The Peleg Yerushalmi protested in Bnei Brak on Thursday night. The Peleg had cooled down protests ahead of elections, but shortly before election day, Yeshiva Bochur Meir Elyashiv was arrested in the Peleg election headquarters in Modi’in Illit for failing to report to the draft. On Thursday morning, 23 Marcheshvan, after the election, the Peleg […]
Crews are tearing down a giant waterslide that a 10-year-old Kansas boy was riding when he was decapitated two years ago. KMBC-TV reports that deconstruction of the 17-story Verruckt, which
CNN’s Victor Blackwell asked Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer if Trump carried any responsibility for anti-Semitic crimes in the United States, Dermer stopped him cold. “I’m not aware of a single non-Israeli leader that has made such a strong statement in condemning anti-Semitism,” Dermer said of the president, who told an Illinois rally […]
(VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) A large snake suddenly appeared on the Kosel Wall on Wednesday night. The attached video and photos were submitted to YWN moments after the snakes appeared
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump met with doctors, nurses and victims of the synagogue massacre at UPMC Presbyterian hospital in Pittsburgh on Tuesday evening. Joined by his daughter Ivanka and Jared Kushner, the President also met with police officers and medics to get a window into their efforts to save lives during and after the […]
Like untold numbers of spontaneously shot smartphone videos, Paul Ferdinand Ayorbaba’s most recent was not a work of art, full of the backs of heads and the constant bobbing and
A discussion regarding security around Jewish institutions with Israel’s Minister of Education Naftali Bennett.
A CNN panel went off-the-rails after one of the contributors argued that President Donald Trump has “radicalized more people than ISIS.” Julia Ioffe, a self-identified “American Jew”, was quick to blame Trump for the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre and continued that theme on CNN on Monday: “I think this president, one of the things that he really […]
Authorities say the windows of a county Republican Party office in Florida were shot at over the weekend. Capt. Mark Cheatham of the South Daytona Police Department says four shots
(VIDEOS & PHOTOS THROUGHOUT ARTICLE) Pittsburgh’s Jewish community began burying its dead Tuesday after the horrific massacre at a synagogue on Shabbos, holding funerals for a beloved family doctor, a
Rabbi Yaakov Bender is the rosh yeshivah of Yeshivah Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway, New York, and the author of Chinuch with Chessed (Mesorah Publications)
Up in the choir loft, alone, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers whispered to a 911 dispatcher on his cellphone. Below him, down in the sanctuary, eight of his congregants had been felled
“Hashem should help that this Rasha should have a Mapala Gedolah (big downfall).” These were the words HaGaoon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky said last year about Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav, after he ordered the expulsion of a Yeshiva in a despicable fashion described by officials as “Kristallnacht”. (See video below) The prediction came true on Tuesday night, […]
(VIDEOS & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) A driver who appeared to be distracted by his cellphone caused a horrific fiery crash in Israel on Tuesday morning that left a family of 8 R”L dead in the vehicle he struck. According to Magen David Adom, two vehicles collided head-on on Route 90 in the Dead Sea area, with […]
Israelis are voting in municipal elections across the country. In the closest watched race Tuesday, four candidates are hoping to become the next mayor of Jerusalem. Chareidi candidate Yossi Deutsch, Ofer Berkovitch, a young secular activist, is running against Moshe Lion, a longtime political activist, and Cabinet minister Zeev Elkin, who is supported by Prime Minister […]
Social media has caused panic in Brooklyn’s Jewish community, as word spread of an attempted stabbing at a Shul in Flatbush on Tuesday morning. But in fact, there was no
CNN’s Jim Acosta dared White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders to “have the guts” to call his network “Fake News” on Monday. “Shouldn’t you reserve the term ‘enemy’ for people who are actually the enemy of the United States, rather than journalists?” Acosta began. “The president’s not referencing all media,” Sanders said. “He’s talking about […]
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