Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov, who is coordinating the preparations for Lag B’Omer celebrations at Kever Rashbi will visit the site this motzei shabbos. During his visit, the minister will check on the final stages of the safety and security preparations which were agreed upon during his preparatory visit to the site last week with MK […]
Fire Commissioner Salvatore J. Cassano announced today the city will increase basic ambulance coverage by 15% on the West Side to alleviate the impact of additional travel time to other hospitals in Manhattan due to the closure of St. Vincent’s Hospital. The FDNY, which is already staffing 13 ambulance tours daily that were previously provided […]
The wife of Sholom Rubashkin testified Thursday morning about “the giant of a man,” her husband. Sholom Rubashkin, 51, has been convicted of 86 counts of fraud in connection with an immigration raid in 2008 at the Agriprocessor Kosher Slaughtering House in Postville. Leah Rubashkin was testifying in the three day sentencing hearing that will […]
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, who is visiting Washington, was denied an opportunity to meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and special Mideast envoy George Mitchell. It appears the administration
A Simplicity and Graco crib recall is effecting hundreds of thousands of consumers. Hardware failures in the structures of cribs in both companies has resulted in 1 death, 1 mild
The New York State Thruway Authority today announced that weather and adjustments to the construction schedule will delay the opening of Highway Speed E-ZPass lanes at the Woodbury Toll Plaza.
[PART FIVE IN A SERIES] It’s a simple, well documented fact: People who are happy in their jobs are eminently more successful over time than those who are not. Yet, because many people fail to plan their careers – – letting circumstances or other people dictate their paths– they often get stuck in jobs they […]
At a hearing of the New York City Council’s Committee on Public Safety yesterday, Councilman David Greenfield used the opportunity to question the NYPD’s Chief of Transportation James Tuller about the widespread belief that New York City Traffic Enforcement Agents have a quota of parking tickets that they are required to issue. Tuller supervises all […]
NYS Governor Paterson today announced the launch of the Straight Talk, Straight Answers blog where the Governor and senior administration officials will respond directly to the questions, concerns and suggestions
[LARGE PHOTO ALBUM LINKED BELOW] The following is the WCBSTV article regarding the stolen Sifrei Torah story, which was first reported by YWN just minutes after the theft was discovered:
Australia could become the first country in the world to require cigarette packages to be stripped of logos and designs. By July 2012, all cigarettes in the country will be
As the Emanuel Beis Yaakov case takes a prominent place in Thursday’s news in Israel, with the sides and parents appearing before the Supreme Court, Jerusalem Councilman Yitzchak Pindrus grabbed his own news headline, reportedly releasing a statement “In chareidi education, we don’t accept Sephardim, monkeys, Russians and Ethiopians”. One could not find a less […]
It appears the White House is adopting a different approach towards actualizing its demands to halt construction in Yerushalayim, extending an invitation to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Eli Yishai. Amid reports that Yishai is revitalizing the district planning committee’s activities towards the resumption of construction in the capital, the White House […]
Meir Rabin, portrayed by police as the main suspect in the ongoing Holyland investigation was remanded for an additional six days on Wednesday afternoon by the Rishon L’Tzion Magistrate’s Court. It will mark the third time that he was held over, with Justice Avraham Heiman accepting the state’s request to deny his release on bail, […]
A fired-up Mayor Bloomberg warned the U.S. “is committing national suicide” by passing the buck on implementing comprehensive immigration reform. Hizzoner delivered the blunt message Wednesday as he criticized Arizona’s
2:04PM IL: In an unexpected move, the High Court of Justice on Thursday ruled in the Emanuel Beis Yaakov case that HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Yosef Shlita will serve as arbitrator
One of Scott Rothstein’s closest confidantes at his defunct Fort Lauderdale law firm pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a money-laundering conspiracy charge alleging she helped him engineer his $1.2 billion
A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted two men in connection with a series of hoax anthrax letters that were mailed in Alabama this month and in March, U.S. Attorney Joyce
Derek Michael Stansberry, a U.S. citizen and resident of Riverview, Fla., was charged Wednesday in a criminal complaint in the District of Maine with interfering with flight crew members and
MTA and local officials recently gathered at the Verrazano-Narrows toll plaza for a final goodbye. The Brooklyn-bound toll booths, dormant since one-way tolling began on the bridge in 1986, are
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