Month September 2020
A man was arrested after starting a fire in Williamsburg late Tuesday night. Sources tell YWN that a man set a large pile of trash on fire next to a building on Kent Avenue & Willoughby Avenue. The fire department… Continue Reading →
When a soul completes its mission and returns to its place Above, it is the members of the chevrah kaddisha who help it along. It is they who carry out our traditions and conduct the taharah, ensuring that every niftar… Continue Reading →
There is considerable chatter among politics-watchers about a possible “October Surprise”—the term for a deliberately engineered major news event coming shortly before a presidential election, intended to sway the electorate in a certain direction. Guess we’ll have to wait and… Continue Reading →
Klal Yisrael lost a one-of-a-kind talmid chacham this summer. Rabbi Shmuel Ashkenazi was niftar in Yerushalayim, at the age of 98, after being exposed to COVID-19. He had the unique distinction of being treasured by academic and religious scholars alike…. Continue Reading →
Eleven-year-old Chizki Turnheim has unexpectedly, and perhaps reluctantly, become a public figure. About a year and a half ago, a video was shown at a conference of chareidi school principals in which Chizki, who suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, a severe… Continue Reading →
n September 1, I tuned into a webinar sponsored by the Clarion Project featuring a former Islamic terrorist in dialogue with an Israeli advocate for justice and peace. In their discussion about Palestinian terror, the female representative, Kay Wilson, said:… Continue Reading →
BROWNIE FOR ONE A most exceptional guilty pleasure without the guilt. Cooking spray 6 tablespoons zero-calorie sweetener 2 tablespoons white whole wheat flour 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder ¼ teaspoon baking powder ⅛ teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons unsweetened applesauce 2… Continue Reading →
The United Nations marked its 75th anniversary Monday with its chief urging leaders of an increasingly polarized, go-it-alone world to work together and preserve the organization’s most important success since its founding: avoiding a military confrontation between the major global… Continue Reading →
On Tuesday, 4 Tishrei/September 22, Hon. Moishe (Mitchell) Silk, Assistant Treasury Secretary for International Markets, the most senior Charedi government official and one of the top officials of the U.S.… Read more » The post Minchah Minyan Held at Treasury… Continue Reading →
A senior counterterrorism official said on Thursday that caches of ammonium nitrate belonging to Hezbollah have been found across Europe. “I can reveal that such [Hezbollah weapons] caches have been moved through Belgium to France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Switzerland,”… Continue Reading →
Palestinian Authority security forces arrested members of a rival Fatah movement associated with former Fatah head Mohammad Dahlan on Monday, Dahlan’s faction Democratic Reformist Current said in a statement. Senior Fatah official General Salim Safiyya, Fatah Revolutionary Council member Haytham… Continue Reading →
PHOENIX (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden said Tuesday that Cindy McCain plans to endorse him for president, a stunning rebuke of President Donald Trump by the widow of the GOP’s 2008 nominee. Trump has had a fraught relationship with members… Continue Reading →
A Bulgarian court on Monday sentenced two Hezbollah terrorists in absentia to life imprisonment for blowing up a bus in 2012 in Bugas Bulgaria, killing five Israeli tourists, four in their 20s and one 42-year-old pregnant woman, as well as… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who was captured on video throwing a bottle at a Black runner in New York City and yelling a racial slur at her has been charged with attempted assault as a hate crime and… Continue Reading →
Two of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s senior aides broke quarantine regulations after returning from an official visit to Washington last week, Israeli media reported Monday. The breaches of health regulations by senior officials — which came as the country… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Woodward says he hadn’t planned on releasing audio tapes of his interviews with President Donald Trump for his book “Rage” until CNN reporter Jamie Gangel and the author’s wife convinced him. That turned out to… Continue Reading →
In a sweeping bipartisan vote that takes a government shutdown off the table, the House passed a temporary government-wide funding bill Tuesday night, shortly after President Donald Trump prevailed in… Read more » The post House Easily Passes Stopgap Funding… Continue Reading →
NEW JERSEY (AP) – A video released by New Jersey’s attorney general’s office Tuesday shows a police officer abruptly shooting a Black man in the doorway of an Asbury Park home after trying to convince him over the course of… Continue Reading →
For so many children, new clothing is about so much more than just dresses and suits. It’s about dignity. Self-esteem. Confidence. Bobbie’s Place opened 22 years ago in a Brooklyn basement with a few Rubbermaid bins of used clothing. But… Continue Reading →
This video will move you. CLOTHES MAKE THE CHILDWardrobes + warmth.Dresses + dignity.Clothes + confidence for 9,000 children a year. Because for so many children, new clothing is about so much more than just dresses and suits. It’s about… Continue Reading →
New York City health officials are warning of a continued COVID uptick in some Queens and Brooklyn neighborhoods, and issuing “urgent” guidance to residents of those neighborhoods. The Health Department… Read more » The post New York City Warns of… Continue Reading →