12:00PM Wednesday:�Once again, Firefighters and utility workers are in Borough Park where multiple manhole fires are being reported, and possibly some transformers are on fire. Emergency�personnel�are currently on the scene at 14 Avenue and 50th Street. Firefighters are checking nearby buildings for carbon monoxide. Con Ed says there are �minimal outages.� MyFoxNY reports that at […]
Less than two weeks after Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index declared Mark Zuckerberg the 29th richest person on Earth, the Facebook founder has fallen off the list entirely. Bloomberg’s index measures only
Acting on a Health Ministry complaint of a pirate pharmacy, police launched an investigation into a rav who operates a pharmaceutical gemach in his community in Eretz Yisrael. When police raided the suspect�s home they found thousands of prescription meds along with HMO identification cards belonging to a number of people. Needless to say the […]
Wednesday marks the 10th anniversary of the end of the cleanup at the World Trade Center site. A special ceremony will be held tonight at 6:30 at the 9/11 Memorial.
A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyber-espionage operation.
New Yorkers love their governor more than ever — but they love the idea of increasing the minimum wage even more. While Gov. Cuomo got his highest approval rating ever
The man who has confessed to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 remained in a psychiatric hospital as court-appointed doctors assessed his mental state. Defense lawyers said Pedro Hernandez, 51,
Poles and Polish-Americans expressed outrage today at President Obama�s reference earlier to �a Polish death camp� � as opposed to a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland. �The White House will apologize for this outrageous error,� Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski tweeted. Sikorski said that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk �will make a statement in the […]
Little official response has been heard from the chareidi community following the announced decision to accept Reform and Conservative rabbis, albeit in a limited capacity. One person already making the news is MK (Yahadut HaTorah) Rav Moshe Gafne, who as head of the Knesset Finance Committee is concerned that the funds for these �community leaders� […]
Kadima MK Yulia Shamalov Berkovich in her address before the Knesset House Committee told fellow parliamentarians that the liberals fighting for the rights of the illegals in southern Tel Aviv are trying to prevent their deportation. She deplores the harsh living conditions of the illegals, but added the liberals �would be the first to throw […]
Another Yerushalayim shul faces demolition as the Keter Eliyahu Shul located on Kahati Street in Givat Shaul was served with official papers by city representatives. This is a shul that
HaGaon HaRav Naftoli Nebenzahl zt�l was niftar in Bnei Brak�s Mayanei HaYeshua Hospital during the night. The rav, who was 87, was the rosh yeshiva of Ponevezh L�Tzeirim in Bnei Brak. The niftar was marbitz torah in Ponevezh for a number of decades. He was forced to halt shiurim in the yeshiva a number of […]
Following the unprecedented event at CitiField led by gedolei yisrael shlita, the Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Yoel, has laid down an ultimatum for his chassidim; to rid themselves of their smartphones within a month of look for a new rebbe. As the chassidim gathered towards the end of Shavuos for the tradition �baglitein dir yomtov� […]
With the second anniversary of the Mavi Marmara approaching at the end of May, Turkish government officials are not signaling any hint of letting bygones be bygones as they push
The Tel Aviv District Court accepted a criminal indictment against a 42-year-old female resident of Bnei Brak charged with assault and threatening a 14-year-old neighbor. The girl, who is the
The Israel College of the Bible�located in Netanya has recently acquired additional land to expand the campus and its missionary activities, NRG reports. The school began operating in the city two years ago, and has since succeeded in purchasing roof rights of the building in which the college occupies two stories. This will permit construction […]
Gabbai Moshe Leon of the Eitz Chaim Shul in Kiryat Ono is planning to sit shiva for the eight burned sifrei torah. The shul was established 40 years ago, by
A meeting of the Chief Rabbinate Rabbinical Council that was scheduled for 3 Sivan 5772 was cancelled after the rabbonim walked out in apparent protest after the chief rabbi failed
Mitt Romney hit his party’s “magic number” on Tuesday, unofficially clinching the Republican presidential nomination in a race he entered as the front-runner and has had to himself for weeks.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday afternoon, in his Tel Aviv office, met with a delegation of US senators including Mark Udall (D-CO), Richard Burr (R-NC), Mark Warner (R-VA), and
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