According to Egged’s English website, one may and is encouraged to purchase tickets for Lag B’Omer to Meron in advance. “There is no need to stand in line waiting to get on the bus. Purchase your tickets in advance and enjoy your trip to Meron: “You can order your tickets in advance by calling Customer […]
Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) and Councilman David Greenfield are offering a joint $10,000 reward to anyone with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the theft of five Torah scrolls reported stolen from Rabbi Yecheskel Roth’s synagogue, Khal Yirei Hashem, located at 53rd Street between 15th and 16th […]
Pittsburgh – Two men inside a car that crashed into a synagogue in Squirrel Hill on Tuesday evening tries to flee on foot, but bystanders wouldn’t let them go. A
Pittsburgh – An Allegheny County judge must decide whether Jewish religious law can overrule a family’s request to exhume the remains of a family member so they can be moved
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Tuesday accused both Syria and Iran of continuing to arm Hizbullah with rockets and missiles, releasing a statement that “We are at a point now where Hizbullah has far more rockets and missiles than most governments in the world.” Gates added that the United States is continuing to […]
Jerusalem city attorney Yossi Chavilov and city engineer Shlomo Eshkol appear to be working to halt the Holyland project, which is at the heart of what many are calling the largest bribery/fraud investigation in the nation’s history. The two are recommending the planning board not to renew permits permitting the continuation of the controversial project […]
A lawmaker from Brooklyn was at the center of an angry blow-up in Albany in the middle of a normally dull Finance Committee meeting. He’s had run ins with his
FIRST REPORT 7:35AM EST: YWN has just learned that the Shul belonging to Hagon Rav Yechezkel Roth Shlita, has been robbed of all its Sifrei Torah. Mispallilim arriving for Davening
As preparations are underway for Yom Yerushalayim, which is observed on 28 Iyar, commemorating the day paratroopers liberated Yerushalayim from Arab occupation in the June 1967 Six Day War, Israel
[VIDEO LINKS BELOW] A overflowing crowd of hundreds and hundreds of people packed into Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin (Ave L), Tuesday evening, for a a major community-wide kinnus for men and women on behalf of R’ Sholom Mordechai ben Rivka Rubashkin, the evening before his sentencing. The program began with Maariv, followed by a message from […]
Brittney Hibbs KGAN reports: Sholom Rubashkin and his family will soon know where he will spend the rest of his life. It all stems from the Postville immigration raid heard
Exeter Township, PA – The Exeter Township supervisors directed their solicitor to petition Berks County Court to force the Mehadrin Kosher Poultry plant to comply with an April 19 court
Motorists with out-of-state license plates are finally paying parking fines after years of avoiding the fees – pumping millions of dollars into city coffers, the Daily News has learned. A
A former Queens resident pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to providing protective gear to al-Qaida. Prosecutors say Syed Hashmi, 30, helped a friend deliver some protective clothing to
NYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today said that he supports the opening of a Walmart in New York City, despite objections from labor unions. Past efforts to bring the discount chain to the city have been successfully defeated by politicians and organized labor. Yesterday rumors began to surface that Walmart is looking to come to […]
Governor David Paterson proposed $620 million in additional state savings today and asked Albany lawmakers to pass his proposed budget tomorrow by a simple up-or-down vote. The additional cuts were
Coast Guard officials are considering setting the Gulf of Mexico oil slick on fire as it moved Tuesday to within 20 miles of sensitive ecological areas in the Mississippi River
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak appear to be heading towards action that will legalize homes in the Givat HaYovel neighborhood of Yishuv Eli in Shomron, due to the fact that two of the homes slated for demolition belong to the widows and children of IDF officers Ro’i Klein HY”D and Eliraz […]
If lobbyists in Albany get their way, everyone with a drivers license in New York State will automatically become organ donors, unless you tell the government no way. The New York Organ Donor Network, and medical specialists are lobbying in Albany Tuesday night. Nearly a dozen members of the Assembly seeking reform in New York’s […]
US Stocks had their worst drop in months Tuesday, falling to session lows in the final minutes of trading, after the debt ratings on Greece and Portugal were downgraded. Greece’s credit rating was cut three steps to junk by Standard and Poor’s, the first time a euro member has lost its investment grade since the […]
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