The U.S. Postal Service, struggling to cut costs and conserve cash, said Thursday it wants to end overnight delivery of letters and postcards and will study about 250 processing sites
The ongoing ticket-writing slowdown by fedup NYPD cops has become so costly to the city that a top police commander seems to have resorted to using a dreaded word in
Friday, 09:15 IL: Posek HaDor Maran HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv appears to have “lost consciousness” for a brief period a short time ago. It is unclear exactly what occurred,
A city-based advocacy group today asked the Warwick hotel to reverse its decision to host Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his delegation during the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
Former Mayor Edward I. Koch’s strategy seemed almost nutty at first: ask Jewish residents in Brooklyn and Queens to vote against an Israel-loving observant Jew for Congress to send a
Apple has pulled an app that enabled French users to look through a database of celebrities and public figures and identify whether or not they are Jewish. The app was
Hundreds of millions of new Israeli shekels will be allocated for the city of Bnei Brak in the coming years, seeking to make significant improvements before the city’s 90th birthday.
The growing tensions between Israel and Egypt may affect the Yom Tov of Sukkos this year. According to a report on IDF Army Radio on Wednesday, Egypt has decided not
AAA is urging the U.S. Department of Transportation to block a plan to increase tolls by as much as 50 percent on the bridges and tunnels between New York City
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has allocated NIS 20 million to upgrade teaching at hospitals in the north for the benefit of students at the medical school in Tzfat. This is
The following is from the Financial Times: Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will address the UN General Assembly on Friday next week, setting the stage for a potentially dramatic
Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the Obama administration’s policy towards Israel, just days after a Republican won a local congressional election in which dissatisfaction with the president’s support for Israel became
The number of New Yorkers who smoke has dropped to 14 percent, down from 22 percent in 2002. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday that there are 450,000 fewer adult smokers
Misaskim was contacted by the Brooklyn Medical Examiner’s Office and the 66th Detective Squad regarding information about a deceased individual that has not been claimed by family for two weeks.
Following the Zaka precedent of placing a bus targeted by terrorists in front of The Hague, Israel is contemplating placing the school bus hit by a rocket from Gaza in
There is a most interesting din Torah pending in Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak. The case was brought before the Av Beis Din, HaGaon HaRav Nissim Karelitz Shlita, to adjudicate
There has not been an Ashkenazi chief rabbi in Netanya for some 20 years, but now, the city council is going to convene to discuss the matter. For the past
A cab of a tractor trailer found abandoned with Arabic literature inside this morning, sent police on a search and put the department on high alert. At about 4:30 AM,
A vaad that was established in Elad, seeking to return the community to its previous realities, is pleased that to date 15 shopkeepers have agreed to shut their doors by
The New York City Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) held a hearing this week on a proposed project that threatens to reduce available parking and increase irritation for residents
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