With badges, Blackberries, uniforms and yamulkes, at any given night a group of beefed-up crime-watchers called the Shmira Patrol has a handful of volunteers cruising the streets in North Miami
Brooklyn – Councilman David G. Greenfield praised Mayor Bloomberg and the Department of Transportation for recognizing the dire state of our city’s streets and pledging millions in additional funds to
About one in five children with a cold or other respiratory viral infection develops a middle ear infection that may range from mild to severe, says a new study. U.S.
The Brooklyn man accused of mowing down Moshe Berkowitz Z”L faces up to 25 years in prison after a grand jury indicted him on aggravated vehicular homicide charges. Anel Kolenovic
Outside the courthouse downtown, two groups of demonstrators — one composed of Jews, the other of African-Americans — loudly stated their positions on the case, the former in support of the duo, the latter against what they said was an act of racism. Avi Werdesheim, 20, and his brother, Eliyahu Werdesheim, 23, are charged with […]
The following alert is an update to the previous article regarding sardines, which Kashrus agencies claim are infested with Anisakis Worms. The Vaad Hakashrus of Flatbush has been researching Anisakis
Brooklyn, NY – A man who spent years 15 years in prison after being convicted of killing a rabbi sued the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office today in a $150 million lawsuit charging the agency with deliberately withholding evidence during his trial. Jabbar Collins was convicted in 1995 of murdering Rabbi Abraham Pollack in Williamsburg during […]
[The following Op-Ed was written by Daniel Spigel] Mayor Bloomberg is a phony. Allow me to explain why. We all know that Mayor Bloomberg is obsessed with gun control. He
Heshy Jacobs, the long-time president of Chevra Hatzolah of New York visited United Hatzalah of Israel today. Younger medics were regaled with Hatzolah stories from thousands of calls spanning decades
Israel is monitoring two Iranian warships about to pass through the Suez Canal for Syria and warn they might act. Israeli’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman says that “Israel cannot ignore
[The following Op-Ed was written by Reps. Anthony Weiner and Jason Chaffetz] Going through the federal budget, you might not expect to find many things that a Democrat from a
There’s a small story I would like to share that illustrates a great lesson for all of us working in the world of business. A little girl was watching her
As everyone knows, there’s no cure for the common cold. So most people simply suffer through two or more colds a year, often missing days of work or school in the process. Scientists still haven’t found a cure, but a new expert review suggests that taking zinc supplements may help ease cold symptoms—and may even […]
New Jersey NJ Assemblyman Gary S. Schaer, the only Shomer Shabbos member of the New Jersey Legislature wrote the following letter in support of Amalya Knapp, the 7-year-old Teaneck girl, who was unable to perform at the NJ Gymnastics Competition due to her being Shomer Shabbos. February 13, 2011 Mr. Steve Penny President, USA Gymnastics 132 […]
A serious error occurred in Har Hazeisim when a man was mistakenly buried instead of another. The mistake was discovered only several hours after the burial. The body was exhumed and the distraught family held a second funeral. The two deceased men died on Monday at the Bikur Cholim hospital – one Charedi and the […]
An NYPD chief who attended the funeral Tuesday of a mother and daughter fatally stabbed in Brooklyn said he’ll always be pained by not catching the suspect sooner. “I was
Transportation Security Administration officials have revealed a series of security lapses at Newark Liberty International Airport, according to a Star-Ledger report on NJ.com. In one incident, a knife made it
Bernard Madoff asserted in a prison interview that banks and hedge funds he did not identify were somehow “complicit” in the fraud scheme that sent him to jail for 150 years, the New York Times reported. In a two-hour interview from the Butner, North Carolina, prison visitor room conducted by the newspaper, Madoff said, “they […]
The firing of a Quran-burning New Jersey Transit worker last year has morphed into a legal battle over free speech. But Gov. Chris Christie, in his first public comments on the case, said today he’s not worrying about it. “I knew he was going to be fired, and I had no problem with it,” Christie […]
United Airlines has grounded 96 Boeing 757 airliners for “unscheduled maintenance,” an airline spokesman said Tuesday. The grounding meant that some of the airline’s flights would be canceled or delayed
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