Over 500,000 persons visited the Kosel during Chanukah week. As is the case annually, state and public officials lit the Kosel menorah each night of Chanukah, as one can see in this Chanukah week in review video from the Kosel. Some of the persons seen at the nightly lighting included: • Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau […]
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Stony Brook University student Yonatan Herzfeld was taking the S-Shuttle train between Grand Central and Times Square Sunday when he says an African-American began harassing him for wearing a kippa. Yonatan described the incident on Facebook, writing, “I was just chased off the S train on the subway at Grand Central because im visibly Jewish […]
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There was a fire in a residential building on Jerusalem’s Sorotzkin Street in the Romeima neighborhood on Monday, December 30, 2019. When firefighters arrived, they were met with flames and acrid black smoke emanating from apartment windows as some anxious neighbors looked on in horror. Firefighters entered the building and began sweeping for persons still […]
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Dear YWN, I am a mispallel in R’ Rottenbergs Shul and live around the corner. We were at a family Chanukah chaggiga at my sister-in-law down the block from our house when this all occurred. Clearly this was a shocking event and we all have been hit with a tremendous sense of vulnerability. Of course […]
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Attorney Advertising– NEW YORK– A class-action lawsuit recently filed accuses the makers of the popular heartburn medication Zantac of intentionally concealing risks. For more information, visit: www.bgandg.com/zantac.   The suit maintains that Zantac has been found to contain a carcinogenic chemical at 26,000 times the limit approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. In response, the […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for his military and diplomats to prepare unspecified “offensive measures” to protect the country’s security and sovereignty, the North’s state media said on Monday, before his end-of-year deadline for the Trump administration to make major concessions to salvage a fragile nuclear diplomacy. Kim during a ruling Workers’ Party […]
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Now that the Likud party primaries are over and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu earned a resounding victory, Chairman of the Yisrael Beitenu party MK Avigdor Lieberman speaks out in support of the challenger and loser in the Likud election, MK Gideon Saar, stating PM Netanyahu did not permit him to exercise his democratic rights. In […]
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(By Zvi Gluck) Ask a first grader in any yeshiva what Chanukah is all about and he/she will tell you how a small container of pure olive oil that had somehow been overlooked by rampaging Greek soldiers miraculously burned for eight days and nights. But as the yom tov of Chanukah is upon us, I […]
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Ephraim Rimmel, who was badly injured a month ago in an accident in Givat Ze’ev, in which his wife Tzipi and their infant daughter was killed, spoke about the moment he heard the news about his wife after two weeks of being unconscious on an interview with Channel 12 News. “Everything is foggy from the […]
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On Thursday, December 19 RCCS hosted a pre Chanukah party to lift the spirit of the cancer stricken patients and their families. The party took place in the brand new premises of Hoopla conveniently located in The Brooklyn Square. The patients and their families took full advantage of the built in entertainment and couldn’t get […]
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