Rishon LTzion HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef Shlita announced on Sunday that women are prohibited to light Chanukah candles, in line with the psak of the Mechaber. Rav Yosef added that the Reform Movement and the Women of the Wall are destroying Yiddishkeit and one must combat their efforts. In response, the Women of the Wall […]
The mourning period is over. It’s time to get back to the issues of great importance, and Jew hating seems to be the top of the list for Jersey City Board of Education Trustee Joan Terrell. Terrall made her despicable comments in response to a column published on InsiderNJ called Faith and hope in face […]
A super-majority of New Jersey lawmakers on Monday passed a proposed ballot question to legalize recreational marijuana, putting the referendum before voters on the 2020 ballot. The Democrat-led Assembly passed
The level of the Kinneret has not changed since Sunday and remains at minus 211.83. There is only 7cm (2.7 inches) from the winter’s low point to today. The Kinneret needs 3.03 meters (3.31 yards) to its upper level. The current level is 1.17 (1.27 yards) from the lower red line. (YWN Israel Desk […]
House leaders on Monday unveiled a $1.4 trillion government-wide spending package thats carrying an unusually large load of unrelated provisions catching a ride on the last train out of Congress this year. A House vote is slated for Tuesday on the sprawling package, some 2,313 pages long, as lawmakers wrap up reams of unfinished work […]
A bicycle rider was struck by a vehicle and injured in Jerusalem’s Beis Yisrael neighborhood on Monday night. According to witnesses to the accident, the cyclist was traveling at a
Donald Trump stands on the threshold of what two ex-presidents called the profound disgrace of impeachment, a permanent stain on his legacy. Of what Alexander Hamilton set out in the Federalist Papers as the apt remedy for the misconduct of public men. Or what Trump mockingly dismisses as impeachment lite. The leader who has sliced […]
Rav Doniel Hool Shlita It’s not just remarkable -it’s incredible! On his website there are over a hundred (!) documented cases in the last year alone where Rav Hool has
Side by side, the Allies and former enemy Germany togethermarked the 75th anniversary of one of the most important battles in World War II the Battle of the Bulge, which stopped Adolf Hitlers last-ditch offensive to turn the tide of the war. At dawn on Dec. 16, 1944, over 200,000 German soldiers started the […]
A sea of blue is expected Tuesday on Bergen Avenue in Jersey City as fallen Detective Joseph Seals is laid to rest during a private funeral. The solemn ceremony takes
A federal judge on Monday scheduled a sentencing hearing for next month for Michael Flynn after rejecting arguments from the former Trump administration national security adviser that prosecutors had withheld
Amazon is banning its third-party merchants from using FedExs ground service to deliver to Prime members, suggesting that it thinks the service is too slow to get packages to their destinations in time for Christmas. The temporary ban will block those companies from using FedEx Ground service, although they can still use pricier FedEx Express […]
Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun, now in its twenty-sixth year, is nearing completion of its expanded facility. According to Rav Shmuel Gordon, menahel, the great interest in the mesivta from communities across
One of the young Navy sailors killed in a Saudi gunmans attack at a Florida base had boundless energy and a fierce loyalty to family and friends in Georgia that will make him the most amazing guardian angel, some of those closest to the slain sailor told hundreds at his funeral Monday. Roughly 400 people, […]
New Jerseys Assembly on Monday passed a measure to eliminate religious exemptions for vaccines for schoolchildren, but the bill stalled in the state Senate as opponents shouted so loudly they drowned out the session. The Democrat-led Assembly passed the bill 45-25, with six abstentions, but the Democrat-controlled state Senate postponed a vote because there werent […]
With the House of Representatives racing toward an impeachment vote this week, President Donald Trump will likely become the third president to face a Senate trial to determine whether he
People will get more time to sign up for Obamacare health insurance, the Trump administration announced Monday, following a spate of computer glitches over the weekend. The new HealthCare.gov deadline is 3 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in a statement. Coverage takes effect Jan. 1. It was […]
Boeing Co. said Monday that it will temporarily stop producing its grounded 737 Max jet starting in January as it struggles to get approval from regulators to put the plane
A bus traveling on the Gush Etzion-Hebron Road on Monday night, Route 60, was attacked with a can of paint mixed with oil near el-Aroub in the hope of the
The chareidi parties in Knesset, Shas and Yahadut Hatorah, decided to host a joint siyum of Shas, which will take place on Tuesday, 3 Teves, in Bnei Brak. Prior to
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