Britain’s newest royal couple is receiving an unusual wedding gift: A Jewish-style marriage contract. Michael Horton, a British-born Israeli, designed the intricately illustrated Ketubah, or wedding contract, for Prince William
Car owners who do not pay their tickets could soon get the boot. The city is launching a pilot program that uses special self-release boots to immobilize cars whose drivers
Your debit card may soon be declined for purchases greater than $100 — or even as little as $50! Chase Bank is considering capping debit card transactions because of something
Missionary groups are targeting elderly Holocaust survivors in Israel who are often in financial distress and experiencing loneliness, according to officials at Yad L’Achim. In recent weeks the counter-missionary organization
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs Eli Yishai has asked Prime Minister Netanyahu to address the continued neglect on Har Hazeisim at the highest level of government. Mr. Yishai asked that the Har Hazeisim issue be put on the agenda of the weekly Cabinet meeting this Sunday. Mr. Yishai referred to the slow […]
The former Alaska governors numbers are astonishingly upside-down, according to a new Bloomberg poll showing a 32 percentage point spread between those who have an unfavorable rating of Palin and those who view her favorably. Of the 60 percent in the poll who have an unfavorable opinion of Palin, more than half of them […]
State Sen. Carl Kruger and Assemblyman William Boyland surrendered Thursday to face charge of selling their office for cold, hard cash, sources told the Daily News. Federal prosecutors are expected
Ahead of his controversial hearing Thursday on the radicalization of American Muslims, Rep. Peter King is revealing that he has been under police protection for months because of an overseas threat against him. The New York Republican has since December had around-the-clock security provided by the New York Police Department and Nassau County police, he […]
In anticipation of what may be a record-breaking storm, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie declared a state of emergency on Wednesday. “My first responsibility as the Governor of New Jersey
The Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday it is trying to determine how a man slipped past authorities and boarded a flight with a stolen boarding pass at New York’s Kennedy
In a closed-door meeting with Toeiva advocates, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo pledged on Wednesday to deploy his own political popularity and prestige to push for the legalization of same-gender marriage in New York, saying he was prepared to devote his full attention to the cause this spring. For me, this is personal, Mr. Cuomo said […]
Is our long national foreclosure nightmare ending? The number of foreclosure notices filed in February dropped 14% compared with a month earlier and 27% compared with a year earlier, according
The days of space flight may be over for the Discovery, but dreams that the decommissioned shuttle might make its retirement home on the Hudson River are still alive. The
Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate have voted to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers after discovering a way to bypass the chamber’s missing Democrats. All 14 Senate
The following is from LoHud.com: A Yeshiva Road home that two men invaded Tuesday was targeted, police said today. “Preliminary investigation indicates that this was not a random crime and
The space shuttle Discovery has returned to Earth from its final mission, never to soar in orbit again. In the end, Discovery – NASA’s oldest and most traveled shuttle –
The number of people slain in the Big Apple has plummeted so far this year, newly released statistics show. As of yesterday, 62 New Yorkers have been murdered in the
State Senator Carl Kruger, a powerful and at times controversial Brooklyn Democrat, will turn himself in to the federal authorities in Manhattan on Thursday, according to a person with knowledge
Last Friday morning, Misaskim attended a scheduled meeting with airport officials at Kennedy Airport to explore various ways of improving procedures for transporting a niftar to Israel and arranging levayos
3:00PM EST Reports From NY1: Hospital officials say a person has died and two others were critically injured in an accident in Dongan Hills, Staten Island between a fire truck and a van that was carrying special needs people. A New York City Fire Department truck belonged to Ladder 81 crashed into the van shortly […]
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