Last week, YWN reported that NYC Councilmembers David G. Greenfield and Mark Treyger urged Mayor de Blasio to reconsider changing the speed limit on Ocean Parkway from 30 miles per
In a move that has chareidim surprised and angered, the Ministry of Education has distributed a memorandum informing yeshivos that funding will be cut for talmidim who do not report
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton made an impassioned appeal for modern health care in the Ebola-stricken countries of West Africa and told The Associated Press afterward that he hopes to
Anyone who has been to Kever Rochel of late can testify to the stifling conditions as the site’s air conditioning has been down since a recent electric fire. While temporary
Uber and Lyft are pushing back against a New York City effort to regulate app-based ride-hailing services. The proposal before the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission would require car services
A child was left in a vehicle on an extremely hot morning in Petach Tikvah on Wednesday, 9 Sivan. Just a few hours later Ichud Hatzalah reported a second case,
The former New York Senate leader and his son have been indicted on corruption charges in Manhattan federal court. The indictment was returned Thursday against 67-year-old Dean Skelos and his
After a number of hours of searching, the body of a talmid yeshiva who was swimming in Beit Zayit was recovered. A large police force accompanied by the IAF’s elite
The following is via OnlySimchas.com: In a letter signed by leaders of Belz Hasidic Schools in north London, Jewish mothers have been banned from driving and rabbis have also agreed
MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Uri Maklev tells Yesh Atid during a stormy Knesset plenum session, “We are not your subjects and you needn’t concern yourself with us”. The heated debate surrounds
Volunteers from Rockaway Nassau Safety Patrol (Shomrim) and Rockaway Hatzolah are searching for a missing woman in the Far Rockaway / Nassau area, and are asking for the public’s assistance.
The New York City area’s three major airports rank the worst in the country for the percentage of flights delayed on the tarmac at takeoff and landing, according to the
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times It is Shabbos morning after Shacharis in shul and a man is putting away his tallis. Mr. Schwartz approaches him
Former New York Gov. George Pataki plans to say Thursday whether he’s running for the Republican presidential nomination. Here’s a snapshot of things to know about him. ___ THE BRIEF
Antoinette Perrine has barricaded her front door since her brother was killed three weeks ago on a basketball court near her home in the Harlem Park neighborhood of West Baltimore.
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Officials in the Chief Rabbinate of Israel reject the harsh criticism from dati leumi rabbonim accusing them of ‘targeting’ Efrat Chief Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, whose contract may not be renewed
A father-of-four was R”L killed while cycling in Sydney’s eastern suburbs early Thursday morning, AJN reports. Henri Sueke Z”L, a doctor who had recently arrived to Australia from the UK
Obama administration attorneys are urging a federal judge to throw out an election-year lawsuit by House Republicans over the president’s health care law. Attorneys for the House counter that their
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