The Bloomberg administration has brokered a deal to bring a ShopRite supermarket to the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard, the NY Post has learned. It’s part of a plan that will finally break down a section of the 300-acre industrial park’s 12-foot-high brick walls to make it a major destination for surrounding communities and three public […]
I am not one to take notice of cases tried in the courts or of their outcome. However upon reading an article delineating the criminal charges that Mr. Sholom Rubashkin was convicted of and the subsequent sentence being requested by the prosecutors, I found myself asking can this really be happening in “the land of […]
A free speech dispute over a California law banning sale of violent video games to children will go to the Supreme Court for review. The justices Monday accepted the state’s
Senate Democrats failed to muster enough votes Monday to take up Wall Street reform, with a key Democrat voting with Republicans against the push to get the debate started. Sen.
There are several versions of the story making their way around town, a story that emerges from the Har Nof area of Yerushalayim, involving a gabbai of Chanichei Yeshivos. According to one version, appearing on the Chadrei Chareidim website, the gabbai has fled the country, fearing he is being sought by elements in Israel’s underworld […]
Brooklyn – Councilman David G. Greenfield today joined with local elected officials to strongly condemn an act of anti-Semitic vandalism that occurred in the Boro Park Section of Brooklyn. A van belonging to the Hamaspik Assisted Living Facility located on 61st Street in Brooklyn was vandalized in front of that facility by a large spray-painted […]
7:00PM EST: [VIDEO & UPDATE BELOW] Dozens of NYPD officers are on the scene in Marine Park, after an officer shot & killed an armed perpetrator, and a second suspect
Woodmere, NY - Some Woodmere residents are fighting against the construction of an ambulance garage in their residential area. The garage would house vehicles from Hatzalah of the Rockaways and Nassau County, an ambulance organization that serves members of the Jewish community. Neighbors say the garage would be too big for the area, cause traffic problems […]
It was a sad morning on Sunday when representatives of HoTza’ot L’Poel (court collections arm) armed with a court order, empowered to confiscate anything of worth towards collecting a debt from the Khal Adat Teiman Shul in Modi’in Illit, arrived in the community. Supported by members of Israel’s Yemenite community, the mispallalim were in the […]
Ali Ismail Ahmed Sawiti, a wanted Hamas terrorist, was killed during a joint IDF-Border Police-ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet) arrest operation in the village of Beit ‘Awwa, south of Chevron during the predawn hours on Monday. A force surrounded the building in which Sawiti was hiding and called on him to surrender. Sawiti […]
White House National Security Adviser James Jones has apologized for a joke that offended some Jewish citizens, reported earlier today by YWN. “I wish that I had not made this
In what many are calling a major political blunder other are realizing may more likely have been a Freudian slip, when Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit during a press conference referred to Israel as “the enemy”. Gheit stated “I did not come to Lebanon to relay a message from the enemy to a sister […]
Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Eli Yishai is working to put Jerusalem construction back on the short term agenda. Every since the incident, the announced approval of 1,600 housing
As Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) spread the news, accusations of Holyland bribe funds making their way to Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita, one of his sons, Cholon Chief Rabbi
Tragedy struck Yerushalayim on Sunday night when a fire erupted in the Ohr Chaim Yeshiva on Avinoam Yellin Street in the Bucharim area of the capital. While firefighters managed to
Today, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer called on the Census Bureau to send more personnel to New York City for the Census count in the face of response rates significantly
According to MK Talab al-Sana, one of six Arab MKs who traveled to Libya to meet with Muammar Kaddafi, the Libyan leader is not an anti-Semite, for he stressed his
For some bizarre reason, Israel appears to feel compelled to respond to vicious and baseless rumors spread by regional Arab leaders, including in this most recent case, Syria. Addressing a
The following article appears on the ABC news website: As a federal judge in Iowa prepares to sentence the orthodox Jewish owner of what once was the nation’s largest kosher
As many in the Brooklyn Jewish community are preparing for holiday travel abroad, the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg (UJO) is working with the United States Postal Service (USPS) to
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