The following are Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s remarks as delivered at Lutheran Medical Center Thursday evening: “Good evening. Tonight – separated by a single hour – three of New York’s Finest were injured by gun fire in two different boroughs. “We are here at Lutheran Hospital in Brooklyn, where we assembled because Police Officer Lukasz […]
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Starbucks Corp. is rolling out a $1 reusable plastic cup at its cafes starting Thursday. The Seattle-based coffee chain already gives customers a dime discount each time they bring in
A panel commissioned by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to bolster preparations for the next superstorm has recommended a state fuel reserve, citizen training, tougher building codes, generators at gas stations, and
A third-alarm fire ripped through a home in Boro Park, Friday morning. The fire broke out in the basement of 1049 42nd Street, and quickly spread through the entire structure.
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Aryeh Deri told the media “I am very concerned” regarding ongoing and increasing IDF efforts to draft chareidim into the military. Deri explains that in the absence of a new Tal Law the IDF will step up efforts to draft chareidim, adding “I fear chas v’sholom this may lead to civil war.” The Shas Yom […]
Officials of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) on Thursday, 21 Teves 5773 filed a complaint with police following another vandalism attack at the Kever of David HaMelech on Har Tzion in Yerushalayim. The damage is reported to be “extensive” and in some areas, “irreparable” according to IAA officials. Most of the ceramic work around the […]
A fourth suspect was taken into custody during the night, Wednesday to Thursday, 21 Teves 5773. A talmid of Ponevezh Yeshiva was taken into custody for his alleged involvement in the attack against HaPeles newspaper Editor-in-Chief Nati Grossman, who was attacked near his Bayit Vegan home. The suspect was remanded in the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court […]
Palestinian networks and organizations recently called on European Union (EU) citizens to ask their governments to suspend the EU’s trade agreements with Israel, until the latter “complies with international law.”
The Knesset Law Committee has approved amending a law which now compels declaring over 12,000 NIS at a Gaza border crossing towards cutting the Hamas money pipeline. Until now, the
Two NYPD Officers were shot in the train station on Fort Hamilton Parkway and 62nd Street, law enforcement sources confirm to YWN. Both officers were taken to Lutheran Trauma Center
An off-duty police officer was shot in the leg during an apparent robbery in the Bronx, law enforcement sources say. The officer was shot at a the “Boston Auto Mall”
A New York county clerk justified his refusal to release the names and addresses of handgun permit holders to a newspaper, saying it would give stalkers and thieves a convenient roadmap to target potential victims — and determine whether they have a gun. “This certainly puts my public in danger,” Putnam County Clerk Dennis Sant […]
After a period of instructing talmidim not to report to IDF induction centers, the Vishnitzer Rebbe Shlita is now changing his psak in light of a new agreement reached with
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From their New Hampshire home, the parents of a foreign journalist who has been missing in Syria since he was kidnapped more than a month ago appealed to his captors
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