Coney Island, NY – There was anger in Brooklyn on Thursday over Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s solution to the community’s fight against free concerts at a local park. The mayor has suggested two synagogues adjust worship services to accommodate the events. Bloomberg probably thought he was displaying the Wisdom of Solomon. “Maybe they could adjust their [...]

Written by Rabbi Menachem Krybus, a father of one of the imprisoned ????? ???  There is a fascinating medrash Chazal about the way Queen Esther went about trying to annul the decree of the wicked Haman. After meticulously planning one feast after another with Achashverosh and Haman, she finally reached the deciding moment with her famous [...]

Monticello, NY – A former lieutenant with the Town of Lumberland Fire Company will spend up to four years in prison for deliberately setting two fires. Joshua Hunt, 25, of Glen Spey, admitted to setting two separate fires on High Road in August of 2009.  At the time of the fires, Hunt was a Lieutenant in [...]

The following is a WCBSTV report: There was anger in Brooklyn on Thursday over Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s solution to the community’s fight against free concerts at a local park. The mayor has suggested two synagogues adjust worship services to accommodate the events. Bloomberg probably thought he was displaying the Wisdom of Solomon. “Maybe they could adjust their services slightly [...]

Governor David A. Paterson today announced that New York State has applied to develop a program so that uninsured New Yorkers will be able to benefit from the temporary pre-existing condition insurance funding made available in the Federal health care reform statute, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. “One of the most immediate benefits of [...]

Washington – At last week’s G-20 meeting, President Barack Obama achieved a two-fer. He suffered a significant international defeat, and he increased the chances his party will suffer a major domestic one this fall. Mr. Obama’s international defeat was self-inflicted. He went to Toronto to press other major nations to do as he has done: Expand [...]

In his first speech on immigration as president, Barack Obama called the current system “fundamentally broken” and outlined his plans for sweeping reform. He called for improvements in border patrol, holding businesses who hire undocumented workers accountable, and demanding illegal immigrants to get documented. “We have more boots on the ground in the southwest border than at [...]

With summer here, tens of thousands of folks are once again commuting to and from the Catskills each week – and the travel expenses can slap on $100s of to your (already staggering) summer expenses! Three years ago, YWN launched a ride-sharing website in partnership with “Help-A-Yid” (a free community service of Duvys Media ). Boruch Hashem, [...]

PM speaks at American embassy for US Independence Day celebration

Pity the Kurds of Syria, brutally suppressed by Damascus, unloved by other Muslim states, and ignored by the West.