Month April 2019
If you don’t believe in angels, you must watch this moving story about how divine providence led Levi Welton to a convert who was inspired to name himself Chaim, after dancing with an angel he met in Weschester. Read more… Continue Reading →
A board of pilot experts appointed by U.S. aviation regulators has reviewed Boeing’s proposed software fix for the grounded 737 Max aircraft and concluded that pilots won’t need additional simulator… Read more » The post FAA Board Sees No Need… Continue Reading →
Apple and Qualcomm announced Tuesday that they have settled their years-long litigation over the use of Qualcomm’s chips in Apple’s iPhones. The agreement includes the dismissal of all litigation between… Read more » The post Apple, Qualcomm Settle Lawsuits Over… Continue Reading →
Detroit – The number of people who have contracted measles in the Detroit area because of contact with a haredi Orthodox traveler has more than doubled in the past three weeks to 39. All but one of the cases reported… Continue Reading →
At a victory rally on Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu conveyed a message of national unity along with defiance of his media antagonists before thousands of cheering Likud supporters… Read more » The post Netanyahu Defiant in Victory Rally… Continue Reading →
Washington – Satellite images from last week show movement at North Korea’s main nuclear site that could be associated with the reprocessing of radioactive material into bomb fuel, a U.S. think tank reported on Tuesday. Any new reprocessing activity would… Continue Reading →
Officials in Rockland County are announcing new measures to fight the spread of measles. The new rules were announced Tuesday, the day after New York City closed a preschool over… Read more » The post Rockland County Announces New Measures… Continue Reading →
Britain’s privacy regulator wants to stop kids from being able to “like” posts on Facebook and other social media sites as part of tough new rules it’s proposing to protect children’s online privacy. Read more on Yeshiva World News
As YWN readers are aware, there was a court hearing yesterday on the yeshiva’s and other private school’s request for a injunction of the new State Education Department guidelines. While the judge did not issue a ruling from the bench,… Continue Reading →
Now that Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party has recommended Binyamin Netanyahu for prime minister, the faceoff with the charedi parties in the coalition negotiations can begin in earnest. Both sides… Read more » The post Now for the Hard Part:… Continue Reading →
In what can only be described as unprecedented, over five hundred doctors representing numerous Jewish communities across North America, signed a letter confirming the need for all children and healthy adults to get immunized according to the CDC schedule. This… Continue Reading →
Jerusalem – An Israeli court ordered the deportation of Human Rights Watch’s local director on Tuesday and ordered him to leave the country within two weeks. The Jerusalem District Court rejected an appeal by Omar Shakir to remain in the… Continue Reading →
The representatives of the United Right-Wing arrived at the President’s Residence on Tuesday afternoon, April 16, 2019, to discuss the formation of a coalition and to recommend a candidate to receive the presidential mandate to form the new coalition. Read… Continue Reading →
A research team at Hebrew University has developed an ingenious technology for inhibiting the spread of cancer cells by deploying RNA molecule decoys, a method that could yield an anti-cancer… Read more » The post Oligonucleotides Enlisted in War on… Continue Reading →
For the past three days, Lakewood has been gripped by the drama surrounding the cancelled event that was meant to provide kosher entertainment for bochurim during their bein hazmanim. To recap what happened, a kumzitz was planned at which bochurim… Continue Reading →
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar has raised nearly $830,000 in the first quarter for her re-election, a period when she attracted nationwide attention for her polarizing remarks on Israel. The Minnesota… Read more » The post Ilhan Omar Pulls In Nearly… Continue Reading →
Washington – A Federal Aviation Administration review board said on Tuesday that a software update to the grounded Boeing 737 MAX aircraft was found to be “operationally suitable.” Boeing said earlier this month it planned to submit a software upgrade… Continue Reading →
PRINT THIS FOR THE SEDER: The Unforgettable Passover of 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau The following excerpt comes from the JewishGen Passover Companion 2019. It was written by Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Greengrass, who describes how Jews imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau managed to conduct… Continue Reading →