With the state budget nearly three months late, state lawmakers approved Monday a new tax that will make cigarettes in New York City cost well over $10 a pack. In
As the summer approaches, Catskills Hatzoloh is finalizing location updates to their computer dispatch system for this year. If anyone is aware of any inaccuracies or any changes that have occurred since last summer, either new camps and colonies or name changes they should be notified as soon as possible. These updates are critical for […]
Agudath Israel executive vice president Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel has asked Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael B. Oren for a face-to-face meeting to discuss the situation in Emmanuel. Israel’s High Court ruled that a school created in that town by parents seeking to maintain their religious standards was discriminatory against Sephardi Jews, and […]
As many as 30 states could join an investigation into Google Inc.’s collection of personal information from unprotected wireless networks, Connecticut’s attorney general said today. According to Richard Blumenthal, who
Critics of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu decried the Security Cabinet decision of Sunday, announcing Israel is relaxing restrictions associated with the Gaza embargo as IDF soldier Gilad Shalit prepares to
11:54AM EST: YWN has learned that the judge has sentenced Sholom Rubashkin to 27 years in jail – Hashem Yirachem! She will officially read the sentence to the defendant in court tomorrow. The sentence is greater than the amended recommendation from prosecutors. FURTHER DETAILS TO FOLLOW… SUPPORTERS OF SHOLOM RUBASHKIN OUTRAGED BY EXCESSIVE PRISON SENTENCE Sentence […]
Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-born Connectict man who attempted to blow up a car bomb in Times Squarehas pleaded guilty to terrorism charges. Faisal Shahzad was indicted on 10 counts, including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. The indictment filed charges Shahzad with 10 offenses which carry the following potential penalties: Count 1 – Attempted […]
Reacting to U. S. District Court Judge Linda Reade’s sentencing of former Agriprocessors CEO Sholom Rubashkin to 27 years in prison and five years probation, Agudath Israel of America executive vice president Chaim Dovid Zwiebel issued the following statement: This is a dark day. It is a dark day for American justice. Judge Reade has ignored […]
An NYPD cop who was shot under his arm while subduing a suspect in Queens last year is suing the city because the department never upgraded his bulletproof vest. Mayor
The following is a NY Post article: Albany, NY – What chutzpah! An $18 million tuition subsidy devised by Gov. Paterson as a political gift to the city’s Orthodox Jewish
Yahadut HaTorah MKs met on Monday in the tent established outside Massiyahu Prison, discussing their outrage over the fact that avreichim were sent to prison by the nation’s highest court for their crime of clinging to their yiddishkheit and adhering to their rebbe. Deputy Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman indicated that remaining in the coalition […]
11:00AM EST: [Updates below] The Lakehurst Naval Air Station section of the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst went into lockdown at about 9:15AM Monday morning. All media outlets report is “Officials are investigating an incident at the base. The nature of the incident has not been released.” The lockdown was briefly applied to the Dix and McGuire sections […]
Shas’ Moetzas Gedolei HaTorah did not come out condemning the Emanuel affair, but rather the Rabbonim Shlita maintained a passive position, condemning the petition to the secular judicial system as well as discrimination in Ashkenazi schools. According to a poll commissioned by Yediot Achronot, conducted by Dr. Mina Tzemach and her Dahaf Institute, Shas voters […]
The following is from the Times Herald Record: S. Blooming Grove, NY – A Hasidic group with plans to restore an old clubhouse at Lake Anne is suing the village,
Orleans, NY – A minivan carrying a Frum family from Canada rolled over on Interstate 81 Sunday night, injuring one of the nine occupants seriously enough for authorities to airlift
A 38-year-old avreich working in a tefillin tannery on Chatam Sofer Street in Modi’in Illit was niftar on Monday morning. The factory is set up in a small shelter/storage facility in the community. The young man collapsed and despite the quick EMS response and resuscitation efforts, he did not make it. It appears that he […]
This is perhaps a preamble to what may become my next obsession, but since I am not certain how things will develop, and if time will permit me to probe this in depth as quickly as I would like, or more correctly, as the situation demands, I feel a need to advise readers – to […]
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is planning to announce even more cuts to subway and bus service today, as a new report finds the subways still running are getting dirtier. Transit
With another internal probe launched in Israel, into the alleged failures surrounding the Mavi Marama Gaza flotilla commando operation, additional flotillas are setting sail for the shores of Gaza with
Sen. Eric Adams is a mayoral candidate-in-waiting. The Brooklyn Democrat acknowledged being poised to jump into the 2009 race – and the upcoming 2013 race – but instead deferred to
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