Four days after telling the world he was resigning from Congress, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) made it official in a letter Monday to officials in Albany and Washington. House Speaker
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The trusty old Internet addresses we know and love — the .coms, .nets, .orgs — are about to get some new competition. Global Internet regulators met Monday in Singapore to
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A man from Queens, New York, leaves onlookers stunned as he hunts out bits of diamonds, rubies, platinum and gold from the sidewalk cracks of Midtown’s Diamond District. Raffi Stepanian,
A plan to bring 1,000 missionaries to Israel, under the guise of newly converted Jews seeking to settle the Shomron, is picking up steam, Yad L’Achim has learned. The plan,
[PHOTOS & VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] The Levaya of Hagon Rav Yitzchok Dov Koppelman ZATZAL, Rosh Yeshiva of Lucerne Yeshiva in Switzerland, took place on Sunday evening at the Mir
With time ticking down on the legislative session in Albany, the Bloomberg administration made a new proposal on Sunday to accomplish one of its most highly publicized goals of the
Citizens voted to reject an expansion project for the Gate David synagogue at 5363 Hutchison in the Plateau borough of Montreal Sunday. The result of the referendum was 53.41 percent
A Brooklyn dad angry over a bunch of teen hoodlums hanging out on his stoop and terrorizing his quiet block snapped — opening fire on them with a military-style assault
In the 17 months between now and Election Day 2012, innumerable theories, some esoteric, will be advanced about how President Obama can get reelected. Math provides a starker answer: Win
The New York Mets have accused a kosher hot dog firm of surreptitiously recording conversations between executives at concessions giant Aramark–and then employing a cover-up to hide the tapes from
7:40PM EST: Just moments ago, YWN recieved word from our sources at Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in Yerushalayim, that the doctors have completed the surgery on Maran Hagon Rav Yosef Shalom
Charlotte Bloomberg, the mom with moxie who watched her son rise from restless schoolboy to become New York’s three-term mayor, died Sunday, several neighbors said. She was 102. “She died
Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann suggested Friday that President Obama is deliberately trying to let Medicare go broke, with the goal of forcing senior citizens to participate in his health care
The following is from the Jewish Chronicle: Shomrim is notoriously private. The strictly Orthodox security organisation does not have a website or a phone number listed online and it does
Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan has been asked to forgo his diplomatic passport, and Channel 2 reported on Sunday that the move comes as a response to Dagan’s recent comments
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