Russian immigration officials said Saturday they have not received an application from Edward Snowden, the U.S. National Security Agency leaker who wants to get asylum in Russia. Snowden came to
Hyundai Motor Co.’s factories have reached their maximum capacity to build cars, and that’s costing the company sales in a growing U.S. market, its American CEO said Friday. Hyundai’s U.S.
Senator Charles Schumer has recommended New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Current head Janet Napolitano said Friday she was resigning to take a job as president of the University of California system. Schumer, a New York Democrat, says she’s done a great job in an important post. […]
It was another record day on Wall Street — barely. After spending most of Friday flat or down, stocks rallied at the last minute and closed slightly higher, just enough to post new record highs for the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. The gains were tiny. And the new […]
Our lives are complicated enough without having to deal with the unexpected misery and aggravation of identity theft. That’s why Democratic City Council candidate Chaim Deutsch is calling for tougher penalties for bank card skimming and identity theft. “With 22 years of involvement in law enforcement issues, I thought that I was well aware of […]
Research surveying the impact of immigration on entrepreneurship finds that immigrants turning to entrepreneurship are mostly not entrepreneurs in their country of origin. “The US is sometimes blamed for ‘stealing’ entrepreneurs from other countries. But this is not necessarily the case. The study has found that successful immigrant entrepreneurs mostly became that way to overcome […]
New York fire officials say fumes from two dozen bug bombs stored inside a Chinatown building sparked an explosion that injured a dozen people. Three injured in the Thursday blaze
A New York appeals court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of a man who joined a failed plot to firebomb Kennedy Airport. Kareem Ibrahim was convicted in 2011
With police and civic leaders urging calm, a jury began deliberating George Zimmerman’s fate Friday after hearing dueling portraits of the neighborhood watch captain: a cop wannabe who took the
Rabbi David Stav, a candidate to become the next Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel will be the guest of honor at the launching of the mayoral campaign of Ra’anana Mayor Nachum Chofri. Chofri is seeking another term in office. He also happens to be a member of the 150 member voting body that will elect […]
The European Jewish Congress (EJC) expresses its strong condemnation of the decision today by the Polish Parliament to ban the slaughter of animals for meat in accordance with Jewish practice. “This decision puts into question the ability to maintain normative Jewish life in the Republic of Poland, and its ability to confirm with the basic […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Minister of the Economy Naftali Bennett, currently on an official visit in China, loaded a YouTube update on his visit after conducting 20 meetings. He speaks
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that 486 drivers had been ticketed by State Police for distracted during the July 4th weekend. The holiday weekend involved heightened enforcement of traffic laws by state police in both marked and unmarked patrol vehicles. “Last week, I signed a law to institute tougher penalties for texting while driving […]
MK (Yesh Atid) Dr. Ruth Calderon grabbed the media spotlight in her first Knesset plenum address, a shiur in Talmud, opting to exhibit her skills in the Oral Law. She
Charles Hynes, running for reelection as Brooklyn’s District Attorney, has managed to secure himself a definite win in November, regardless of the Democratic Party primary outcome I September, City and
Edward Snowden plans to seek asylum in Russia, a Parliament member who was among those meeting with the NSA leaker said Friday. Duma member Vyacheslav Nikonov told reporters of Snowden’s
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] MK (Yesh Atid) Dov Lipman can chalk up a victory as his bill seeking to prohibit the sale of goose liver passed in Knesset in a
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who led the burgeoning Department of Homeland Security through a host of policy changes in the post 9/11 era, is resigning to head the University
With a bit less than two months remaining until Rosh Hashanah, the bakers are hard at work preparing the expected tens of thousands of mispallalim who will be spending the
Unfortunately, many elderly people who require the need to be placed in a nursing home end up exhausting their assets to pay for their stay at the nursing home. These
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