PLO says it will hold an emergency meeting; lawyer representing homeowners accuses Jewish state of double standard regarding construction adjacent to fence in Jerusalem area
Gilad Erdan says Oslo Accords grant right to demolish buildings near West Bank security barrier, after Europeans criticize Israeli action in areas under Palestinian control
A highway shoulder is where New York state troopers spotted Luke Patterson, walking by himself around 2 a.m. after his car became disabled. By the end of the encounter in rural New York, the 41-year-old chef would be killed by a trooper’s gunfire. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Former Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, who spent more than three decades jailing criminals from mob kingpins and drug-dealing killers to a tax-dodging Harvard dean, died Sunday. He was 99, just 10 days short of his 100th birthday.
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of HaRav Reuven Scheiner ZATZAL, a Magid Shiur at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Flatbush for more than 50 years.
The Levaya will be held at 1:00PM at the Yeshiva, located at 425 East 9th Street in Brooklyn.
Equifax will pay up to $700 million to settle with the U.S. and states over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 million people. Read more on Yeshiva World News
By Yehuda Leib Grohman
It was one of those rare precious moments, as the famed Rav and Mashpia of Boro Park,Horav Binyomin Eisenberger Shlit”a graced Monsey with his presence, and Divrei Chizuk. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Jerusalem – Israeli settlers have established dozens of unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank in recent years, most of them founded since President Donald Trump entered office, an Israeli watchdog group said Monday. Peace Now said in a new report that Israeli settlers have founded 32 remote West Bank outposts since 2012, often with [...]
New York – Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gave birth to her third child on Monday morning, she said on Twitter. “This morning we welcomed our son, Jasper Clinton Mezvinsky,” Clinton, who is married to the investor Marc Mezvinsky, wrote on Twitter. [...]
Washington – Equifax will pay up to $700 million to settle with the U.S. and states over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 million people. The settlement with the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission, as well as 48 states and [...]
Jerusalem – A military court in Judea sentenced Islam Yusuf Abu Hamid to life in prison after he was convicted of murdering IDF soldier Ronen Lubrasky. He was also ordered to pay NIS 258,000 in compensation to Lubarsky’s family. Similarly, he was convicted of obstruction of justice for tampering with the crime scene after the [...]
Tehran – Iran’s supreme leader was quoted Monday as saying during a meeting with a delegation from the Palestinian militant group Hamas that his country won’t give up its stance in support of the Palestinians. “Supporting Palestine is an ideological and religious matter,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, according to state TV. The Hamas delegation was [...]
Jerusalem – A group of journalist and bloggers from several Arab countries arrived in Israel on Sunday in a first of its kind visit, as the relations between the Jewish state and other Arab countries appear to be at a new high. The six opinion shapers, including from Saudi Arabia and Iraq, will tour Jerusalem, [...]
Montreal – Canada’s two main Jewish groups are at odds over a lawsuit on whether it’s OK to have a national election on a Jewish High Holiday. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs – the official Canadian Jewish advocacy group — says there are enough alternative measures to accommodate Canada’s 75,000 Orthodox Jews who [...]
It is with great sadness that Matzav.comreports the passing of Rav Reuven Scheiner zt”l, longtime R”M at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn, NY.
A tremendous talmid chochom, with wide-ranging yedios haTorah, Rav Scheiner, in addition to being marbitzTorah at Torah Vodaas, also gave shiurim at Congregation Yismach Yisroel Alexander in Boro Park.
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