Health officials say Lyme disease is about 10 times more common than previously reported. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says as many as 300,000 Americans are actually diagnosed with Lyme disease each year. Previously, the CDC said the number ranged from 20,000 to 30,000. But CDC officials have known that doctors dont report […]
British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould visited Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak on Sunday afternoon 12 Elul 5773. The visiting diplomat met with Rosh Yeshiva HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein Shlita
New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has worked out an agreement with the Health Department to lower fines for minor restaurant violations. Some are being reduced to levels before
It would appear that the period during which there were exchanges of words regarding planned cuts for lomdei Torah has ended and those cuts are now reality. An avreich earned
A veteran FBI agent is defending his Guantanamo Bay interrogation of a suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Special Agent James Fitzgerald says in a pretrial hearing that Saudi
Former Jerusalem Mayor Rabbi Uri Lupoliansky plans to enter the Jerusalem mayoral race, Yehuda Schlesinger reports in Yisrael Hayom. The report states the former mayor last week made his position clear to his close friends. However, despite the report which gives an air of certainty to Lupolianskys decision, persons close to him state his final […]
The American journalist who has published stories based on leaked documents from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden says hes going to be much more aggressive about printing stories now. That statement from journalist Glenn Greenwald comes after English authorities detained his partner under anti-terror legislation for nearly nine hours at Heathrow Airport in […]
CLEARED FOR RELEASE: Two Arabs, residents of Issawiya in eastern Jerusalem have been arrested in connection with the stabbing attack against a chareidi man in the Old City of Yerushalayim
The campaign for mayor of New York City is getting to its final stages. So far, issues like Stop-and-Frisk and education have taken the spotlight in the Democratic primary, which
After years of burnishing a reputation as one of the nation’s most potent police forces, the New York Police Department appears poised to become one of the most closely monitored.
New York City’s finance commissioner will be taking over a prominent city charity a week after its longtime CEO was fired amid a state criminal investigation. David Frankel is poised
In a warren of offices at a former bank building near Madison Square Garden, dozens of journalists are at work on gleaming new electronic equipment, ready to turn their test
Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president overthrown in an uprising in 2011, will be released from jail soon after a prosecutor cleared him in a corruption case, his lawyer and
A fire truck that carried a crew of firefighters to the World Trade Center for what would prove to be their last assignment is returning to Staten Island for the
Egyptian police fired tear gas Sunday in an attempt to free a guard from rioting detainees, killing at least 36 as the country’s military leader vowed to tolerate no more
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan says a 1790 letter from George Washington to Newports Jewish community strikes a clear note for religious inclusion. Kagan spoke Sunday during a celebration for the 250th anniversary of Touro Synagogue. Its the nations oldest synagogue. Kagan took part in the annual reading of Washingtons letter promising the new […]
A federal judge ruled Monday that the stop-and-frisk policies of the New York City Police Department were unconstitutional. That same day, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Justice Department will
Health Ministry officials report that over 50,000 children up to the age of nine have already received the polio oral booster vaccine in the southern district. On Sunday 12 Elul 5773, the booster program moved national as the health experts made the decision to vaccinate all of the nations children from two months until the […]
On Tuesday 14 Elul 5773, the governments monthly child allowance cut goes into effect. While for many families this spells disaster, cutting from an already ailing pocketbook, Finance Minister Yair Lapid calls it a historic event, nothing less. Lapid explains the move is part of his partys platform and he feels that while the government […]
The race for Brooklyn DA is heating up. Charles Hynes, the incumbent Brooklyn District Attorney for the past 23 years is ratcheting up support among the rank and file in
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