Month July 2019
[COMMUNICATED] This year’s Tomchei Shabbos Grand5ive Raffle is offering a special only if you buy NOW! When spending $18, you get 2 raffle tickets, and now when you purchase $36 worth, you receive 9 tickets! What a deal! But it gets better…… Continue Reading →
Brooklyn, NY – Late night gunfire at a large, outdoor event in Brooklyn killed one man, wounded 11 others and sent hundreds and perhaps thousands of people running for cover. The shooting erupted just as the crowd at the annual… Continue Reading →
The following is via WABC: The New York State education department is considering whether to eliminate Regents exams as a requirement to graduate high school. The state-wide standardized tests designed to measure achievement in high school-level courses. Read more on… Continue Reading →
For some 70 weeks, Gaza Arabs have gathered at the security fence and rioted, seeking to either breach the fence or attack Israelis soldiers. The IDF responds with anti-riot methods,… Read more » The post Report: Israel Spends NIS 100K… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Family and friends poured in to join the Yankovitch family for the second time this summer, after the birth of their 10th child, a healthy baby girl. The last time they congregated, however, was following a tragedy: 2 months ago,… Continue Reading →
We regret to inform you of the Petirah of Rebbetzin Maita Rosenbloom A”H, the daughter of Hagoan Rav Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz, Rosh Yeshiva of Mir Brooklyn. The Rebbetzin was moser nefesh for close to 30 years running the cheder physically… Continue Reading →
Sheva District Court on Sunday against Ashraf Karga, 38, a Palestinian from Halhul, a PA (Palestinian Authority) village north of Hebron, who is alleged to have brutally attacked a 13.5-year-old chareidi girl R”L. Read more on Yeshiva World News
YWN regrets to inform you of the passing of Mrs. Maita Rosenblum A”H (husband of Rav Moshe), the daughter of HaRav Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz Zt”l, Rosh Yeshiva in the Mirrer Yeshiva. Read more on Yeshiva World News
The following is via WSVN: Police are searching for the person or people responsible for scrawling swastikas on two signs in front of a hotel in the heart of South Beach’s Art Deco district. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Washington – Israel’s U.S.-backed Arrow-3 ballistic missile shield has passed a series of live interception tests over Alaska, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, casting the achievement as a warning to Iran. Jointly manufactured by U.S. firm Boeing Co,… Continue Reading →
Vienna – Representatives from Europe, China and Russia, which are still committed to the Iran nuclear deal, were meeting Sunday with Iran’s representative in Vienna to discuss how to salvage the unraveling accord. The diplomats are examining issues linked to… Continue Reading →
Gunfire at a large, outdoor event in Brooklyn killed one man and injured at least 11 others late Saturday night, police said. Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted early Sunday that the shooting in east Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood “shattered a peaceful… Continue Reading →
Four rescue forces extracted a driver whose car was crushed following the collapse of an elevator in a parking lot on Yeshayahu Street in Yerushalayim, Sunday. The driver was checked… Read more » The post Yerushalayim Car Elevator Collapses; Driver… Continue Reading →
Parties to Iran‘s 2015 nuclear deal met in Vienna on Sunday for emergency talks called in response to an escalation in tensions between Iran and the West that included confrontations… Read more » The post Iran Nuclear Deal Parties Meet… Continue Reading →
Yisrael Beytenu on Friday was forced to remove a campaign video criticizing chareidim for not joining the army and not working – when it turned out that one of the… Read more » The post Liberman With Egg on Face… Continue Reading →
Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators hurling rocks in a rural Hong Kong town on Saturday as several thousand activists gathered to protest an attack by suspected… Read more » The post Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber… Continue Reading →
Israel’s U.S.-backed Arrow-3 ballistic missile shield has passed a series of live interception tests over Alaska, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, casting the achievement as a warning to… Read more » The post Israel Says Arrow-3 Missile Passes… Continue Reading →
Two South Koreans and 15 Russians returned to South Korea on Sunday, about 10 days after their boat drifted into North Korean waters, Seoul officials said. The crew members were… Read more » The post S. Koreans, Russians Returned Days… Continue Reading →
A new law intended to save Israelis time on the phone has gone into effect. Under the law, callers to service centers must be able to speak to a human… Read more » The post New Law: No More Than… Continue Reading →
The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, told lawmakers on Sunday that Iran will restart activities at the Arak heavy water nuclear reactor, the ISNA news agency… Read more » The post ISNA: Iran Intends to Restart… Continue Reading →
A Lebanese group representing the descendants of Arab refugees who fled Israel in 1948 has proposed staging Gaza-style “march of return” riots at the Lebanese border. In a statement, the… Read more » The post Group Seeks to Set Off… Continue Reading →