Thanks to Boro Park Shomrim, a man armed with a loaded gun and a multiple knives was arrested moments ago on 13th Avenue and 54th Street, in the heart of Boro Park. The incident unfolded when a Shomrim member heading to his parents’ home in the neighborhood noticed a suspicious group of loitering individuals with […]

The Bris for a son of the Sadigur Rebbe was held on Sunday at the Sadigur Bais Bedrash in Bnei Brak. The Sandek was the uncle of the Rebbe, Hagaon HaRav Moshe Shternbuch.

YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Rav Yekusiel Yehuda Meisels zt”l, the longtime Rav in Seagate, who was niftar at Maimonides Medical Center on Sunday night at the age of 95. Rav Yekusiel Yehuda was born in Wodzisław (Veitz) to the town’s rav, Rav Tzvi Hersh and Henya Zissel, the daughter Rav […]

When over 200 balebatim gather in Yerushalayim with one unified purpose – Torah! – what else can come from it but an extraordinary level of hasmadah and havanah? Indeed, that was the atmosphere at Agudas Yisroel of America’s 23rd annual Yerushalayim Yarchei Kallah: one of unbridled love of Torah and enthusiasm for learning, learning, and […]

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara made a visit to the headquarters of United Hatzalah in Jerusalem on Tuesday. The couple took a tour of the operations center, gaining firsthand insight into the daily workings of this vital emergency service. The visit, intended to acknowledge and celebrate the contributions of United Hatzalah’s volunteers, […]

The IDF reports that over they last day they conducted operations in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis and Maghazi in the central part of the Strip.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was hosted by Rabbi Moshe Margereten of Tzedek on Wednesday, with the pair discussing various topics and issues, most notably groundbreaking legislation to combat infertility. Speaker McCarthy made the stop as he was in the area to attend a fundraiser for Congressman Marc Molinaro. Also in attendance were DA Brian Conaty, as well as JCC of Sullivan County representatives Sender Portugal, Mattis Rutner and Abe Rosenberg. The productive meeting took place in Monticello, New York, with Rabbi Margereten outlining the importance of legislation that would force private health insurance companies to pay for infertility treatments – as health insurance companies do across the West.