Dear YWN, An issue that deserves your coverage, is the upcoming referendum in the Town of Ramapo on the new 3,500-5,000-seat baseball stadium at the corner of Route 45 and Pomona Road. The frum communities in New Hempstead and Pomona will be greatly affected by the Friday and Saturday games, rock concerts, fireworks and huge increase [...]

Dear YWN, During these days of reflection on our priorities and current state in galus, I feel the need to bring to light something that has been bothering me for quite some time. I am not here to preach as many others do about the connection of such and such an issue to our current state [...]

Dear YWN, I would like to inform those that vacation in the Catskills of the “Summer 2010 appeal”. This is not an appeal for a family, a specific person, or organization but rather a cause. That cause is Kiddush Hashem. Many people do not realize that for 10 months a year the Catskill Mountains is a quiet peaceful [...]

Dear YWN Editor, My son was arrested on Wednesday, June 2 in Atlanta, Georgia, and currently sits in the Dekalb County Jail. He has spent the fourth night in a row in a holding cell with 63 other inmates. He has slept on the floor because of severe overcrowding, and, despite my desperate phone calls to the [...]

The following appears below as well, in the “Out Of The Mailbag” category: Dear YWN, Over the past few years Klall Yisroel has been faced with various “Crisis’s”. We had the Shaitel Crisis, The Strawberry Crisis, The Bug in the water Crisis, and the ever popular Shidduch Crisis. While not everyone would agree that the aforementioned crisis affected [...]