As previously reported on YWN, it was only a matter of time before certain Israeli banks would become subject to US Department of Justice (“DOJ”) scrutiny, with respect to their active participation in assisting US taxpayers with concealing assets offshore. As the attached indictment indicates (link below), the shoe is about to fall on at least […]
The Boro Park Orthodox Jewish community is reeling with this anger this morning, as they woke up to find swastikas and other hateful messages on at least five locations – one of them a Shul. The NYPD Hate Crimes Unit is currently on the scene investigating the following locations: 4609 16th Avenue – Stolin Bais Medrash 4619 16th Avenue – […]
[VIDEO & PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] The population of Sullivan County will triple in the next couple of weeks as New York City residents, drive north to spend the summer
A bill that would ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors appears unlikely to pass before the New York legislative session ends next week. E-cigarettes are plastic and metal
The NY Daily News reports: An NYPD recruit who claimed he was booted from the Police Academy over his scraggly beard filed suit Thursday to get his job back. Fishel
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A woman was fatally shot in the chest by an NYPD officer on a Brooklyn street corner Thursday evening, authorities said. It happened at around 5:45 p.m. at Church Avenue
The police in New York City wrote 124,498 summonses last year for drinking in public — far more than for any other violation. After having to adjudicate so many of these public drinking cases, a Brooklyn judge has decided he has had enough. The sniff test, judge, Noach Dear wrote, was not enough. Judge Dear […]
Who is Charles Barron? He is a demagogue who could be joining the U.S. House next year as the representative of New York’s Eighth Congressional District. Departing Democratic congressman Ed Towns has endorsed Barron, now a city councilman of New York, as his successor, despite having derided Barron as a “bomb thrower” when he challenged […]
President Obama and Mitt Romney on Thursday offered dueling addresses on the economy in the critical swing state of Ohio, providing the first real split-screen day of the general election. Obama telegraphed the message that he’s the one who has the interests of the middle class at heart on the economy, while Romney railed at […]
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that now is the perfect time for buildings to convert to cleaner heating fuels and the city wants to help them do it,
Kiryat Ono Chief Rabbi Ratzon Arussi is proposing the establishment of special batei din to deal with the hospitals around Israel and the issues that pertain to organ transplants. The rav’s proposed plan will appear in the soon-to-be-published edition of “Techumin” released by the Zomet Institute. The plan would empower the beis din to address […]
The Flatbush Shomrim will be having Its Annual Bike Etching Program this Thursday, June 14th, between 5:30PM – 7:30PM at the side yard of Gil Hodges, P.S. 193 on East 26th street between Avenues K & L. The Program is designed that if a stolen bike is recovered by Shomrim or the NYPD we would […]
Taxi riders may soon be able to find a cab to share using a tech firm’s smartphone app. A would-be passenger can punch in the nearest intersection and neighborhood they’re traveling to, and GetTaxi will help find someone else headed in the same direction with its Ride Share feature, the company said. The passenger can […]
The Toldos Avraham Yitzchak Rebbe Shlita will be leaving for the United States on motzei shabbos parshas Chukkas, to spend a week in Los Angeles. The upcoming trip will mark the rebbe’s third to that community. Los Angeles resident Rav Yissacher Barish Weiss, a prominent member of that kehila has been visiting in Eretz Yisrael. […]
The Cabinet will, on Sunday, be asked to approve the establishment of the Ministerial Committee on Settlement Affairs to be chaired by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The Committee will have
Amnesty International, the World Health Organization, and Save the Children are among the 50 organizations including UN-affiliated groups calling upon Israel to remove the Gaza blockade. “For over five years
In the wake of Ami Magazine’s publicity about Yanky Ostreicher’s imprisonment in Bolivia, the fight for his freedom was heightened this week as the US House of Representatives subcommittee on human rights held a hearing on this matter. Soon after, the head of the subcommittee, New Jersey congressman Chris Smith, flew down to Bolivia to […]
A U.S. congressman has met with senior Bolivian officials to plead for the release of a New York man who he says has been wrongly jailed without charge for a year in a mockery of justice. Rep. Chris Smith says Bolivia’s interior and justice ministers promised him they would personally look into the case of […]
A new survey finds air travelers are spurning bigger airlines for smaller ones largely because of baggage fees. The JD Power and Associates survey shows travelers preferred low-cost airlines over
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