[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] In 2006, the U.S. Congress designated Jewish Heritage Month to celebrate the talents and contributions of the American Jewish community to American society. Last week, the Friedlander Group of New York hosted a Congressional Tribute to distinguished Jewish Americans, a celebration of Jewish American Heritage, at a kosher luncheon in the U.S. […]
The Commander of the IDF Military Colleges Major-General Yossi Baidatz provided a strategic overview last week to a group of retired senior officers from the US Armed Forces. Their week-long
2:20PM: There is a working structure fire reported at the Skver Camp located at 1123 Glen Wild Road, in Woodridge, NY. The Woodridge Fire Department has requested a 2nd alarm
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today issued a consumer alert warning used car buyers from purchasing storm damaged cars. A link on the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) website allows consumers to immediately determine whether a used vehicle is a “flood car” from Super Storm Sandy or damaged following other storms or circumstances. Approximately 400,000 vehicles […]
U.S. home prices jumped 10.9 percent in March compared with a year ago, the most since April 2006. A growing number of buyers are bidding on a tight supply of
MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Yisrael Eichler feels the solution is not to draft chareidim but to change over from today’s people’s army to a professional military. Eichler is confident this is the way to eliminate the chasm between various sectors of society that exists in Israel today. “There are two wars ongoing in Israel today. One […]
U.S. authorities said on Tuesday they have shut down a Costa Rica-based money transfer company that allegedly provided a digital currency widely used around the world by cyber-criminals. In a
As a coalition crisis brews in Israel, Yesh Atid party leader Finance Minister Yair Lapid remains firm in his determination to draft bnei yeshivos into the military. The following was posted on Lapid’s Facebook page. “I want to be very clear about the burdens of equality: equality would be a burden or this government will […]
A former Iranian nuclear negotiator who is running for president used his first television appearance of the campaign to reject accusations he had been too soft in negotiations with world
In line with a new regulation from the Ministry of Communications, which takes effect on June 9, 2013, cellular telephone providers are now compelled to get one’s number up and running within 30 minutes. A wired phone line must be up and running within an hour of changing provider. To date, the cellular changeover was […]
The New York mansion that once belonged to the brother of Bernard Madoff is on the market for $4.5 million. Peter Madoff’s Old Westbury estate on Long Island has been
Former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is getting out of federal prison today. Kerik is expected to return to his New Jersey home after being released from a Maryland prison where
Part of my interview with Republican mayoral hopeful, Joe Lhota: Joseph Lhota is Jewish according to Jewish law. His maternal grandmother, Ita Steinberg, was born in the USA to a
Minister of Senior Citizen Affairs (Bayit Yehudi) Uri Orbach in a Facebook posting on Tuesday, 19 Sivan 5773 announced unequivocally that he supports the candidacy of Rabbi David Stav for chief rabbi, “without any ifs ands and buts and without compromising the kovod of any of the other candidates”. “Despite all the deals and the […]
HaGaon HaRav Aaron Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita has released a letter published in chareidi newspapers today, Tuesday, 19 Sivan 5773. The Gadol Hador refers to the ongoing process by which
Seven months after Superstorm Sandy, the Red Cross still hasn’t spent more than a third of the $303 million it raised to assist victims of the storm, a strategy the
Sanz Chassidim are completing preparations for the chasenah of a first granddaughter of the rebbe shlita, a daughter of the rebbe’s son HaRav Yosef Moshe Dov Halberstam, which will take place Tuesday, 19 Sivan 5773. The father of the chosson is the Rosh Yeshiva of the chassidus’ yeshiva network. The chosson, Moshe Nosson Neta Halprin […]
The owner of a weekly Westchester County newspaper has filed a lawsuit claiming he was targeted by the IRS for his Tea Party activities. Sam Zherka is suing the IRS and the FBI for $20 million. He says he’s under scrutiny in a tax investigation only because of his political activities from 2009-2010. He tells […]
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Hirsh, a leading figure in Neturei Karta in Eretz Yisrael, spoke with Kol Chai Radio on Sunday night the eve of 18 Sivan 5773. Rabbi Hirsh was
If one takes ill on an international flight R”L, rarely will one find oneself on board an El Al flight without a doctor. Actually, it has become a joke, the old “Is there a doctor on board” for a Jewish airline usually will have a doctor [or two] on board. However, this case may be […]
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