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As YWN has reported, Hagaon HaRav Dov Landau, Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka, arrived on Sunday morning in NY on his first visit to the Unites States. The Rosh Yeshiva was taken off the plane by...

Police Commissioner Dermot Shea visited Yeshiva of Flatbush yesterday and announced the arrest of the individual responsible for pouring gasoline around the yeshiva and setting it on fire this past Thursday evening, October 14th. Joining...

Hagaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky seen just before Kol Nidrei - holding a small Sefer Torah. The Gadol Hador Davened in his home with a small Minyan. Minutes after making Havdalah on Motzei Yom Kippur, Hagaon...

As Yom Kippur approaches, rather than the lively hustle that one would expect on the days leading up to sukkos, a somber aura can be felt in the streets of Meah Shearim as people...

s it possible after all this time that there can still be a miracle in Surfside? “I’d say hang on,” 12-year-old Elisheva Cohen said Tuesday. “We are going to try everything.” That was before the heartbreaking...

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In the presence of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, thousands celebrated the Bar Mitzvah of the son of Rav Aryeh Kanievsky, a trusted member of the Gadol HaDor's household, earlier this week. HaRav Chaim arrived at...

HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky arrived Thursday for a special visit to Yerushalayim and to the Kosel, as he does each year in the days immediately after Shavuos. Prior to arriving at the Kosel, he visited...

Excitement continues to build at an exponential pace for the 13th Global Siyum Hashas of Daf Yomi, an event that has galvanized the Torah community throughout the world. In addition to celebrating seven and...

(Photos by PhotoDynamics & Amudim) Hundreds attended Levayas in Flatbush and in Eretz Yisroel for Rebbitzen Rochel Leah Brudny A"H, who was Niftar this past Monday at the age of 94. Hespeidim were given in Flatbush...

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(VIDEOS & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) A fast moving blaze destroyed a home on 57 Street in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn on Tuesday morning. The FDNY responded to reports of the blaze just before...

The following is an unedited article by NBC News in New York on the historic visit of HaGaon HaRav Moshe Sternbuch. The article focuses specifically on the visit to Boro Park on Monday. As YWN...

POWERFUL PHOTO: #Holocaust survivor (see arm tatoo) Rabbi Eliezer Ostreicher...

(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) The NYPD’s annual pre-Passover briefing was held at Police Headquarters on Monday. Hundreds of religious leaders, Jewish community representatives and members of the service attended. Police Commissioner James O’Neill promises stepped-up security...

(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Moshe Holtzberg, a young boy whose parents were killed at a Chabad House in Mumbai during a 2008 terror attack, returned to that city for the first time Tuesday to visit...

YWN has been reporting all day about El Al flight ELY008 from JFK to Israel which was forced to make an emergency landing on Sunday morning at an airport belonging to the Canadian Army...