Yeshiva World News

U.S. Capitol Police say officers have arrested an individual carrying what appears to be a firearm near the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building.

Israeli Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich on Monday said that if his daughter sought his advice, he would urge her not to enlist in the IDF. Smotrich was asked about the issue at his party’s weekly meeting in the Knesset, and he responded that the position of his Rabbanim and the Rabbanut for generations is that […]

A group of shipwreck hunters has uncovered the Lac La Belle, a luxury steamship built in 1864 that sank over 150 years ago in Lake Michigan.

TRUMP: Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC, who are responsible for the massive sewage spill in the Potomac river, must get to IMMEDIATELY. If they can’t do the job, they have to call me and ask, politely, to get it fixed.

An additional 27 members of Venezuelan transnational criminal organizations, Tren de Aragua and its splinter faction, anti-Tren, have been indicted in New York in an ongoing prosecution of groups the Trump administration has designated as foreign terrorist organizations. Last year, several hundred TdA members were federally indicted, including on terrorism charges for the first time […]

Kashrus Alert from the KCL regarding the use of Instacart for shopping needs.

Two Canadian groups have called on the Canadian government to strengthen border security, highlighting failures to crack down on drug trafficking and illicit trade. While the U.S. and Canada “share one of the most successful and mutually beneficial economic and trade relationships in the world,” the groups argue, the transborder economies are facing “a myriad […]

Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin, one of the administration’s most vocal defenders of President Trump’s immigration enforcement policies, is expected to depart the administration next week.

Anti-regime Iranian protesters have taken to the streets today in Najaf Abad, Isfahan Province, marking the 40th day of mourning for protesters killed in the regime’s January massacre.

BREAKING: Emergency responders are on the scene following a reported gas explosion at a Church in Boonville, NY, multiple injuries are reported.

Suleiman Maswadeh, a Kan 11 political correspondent, is facing backlash following a controversial remark made during a live broadcast in which he suggested that the only way for authorities to take organized crime seriously would be if a crime family were to carry out a mass murder in a Jewish city. The comment, made in […]

Southern Command’s Joint Task Force Southern Spear carried out three lethal strikes on vessels involved in narcotics trafficking. Eleven suspected narco-terrorists were killed, four on each of two vessels in the Eastern Pacific and three on a third vessel in the Caribbean.

UTJ MK Yitzchak Pindrus delivered a heated speech in the Knesset plenum on Monday evening in the wake of the riots in Bnei Brak on Sunday, accusing the justice system of marking the entire Chareidi sector as illegitimate. “I come up here because of what some of the Knesset members have said, and I simply […]

Police Superintendent Elad Klein, the commander of the Dan District, said that the police acted with disproportionate force in order to quickly contain the violence that broke out after poor coordination with the IDF. Following the riots in Bnei Brak, a dispute erupted between the police and the military over whether the soldiers’ arrival in […]

An exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington must be restored at his former home in Philadelphia after President Donald Trump’s administration took it down last month, a federal judge ruled on Presidents Day, the federal holiday honoring Washington’s legacy. The city of Philadelphia sued in January after the National Park Service removed the […]

  Mrs. Chaya Eissman a”h passed away this past Friday in Israel after six years of painful illness, leaving behind a broken husband and four young children — the oldest only 11. Their cries are unimaginable. Their father is devastated and alone. Rabbi Benzion Klatzko is making an urgent emergency appeal: please help this shattered […]

Iran’s IRGC concluded the second day of its naval drills in the Strait of Hormuz.

An Israeli airstrike near Majdal Anjar in Lebanon’s eastern Beqaa Valley killed two Palestinian Islamic Jihad ‘terrorists’ on Sunday night as they were attempting to cross into Syria, the IDF said, adding that the individuals had recently been involved in advancing terror activities against Israel from Lebanese territory.

As U.S. and Iranian negotiators opened a new round of indirect nuclear talks in Geneva, Iran’s supreme leader on Tuesday delivered a blunt warning to Washington — and to President Donald Trump — that Tehran is prepared for war. In a speech broadcast by Iranian state media, Ali Khamenei dismissed Trump’s calls for regime change […]

YWN previously reported on the baseless lawsuit brought by Columbia University Professor Michael Rebell making unfounded claims about yeshiva education and asking a court to strike down the substantial equivalency legislation enacted last May in the State budget. Now YWN can exclusively report that PEARLS and Torah Umesorah have filed a brief with the court […]