near the tziyun of Rav Nachman report that a 60-year-old male was injured moderately over...
London Terrorst Identified As Khalid Masood
The man behind the deadly rampage that left 3 people dead, including a police officer, outside of London’s Parliament building was identified as 52-year-old...
Rabbi Chaim Amsellem Comes To The Defense Of Bayit Yehudi
Rabbi Chaim Amsellem, who heads the Am Shalem party and is vying for a slot on the Bayit Yehudi party list in the next...
HaRav Ovadia Yosef’s Great-Granddaughter Sues Secret Service Agent
Tamar Ben-Chaim, the great-granddaughter of HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef, z’tl who was attacked by a drunk US secret service agent in July, filed a...
Mysterious Paralyzing Illness Found Among Kids In 22 States
U.S. health officials on Tuesday reported a jump in cases of a rare paralyzing illness in children, and said it seems to be following...
Rabbis To Rally At Swiss Mission to UN In NY Against Destruction Of Medieval...
Hundreds of Rabbis and concerned citizens will rally Monday at the Swiss mission to the United Nations, pleading to cancel plans to exhume a...
New York’s Mayoral Candidates Trade Barbs And Compliments
The candidates running to become New York City’s mayor lobbed accusations at each other about palling around with gangsters and acting like children or...
Beit Shemesh: Moshiach’s ‘Stop the Terror & Coercion’ Campaign
Natalie Moshiach, the 27-year-old woman who reported being “lynched” in Beit Shemesh by chareidim last month has launched a campaign to “stop the terror...
NASA, SpaceX Bringing Astronaut Launches Back To Home Turf
For the first time in nearly a decade, U.S. astronauts are about to blast into orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil. And...
Israeli Experts Fear An Infiltration Of A Large Swarm Of Locusts Into Israeli Territory
Israeli crop protection service teams identified isolated details of locusts in four communities in the central Aravah. The Ministry of Agriculture is concerned about...
HORROR IN LAKEWOOD: Man Faces Attempted Murder, Carjacking, Bias Charges After Violent Friday Crime-Spree
An Ocean County man faces attempted murder and other charges after detectives say he targeted Orthodox Jews when he carjacked a vehicle, struck two...
Fox News Poll: Clinton Leads Trump By 7 Points
Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has increased to seven points, as more than half of voters say he is not qualified to be...
Hoodlums Attack At Beit Shemesh’s Orot School
Unfortunately, the girls attending the Orot Girl’s School in Beit Shemesh are not having an easy time due to the determination of area hoodlums,...
VIDEO: How Much Is The IDF Really Doing Following Recent Fatal Terror Attack?
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced a closure on PA (Palestinian Authority) villages in the Hebron/S. Hebron Hills areas following last week’s two fatal terror...
Jerusalem Court Sentences Rabbonim to Prison in Fraudulent Semicha Case
The Jerusalem District Court sentenced defendants in the fraudulent semicha trial to prison in the sentencing hearing that was held on Monday, 5 Tishrei....
Two Senior Israel Electric Officials Being Sacked for Vacationing during the Blizzard
Two Israel Electric Company heads of workers committees for utility company engineers will be dismissed from their posts after it was learned they traveled...
Microsoft Says CEO Steve Ballmer Will Retire In 12 Months; Stock Rises
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who succeeded founder Bill Gates as CEO, will retire within the next 12 months.
The world’s biggest software company did not...
Man Gets 5 Years For Trying To Burn Jewish Living Facility
A man convicted of using a homemade bomb to try to burn a Jewish-sponsored assisted living home in Massachusetts has been sentenced to five...
Israel: What Really Occurred This Morning On The 49 Bus?
YWN-Israel on Wednesday morning reported that a chareidi man was arrested for verbally assaulting and spitting at a female soldier on a number 49...
Monday Tefilos in Response to Harsh Gezeiros Against Torah Community
Rabbanan Gedolei Yisrael Shlita have issued a call for special tefilos today, Monday, 20 Elul 5773 at 14:00 in light of the harsh gezeiros...
Record Snowfall Socks New York, Storm Leaves 1.7M Powerless
A rare October snowstorm took the Northeast by surprise today, setting a snowfall record in New York City and leaving half a million people...
BDE: Philanthropist Eugene Gluck Passes Away
In America, those that came back from Europe after having fought Hitler are known as "the Greatest Generation." In Jewish religious circles, there is...
Montreal: Jewish Woman Killed In ‘Hit-And-Run’ Accident’
A woman in her sixties was R"L killed after she was struck by a car, while she was walking on Queen Mary road Tuesday...
Levaya Of Reb Yosel Werner Z”L
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Reb Yosel Werner Z"L, the Gabbai of the last Kopyczynitzer Rebbe ZATZAL, and the Gabbai of...
Trump To Unveil $1.5 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
President Donald Trump on Monday will unveil his long-awaited infrastructure plan, a $1.5 trillion proposal that fulfills a number of campaign goals, but relies...
US Treasury Bills Rates Rise To Highest In Nearly A Decade
Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction, reaching their highest levels in nearly a decade for the third week in a...
Surgeon General Calls Youth Vaping A Public Health Threat
The U.S. surgeon general is calling e-cigarettes an emerging public health threat to the nation's youth.
In a report being released Thursday, Surgeon General Vivek...
TERROR PLOT BUST: Two ISIS Terrorists Apprehended in Jerusalem
Israel Police released footage on Wednesday of the arrests of two residents of the southeastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jebl Mukaber who were indicted on...
CEO Of Strauss Water: ‘Partnering With The Haredi Community Is A Win-Win Situation’
Strauss Water’s Tami4 is a household name in Israel, known as the leading water purification and dispensing system in the industry. What is less...
Former President Carter Hospitalized For Dehydration
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was treated at a hospital Wednesday after becoming dehydrated while helping to build houses in Canada for Habitat for...
Washington Monument Closed Again Due to Elevator Problems
The Washington Monument is closed again because of elevator problems.
The monument was closed Sunday and the National Park Service announced on Twitter on Sunday...
Mailbag: Far Rockaway Situation Something Out Of Movie…Except It’s Real
I am 23 years old, and while I may have lost no financial assets in the hurricane, it is still easy to relay the...
Bennett In UAE: “We’re The Grandchildren Of Prophet Abraham”
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday evening for a historic visit, met with Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed...
