For the second time in a month, the Police Department has issued new orders surrounding the Stop and Frisk campaign. The change comes in the wake of the Village Voice’s NYPD Tapes series, which reported that officers were doing stop and frisks to hit quotas, reported that people were being stopped and arrested for not […]
[Photo link below] United States Attorney Loretta E. Lynch announced today four separate indictments charging 17 individuals for their participation in health care fraud and money laundering schemes in the
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is conducting a “wide-ranging” probe into potential fraud by charities that accept automobiles for donations. At a press conference, Mr. Cuomo said his office
With the threat of jail time hanging over many fathers in connection to the Emanuel Beis Yaakov case, the response to the High Court’s ruling is one of outrage and disbelief. Prominent Slonimer chossid Rabbi Avraham Luria released the following statement. “The High Court reached a scandalous decision. The High Court of Justice today declared […]
Supreme Court Justice Justices Edmond Levy, Edna Arbel and Chanan Meltzer announced their ruling on Tuesday afternoon in the case of the Emanuel Beis Yaakov School. The court ruled that any parent who does not send its child to the school, in contradiction to the court’s ruling, will be sent to jail for two weeks. […]
Gen. David Petraeus appeared to have passed out during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday, recovering enough to be escorted from the room. The head of Central Command was
Retired High Court Justice Yehoshua Matza convened a press conference on Tuesday to announce the findings of the government-appointed investigation into the state’s handling of the Gush Katif and N. Shomron expellees, close to 10,000 in number, who were uprooted from their homes in the carrying out of the 2005 so-called Disengagement plan, during the […]
As the appointees to the Mavi Marmara Commission prepare to probe the Shayetet 13 commando operation, the Israel Navy is busy preparing to stop the next flotilla, this time from Lebanon, the Naji el-Ali. The boat is expected to attempt to break the marine embargo on Gaza “soon”, but government officials are not giving an […]
President Barack Obama tried to strike an upbeat note on his latest tour of the oil stricken Gulf Coast on Monday. But it’s something he said before his trip that
A 52-year-old American citizen who said he was searching for Osama bin Laden was detained in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan this week, Pakistani police said Tuesday. The Californian named Gary Faulkner was carrying a pistol, a sword, night-vision equipment and Christian religious books, said Mumtaz Ahmed, a police chief in the area. Faulkner […]
12:22PM IL: The Tuesday morning court proceedings surrounding the Emanuel Beis Yaakov was surrounded by tensions of the recent months, in which the sides have failed to reach agreement. Yoav Lalum has been villainized by the Ashkenazi chareidi community, with pashkavilim bearing his photo appearing in chareidi areas, labeled as a “traitor’ and worse. In […]
Monday’s High Court ruling against monthly payments to avreichim targeted the minimal funds received by them to feed families, a sum that permits an extremely modest lifestyle at best, less than 40% of the average government assisted income, literally “the bread and milk” from their tables as a number of chareidi MKs put it. The […]
MacDill Air Force Base, Florida – A heavily armed man and woman were in custody Monday after trying to enter the Air Force base that houses the headquarters for U.S.
The FBI is investigating letters containing a white powder that were mailed to at least seven federal offices in the states of Washington and Idaho, FBI representatives said Monday. “We
Albany lawmakers have approved Governor David Paterson’s latest budget extender, essentially avoiding a shutdown of state government. The measure passed the State Senate by a vote of 34-to-27. The bill
Forget about sitting in detention. Imagine being forced to clean a dirty toilet as punishment in school. If you can believe it, there are reports it happened in a NYC
A top campaign operative involved in Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 2009 re-election bid was charged today with stealing approximately $1.2 million in missing campaign funds. Veteran Queens Republican leader John Haggerty
As the United Nations leads the humanitarian battle cry against Israel, demanding Jerusalem lift the Gaza naval blockade, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) during his White House meeting with
Barring any last minute changes, a separate swimming beach is set to open in Herzliya on June 27th, operated in cooperation between the Herzliya and Bnei Brak municipalities. The separate
NYC Councilman Charles Barron provided details today of his plans to begin a protest bid for governor, and blasted Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and the Democratic Party for putting
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