It was a special Shabbos for Seret-Vishnitz Chassidim as their Rebbe Shlita joined them for mincha and kabolas Shabbos. The elderly rebbe was recently treated in Rambam Medical Center in
Seven senior Shuvu Banim officials were arrested by Israel Police on Monday, 6 Elul 5773 on suspicion of money laundering and other white collar charges. Six of the people in
Anthony Weiner is on the air with his first TV commercial of the New York City mayoral campaign. Weiner makes no mention of the scandal that has dogged his campaign.
MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Rav Moshe Gafne on Sunday, 5 Elul 5773 attacked the Ministries of Finance and Education for hounding chareidim. He explained he is horrified by what he hears and sees, commenting during a meeting of the Shaked Committee which is responsible for finalizing the chareidi draft bill. What sparked Gafnes anger were statements […]
Attorneys for Erick Salgado, a candidate in the Democratic mayoral primary, filed suit today in Manhattan Supreme Court, seeking a temporary restraining order against Quinnipiac University Polling Institute (Quinnipiac) prohibiting
The 50th Nefesh BNefesh (NBN) aliyah flight is due to land in Eretz Yisrael on Tuesday, 7 Elul 5773. The flight will be carrying 331 North American Olim including 125 young men and women who will be joining the IDF, 41 families (including 88 children), 47 singles and 92 Olim moving to Israels periphery. The […]
Councilman David G. Greenfield is inviting local residents to become inaugural members of a new neighborhood organization called Friends of 18th Avenue Park that he is launching this Wednesday to help protect the communitys investment in this popular and important neighborhood recreation space, which is also known as Gravesend Park. Members would meet bimonthly to […]
MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Meir Porush in his capacity as a member of the Shaked Ministerial Committee finalizing the chareidi draft law opposes a new paragraph being inserted into the bill.
William Rapfogel, fired as head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty amid an investigation into financial irregularities, apologized this afternoon–for something he did not disclose. “After 21 years at
A judge ruled on Monday the New York Police Department’s “stop-and-frisk” crime-fighting tactic unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin called it “indirect racial profiling” because it targeted racially defined groups,
Stephen Merrill was finishing his freshman year of college two years ago when he and a group of friends went to an indoor trampoline park in Utah for a day
The following are Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s remarks as delivered today at City Hall: Good afternoon Im joined by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo. Every day Commissioner Kelly and I wake up determined to keep New Yorkers safe and save lives. Our crime strategies and tools including Stop-Question-Frisk […]
The announcement by Housing Minister (Bayit Yehudi) Uri Ariel on Sunday, 5 Elul 5773 of planned construction elicited the standard condemnatory statements from the international community. Ariel announced that 1,200 new housing units were being built with close to 800 of them being in Yerushalayim, areas viewed as Israeli occupied by the international community. The […]
President Barack Obama is playing golf despite rain that is dampening the second day of his Marthas Vineyard vacation. Before leaving his rented home in the town of Chilmark on Monday, the White House says he was briefed by national security adviser Susan Rice, who accompanied the president on vacation. The White House released a […]
[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Despite the recent kenos and agreement reached to abide by daas Torah regarding the Binyan Shalem project in Beit Shemesh, Asra Kadisha activists were out in
Convicted murderer Ami Popper, who is serving a sentence for the murder of seven Arabs in 1990, on Monday morning 6 Elul 5773 turned to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seeking
Late summer is peak Lyme disease season. As a result, Sen. Charles Schumer has urged the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study new and potentially fatal tick-borne
Former City Comptroller Bill Thompson joined today with Senator Diane Savino to call for new steps to combat hate crimes and promote tolerance just days after a Brooklyn statue of
Midway between the 2012 and 2014 election campaigns, moderate Republican conservatives are beginning to foment a revolt of their own a backlash to anti-spending tea party shrillness as budget cuts begin to significantly shrink defense and domestic programs. Tea party forces may have dominated the House GOP’s approach to the budget so far, but […]
The New York State Attorney General, Eric T. Schneiderman, is investigating allegations of financial malfeasance involving one of the states most influential political power brokers, William E. Rapfogel, the NY Times reports. The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, headed by Rapfogal since 1992 as chief executive and president, issued a statement announcing Mr. Rapfogels immediate […]
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