Month September 2019
Authorities are investigating two separate child luring incidents in Toms River. On Saturday September 28, at approximately 4:45 PM multiple police units responded to the Georgetown section of Toms River to investigate two separately reported child luring incidents. The first… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Washington plunges into impeachment, Attorney General William Barr finds himself engulfed in the political firestorm, facing questions about his role in President Donald Trump’s outreach to Ukraine and the administration’s attempts to keep a whistleblower complaint… Continue Reading →
On this Erev Rosh Hashanah morning of 5770/80, we would like to thank the Ribono Shel Olam for all the Chessed He has shown us since the founding of YWN and allowing us to grow into the website our vast… Continue Reading →
A New York City police officer was shot and killed in a struggle early Sunday in the Bronx. The NYPD identified the slain officer as 33-year-old Brian Mulkeen. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Austrians are electing a new Parliament, four months after a corruption scandal brought down ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s coalition government with the far-right Freedom Party. Some 6.4 million voters aged 16… Read more » The post Austria Holds Early Vote After… Continue Reading →
A bus driver who essentially threw a woman and her children off his bus has been fired by the Netiv Express bus company. The incident occurred several weeks ago, according… Read more » The post Bus Driver Who Threw Woman… Continue Reading →
Gas prices are set to rise in the monthly reiteration of maximum prices gas stations can charge. The Energy Ministry said Sunday that prices would rise 11 agurot per liter… Read more » The post Gas Prices to Rise After… Continue Reading →
Mrs. Katharina von Schnurbein, coordinator on combating anti-Semitism at the European Commission, released her Rosh Hashanah greetings to the Jewish community. Shanah tovah from Brussels! As European Commission Coordinator on Combating Anti-Semitism,… Read more » The post Rosh Hashanah Greeting From the… Continue Reading →
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he would not resign to avoid having to delay Brexit beyond the end of October. Johnson has vowed to take Britain out… Read more » The post U.K. PM Johnson Says Will… Continue Reading →
Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, Prime Minister Boris Johnson sent a Rosh Hashanah greeting to the Jewish community and to the Hamodia readership: I’d like to wish my Jewish friends both… Read more » The post Rosh Hashanah Greeting From U.K…. Continue Reading →
Thousands of protesters regrouped after police fired tear gas at them Sunday and marched along a thoroughfare in downtown Hong Kong in a second straight day of defiance, sparking fears… Read more » The post Hong Kong Protesters March in… Continue Reading →
As millions celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the IDF will remain on high alert to prevent terror attacks. For soldiers on duty, in the field or on base, the army has done… Read more » The post 30 Tons of Apples, 17,000… Continue Reading →
Negotiating teams for the Likud and the Blue and White party will meet again Sunday morning in what may be a last-ditch effort to work out a path to a… Read more » The post ‘Last-Ditch’ Unity Talks Set for… Continue Reading →
In the days after Hurricane Dorian ravaged the islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco in the Bahamas, many focused on sending food, water and hygiene products to those affected by… Read more » The post A Jewish Community is Making… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump’s special representative for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, resigned on Friday, sources familiar with the situation said. A whistleblower complaint from within the intelligence community, released publicly on Thursday,… Read more » The post Sources: Trump Envoy to Ukraine… Continue Reading →
A former carpenters’ union official who once served on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey board of commissioners has been charged with embezzlement. A federal indictment released… Read more » The post Former Union Official, Port Authority… Continue Reading →
Ukraine must investigate the activities of U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son to establish whether his role in a Ukrainian gas company complied with the country’s laws, Mykola Azarov, Ukraine’s… Read more » The post Ukraine Must Investigate Joe Biden’s… Continue Reading →
Hamodia is saddened to report the petirah of Mr. Mayer Apfelbaum, z”l, who founded and ran Torah Tapes for decades. The levayah is scheduled for Sunday morning at 10:15 AM in front of… Read more » The post BD’E- Mr. Mayer Dovid Apfelbaum,… Continue Reading →
By the time drug enforcement agents swooped into his small medical office in Martinsville, Virginia, in 2017, Dr. Joel Smithers had prescribed about a half a million doses of highly addictive opioids in two years. Read more on Yeshiva World… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VIN) – The terrorists who murdered 17-year-old Rina Shnerb and wounded her father, Rabbi Eitan Shnerb and brother Dvir near Ein Bubin spring in August have been captured in a joint operation between the IDF and Israeli Border Security…. Continue Reading →