New York City Public Advocate and Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio announced a major milestone in the fight to prevent a Brooklyn hospital from closing. De Blasio said Saturday
The Republican party resolved on Friday to boycott any 2016 presidential debates sponsored by CNN and NBC if the networks go ahead with plans to make special programs on Hillary
Israel began its A3 automated speed camera program in 2012. Since that time it has been determined that the busiest camera issued 2,532 speeding tickets in 2012, averaging over 80
Anyone who has taken a Chief Rabbinate of Israel exam seeking certification as a mashgiach, rabbi or dayan knows it can take many months or longer until one receives the
About a month after declaring his candidacy in the Jerusalem mayoral race, Moshe Leon is now officially backed by Likud/Beitenu in his bid to unseat Mayor Nir Barkat. After declaring
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says people entering New York City public housing should be fingerprinted as a crime-prevention measure. He made the comments Friday on WOR Radio. Democratic mayoral candidates promptly blasted the mayor’s comment. Ex-city comptroller Bill Thompson compared it to the city’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy. He said it’s “another direct act of treating minorities […]
Attorney Uzi Aaron feels that he will receive widespread support in the Ohr Yehuda mayoral race not because of his affiliation with Shas but because over the years he has
In line with the Health Ministry’s decision, all of Jerusalem’s 31 baby well-care clinics beginning on Sunday, 12 Elul 5773 will begin giving the oral polio booster vaccine. The ministry’s program began in the southern district but as health experts became aware of the realization that the polio threat was significant enough to warrant extending […]
Plans have gone into high gear for what is expected to be the largest tehilim asifa of Jewish children in recent memory on Tuesday September 10th, the 6th day of
In the race for City Council in the 48th District (Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach, Midwood, Homecrest, Brightwater, Trump Village, Luna Park) The Cooperative Community Organization has endorsed Ari
Esther Wahav, a religious woman, explains that on the one hand something inside her brought her to the realization that she has a great deal to contribute to her community and this can best be accomplished by running in the city’s mayoral race. She admits on the other hand she asks herself “why go there? […]
Word is in town that the Board of Elections will convene for an emergency meeting over the weekend to vote on a unprecedented matter that might influence the outcome of
IDF soldiers during the night apprehended terrorists trying to infiltrate into Amona, near Ofra in Shomron. B’chasdei Hashem the armed terrorists were detected in time as they were trying to get into the outpost community. When the soldiers arrived on the scene the three terrorists tried to flee the scene but the soldiers chased after […]
With municipal elections a few short months away, Beit Shemesh Mayor Rav Moshe Abutbul on Wednesday, 8 Elul 5773 visited the Belzer Rebbe Shlita, in Yerushalayim. Abutbul, the incumbent Shas
Gunfire rang out over a main Cairo overpass and police fired tear gas as clashes broke out after tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters took to the streets Friday
Fees are going up across the travel industry, which is now extending to hotels, due to more people traveling. Over the past decade, hotel fees have risen almost every year,
Council Member Stephen Levin is requesting that speed cameras secured through a pilot program be installed in the 33rd District and is calling on constituents to suggest locations for the
Lebanese forensic experts collected evidence Friday at the scene of a massive explosion in a southern suburb of Beirut that killed 22 people and wounded more than 300, the deadliest blast in the area in nearly three decades. Security officials said they were investigating the possibility that Thursday’s blast in Hezbollah’s bastion of support was […]
A new report says that a New York City program is not creating enough affordable housing units. The optional program encourages developers to include low- and middle-income apartments in exchange for being allowed to construct bigger buildings. According to the New York Times, the report by City Councilman Brad Lander’s office says the incentive isn’t […]
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, The Washington
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