[VIDEOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE FROM PRESS CONFERENCE WITH BLOOMBERG, NYPD & FBI] The following statement was released to YWN by DHS Press Secretary Matt Chandler regarding the recent terror alert which was announced on Thursday night in NYC: “As we know from the intelligence gathered from the OBL raid, AQ has shown an interest in important dates [...]

Living in Queens, I don’t ever remember seeing such excitement about a political race in my life. Not even Dinkins vs. Guiliani (so I’ve heard) can compare to the slugfest taking place in my mailbox this week as mailer after mailer keeps arriving. (The printers are doing well) And my gosh what’s with the robo [...]

President Barack Obama has declared a state of emergency in New York State. The declaration announced Thursday clears the way for federal aid to the rain-ravaged counties of Albany, Broome, Chenango, Chemung, Delaware, Greene, Herkimer, Montgomery, Oneida, Otsego, Rensselaer, Schenectady, Schoharie, Sullivan, and Tioga. Lingering rain from the tattered remains of Tropical Storm Lee swamped the region [...]

One of the prohibitions mentioned in this weeks Parsha is where the Torah disallows any of the Amonim or Moavim to intermarry within Klal Yisroel. The two reasons given for this ban is because they refused to give us bread and water upon our exodus from Mitzrayim as well as having hired Bilam to curse [...]

????? ????? ??? ??? ??? ????? ?? ????? ?? ???? 21:11 The Gemora in Shabbos (130a) states that any mitzvah which was accepted by the Jewish people with happiness, such a circumcision, is still performed to the present day with gladness, but any mitzvah which was accepted with fighting – such as forbidden relationships – is [...]

This week’s Sedra goes into some detail as to what is to be done with a Ben Sorer Umoreh (the ‘wayward and rebellious son’). Chazal explain in great detail what exactly a Ben Sorer Umoreh has to do in order to be liable to the death penalty, how the parents must proceed with him, and [...]

Authorities in Belgium are investigating a case that may turn out to be the country’s largest ever fraud. De Tijd this week published some of the names from a list of 170 of Antwerp diamond traders who it claims are being investigated by authorities for spiriting almost $1 billion (€700 million) in unpaid taxes into [...]

An ex-cop running for a Queens Assembly seat is getting eyebrow-raising support from the wife of a violent soldier in the Colombo crime family. Republican candidate Jane Deacy’s campaign sent out a letter written by Donna DeMartino bashing Democrat Phil Goldfeder for not offering to help with her “federal issues.” “I will NOT be voting for Phil [...]

The Republican candidate is in a strong position heading into Tuesday’s special election in the heavily Democratic Congressional district formerly represented by Anthony D. Weiner, according to a new poll released on Friday. Fifty percent of likely voters in New York’s Ninth Congressional District supported the Republican, Bob Turner, compared with 44 percent who supported his [...]

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani insists he doesn’t want to be a vice-presidential pick on a GOP ticket in 2012, suggesting that Vice President Joe Biden looked like a puppet during President Obama’s jobs speech. In an interview with NBC New York Friday, the one-time Republican presidential candidate said the no. 2 job is not for him. “I [...]