Month January 2020

  All photos courtesy of Chaveirim of Rockland. The post Chaveirim of Rockland Appreciation Dinner appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: Hatzlalah of Rockland Meeting with New Ramapo Police Chief Brad Weidel Rockland County Rolling Out New Security Measures… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) – To celebrate more than one million lives saved by Volvo safety innovations, Volvo Car USA has announced Volvo Safety Sunday, a pledge to give away $1 million in cars if a safety occurs during football’s biggest… Continue Reading →

For weeks now, schools and businesses in the Vassar Avenue area have been sitting in traffic daily – thanks to some wild turkeys. Turkey continues to disrupt morning rush hour traffic in Lakewood. pic.twitter.com/iwVIlT2iAc — The Lakewood Scoop (@LakewoodScoop) January… Continue Reading →

Tens of thousands of gun-rights activists from around the country rallied peacefully at the Virginia Capitol on Monday to protest plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation… Read more » The post Pro-Gun Rally by Thousands in… Continue Reading →

Three months after YWN first reported on the expected cutback in the budget for yeshivos due to the political imbroglio, it reported on Monday that the decreased budget is at a new low and is expected to bring back the… Continue Reading →

The Torah world was darkened on Monday morning with the sad news of the sudden petirah at the age of 77 of Harav Pesach Eliyohu Falk, zt”l. Rav Falk is… Read more » The post Harav Pesach Eliyohu Falk, Zt”l… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Chief Rabbinate Council, a body of senior rabbis in the Israeli chief rabbinate, decided recently to reinforce the recognition of members of Ethiopia’s Beta Israel community as Jewish, after an earlier decision on the matter failed… Continue Reading →

The post Community Leaders Commemorate MLK Day at Masbia appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: Zalmen Distributes $80 to Recipients of Masbia Food Packages Masbia to Begin Food Distribution For Rebbeim, Teachers Masbia Preparing Kosher Turkey Police Meet With… Continue Reading →

A cluster of explosive balloons with a Palestinian flag attached to it was spotted on Monday in an open area near Mesilat Tzion, a moshav near Beit Shemesh. A police sapper was called to the scene and neutralized a small… Continue Reading →

CINCINNATI (VINnews) — Nicole Baldwin, a Cincinnati pediatrician , suffered a coordinated attack from thousands of anti-vaccine supporters after she posted a TikTok video encouraging vaccination on her  Twitter account Saturday evening. The video depicts Baldwin dancing to “Cupid Shuffle”… Continue Reading →

Ten Israelis, most of them Chareidim, including three minors, were arrested in Europe last week in the cities of Vienna, Copenhagen and London for attempting to smuggle dozens of kilograms of Khat in their suitcases. Two 19-year-old Chareidi girls from… Continue Reading →

LOS ANGELES (JNS) — During a private audience on Monday of 54 international leadership delegation from the Simon Wiesenthal Center on the 78th anniversary of the infamous Wannsee Conference in 1942 that sealed the fate of European Jewry, as well… Continue Reading →

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed the countries that on Monday declared Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization, at the regional anti-terrorism conference currently being held in the Colombian capital of… Read more » The post Two More Latin American Countries… Continue Reading →

[COMMUNICATED] By Chaim Saller. It was a sight that would be long remembered, a befitting culmination of an extraordinary week. 400 college students and young professionals from around the world would gather in Bais Medrash Govoha for a seder that… Continue Reading →

Israel and Russia are close to finalizing a deal for the release of Naama Issachar, an Israeli whose imprisonment on drug charges has become a cause celebre, on the eve… Read more » The post Deal to Free Issachar Reportedly… Continue Reading →

In a decision that could determine the outcome of the March elections and more, Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir announced on Monday night that his party will stay in… Read more » The post Ben-Gvir Turns Down All Offers,… Continue Reading →

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Thousands of gun-rights activists from around the country rallied peacefully at the Virginia Capitol on Monday, protesting plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation that have become a key flash point in the… Continue Reading →

Three men died in separate fires around the city, and officials say two of those fires are suspicious. A house that under construction burned in Queens Village overnight. Authorities found a body inside. The victim had been bound, police said…. Continue Reading →

Three men died in separate fires around the city, and officials say two of those fires are suspicious. A house that under construction burned in Queens Village overnight. Authorities found a body inside. The victim had been bound, police said…. Continue Reading →

The family of a man who brought joy into the lives of thousands is now turning to us to help them escape from a desperate financial situation. Click to donate now! The untimely passing of R’ Duvid Eckstein zt”l, a Lakewood… Continue Reading →

Two Israelis were lightly injured on Monday night as their car was targeted by rock-throwing Palestinians in Gush Etzion, according to media reports. A 50-year-old man and his 22-year-old daughter… Read more » The post Two Injured in Rock-Throwing Attack… Continue Reading →