National Guard trucks rolled into this city on the Hudson River to deliver ready-to-eat meals and other supplies and to evacuate young professionals and other residents who decided that after
The Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula and the Rockaway Civilian Safety Patrol has set up a command center at the Young Israel of Wavecrest & Bayswater located at
As things get from bad to worse for many of his constituents, many are wondering if Assemblyman Dov Hikind should have hopped on a flight back to New York from
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was interviewed by the French Paris Match Magazine, using the forum to enlist support for a possible Israeli attack against Iran. “Five minutes after, contrary to
According to Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Irans respite from building a nuclear bomb is temporary, and Tehran will have to be confronted by next summer he explained in an interview with the UK Telegraph. In a most revealing interview, the defense minister confirms the situation abated during the summer when Iran used a third of […]
Health Ministry officials are working to change the arrangement by which persons benefiting from Magen David Adom emergency ambulance services cannot be harassed by collection services if payment has not been made. The new plan will enforce an arrangement made a number of years ago in which the recipient of service makes payment to ones […]
New York power company Consolidated Edison Inc said Wednesday it had restored power to over 160,000 of the 930,000 total customers knocked out by Hurricane Sandy, leaving about 764,000 still
[VIDEOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] The NYPD has released video of four rooftop rescues on Staten Island of residents who were trapped due to rising waters. It shows police lowering a
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Among the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, the Agudah in Bayswater was unfortunately destroyed. Sadly, the Shul had just last week completed renovations caused by last
Faced with the prospect of days without power and swaths of the city plunged into darkness at night, police brought in banks of lights and boosted patrols to reassure victims
President Barack Obama, locked in a fierce re-election bid, is emphasizing his incumbent’s role for a third straight day, skipping battleground states to visit victims of Hurricane Sandy in New
To our friends/listeners around the world: For the 2nd consecutive day we are unable to present the ‘JM in the AM’ radio show. Our home base in Jersey City and
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday visited with wounded Givati officer Captain Ziv [ben Margalit] Shilon who is in Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva. Shilon was seriously wounded in a
The first plane of Operation Doves Wings arrived in Eretz Yisrael on Monday, carrying 240 Ethiopian immigrants on the first flight in the last wave of aliyah flights from that country. In accordance with a cabinet decision, the remaining Ethiopians viewed as eligible to be brought to Israel on charter aliyah flights will be completed […]
150 Israelis won a Mifal HaPayis lottery prize to Barcelona with Vueling Airlines. While there is no mention by the group if they enjoyed their stay, the report does mention the flight home, which was unforgettable, but not exactly in the confines of enjoyable. As the plane was preparing for takeoff for the flight back […]
For the residents of southern Israel the ongoing daily rocket attacks from Hamas-controlled Gaza have become the unwanted reality of their daily lives, but for most, including Israelis living elsewhere
The ????? ???? ?????? organization has sent a letter to Justice Minister Prof. Yaakov Neeman, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and Chairman of the Knesset Law Committee MK Dudi Rotem towards holding elections for Israels Chief Rabbis prior to the expiration of the term of the current chief rabbis on March 24, […]
Rav Avichai Yitzchak zl was niftar on Sunday 12 Cheshvan 5773 in Tel Avivs Ichilov Hospital following years battling an illness. The niftar studied in Yeshivat Porat Yosef in Yerushalayim and after getting married he moved to Zichron Yaakov, where he learned in a local kollel. He then worked for Badatz Sheiris Yisrael as a […]
The Rishon LTzion Magistrates Court on Tuesday, 14 Cheshvan 5773 partially lifted a gag order on a case involving an abduction and imprisonment of an avreich by members of the underworld. The story begins about a week ago when the home of a well-known rav in Rechasim was broken into and $200,000 was stolen. The […]
Blame a very high tide driven by a full moon, the worst storm surge in nearly 200 years, and the placement of underground electrical equipment in flood-prone areas for the most extensive storm-related power outage in New York City’s history. It’s like what happened at the Fukushima nuclear complex in Japan last year without […]
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