Rabbi David Niederman, President of the United Jewish Organizations (UJO) of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn delivered the following statement to YWN: The community is saddened and is mourning the loss of two innocent, people, the most-special of our community. Mindel Ferencz may she rest in peace, was a pioneer. She and her husband were of […]

As Chanuka approaches each year, parents scramble around searching for the perfect gifts for their childrens’ teachers. While they want to show their appreciation to the teachers, it can be difficult to find the perfect thing. They want something appropriate and nice, and also not too expensive as it can get very pricey when you’re […]

Shooting victim Moshe Hersh Deutsch HY”D. 24-years-old, was one of the victims of the Jersey City shooting attack. He lived in Williamsburg. Chai Lifeline gave YWN the following statement: “We are heartbroken to inform you that one of the victims of yesterday’s horrific attack in Jersey City was our own dedicated volunteer, Moshe Hersh Deutch HY”D. […]

The helicopter company whose doors-off flight crashed in a New York City river last year, trapping all five passengers in their harnesses, exploited a regulatory loophole to avoid stricter safety requirements, federal investigators said Tuesday. FlyNYON operated under the government’s least stringent standards “to the detriment of their customer’s safety” because it described the purpose of its flights as photography, not sightseeing, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said. The company instructed employees to avoid using terms like “air tour” or “sightseeing” so it wouldn’t lose its certification under a photography exception that allowed it to fly under the same regulations as private pilots and hobbyists, investigators said.

A suspect involved in a prolonged firefight in Jersey City, N.J., that left six people dead, including one police officer, had published anti-Semitic and anti-police posts online and investigators believe the attack was motivated by those sentiments, a law enforcement official familiar with the case told the NY Times on Wednesday. Meanwhile, in a press conference held on Wednesday morning, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said surveillance footage indicated that the two shooters had targeted the kosher supermarket where most of the carnage unfolded.

It’s been 20 hours since the horrific moment when two gunmen opened fire on a Kosher grocery in Jersey City, which left three civilians and a police officer dead. The Jersey City Mayor on Monday night tweeted that the store was “targeted”. On Wednesday morning, Mayor Steven Fulop doubled down on his claim and tweeted: “Last night after extensive review of our CCTV system it has now become clear from the cameras that these two individuals targeted the Kosher grocery location on MLK Dr – the 2 JCPD officers that were on a foot post one block away immediately responded/engaged and prevented the perpetrators from leaving that location and harming any further civilians.

Facebook is rebuffing efforts by U.S. Attorney General William Barr to give authorities a way to read encrypted messages. The heads of Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Messenger services told Barr and his U.K. and Australian counterparts that Facebook is moving forward with plans to enable end-to-end encryption on all of its messaging services. End-to-end encryption locks up messages so that not even Facebook can read their contents. WhatsApp already uses end-to-end encryption. Facebook plans to extend that protection to Messenger and Instagram Direct. Barr and other officials had asked the company in October to hold off. In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, they insisted that precluding access by law enforcement could hinder efforts to prevent or investigate crimes.

Making a true Kiddush Hashem, a Bat Yam taxi driver, Moshe Barkat, known locally as ‘Barkat’, drove an elderly non-Jewish woman to Ichilov Hospital and later realized she forgot her bag – a bag containing a large sum of cash. Barkat drove the elderly woman along with a young couple to Ichilov from Tel Aviv. […]

During his weekly shiur, Harav Meir Mazuz, Rosh Yeshivas Kisei Rachamim, expressed his pain on the recent chillul Shabbos [involving public transportation being provided on Shabbos] and praised the mayor of Herzliya, Moshe Fadlon, who refused to let buses enter his city on Shabbos, a “Charedim 10” report said. “We have one tzaddik in S’dom […]

For the House progressives: a pair of impeachment articles against President Donald Trump. For the vulnerable Democratic freshmen: charges that are narrowly focused on Ukraine. And for the whole House Democratic majority — and, however backhandedly, Trump himself: a sweeping new trade deal. In the span of 90 minutes Tuesday, Pelosi unveiled historic legislation in […]