Today, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D – Queens and Brooklyn) and 39 of his colleagues announced they are sending a letter to President Obama urging him to pardon Jonathan Pollard, who
2:55PM EST: For the second time in two weeks, the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit has been sent to investigate a bias crime in the heart of Williamsburg’s Chasidic community. Numerous
A terror attack was thwarted in Jerusalem on Thursday, after a 50-year-old resident of the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya tried to stab a young Jewish woman near Hadassah Mount
The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) today condemned a report issued by the U.S. Department of State that criticizes the State of Israel for alleged religious discrimination against non-Jews
Senator Carl Kruger (D-Brooklyn), Chair of the Finance Committee, wrote to Governor Paterson today opposing the plan to cut the two remaining inspectors from the state’s kosher inspection division, leaving
As Rep. Charles Rangel pleaded for “fairness and mercy,” the ethics committee’s top lawyer has recommended a censure of the New York lawmaker, one of the harshest punishments that the
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) expressed doubts about the latest Catskills casino project yesterday, while a rival casino developer dismissed the plan as “improbable.” Silver, who owns a home in
The backlash continues over those new TSA screening measures, and now one Central Florida airport has decided to go with a private security screening firm. Orlando Sanford International Airport has
Assemblyman Vito Lopez represents Brooklyn, but for at least five years during his tenure, he admitted that he actually lived in Queens — an apparent violation of state law. This
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani was found not guilty on all but one charge Wednesday by a civilian jury in New York, in a case with ramifications for President
Mayor Bloomberg today is expected to order thousands of layoffs next year in bruising budget cuts intended to close a massive gap, sources told The Post last night. Bloomberg will
Federal agents nabbed two more suspects in connection with the ongoing investigation into disgraced financier Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme. Joanne Crupi was arrested by the FBI this morning at
Angry community leaders in Stamford Hill have accused Hackney mayor Jules Pipe of “oppressing” orthodox Jewish families and pushing them out of the borough in a row over loft extensions.
11:06PM: The child has just been found by Lakewood Hatzolah – the search has been terminated. (Original article below) Lakewood, NJ – A massive search is underway Wednesday evening for
(Earlier reports below) NY1 reports: An interstate manhunt has ended in Connecticut with the arrest of a Bronx man who originally escaped police custody in New Jersey by driving in
Sarah Palin says she is seriously considering a run for the White House, and she believes she could beat President Obama in 2012, the former Alaska governor told ABC News’
Rescue teams are searching for a fighter jet that went missing during a routine nighttime training mission out of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. The Air Force pilot and his
Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska won re-election, using write-in votes to beat the businessman who had defeated her for the party’s nomination, the Associated Press said. Murkowski, 53,
House Republicans have officially elected Ohio Republican John Boehner as its nominee for speaker of the House. The unanimous voice vote came in a closed-door conference meeting in the Longworth
Democrats elected Nancy Pelosi as their minority leader on Wednesday, but only after a brutal two days of arguing behind closed doors and a 150-43 vote that revealed a bloc
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