Month June 2019
New York – Nineteen percent of Americans think small business owners should be allowed to refuse service to Jews if doing so would violate their religious beliefs, a new poll shows. That is an increase from 2014, when 12 percent… Continue Reading →
Talmidim of the Philadelphia Yeshiva say the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ and sing the National Anthem before their graduation ceremony. Philadelphia Yeshiva is led by Hagaon HaRav Shmuel Kamenetzky Shlita, one of the leading Roshei Yeshiva in America. Read more on… Continue Reading →
Miami – Sen. Cory Booker is alone at the Democratic presidential debate in calling it a “mistake” to sign onto the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran. The New Jersey senator was the only one of the 10 candidates on stage… Continue Reading →
A U.S. judge cast aside prosecutors’ demand for a decades-long prison sentence for an American woman who admitted supporting the Islamic State, instead giving her four years behind bars Wednesday on defense assurances she wants to mend her ways. Read… Continue Reading →
San Francisco – Social media site Reddit restricted access to a major forum for supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump, citing threats of violence against police and public officials. While it was not banned, users accessing the forum, or subreddit,… Continue Reading →
Did you know that one of Israel’s greatest heroes went by the name of Kamel Amin Thaabet. It sounds unlikely, but this was actually the pseudonym of Mossad agent extraordinaire Eli Cohen who infiltrated the Syrian power elite in the… Continue Reading →
An elderly woman was robbed in the heart of Flatbush, and the NYPD is asking the public for assistance in apprehending the suspect. The New York City Police Department tells YWN that on Monday at 12:47PM, an 88-year-old female victim was walking in… Continue Reading →
Ostritz, Germany – A group of Germans found a new way to protest neo-Nazism: buying beer. A German court had already banned alcohol at the Shield and Sword Festival, a white nationalist rock music event held this past weekend in… Continue Reading →
Jerusalem area police operating in the southern capital apprehended a PA (Palestinian Authority) resident with a yarmulke and tzitzis on Tuesday, believing he was going to disguise himself to permit remaining inside the capital illegally. Read more on Yeshiva World… Continue Reading →
New York – A masterpiece painted by Pablo Picasso that a German Jewish businessman was allegedly forced to sell to fund his escape from the Nazis can stay at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York rather than be… Continue Reading →
Employees at online home furnishings retailer Wayfair walked out Wednesday to protest the company’s decision to sell $200,000 worth of furniture to a government contractor that runs a detention center for migrant children in Texas. Read more on Yeshiva World… Continue Reading →
The first debate of the 2020 election season takes place over two nights on Wednesday and Thursday. Twenty Democratic candidates will take questions in downtown Miami. Sixty seconds for answers, a television audience of millions and, for some candidates, a… Continue Reading →
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Atlanta – A scientific panel has downgraded its recommendation that all retirement-age Americans get a top-selling vaccination against bacteria that can cause pneumonia, meningitis and other illnesses. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said routine vaccination with Pfizer’s Prevnar 13… Continue Reading →
Poor Hassan Rouhani: Iran’s president is so inconsequential that the Trump administration didn’t even bother to impose sanctions on him. The U.S. has now levied them on Supreme Leader Ali… Read more » The post Trump’s Iran Sanctions Are Anything… Continue Reading →
Red tape, overweening bureaucracy, unconquerable swampism, the rein of regulations — call it what you will — were addressed on Tuesday when President Donald Trump signed an order creating the… Read more » The post Doing Something About Affordable Housing… Continue Reading →
Trump Says He ‘Made’ Fed Chairman Powell WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is keeping up his attacks on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Mr. Trump says he “made” Powell… Read more » The post Business Briefs – June 26,… Continue Reading →
Stocks closed slightly lower on Wall Street Wednesday after an early rally fueled by optimism over the next round of trade talks between the U.S. and China lost momentum toward… Read more » The post Stocks Indexes End Mostly Lower… Continue Reading →
Venezuelan officials said Wednesday they have foiled a plot to overthrow the government that included assassinating President Nicolás Maduro and his closest political allies. Maduro spokesman Jorge Rodríguez said on… Read more » The post Venezuela Gov’t Says It Thwarted… Continue Reading →
Zurich – Israel’s finance ministry has sought help from Switzerland in identifying Israelis it believes have undeclared assets at Union Bancaire Privee (UBP) and Bank Julius Baer, Swiss government documents show. UBP said on Wednesday it is cooperating fully with… Continue Reading →