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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was hosted by Rabbi Moshe Margereten of Tzedek on Wednesday, with the pair discussing various topics and issues, most notably groundbreaking legislation to combat infertility. Speaker McCarthy made the stop as...

Thousands of Bnei Torah gathered at Yeshiva Chaim Berlin in Flatbush on Thursday, to give Kavod Acharon to the Rosh Yeshiva, Hagaon HaRav Aharon Schecter ZT"L, who was Niftar early this morning at the...

This past Tuesday, the annual Flatbush Hatzolah vs NYPD baseball game was held in Brooklyn at Maimonides Park. The game went into extra innings. At the end, Hatzolah won the NYPD 12-11 in the 13th...

As previously reported on YWN, the famed Mirrer Mashgiach, HaRav Binyamin "Hatzadik" Finkel Shlit"a is on a short but impactful chizzuk trip to the United States. The Mashgiach arrived on Monday, and will be...

Thursday, Gimmel Tammuz 5783 Year of Hakhel (June 22, 2023), marks the 29th yahrtzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, HaRav Menachem Mendel Schneerson זי"ע. The days surrounding the Yartheit, 3 Tammuz on the Hebrew calendar, are being...

This past Monday evening, representatives from several cities around the Midwest convened in Cleveland Ohio for the annual MALL (Midwest Agudah Lay Leadership) conference. For ten years now, the Agudah of Illinois has facilitated...

The FDNY and Flatbush Hatzolah are at the scene of a second-alarm home fire on Avenue I and E. 23rd Street. The fire began at around 10:40 pm, and Hatzolah has treated at least...

Two soldiers were injured after a Palestinian terrorist rammed his vehicle into troops in Huwara in the northern West Bank on Monday evening. The terrorist fled the scene in the vehicle. One soldier was moderately...

The busses started arriving around 1 PM from South Bend, Indiana, and Cleveland, Ohio, St. Louis, Missouri, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and of course Chicago, Illinois, depositing dozens of 7th grade boys in white shirts,...

Baalebatim participating in this year's iteration of Yarchei Kallah at Mir Yerushalayim were graced by a visit from the legendary Slabodker rosh yeshiva, HaGaon Harav Dov Laundau shlit"a. The visit commenced with a shiur from...

Magen David Adom joined an international multi-casualty drill that took place yesterday. Three different scenes representing three different sized incidents were practiced. As part of the drill concluding the annual disaster workshop arranged by...

A fundraiser for Rep. Mike Lawler in Wesley Hills headlined by Republican House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise and joined by several other congressmen from across the country was attended by various high-ranking members...

World-famous mentalist Lior Suchard and Jewish music star Avraham Fried and Mordechai Shapiro wowed a sold-out crowd of 3,000 people in Jerusalem’s International Convention Center (ICC) last night (Thursday). The annual concert held by United...

Tens of thousands of people packed into the Kosel plaza on Monday night for Erev Yom Kippur slichos, as authorities announced that more than a million people had come to the Kosel over the...

Moments after Hurricane Ian passed Fort Myers, Hatzalah South Florida in coordination with Hatzalah Baltimore and Orlando Hatzalah, mobilized and dispatched teams to assist affected Jewish communities on Florida's West Coast. The First Responders...

- “Direct Missile Strike!” - On Monday evening that was the emergency alert received by dozens of first responders in the region of Kvutzat Yavneh as part of the joint training drill that was...

10 bochurim who went on a hike in Katrina Falls on Monday required emergency personnel to rescue them after they got hopelessly lost in the woods. The bochurim, who are from Yeshiva Tiferes Tzvi of...

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Earlier this month, Agudah representatives met with high-ranking officials from the New York State Education Department (NYSED) for a whirlwind day in Albany. The primary purpose: to meet face-to-face on behalf of the yeshiva...

A Jewish woman was tragically killed when she was hit by a car as she crossed the intersection of Collins Ave. and 159th Street in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, on Monday. The tragedy occurred at...

Over the past week, an estimated 50,000 people from as far as Alaska, Australia, Thailand and Ukraine visited the Ohel in Queens, N.Y., the resting place of the Lebavitcher Rebbe ZT"L, Hagaon HaRav Menachem...

Thousands attended the wedding last Thursday for the son of HaRav Sholom Ber Sorotzkin, the Rosh Yeshiva of Ateres Shlomo kollel and Yeshiva network. In attendance were Admorim and Rabbonim, Roshei Yeshiva and askonim, and...

The Vizhnitzer Rebbe from Yerushalayim and top executives at Maimonides Hospital paid a visit to the Rachmasrivka Rebbe in the hospital's intensive care unit, where he is being treated for a severe case of...

A Boro Park Hatzolah ambulance overturned at 14th Avenue and 39th Street on Thursday morning. Sources confirm to YWN that the ambulance was on its was to an emergency at the time of the crash....