[PHOTO LINK BELOW] At 9:00 AM on a recent Thursday morning, R’ Aaron Pomp was wheeled into the operating room at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. He was about to perform the ultimate act of chesed – donating a kidney to Mordechai Aryeh ben Chana Freida, a person he has never met. And […]
Michigan officials and legislators are moving quickly to change the rules that made it possible for the winner of a $2 million lottery to keep receiving food stamps, the Detroit
The following is a NY Post exclusive: You may as well draw the terrorists a map. Detailed schematics of several floors of 1 World Trade Center — a structure Police
San Francisco – A proposition to ban circumcision for boys younger than 18-years-old will be put to the voters in November. City election officials Wednesday certified that enough valid petition signatures were received to qualify the measure for the ballot, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. If it’s approved, it would make it a misdemeanor “to […]
For the first time in over a year, the ranks of New Jersey residents who disapprove of Gov. Chris Christie have surpassed those who approve of his performance. Public opinion
Museum officials at the former Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland have restored the metal entrance sign damaged in a theft 17 months ago. The “Arbeit macht frei” sign was stolen by a gang of Polish thieves acting at the behest of a Swedish far-right-winger. Technicians unveiled the restored sign in the laboratory of the camp museum. […]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was calling for passage of legislation she said will make it easier for the hundreds of police and fire agencies around New York to communicate with each
Little more than a week after the U.S. Secret Service launched its official Twitter account, the federal law enforcement agency has had a major system failure. Shortly after 3 p.m.
Google on Wednesday began fixing a security flaw that affects some 97% of Android smartphones. The fix, which addresses a hole allowing hackers to access the contacts, calendars and photos
A city bus and an SUV collided last night at Kennedy Airport, fatally injuring one person. Cops said the two people in the SUV were friends who both worked on
Radical Islamic websites Wednesday posted an Arab Spring audio message purportedly recorded by Osama bin Laden shortly before he was killed. The recording, which is more than 12 minutes long
An error by a new air-traffic controller is being blamed for a close call between two planes on a converging course at O’Hare International Airport this week, officials said Wednesday.
The following is via Ben Smith at Politico, and is an email sent from AIPAC President Lee Rosenberg to delegates to the organization’s annual policy conference. It’s titled “Welcoming Guests Into our Home”: The goal of the conference, as always, is to have every speaker, honored guest, member of Congress, Senator, and administration official who joins […]
New York City began offering a new card on Wednesday that lets people buy prescription drugs at big discounts, a step that could potentially increase drug sales and ease strains
U.S. employers can expect an 8.5 percent increase in their medical costs next year due in some part to the healthcare reform law, the consulting firm PwC said in a
President Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign today started selling “Made in the USA” t-shirts featuring images of both President Obama and the long-form birth certificate he released copies of last month. “Wear your support for this campaign with an official Made in the USA T-shirt,” his website advertises. Donate $25 or more today and we’ll send […]
Last week, the Turkeltaub sisters – Brenda Elishis, Paula Kohn, and Cindy Turkeltaub –Grosberg a”h – alongside Misaskim volunteers, welcomed the 19th sefer torah to join Misaskim’s family of sifrei torah. A joyous Hachnasos Sefer Torah was held at the Ohr Torah Shul in West Orange NJ. The Turkeltaub sisters donated the sefer torah in […]
[FULL LIST BELOW] The following is reported by Celeste Katz at the NY Daily News Blog: Eight FDNY units from Brooklyn are among the 20 companies slated to close due
United Airlines temporarily revived the flight numbers of two hijacked planes used in the Sept. 11 attacks but said Wednesday the move was inadvertent and they would not be used. “We are taking immediate steps to remove them and apologize for the error,” a United spokesman said. Call numbers 93 and 175 were mistakenly assigned […]
An out of control vehicle crashed straight into a warehouse on 60th Street and 13th Avenue, Wednesday afternoon, but miraculously, besides for the driver and passenger suffering minor injuries, no
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