From the start of Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s views on race took center stage. Trump’s former attorney did not mince words, flat out calling his former boss “a racist” who believed “black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid.” “Mr. Trump is a racist. The country has […]
The unseasonably cold temperatures that were predicted to arrive did just that, as did the thundershowers, which are continuing today, Thursday, February 28, 2019, and over the weekend. Jerusalem district
Six Baltimore City firefighters were injured while battling an early-morning fire on Wednesday. Black, thick smoke filled the air in the 400 block of North Glover Street in East Baltimore.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested a woman who allegedly assaulted a man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat earlier this month. Rosiane Santos was detained by federal agents
A fight between two train conductors unleashed a speeding, unmanned locomotive that slammed into a barrier and exploded in the Egyptian capital’s main train station Wednesday, killing at least 25 people, authorities said. Railway officials said the single railcar collided head-on with the buffer stop, causing a huge explosion and fire. At least 47 people […]
Authorities in Wisconsin have released 911 calls and police video that show the chaos of a deadly, 131-car pileup during whiteout conditions. Sunday’s chain-reaction crash on southbound Interstate 41 near Neenah, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) northwest of Milwaukee, killed a 30-year-old school teacher and injured 71 others. One woman called 911 to report she […]
A jackhammer reduced prototypes of President Donald Trump’s prized border wall into piles of rubble Wednesday, a quick ending to an experiment that turned into a spectacle at times. The four concrete and four steel panels, spaced closely together steps from an existing barrier separating San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, instantly became powerful symbols associated […]
In a damning depiction of Donald Trump, the president’s former lawyer on Wednesday cast him as a racist and a con man who used his inner circle to cover up
U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un projected optimism Wednesday as they opened high-stakes talks about curbing Pyongyang’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, a problem that has bedeviled generations of leaders. The second summit between Trump and Kim came against the backdrop of the American president’s domestic troubles. As the leaders dined […]
A senior Israeli Cabinet minister is calling on President Donald Trump to reveal his much-anticipated “Deal of the Century” for Middle East peace before the upcoming Israeli election. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner says his plan will address all “final status” issues, including borders, and require compromises by all sides. He made no mention of establishing […]
The following video in Hebrew, is a tribute to former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkott, who stepped down from the military on January 15, 2019, after decades serving his country. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
The man who decided to take the sidewalk nearly mowing down children in front of a Boro Park yeshiva has been arrested. The NYPD Detective Bureau says the 23-year-old man has been arrested and issued a desk appearance ticket in connection with this incident. He is charged with four misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment, reckless driving, […]
Israel’s prime minister vowed Wednesday to prevent Iran from securing a lasting presence in Syria as he visited Moscow for talks focusing on regional security. For Benjamin Netanyahu, it’s the first trip to Moscow since September’s downing of a Russian warplane by Syrian forces that were responding to an Israeli air strike. The incident left […]
Co-hosts Rabbi Avi Schnall and Rabbi Shai Markowitz are joined by Rabbi Dovid Yosef Thaler to talk about how the Agudah helps people prepare for employment through COPE and PCS.
An Amtrak train with almost 200 people aboard hit downed trees during a blizzard and got stranded in the Oregon mountains for a day and a half, but passengers and
A British Airways flight from London to Gibraltar experienced an extremely wobbly landing on Monday. Flight BA492 from Heathrow airport was forced to divert and touch down early in Malaga,
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that despite intensely criticizing George W. Bush in the past, he now wishes for the former President “every day”. The Nevada Democrat said current President Donald Trump is so bad that he makes Bush look like “Babe Ruth.” “I just have trouble accepting him as a person, so […]
19-year-old Ori Ansbacher HY”D was brutally slain by an Arab terrorist a few weeks ago in the Ein Yael Forest in the outskirts of Yerushalayim. Fifty of the trees that
Ner Mordechai Congregation in Kew Gardens held three different simulations of scenarios that they believe they could encounter. A number of the congregants were trained on Sunday. [Every Shul Should Have An Armed Person – A Halachic Analysis]
Today, Monday, 20 Adar I, February 25, marks the anniversary of Agudath Israel’s 11th Siyum Hashas of the Daf Yomi which took place in 2005. Because of the then unprecedented sold-out attendance, Klal Yisroel celebrated the 11th Siyum in two locations: Madison Square Garden in Manhattan and the Continental Airlines Arena in New Jersey. The […]
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