Electricity and natural-gas prices in New York City and Westchester will jump in October 2013 if Con Ed gets its way, the company’s top finance officer said yesterday. The company will seek the increases from the state Public Service Commission in November, said Con Ed CFO Robert Hoglund. The state’s decision will take 11 months. […]
After skipping most of the Democratic National Convention, NY Gov. Cuomo finally made his appearance Thursday, giving a rousing partisan speech to New York delegates at a breakfast event. On the morning after his old boss’ riveting nomination speech, Cuomo channeled many of former President Bill Clinton’s themes — and along the way did nothing […]
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you. (Sustained cheers, applause.) Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you. AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. (Cheers, applause.) Thank you. Michelle, I […]
Housing Minister (Shas) Ariel Atias, who is a member of the Security Cabinet, called for tefilos, explaining that after hearing the worrisome briefing from the heads of military intelligence, the
The following is a WCBSTV report: A retired doctor who had been missing in Suffolk County was found alive Thursday. Jerome Nadler, 76, was located after a days-long search of
The Secret Service is looking into an incident in which a New York delegate at the Democratic National Convention said she would “like to kill” Mitt Romney if she ever
Rep. Mike Rogers, the Michigan Republican who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, says that his much-discussed meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem late last month did, in
The big boys have been called in to assist in Elad as a growing number of talmidei torah and kindergartens are seeking badly-needed funds. Some of them are located in unsuitable buildings and they are simply out of money. The party’s general-manager, R’ Nati Lasri has sent an urgent request to party leader Deputy Prime […]
A passenger at John F. Kennedy Airport was arrested Thursday after entering a restricted area to smoke a cigarette, then fleeing from Port Authority police, authorities said. The male passenger,
The media has learned of yet another high-level military official who secretly arrived in Israel for talks. This time, it was the US Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Dr. Erev Halperin, the director of Beilinson Hospital (Rabin Medical Center) in Petach Tikvah visited a number of gedolei yisrael ahead of Rosh Hashanah. The doctor explained some of the
According to Eli Shukron, excavation director on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “It is now absolutely clear that the Jerusalem’s water consumption during the First Temple period was not solely based on the output of the Gihon Spring, but that it also relied on public reservoirs” The find was presented to the public on […]
The tzedaka organizations that distribute food for the yomim tovim in Eretz Yisrael are doing their best, but admit they simply cannot meet the increase in requests, up 25% from
With reports and growing speculation of an Israeli military strike against Iran, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz spoke with ?????, a magazine published by IDF vets. He said that if Israel is pulled into a war with Iran he feels sorroy for Israel’s neighbors, stressing “we are much more powerful then they and […]
As Rosh Hashanah approaches the annual euphoria the precedes a visit to Uman by Breslov Chassidim has waned somewhat due to the dispute surrounding the ‘ticket scandal’ of the ???? ?????? travel agency. Sadly, many will not make it to Uman, while for others; the ruach that exists today has taken a big bite out […]
Shas leader Deputy Prime Minister/Interior Minister Eli Yishai is quoted in the party affiliated Yom L’Yom newspaper on Thursday saying “I will not vote for the current state budget which abandons the weaker elements of society, even if it means going to general elections”. Yishai explained that the global trend in which the weaker segments […]
Police accompanied by Internal Revenue Service (?? ?????) agents early Thursday morning 19 Elul 5772 arrived at a number of homes in the Batei Warsaw section of Meah Shearim. The
Councilman Lewis Fidler (D-Brooklyn) who has successfully sued Mayor Bloomberg three times, today publicly offered to join as a plaintiff in any lawsuit challenging the planned Health Department edict on Metzitzah B’peh. “I believe it is wrong for the government to tell a religious figure that he must advise that a practice he believes in […]
The 13th cycle of daf yomi is well underway as lomdim are in the second half of Meseches Brochos. According to the daily HaMevaser, over 10,000 people will be tested in Dirshu’s first exam of this cycle. On erev shabbos, they will arrive IY”H at the Dirshu centers and the testing will get underway. Marking […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Having exhausted all legal channels, after 13 years of living in Migron, located in the Binyamin Regional Council community of Migron in Shomron, residents of the community along with the nearby Ramat Migron outpost were removed by Israeli security forces. The court’s final date for the eviction was 17 Elul 5772. […]
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