Yeshiva World News

WATCH: Hagaon HaRav Dov Landau, Rosh Yeshiva Slabodka, lighting the menorah on the eighth night of Chanukah.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard at AmericaFest 2025 – The threats from this Islamist ideology come in many forms. As we approach X-mas, right now in Germany they are canceling X-Mas markets because of this threat. “This is already underway in places like Houston… It is already happening here, within our borders.”

Tom Homan: “I just did a border review in San Diego, Texas, and Arizona… Three days on the southern border, I didn’t see a single illegal alien… three days, not a single illegal alien in my sight… Never seen anything like it in my 40-year career.”

BREAKING: Reports that a third oil tanker has now been seized by the U.S. near Venezuela, according to Bloomberg. The Panama-flagged tanker Bella 1, which is sanctioned by Washington, was intercepted while en route to Venezuela to load oil.

Israeli forces carried out two airstrikes targeting Hezbollah terrorists in the Yater area of southern Lebanon, according to the IDF. Lebanese media report that one person was killed in the strikes.

Marco Rubio said that if JD Vance runs for president in 2028, “he’ll be our nominee… and I’ll be one of the first people to support him.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was booed and heckled during an official Bondi beach memorial, with the crowd shouting, “You’re not welcome here… Shame.”

Mekubal Rav Itche Meyer Morgenstern receiving an aliyah on Sunday at the kever of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov in Uman.

TEHILLIM: HaMekubal Rav Dovid Batzri, Rosh Yeshivas HaShalom, remains hospitalized in serious condition in Hadassah Ein Kerem in Jerusalem. He is sedated and on a respirator. Please daven for a refuah sheleimah for Reb Dovid Shalom ben Victoria b’toch sha’ar cholei Yisrael.

The Women of the Wall group “recruited” an IDF reserve soldier to attempt to smuggle a Sefer Torah into the women’s section of the Kosel, in violation of the regulations at the site, on Sunday morning, Rosh Chodesh Teves. They put a small Sefer Torah into the bag of the soldier. However, ushers who requested […]

Attorney-General Gali Baharav Miara has escalated her frenzied battle against Chareidim and the Olam HaTorah, now even spreading her poison to Bnei Torah from abroad. She is considering halting all funding for yeshivos, even those attended by non-Israelis, to avoid the possibility that any state funds may indirectly benefit Chareidi “draft dodgers,” Kan News reported. […]

No winning ticket was sold in Saturday nights Powerball drawing, pushing the jackpot to an estimated $1.60 billion. The next Powerball drawing is scheduled for Monday night.

A Syrian-Australian man who risked his life to stop an ISIS-inspired terror massacre at Sydney’s Bondi Beach is now being viciously attacked in Arab media and online forums—denounced as a “traitor” for saving Jewish lives. Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, a local shop owner and father of two, was shot five times after charging toward a […]

The Trump administration is quietly shopping an ambitious, multibillion-dollar vision to remake Gaza into a high-tech Mediterranean hub. The plan has drawn interest from regional power brokers even as it collides with the hard political reality of Hamas’ continued grip on the enclave. Dubbed internally as a long-range redevelopment roadmap, the plan would pour as […]

The Women of the Wall group “recruited” an IDF reserve soldier to attempt to smuggle a Sefer Torah into the women’s section of the Kosel, in violation of the regulations at the site, on Sunday morning, Rosh Chodesh Teves. They put a small Sefer Torah into the bag of the soldier. However, ushers who requested […]

HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Batzri provided an update on the condition of his father, HaMekubal Rav Dovid Batzri, Rosh Yeshivas HaShalom, who is hospitalized in serious condition in Hadassah Ein Kerem in Jerusalem. Rav Yitzchak said, ‘We’re now at the entrance to the ICU. I beseech the public in every possible way to daven for my […]

Supreme Court Justice Alex Stein slammed Israel’s Probation Service after it submitted an early positive report in the case of Mark Feigel, the main suspect in the serious arson incident near Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s residence in September. Stein said that the Probation Service acted on its own initiative to submit a supplementary report, even […]

YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Mrs. Malkie Mitnick, a”h, of Flatbush. She was the daughter of Rav Elya Kanarek shlit”a – the Rosh Hayeshiva of Peekskill – and Rebbetzin Rifka Leah Kanarek, and a granddaughter of the Roshei Yeshiva, Rav Shaul Brus zt”l and Rav Yisroel Eliezer Kanarek zt”l. Mrs. Mitnick a”h […]

A new AtlasIntel poll shows shifting dynamics in the 2028 presidential primaries. Among Democrats, Gov. Gavin Newsom leads with 35 percent, followed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at 16 percent and Pete Buttigieg at 15 percent, while Vice President Kamala Harris has dropped to 8 percent. On the Republican side, Sen. J.D. Vance leads with 47 […]