Yeshiva World News

Stocks Sink For Second Day As Oil Hits $100

Stocks declined for a second straight session Wednesday as oil prices surged to briefly cross the $100 per barrel mark amid mounting turmoil in Libya. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 107 points, or 0.9%, a day after the blue-chip index plunged nearly 180 points. That was the first back-to-back triple-digit drop for the blue-chip index since June. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 slipped 8 points, or 0.6%. Both indexes were also dragged lower by a 10% tumble in shares of ...

Nokia, Microsoft Join Forces On Phones

Nokia, the world's largest-volume cell phone maker, and software giant Microsoft are joining forces. As part of a new agreement, Nokia will adopt Windows Phone as its choice smartphone platform, and Bing will become the default search engine on all of Nokia's phones. In return, Nokia will provide services such as mapping programs and other software to help flesh out Microsoft's offerings, as well as leverage the handset giant's relationships with cellular carriers. The companies' chief ...

73 House Members Call On Thomas To Recuse Himself From Health Care Reform Case

Washington, DC – Following reports that the spouse of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a lobbyist who has gained financially from efforts to overturn health care reform, a conflict of interest the associate justice failed to disclose, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D – Queens and Brooklyn) and 73 of his House colleagues sent a letter to Justice Thomas calling on him to recuse himself from any deliberations on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Current ...

Nadler Fights For Better Consumer Protections From Dangerous & Defective Products

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, re-introduced legislation designed to stop preventable injuries, accidents and deaths that result from a lack of public access to crucial consumer information.  The Sunshine in Litigation Act of 2011 would restore accountability to our judicial system by restricting court enforced secrecy on matters that affect public health and safety. “Current rules governing federal ...

New Challenge For Holland Tunnel Drivers

Ongoing construction has made coming and going through the Holland Tunnel a bit tricky lately and come Monday it will get worse. The New York City Department Of Design and Construction announced that necessary water main work must take place promising to complicate going uptown from the traffic rotary. Specifically, “The major change will be the restriction of the right turn on to Hudson at exit 2,” says the department’s assistant commissioner Matthew Monahan. Monahan says the ...

Power Outage In Flatbush

4:10PM EST: Con Ed is reporting a power outage in the Marine Park section of Brooklyn. There are approximately 1,333 customers impacted and the population count for the affected area is approximately 5,316. VISIT FLATBUSHSCOOP.COM FOR MORE

Liu: NYC Left $3.3 Mil. In Taxes On The Table

NEW YORK, NY – The City failed to collect a total of $3,355,470 from property and utility taxes because of bookkeeping flaws, two audits released by Comptroller John C. Liu have revealed. The first audit examined the City’s handling of its Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILOTs) program from July 1, 2006 through December 31, 2009.  The PILOT program offers substantial incentives and subsidies to property owners in the form of real property tax relief for the creation of affordable housing, ...

Wintry Mix En Route To Tri-State Area

It’s the calm before the storm for parts of the Tri-State, once again. A low pressure system developing in the Gulf will travel along the Atlantic coast and arrive over our area by early Saturday morning. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for parts of New York and New Jersey, which will be in effect from 4 a.m. through 10 p.m. Saturday. Snow is expected to develop late Friday night and gradually change to a wintry mix of snow and freezing rain by Saturday ...

Last Year's H1N1 Flu Vaccine Was Safe

Close to 100 million doses of H1N1 flu vaccine were given out in 2009-2010 in China, with no pattern of serious side effects observed, a review by Chinese scientists finds. Moreover, no evidence surfaced that the swine flu vaccine, as it was called, increased the risk for Guillain-Barre syndrome, according to the report published in the Feb. 2 online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. An outbreak of Guillain-Barre around the time of widespread vaccination against swine flu in ...

Suspicious Package At Flatbush Post Office

10:10AM (Thursday): A suspicious package inside a post office has led the NYPD to cordoned off an area in front of the building on Nostrand Avenue Between Avenue's I and J. There are reportedly three patients being treated by FDNY EMS for difficulty breathing. FULL STORY AT FLATBUSHSCOOP.COM

VIDEO & PHOTOS: Rav Matisyahu Salomon In Eretz Yisroel

HaRav Matisyahu Salomon Shlita, Mashgiach of Beis Medrash Govoah in Lakewood, has been in Eretz Yisroel for the past few days. He spoke this evening at Beis Medrash Shaagas Aryeh in Kiryat Sefer, and is expected to attend a bris in Yerushalayim before he makes his way back to the United States. Credits: S.B. Korn / Kuvien Images (Yehuda Boltshauser & Co.) Click HERE to see the photos.

CNN Reporter Beaten By Mubarak Supporters

Anderson Cooper and his crew have been attacked by supporters of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, according to CNN. CNN's Steve Brusk tweeted that "Anderson said he was punched 10 times in the head as pro-Mubarak mob surrounded him and his crew trying to cover demonstration." Al-Jazeera also reported the news.

Mich. School District Gives Pass to Religious Dagger

A Detroit-area district says it's allowing Sikh students to wear a small, religious dagger to school, MyFoxDetroit.com reports. The decision by the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools reverses a ban put in place in December after a fourth-grader at a Canton Township elementary school was found with a dull, 3- to 5-inch kirpan. The kirpan represents a commitment to fight evil in the Sikh tradition. The dagger is a religious symbol that baptized Sikh males are expected to carry. The ...

CRC Kashrus Alerts 1/28

Kashrus Updates January 28, 2011 By Rabbi Sholem Fishbane Kashrus Administrator of the Chicago Rabbinical Council http://www.crcweb.org   www.twitter.com/crckosher  Please note that the Kosher Reflections Café at the Illinois Holocaust Museum at 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, IL has been closed. Due to kashrus violations, Survivor Industries, Oxnard, CA is no longer under KOF-K Kosher Certification. The following Ricola items are recommended by the cRc: Green Tea with ...

VIDEO: Levayah Of Rav Nochum Zev Dessler ZATZAL

Below is some video footage taken at the Levayah of Rav Nochum Zev Dessler ZT"L at the Shamgar funeral home in Yerushalayim. Among the maspidim was HaRav Moshe Shapira. HaRav Nosson Tzvi Finkel also attended the levayah. Credits: Kuvien Images

PA De Blasio Offers Live Updates Of Streets Plowed Near Hospitals

NYC Public Advocate de Blasio today announced an online and volunteer initiative to engage New Yorkers in monitoring snow removal, in particular on streets near 55 local hospitals.  New Yorkers can report conditions in their neighborhood and at nearby hospitals by calling the Public Advocate Hotline at 212-669-7250, at advocate.nyc.gov , or via twitter @BilldeBlasio. At least 10 New York City hospitals had facilities, including emergency rooms, which were snowbound for days following ...

Former U.S. Secretary of State Shultz Calls on Obama to Free Pollard

Former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz today sent a letter to President Barack Obama requesting that Jonathan Pollard be released from prison (the full text of the letter appears below; an image of the original letter is attached).   George Shultz served as the U.S. Secretary of State from 1982-1989.  Prior to that, Shultz served as U.S. Secretary of Labor and as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.  He is currently the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover ...