Month July 2022
For more than a year, President Joe Biden’s ability to avoid the coronavirus seemed to defy the odds. When he finally did test positive, the White House was ready. It set out to turn the diagnosis into a “teachable moment”… Continue Reading →
Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, a Republican congressional leader and even his family, Donald Trump refused to call off the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol, instead “pouring gasoline on the fire” by aggressively tweeting his false claims… Continue Reading →
The Democratic mayors of New York and Washington are asking the Biden administration to help with what they say is a surge in their cities of asylum-seeking migrants from border states, eliciting gleeful reactions from Republicans who say the pleas… Continue Reading →
U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for New York governor, was assaulted by a man who apparently tried to stab him at an upstate event Thursday but the congressman escaped serious injury. “I’m OK,” Zeldin said in a statement…. Continue Reading →
As bad as many people believe Joe Biden has been as president, some are worried that things would be worse if Kamala Harris became commander-in-chief. One of those people is Fox News host Greg Gutfeld, who responded to the news… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) – Mayor Eric Adams was asked about the massive influx of illegal immigrants in New York City. Adams complained that they are a ‘real burden’, and said he is asking for help from the… Continue Reading →
Two Republican border-state governors who are investing billions of dollars in immigration enforcement and spending hours at the podium blasting Biden administration policies have found indirect support for their arguments from two unlikely sources: Democratic Mayors Muriel Bowser, of Washington,… Continue Reading →
In a sickening display of bigotry and hate towards Orthodox Jews, NYS Senator James Skoufis went on disgusting tear against all religious Jews in New York after a single Jewish person in Ramapo, Rockland County became infected with polio. In… Continue Reading →
YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Rav Shlomo Carlebach zt”l, the former mashgiach at Yeshivas Rabeinu Chaim Berlin. He was 96. Rav Carlebach was born in 1925 in Hamburg, Germany. His father, Rav Yosef, was the last… Continue Reading →
The top U.S. Air Force general in the Middle East warned on Thursday that Iran-backed militias could resume attacks in the region against the United States and its allies as tensions rise — assaults that could lead to a new… Continue Reading →
A terrifying incident occurred on Thursday afternoon when a sinkhole suddenly opened on the bottom of a private pool of a home on the Karmei Yosef yishuv next to Rechovot. A pool party for employees of a private company was… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for New York governor, was attacked by man with knife at an upstate event Thursday but was uninjured, his campaign said. Zeldin was giving a speech when a man… Continue Reading →
It’s the summer that cooled off the housing market. Rising mortgage rates have combined with already high home prices to discourage would-be buyers. Mortgage applications have declined sharply. Sales of previously occupied homes have fallen for five straight months, during… Continue Reading →
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A third-party auditor will review the New York state government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including efforts by the administration of the previous governor to downplay the number of deaths of nursing home residents. The state… Continue Reading →
The IDF’s Military Censor finally admitted to what everyone already knew, that the IDF uses armed UAVs to target its enemies. “It was found that there was no impediment in publishing the IDF’s use of attack drones as part of… Continue Reading →
Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu testified on Thursday morning before the members of the state commission of inquiry into the Meron disaster. According to a Kan News report on Wednesday, a document that Netanyahu failed to sign prior to the disaster… Continue Reading →
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israel launched airstrikes targeting Syrian military positions around Damascus overnight, killing three soldiers, wounding seven others, and causing material damage, state media reported Thursday. Syrian state media quoted a military official as saying the missiles were… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – Two weeks after surviving a fall off a cliff near Niagara Falls, a Crown Heights woman and her husband are sharing details of the incident at the advice of their rabbi, who counseled them to… Continue Reading →
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The family of a New York City firefighter killed last month when a tree fell onto the car he was driving at the Biltmore Estate has filed a lawsuit accusing the North Carolina tourist attraction of… Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nine people were injured — two seriously — when a shuttle bus crashed into a pole at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday, authorities said. Two of the bus passengers sustained potentially life-threatening injuries, according to… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) In this video posted by Mishpacha journalist Dovi Safier, Harav Yechiel Perr shlit”a, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva of Far Rockaway, describes how prior to the establishment of Lakewood, all New York yeshivos, even the most serious which… Continue Reading →