Yair Lapid and his Yesh Atid party have learned a great deal since he was a novice in Israel�s parliamentary arena in the last Knesset. Most recent polls back the trend seen in recent months and if elections for Knesset were held today, Yesh Atid would emerge the largest party, ahead of today�s ruling Likud […]

House Republicans reversed themselves Tuesday under pressure from President-elect Donald Trump, and dropped plans to swiftly gut an independent congressional ethics board. The dizzying about-face came as lawmakers convened for

Deputy Minister of Education Meir Porush and his son, Elad Mayor Yisrael Porush, were attacked by zealots on Friday night in Zichron Moshe. Police are investigating. According to the report,

YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of HaRav Meir Belsky ZATZAL who was Niftar today in Yerushalayim. Rav Belsky was one of the original Talmidim of Hagaon HaRav

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has been re-elected to serve as speaker of the House of Representatives during the 115th Congress, gaining 239 votes. Ryan, 46, will serve his first full

An annotated edition of “Mein Kampf,” Adolf Hitler’s notorious manifesto, has become a non-fiction best-seller in Germany. The publisher said Tuesday that a sixth print run will go on sale

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times Skiing is actually a remarkably healthy activity. Experts say that one can lose up to 3,000 calories during six hours

The Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday filed an indictment including a plea-bargain agreement filed against Yosef Tzvi Barkan, whose negligence led to the death of Avigail and Yael Gross, 4 and 18-months-old respectively, of the Givat Mordechai neighborhood of Jerusalem in 2014. Brothers Chaim Michael and Refael Yitzchak B�chasdei Hashem fought the massive damage caused […]

The following is via the Washington Free Beacon: A delegation of Republican senators is moving forward with an effort to freeze some funding to the State Department until the U.S.

[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] It was a difficult scene, the levayas of the family that was all but wiped out in the fire in a Derech Hebron apartment building earlier

Donald Trump has singled out a number of companies individually before and after winning the U.S. presidential election. Here’s a quick rundown of the businesses he’s targeted and what he

The questioning of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that was to have taken place in the Prime Minister�s home on Monday morning 4 Teves was postponed until the evening hours. Mr. Netanyahu was questioned by police for three hours regarding allegations he accepted gifts in the form of receiving a bribe � that is to say […]

What was supposed to be a one-day local government strike came to an early abrupt end as the courts ordered strikers to work. However, the court then learned that the nation�s labor union has ideas of its own. The Tel Aviv Labor Court on Tuesday morning 5 Teves ordered schools to open no later than […]

[COMMUNICATED CONTENT] It may be confusing to the ordinary man when he sees what may seem like inconsistencies�in rabbonim�s piskei halacha. In a fascinating shiur, HaRav Osher Weiss, shlit”a, took his�talmidim at the Center for Kehillah Development on an enthralling journey, giving the�avreichim a glimpse of the considerations that a Moreh Hora’ah must take into […]