Mary Rothstein celebrated her 110th birthday in Melbourne yesterday…the second oldest Jew in the world. Her daughter, Ruth Cavallaro, visits her twice each day at Melbourne’s Jewish Care’s aged facility and was at the birthday celebrations with other members of Mary’s family including six great-grandchildren. Cavallaro told media: “Her secret? She has never smoked or […]
Mega Millions fever is getting even hotter as the jackpot swells to the sixth-highest in the drawing’s history. Ticket buyers have been lining up across New York for a chance to take home the estimated $312 million jackpot. Tickets will be sold statewide until 10:45 p.m. Friday for the 11 p.m. drawing. Officials say a […]
Brooklyn — Yesterday, in a tense hearing of the New York City Council’s General Welfare Committee, Councilman David G. Greenfield demanded answers from Administration for Children’s Services (“ACS”) Commissioner John
Would the adults you know be able to say what OMG, LOL or FYI mean? At the end of the month, they will be able to look them up in
Borough leaders were slamming the US Census Bureau on Thursday after the agency claimed that Brooklyn grew by only 40,000 people over the past decade. “It’s a mistake,” said Borough President Markowitz, pronouncing himself “flabbergasted” by the allegation that the borough grew by only 1.6 percent to 2,504,700. “It is inconceivable that Brooklyn — the […]
Thousands of Syrians took to the streets Friday demanding reforms and mourning dozens of protesters who were killed during a violent, weeklong crackdown that has brought extraordinary pressure on the
Lawyers for four men who were convicted in October of placing what they thought were explosives in front of two Bronx synagogues and plotting to fire missiles at military planes
The following is a Ynet report: In covering Wednesday’s terror attack in Jerusalem the Reuters news agency was loath to declare a Palestinian terrorist group was behind the bombing. “Police said it was a ‘terrorist attack’ – Israel’s term for a Palestinian strike,” Reuters reported Wednesday. Many foreign media outlets based their reports on Reuters […]
Real estate mogul Donald Trump said Wednesday that questions over whether President Obama was born in the United States are legitimate, claiming, “There’s something on that birth certificate that he
Perhaps, in the grand scheme of things, occupants of rent-stabilized apartments that go for under $1,000 a month can consider themselves lucky. Now they are slightly less so. On Thursday,
Two school bus drivers in Queens have been arrested as part of a statewide crackdown on bus drivers following the horrific crash in the Bronx two weeks ago that left
Six Americans were injured in the deadly Jerusalem bus bombing Wednesday, a State Department official tells Fox News. A British tourist was killed when a bomb went off on a
Data released today from the 2010 U.S. Census shows that the city’s population has reached 8.175 million – a record high. The 2000 Census showed a population of 8.008 million. However, the number is far below City Hall’s estimate of 8.4 million. While Staten Island, Manhattan and the Bronx all showed significant gains, with Staten […]
The Postal Regulatory Commission said Thursday a U.S. Postal Service request to cut Saturday mail service will not save as much money as USPS thinks. But the commission did not come out either for or against the proposal. Under law, the commission’s advice is required as an intermediate step before Congress decides on a postal […]
Although it was just four days ago, the Simcha of Purim is fading away…but you can treasure the day with these photos and videos. Below are links to hundreds of
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei to Adolf Hitler, during a visit to Moscow on Thursday. ‘Hitler first began conquering the world and then started to develop nuclear arms. Khamenei is going the opposite way,’ Netanyahu said ahead of a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. He said: ‘Iran is […]
The suspected “underwear bomber” chose Detroit as the target for his foiled X-mas day airline bombing in 2009 because it was the cheapest flight, new details show. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
[By: MP Louise Bagshawe] Who is Tamar Fogel? The chances are that you will have no idea. She is a 12-year-old girl who arrived home late on Friday, March 11,
Rep. Anthony Weiner made a 2013 mayoral run all but official on Wednesday – and dropped hints he’ll have Bill and Hillary Clinton in his camp for this go-around. “I have a passing interest in the management of New York,” Weiner said in one of his many asides during a much-hyped speech about health care […]
[VIDEO & EARLIER REPORT IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] 10:55AM EST: A massive fuel tank fire at Miami International Airport overnight has caused American Airlines to cancel 22 outbound and 14 inbound flights Thursday, said airport spokesman Greg Chin. The airline canceled the flights to avoid delays, Chin said. The fire reduced fuel supply to 40 percent, […]
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