YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Hagon Rav Elazar Dovid Follman ZATZAL, a Magid Shiur for many years in Yeshiva Torah Temimah in Flatbush. The Levaya is scheduled for Friday afternoon at 4:00PM, in Shomrei Hachomos on Ft. Hamilton Pkwy in Boro Park, and the Kevura will take place in Deans, NJ. Boruch Dayan [...]

Strasbourg, France – A Jewish man was hospitalized with serious injuries after being attacked with a knife and iron rod in the centre of Strasbourg, the capital of the French Alsace region, media outlets reported on Friday. According to eyewitness reports, the 42-year-old man was wearing a traditional Jewish skullcap when he was attacked by two [...]

New York – Three Councilmembers representing large swaths of New York City’s Orthodox Jewish community announced today that they have joined forces to combat the city’s proposed cuts to the Priority 7 voucher program. Priority 7 vouchers are used by more than 1,000 families throughout New York City to pay for after-school programs for [...]

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — With the parade less than 48 hours away the stages and plans are starting to come together. Participants have been stopping by at the Jewish Childrens Museum to pick up their t-shirts and seating locations, contractors putting up the LED jumbotrons, and stages. Only one problem, a number of Parks Dept. officials stopped by and said that there are no permits to be putting up the stages on the Eastern Parkway islands.

Addressing the Knesset plenum, discussing the closure of the Old City to vehicular traffic, Shas MK Rabbi Chaim Amsellem stated the Kosel is the holiest site to the Jewish People and as such, access should not be limited, but there must be appropriate roads leading to the site throughout Yerushalayim, permitting easy access. He feels [...]

Two New York men have been arrested and charged with trying to help Al Qaeda terrorists, NBCNewYork has exclusivly learned. An official announcement on these latest terror arrests in New York is expected later Friday. Law enforcement officials said there is no specific threat to the city and that the case centers more on the men’s [...]

The New York City Fire Department’s new fireboat, the Three Forty Three, will arrive in New York Harbor on Friday April 30, at approximately 4 p.m. There will be a water display by other vessels in the FDNY Marine Division in the vicinity of the Verrazanno Bridge and then near the Statue of Liberty to welcome [...]

Berlin – A federal court has ordered the government to release secret files kept by the German intelligence service on top Nazi Adolf Eichmann after World War II. The ruling announced Friday came after reporter Gabriele Weber sued to have the BND release the 4,500 pages of files. She says they could fill in gaps [...]

Yossi Schlass (Jerusalem, Israel) and Doba Greene (Rochester, MN)

L'Chaim IYH Monday night at 395 Crown St
[between Brooklyn and New York Ave]

State Department: "We expect [Israel] to fulfill responsibilities.”