The last of four young men who authorities say planned to use homemade explosives against an upstate New York Muslim community has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Twenty-year-old Vincent Vetromile appeared Tuesday in Monroe County Court.
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Lakewood, NJ – In an interview conducted with the president of Lakewood Yeshiva, Rabbi Aharon Kotler, a myth and legend that has been well-entrenched in the haredi world about famous Jewish composer and singer, Shlomo Carlebach being expelled from the Lakewood Yeshiva, was shattered. After the supposed expulsion, Shlomo Carlebach is said to have then […]

ATLANTA, Georgia — A police officer is out of a job and her friend faces felony charges after the officer let her friend borrow her badge and gun to get free snacks from QuikTrip, police said.

In the accompanying video, one can see a video that was aired on Hezbollah’s al-Manar television, in which they are showing an attack on the IDF’s Avivim base along Israel’s border with Lebanon, firing Kornet rockets.
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Washington – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday of enacting “unjust and inhumane policies.” “The Netanyahu administration has been pursuing a lot of extraordinarily concerning policies,” she told reporters. “To conflate an individual leader or ego with being against the entire country I think is a hallmark behavior of […]

YWN NOTE: There are still approximately 20 girls without a high school to go to in Lakewood, and an unknown number of children still not accepted in primary.
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Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz said on Tuesday in an interview with Ynet that if he wins the elections he’ll turn to the Likud to form a government under his leadership, adding that he won’t ask the Chareidi parties to join him because he’s “against extortion.”
“We’re against extortion,” Gantz said.

Santa Barbara – There is a Jewish woman among those missing in the tragic boat accident off the coast of California. The woman has been identified as 40-year-old Leah bas Esther. Leah’s parents who are from New Jersey are on their way to California to await search results. Misaskim of LA was on scene last […]

Divers and search crews were still looking Tuesday for nine missing people after at least 25 were confirmed dead when a boat packed with scuba divers caught fire near an island off the Southern California coast.

According to the NY Post, NYC’s Mayor DeBlasio spent just seven hours working at City Hall in the month of May.
The Post report says the Mayor showed up at his office six times in the entire month of May.
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