The following article is from Globes: Back in the late 1970s, El Al Israel Airlines, once a government company and now Israel’s largest publicly traded airline, invented a way of
Today, Monday, March, 28th at 1:30 Tokyo time, final closing arguments took place in the appeals case of Yaakov Yosef ben Raizel. In attendance were Yaakov Yosef�s father, Rabbi Edery, Chabad Shaliach to Tokyo, and askanim R. Aron Nezri and R. Meilech Bindinger.�Yaakov Yosef himself was also present, with an interpreter giving him brief explanations […]
Moscow -�At Moscow�s Detention Center no. 2 of the Federal Corrections Service, more commonly known as the Butyrskaya prison, a Synagogue has opened � the first of its kind at a Moscow prison institutions. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar emphasized the importance of a synagogue in prison to promote […]
Vice President Joe Biden is known for putting his foot in his mouth. Now, his staff is allegedly stuffing reporters in closets. A Florida newspaper reporter claims Biden�s staffers placed him in a storage closet last week to keep him from chatting up guests during a high-priced fundraiser. Scott Powers, a veteran political reporter for […]
The IDF aid delegation to Japan arrived at Minami Sanriku in the Miyagi Prefecture today after a 14 hour flight and 8 hour bus ride. They held their first operational
The following is a WCBTV Report: Two airports sit less than five miles from each other, their wide-open runways tracing big Xs along the same stretch of Atlantic shoreline. At John F. Kennedy International Airport, air traffic controllers herd a procession of airliners in what has become a chronic choke point in the nation�s air […]
Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his family are under house arrest and have not fled to Saudi Arabia, Egypt’s military rulers said Monday. “There is no truth to reports
On�October 2,�2002, President George W. Bush and the House Leadership agreed on a�joint resolution�authorizing the�Iraq War. It was a bipartisan resolution that called for Saddam Hussein to disarm and one that was meant to �confront a gathering threat to the security of America and to the future of peace�. Saddam Hussein was an evil, brutal […]
For the third consecutive year, the tax deduction for charitable giving is in some policymakers� sights � and nonprofit officials fear, given the belt-tightening mood in Washington, this time could be the charm. Nonprofits have stressed that, with governments around the country looking at ways to cut costs, giving incentives to charitable donations is now […]
When a large Southern California water system wanted to probe the vulnerabilities of its computer networks, it hired Los Angeles-based hacker Marc Maiffret to test them. His team seized control of the equipment that added chemical treatments to drinking water � in one day. The weak link: County employees had been logging into the network […]
The following is from the NY Daily News: Eliot Spitzer may have talked the talk, but Gov. Cuomo showed New Yorkers he’s the true steamroller. Cuomo in his first three
Proposed federal funding for alcohol-detection devices could make them available as a new car option within 10 years, but some hope � and others fret � it will speed installation in every car. “What we’d like to see is it used as much as possible,” says Laura Dean-Mooney, national president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving […]
The new $743 million JetBlue terminal at JFK Airport is a police radio “dead zone” that puts Port Authority cops in a Ground Zero-like communications blackout that has already led
With less than a week until the state’s budget deadline, Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have struck a tentative agreement. The announcement was made Sunday following a closed door
Two teenagers were pronounced dead after they had gone missing Sunday in the fishponds at Kibbutz Osha, near Kiryat Ata in the North. The youths, aged 15, were from a
[VIDEO & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] NYS Senator Eric Adams held a press conference with Jewish & Muslim groups�in Manhattan, Sunday morning,�to protest the budget cuts headed to Medical Examiners across the state. Access to the Medical Examiner is of the utmost importance to those who follow the Jewish and Muslim faiths, as burials must […]
To Acheinu Bnei Yisroel – Rachmonim B�nei rachmonim: On Purim night, we reported the unfortunate news of a Meshulach who was critically injured after being struck by a vehicle in Lakewood. The Meshulach in fact – Rabbi Pinchos Ben Sarah Esther Huminer – is a prominent individual from Eretz Yisroel, A Rebbi, Sofer and an� […]
The following is a NY Post article: The streets were buried in snow, and these guys really cleaned up. Department of Sanitation workers shoveled in the OT in the week
Sen. Chuck Schumer called on the federal government Saturday to probe the 2010 U.S. Census� finding that New York City had grown by a mere trickle. �These numbers cry out for investigation,� Schumer said, adding his voice to a chorus of critics, including Mayor Bloomberg, who have railed against the decennial count. �I�m going to […]
There has been another attempt to attack the natural gas pipeline from Egypt to Israel. The Associated Press reports that gunmen targeted a pipeline carrying natural gas from Egypt to
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