Category: Yeshiva World

The Boyaner Rebbe lighting the main Medura at Kever Rashbi moments ago – in the pouring rain (a rare occurrence in May).    | Read More The Yeshiva World 

A Brooklyn woman has taken legal action against New York’s Department of Motor Vehicles, claiming staff at a central Brooklyn office violated her religious rights by demanding she remove her wig during a driver’s license photo...

The Boyaner Rebbe Shlita arrived in Meron a short time ago ahead of tonight’s hadloka.  | Read More The Yeshiva World 

U.S. Central Command Commander Adm. Brad Cooper says Iran opened fire on U.S. warships and commercial vessels today, with U.S. forces returning fire and destroying several Iranian small boats, adding he would not say whether the...

Multiple Shuls and homes in Queens were vandalized overnight with swastikas and other antisemitic graffiti. NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin said officials are working with the NYPD, which is searching for at least four suspects,...

A 47-year-old Jewish resident of Toronto was shot and killed in the northern part of the city in late April, police have announced. Daniel Stopnicki hy”d, a technology lecturer and longtime Toronto resident, was struck by...

BREAKING: First images are emerging from Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates following reports of an Iranian strike targeting a key oil export hub, with three Indian workers reported injured.  | Read More The Yeshiva...

Police continue to block roads leading to Meron, forcing people to turn back.  | Read More The Yeshiva World 

Thanks to both Flatbush and Boro Park Shomrim volunteers, a suspect was arrested on Bay Parkway and McDonald Avenue by the NYPD after he attempted to assault a couple with a hammer on Avenue M and McDonald Avenue. Thankfully,...

The roof of the Ohel HaRashbi, where the Boyaner Rebbe Shlita will light the main hadloka, is largely empty tonight following the closure of Meron for Lag BaOmer.  | Read More The Yeshiva World 

The massive Lag Baomer event at Kever Rashbi has been cancelled this year, but as in previous years, YWN will be live streaming the event. This year’s Lag BaOmer at Meron will feature only three hadlakos: • 7:00 PM – The main...

🚨The Fujairah Media Office reports that Authorities in the Emirate of Fujairah have confirmed a major fire in the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone caused by a drone strike originating from Iran. Civil defence teams are at the scene...

Iranian state media published footage showing what it says are warning shots fired by Iran’s navy toward U.S. destroyers in the Strait of Hormuz.  | Read More The Yeshiva World 

The UAE Ministry of Defense says four cruise missiles were detected coming from Iran toward the country, with three successfully intercepted over territorial waters and one falling into the sea. It added that sounds heard across...

A former Malian minister and critic of the ruling junta was abducted from his home by armed, hooded men, one of his family members told The Associated Press Sunday, as fallout spreads from a wave of armed attacks against the...

Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot and Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman are exploring a possible joint run ahead of the upcoming elections, Israeli media outlets reported on Monday monring. According to a report in...

President Donald Trump’s vow to shrink America’s military deployment in Germany has put a new spotlight on the U.S. role in Europe. There are usually 80,000 to 100,000 troops on the continent, with more than 36,000 in Germany....

Iranian state media claimed on Monday that Iran fired two missiles and struck a U.S. warship trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, as tensions in the Strait escalate hours after the launch of U.S. President Donald Trump’s...

In North Carolina, the State Board of Elections ran more than 7 million voter records through a federal database and found roughly 34,000 names of deceased individuals still listed on the state’s voter rolls.  | Read More The...

MARGARET BRENNAN: A blockade is an act of war. Are we at war with Iran? HASSETT: You know, I don’t know what the definition of war is when we’re not shooting and negotiating.  | Read More The Yeshiva World 

Negotiations between the Peace Council and Hamas over the group’s disarmament have hit a dead end, with Palestinian officials saying, “We will not move to the second phase as long as Israel is not implementing the terms of the...

Acting AG Todd Blanche on James Comey: This is not just about a single Instagram post. This is about a body of evidence that the grand jury collected over 11 months.  | Read More The Yeshiva World 

Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari cautioned that “we all need to be open-minded about where interest rates are going” given the uncertainty stemming from the Middle East. “I don’t feel comfortable signaling that a rate cut...

On Thursday evening, The Tantzers hosted its annual Pesach Sheini Seder at the Tantzers Family Center, offering a meaningful and uplifting experience for families who were unable to celebrate Pesach due to hospital stays. A full...