Unbeknownst to most customers, AT&T Inc. has fired up a new wireless data network in five cities in the last few months, offering roughly double the speeds of its older
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is out with an op-ed in the Jerusalem Post and The Wall Street Journal that slams President Obama’s Israel policy. The piece comes just days after
The following is from the NY Post: Soon many could be feeling the physical pain of the bad economy. Sounding alarm bells about the nation’s high unemployment rate, Mayor Bloomberg
St. Louis, MO – A federal appeals court has denied a former Postville meatpacking executive’s request for a new trial, saying he failed to show the judge in the case was unfairly biased in favor of the prosecution. Sholom Rubashkin was convicted in 2009 of 86 fraud charges, which led to a 27-year prison sentence. […]
Palestinian officials are rolling out the welcome mat for Jews to come to a new Palestinian state. Trying to tamp down a controversy over whether a Palestinian state would be Jew-free, Mahmoud Habbash, the Palestinian minister of religious affairs, said a future state would be open to people of all religions, including Jews. “The future […]
President Barack Obama’s support among Jews has dropped, new data shows. Four out of 10 Jewish Americans currently disapprove of Obama, according to polling data provided to POLITICO by Gallup, which has yet to post the numbers on its website. This 40 percent disapproval rating is 8 percent higher than the 32 percent disapproval rating […]
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] More and more summer camps are producing an annual music video to promote their summer camps. Camp Kaylie has just launched their “Yala Yala Camp Kaylie” music video which uses the tune of “Yalili” from the band 8th Day. The video features Camp Kaylie campers and rising singing stars Dovid Dachs […]
Leading House Democrats are accusing the Obama administration of ignoring the lingering mortgage crisis and threatening tens-of-millions of Americans with foreclosure in the process. The lawmakers – encouraged by Obama’s mention of mortgage-relief in his address to Congress last week – were quickly deflated just days later when their efforts to learn the details of […]
Former members of the 9/11 commission warned Thursday that despite efforts during the last decade to make American cities safer from terrorist attacks, the U.S. has failed to protect itself
A Florida driver’s lawsuit challenging police who ticket motorists for flashing their headlights to warn of speed traps is having a rippling effect across the state, the Orlando Sentinel writes.
The U.S. Postal Service, struggling to cut costs and conserve cash, said Thursday it wants to end overnight delivery of letters and postcards and will study about 250 processing sites
The ongoing ticket-writing slowdown by fedup NYPD cops has become so costly to the city that a top police commander seems to have resorted to using a dreaded word in policing: quota. Furious that so many cops are pocketing their summons books, the NYPD’s chief of transportation asked a commander at a recent meeting if […]
Friday, 09:15 IL: Posek HaDor Maran HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv appears to have “lost consciousness” for a brief period a short time ago. It is unclear exactly what occurred, perhaps a syncopal episode. From the limited information available at this time, it appears that EMTs and paramedics are in the rav’s home, checking on […]
A city-based advocacy group today asked the Warwick hotel to reverse its decision to host Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his delegation during the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
Former Mayor Edward I. Koch’s strategy seemed almost nutty at first: ask Jewish residents in Brooklyn and Queens to vote against an Israel-loving observant Jew for Congress to send a message to President Obama. But the idea caught fire and appeared to be a significant factor in the special election on Tuesday in which Bob […]
Apple has pulled an app that enabled French users to look through a database of celebrities and public figures and identify whether or not they are Jewish. The app was
Hundreds of millions of new Israeli shekels will be allocated for the city of Bnei Brak in the coming years, seeking to make significant improvements before the city’s 90th birthday. The city was established by a number of talmidei chacham originally from Warsaw, in 5694, and the first may was Rabbi Yitzchak Gershtenkorn. This year […]
The growing tensions between Israel and Egypt may affect the Yom Tov of Sukkos this year. According to a report on IDF Army Radio on Wednesday, Egypt has decided not to export Lulavim to Israel for Sukkos this year. The report said that the reason cited for the decision is the deterioration in ties between the […]
AAA is urging the U.S. Department of Transportation to block a plan to increase tolls by as much as 50 percent on the bridges and tunnels between New York City
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has allocated NIS 20 million to upgrade teaching at hospitals in the north for the benefit of students at the medical school in Tzfat. This is in addition to the NIS 30 million which the government allocated to the establishment of the school. The decision was made in the framework of […]
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