YWN Videos Of Interest

At a New York City Council hearing on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Councilman David Greenfield got into a heated exchange with NYC ACS Commissioner John Mattingly on the proposed elimination of day care centers...

Watch as Mispalilim in the Breuer's Shul (KAJ) located in Washington Heights, NY, decorate their Bais Medrash for Shavuos. The tedious job starts 48 hours before Yom Tov starts.

Yossele Rosenblatt (1882 - 1933) was born on May 2nd 1882 in Biela Tserkov, in the Ukraine. He came from a long line of Chazanim and his father was a cantor in Kiev. Rosenblatt recorded...

Yossele Rosenblatt (1882 - 1933) was born on May 2nd 1882 in Biela Tserkov, in the Ukraine. He came from a long line of Chazanim and his father was a cantor in Kiev. Rosenblatt recorded...

Minister of Public Security Yitzchak Aharonovich announced the chareidi riots has resulted in damage amounting to NIS 1 million, including burned garbage receptacles, traffic signals, road signs, garbage trucks and other vehicles, and...

This is the latest segment of the new weekly video series from Rabbi Stulberger – You’ve Been Called to the Dean’s Office. It’s a short (four minute) message on a timely Torah topic. This...

Despite earlier reports to the contrary, it now appears that a deal is in the works concerning the ‘Meah Shearim mom’, whose name may still not be published as per the gag order on the...

Thousands gathered at the kever of Shmuel HaNavi in Yerushalayim to daven on his yartzheit. Following shkia, the Hagon Rav Menashe Klein Shlita, The Ungvar Rav ignited the bonfire outside of the tzyion, as...

It was a windy and hazy Monday in Yerushalayim as thousands of people made their way to Har Hazeisim to daven by the kever of the Zvihler Rebbe Z"TL on his Yartzheit Credits: B.W. Posen...

The New York Hilton ballroom was packed Sunday night, May 9 with Orthodox Jews of diverse stripes, local and federal government officials, rabbonim and roshei yeshivos, as Agudath Israel of America held its 88th...

The guest speaker at the Agudath Israel of America's 88th Anniversary Dinner, was Guy R. Cook, the Iowa attorney representing former Agriprocessors CEO Sholom Rubashkin. The two part video below speaks for itself, as...

1:00PM EST: Flatbush Hatzolah was on the scene of a serious MVA on Kings Highway and Bedford Avenue involving two vehicles. One vehicle erupted into flames upon impact. Boruch Hashem, none of  the injuries were...

The NYS Office of Homeland Security held an emergency community outreach meeting in light of the recent attempted car bombing in Times Square, NYC. The meeting took place on Friday morning, at the Manhattan Headquarters...

Iranian President Ahmadinejad Interviewed On ABC: Israel is finished. Bin laden is living in Washington DC and more.

A two-alarm fire on Wednesday night destroyed a part of a former amusement park in Coney Island last night. The fire call came in at 8:06 p.m. and was put under control at 10:41 p.m.,...

The King of Jewish Music "Mordechai Ben David" Singing Omar Reb Akiva at the Lag B'Omer parade in Crown Heights 2010.

Ever wonder who engineers the CDs that you listen to? Well here Lipa gives us some insight as to who worked on his latest upcoming CD Meimka DLipa!

This is the latest segment of the new weekly video series from Rabbi Stulberger – You’ve Been Called to the Dean’s Office. It’s a short (three minute) message on a timely Torah topic. This...

Talk about a close call! Emirates flight to Dubai carrying suspected Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad had already left the gate and begun to taxi for takeoff at JFK when the control tower instructed the...

MK (Ta’al – Ra’am) Dr. Ahmed Tibi eulogized the late Rabbi Moshe Hirsh, who was niftar earlier this week in Jerusalem’s Bikur Cholim Hospital. Hirsh, a dedicated leader of Neturei Karta was also...

Earlier this evening, Faisal Shahzad was arrested in connection with the attempted car bombing in New York on Saturday.  Mr. Shahzad, an American citizen, was taken into custody at JFK Airport in New York...

Levayah of HaRav Abba Gorelick ZT"L at the Shamgar Funeral Home in Yerushalayim. Credit: B.W. Posen / Kuvien Images Click HERE for video and HERE for photos.

Embattled NYS Sen. Kevin Parker this afternoon publicly apologized on the floor of the chamber for accusing his colleagues of racism -- but vowed to continue to speak out about racial issues. Parker acknowledged his accusation...

Below are dozens of link (more than a thousand photos) of Lag BaOmer events around the world. YWN thanks our photographers, and all those who submitted photos. You help us keep our photo albums updated...

Giving the evil an international podium permits Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a platform to air his diatribe around the world and that is exactly what he did, addressing the United Nations nuclear non-proliferation gathering,...

Not everyone was able to make it to Meron on Lag Ba'Omer. Therefore, some people in Yerushalayim went to Kever Shimon HaTzaddik to celebrate and daven. Credit: B.W. Posen / Kuvien Images Click HERE for photos...

During the Sunday evening Levaya of Neturei Karta leader Moshe Hirsch, a number of persons identifying with the teachings of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane burst into the crowd expressing joy over the death of...

Following an uplifting shabbos in Meron, thousands of people gathered by Rashbi's tzyion on motzei shabbos for havdalah. Taking advantage of the relative calm before the storm, people flocked to daven by the tziyon...

A conference attended by some 100 participants was hosted in a sports auditorium in the Kiryat Sharret neighborhood of Cholon on Shabbos, an event hosting representatives of J. Witnesses. Protestors arrived at about 11:00am, after...

Over a thousand people gathered in the vicinity of Merkaz Kesem in Modi'in Illit on motzei shabbos for the lighting of the central Kiryat Sefer medura. Organized by the Darchei Chinuch organization, the bonfire...

As children put their final touches on Lag BaOmer "medurot" in Modi'in Illit and Moshav Matityahu, thousands of people make their way from Yerushalayim to Meron in preparation of the "hilula". YWN Israel will be...

HaRav Nosson Tzvi Finkel Shlita, Rosh HaYeshiva of Mir Yerushalayim, delivers a Shiur Klali in the Bais Yishaya Beis Medrash (Mir yeshiva) for the first time during the "summer Zman). Click HERE to watch the video...

A overflowing crowd of hundreds and hundreds of people packed into Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin (Ave L), Tuesday evening, for a a major community-wide kinnus for men and women on behalf of R' Sholom...

Brittney Hibbs KGAN reports: Sholom Rubashkin and his family will soon know where he will spend the rest of his life. It all stems from the Postville immigration raid heard around Eastern Iowa nearly two years...