Yeshiva World News , is an Orthodox Jewish online news publication

Online journalism

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. It also has multiple services catering to Jews all over the world.

Yeshiva World News started as a news aggregation blog. It has since grown to an independent news source with freelance reporters and photographers in addition to continuing as a news aggregator. It is known for providing news of interest to the Orthodox Jewish

Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism , is the approach to Judaism which adheres to the traditional interpretation and application of the laws and ethics of the Torah as legislated in the Talmudic texts by the Sanhedrin and subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and...

 community. Its web page header says "Frum Jewish News" (frum is the Yiddish term for a religiously-observant Jew).

The website was redesigned in 2010. It has sections containing general news items and Israeli news, as well as religious news, and news tailored around Jewish lifecycle events and the Jewish calendar. Many features are relevant to Jewish observance, including articles about Torah

Torah

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 and Jewish law, kosher recipes, and the streaming radio feature.

Departments

News departments include:

• U.S. & world news with a separate Israel department
• Business news
• News and photos of prominent Rabbis
• News from Shomrim (volunteer community patrols)
  Shomrim (volunteers)
  Shomrim are licensed organizations of volunteer Jewish civilian patrols which have been set up in Hasidic and Haredi neighborhoods in the United States and England to combat burglary, vandalism, mugging, assault, domestic violence, nuisance crimes, and antisemitic attacks. They also help locate...
  
   around the world.
• Kashrus news from the Chicago Rabbinical Council
  Chicago Rabbinical Council
  The Chicago Rabbinical Council is the largest regional Orthodox rabbinical organization in America, located in Chicago, Illinois. The cRc is a not-for-profit offering a wide variety of Jewish services including kosher product supervision and kosher certification...
  
  
• Human Interest items
• Health news

Features

Non-news features include:

• Op-Ed articles
• Torah Corner (Halacha/Parsha)
• Jewish Book Reviews
• Food & Recipes
• A current events forum
• A 24-hour Jewish music stream
• A detailed calendar of events in Jewish communities - mainly in the New York
  New York
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   area
• Community event listings (weddings, births, deaths, etc.)
• Weather reports for cities around the world
• Emergency and non-emergency service phone numbers in all areas.

Contributors

• The main site is directed by Yehuda Eckstein, from Brooklyn
  Brooklyn
  Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
  
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• The YWN Israel Bureau is directed by Israeli journalist Yechiel Spira formerly of Arutz Sheva
  Arutz Sheva
  Arutz Sheva is an Israeli media network identifying with Religious Zionism. It offers online news in English, Hebrew, French, Spanish and Russian. Arutz Sheva offers free podcasts, live streaming radio, a daily email news update, streaming video and 24 hour updated text news...
  
   and editor at Jerusalem Kosher News.
• Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits, Rabbinical Administrator KOF-K Kosher Supervision, authors the daily halacha.
• Another notable contributor is New York City Councilman  David G. Greenfield
  David G. Greenfield
  David G. Greenfield is an American attorney and a member of the New York City Council representing the 44th council district, which comprises the neighborhoods of Bensonhurst, Boro Park, and Midwood in Brooklyn, New York. Greenfield is the founding director and counsel of TEACH NYS and prior to his...
  
  , Esq., formerly executive vice president of the Sephardic Community Federation and director and counsel of TEACH NYS who was featured in the Inside Politics feature.
• Journalists Yossi Gestetner
  Yossi Gestetner
  Yossi Gestetner is a news maker, public relations consultant and advocate in the New York Orthodox Jewish and Hasidic communities. His writings are published and/or quoted in Yiddish and English-language publications and websites of the NY Jewish Communities, and also by mainstream news sites such...
  
   & Chaskel Bennett also contribute frequently with opinion pieces.

Controversies

There has been some controversy regarding the fact that YWN will not post any stories which portray Orthodox Judaism in a bad light. For example, they omitted most reports on the child abuse scandals in Orthodox Yeshivos, as well as the scandal with Leib Tropper

Leib Tropper

Rabbi Leib Tropper is a founder of the Kol Yaakov Yeshiva and Torah Center in Monsey, New York. He is a grandson of the late Rabbi Leib Forer, the "Valbolneker Iluy".-Education:...

and EJF in 2009. Additionally, YWN has failed to address the recent call by leading Orthodox Rabbis for all chareidi websites to shut down, despite many readers asking why it was ignored.