A retired NYPD captain died Sunday, days after releasing a moving video about spending nine months at Ground Zero and developing cancer. Barry Galfano, 57, of Brentwood, L.I., had fought
Brooklyn – Just a few minutes before Shabbos on Friday night, the City Council reached a deal with the Bloomberg administration to restore two-thirds of the funding for city-subsidized child
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Monday for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and two of his relatives. ICC Judge Sanji Mmasenono Monageng read the decision Monday to issue warrants
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Mrs. Esther Herzka A”H, the mother of R’ Nosson, R’ Yissochar, and the noted Askan and philanthropist, Mr. Ralph Herzka. Mrs. Herzka was Niftar early Monday morning at the age of 80, following a short illness. The Levaya will be taking place at 12:00PM (Monday) in the 7th […]
A Moscow military district court on Monday found former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Poteyev, who helped U.S. authorities disclose a Russian spy ring last summer, guilty of high treason and
The following is from the Daily Caller: She might be gone, but she’s not completely forgotten. And now as a columnist for the Fall Church (Va.) News-Press, she might be making a comeback. In an appearance at the Busboys & Poets bookstore in Washington, D.C. on Sunday afternoon, embattled former Hearst newspapers columnist Helen Thomas, […]
The number of adults with diabetes has doubled world-wide over the last three decades to nearly 350 million and increased nearly threefold in the U.S., a sign that the epidemic
A tear on Sunday in a temporary berm allowed Missouri River flood waters to surround containment buildings and other vital areas of a Nebraska nuclear plant, but reactor systems were
A 28-year-old worker in a moving company trying to reach Ma’aleh Adumim narrowly escaped a lynch attempt in the village of Issawiya in northeast Jerusalem on Sunday after his GPS
Fresh off a formidable showing in an Iowa preference poll of 2012 Republican presidential candidates, Rep. Michele Bachmann on Sunday said that as president she would offer a federal constitutional
Toeiva marriage is legal in New York State. Governor Cuomo, a strong proponent of “equality,” stalwartly pursued its passage, making it his signature legislative achievement. Unlike Assemblyman Dov Hikind’s false assumptions that the New York Assembly doesn’t have the votes, it passed the Democratic-led Assembly by a large margin, and the Republican-led Senate didn’t do […]
In addition to the same-gender marriage bill, state lawmakers on Friday also passed an omnibus bill that extends the city’s rent laws, caps property taxes, and raises tuition at SUNY
A small group of Internet security specialists gathered in Singapore this week to start up a global system to make e-mail and e-commerce more secure, end the proliferation of passwords and raise the bar significantly for Internet scam artists, spies and troublemakers. “It won’t matter where you are in the world or who you are […]
Senator Skelos will be attending a breakfast in Lawrence Sunday morning, and according to the invitation he will be discussing “issues affecting our community”. Will he face any angry Jews
The 2016 Democratic presidential race just began. With his successful push to pass a same-gender marriage law, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo overnight became a national contender, putting down a major marker among the liberal party base that dominates the primaries. “Most politicians, including most Democrats, have been afraid of this issue. Andrew is the […]
In the first round of polling in Iowa since the Republican presidential field has taken shape, Mitt Romney leads the pack, but is virtually tied with Michele Bachmann. The Des
Here’s a little quiz for the breakfast table: What is the most popular cereal brand in American grocery stores? Hint: It’s been General Mills’ top name since 1951. Another hint:
Over the past 40 years, the “public enemy number one” of food has been fat. We spend billions of dollars per year on low-fat foods, fake-fat chips, pills that block the absorption of fat into the digestive system, and all types of specials diets and cookbooks. And, in the past 30 years, we have reduced […]
Please be Mispallel for Maran Hagon Rav Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz Shlita, who was rushed to Shaarei Tzedek hospital after collapsing late Shabbos afternoon. He is reportedly on a respirator and is in extremly critical condition. Rav Lefkowitz, who is 97-years-old, had been staying in Katamon (Yerushalayim) since last Monday, reportedly to rest. He collapsed during Shalosh […]
After days of contentious negotiations and last-minute reversals by two Republican senators, New York became the sixth and largest state in the country to legalize same-gender marriage. Pending any court
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