[The following Op-Ed was written by Tevi Troy] While it is inappropriate to try to blame mainstream political movements for the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, there is at least some suggestion that one decidedly non-mainstream and troubling phenomenon—anti-Semitism—was a factor in the attack on Arizona’s first Jewish congresswoman. The deranged alleged shooter, Jared […]
MS Fish Corp is recalling Ossie’s Schmaltz Herring due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Listeria monocytogenes is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail, or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy persons may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headaches, stiffness, nausea, […]
U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges against two people accused of stealing the email addresses and other personal data of about 120,000 users of Apple Inc’s iPad tablet computer. Daniel Spitler
Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, who icily pointed the finger at top cop Ray Kelly for not declaring a snow emergency after the Christmas blizzard, outrageously overstepped her boundaries and didn’t answer for her own department’s failings in the storm, scores of city officials charged yesterday. Sadik-Khan targeted NYPD Commissioner Kelly in Sunday’s Post, saying, “The […]
Floor debate is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the House of Representatives on a repeal of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul bill. The start of the process fulfills a
The Lobby for Jewish Values and Director of Jerusalem-based Kol HaNa’ar Rabbi Asher Idan has presented a new initiative to lower the marriage age allowed by law. In the past few days, Chairman of the Lobby for Jewish Values Ofer Cohen has approached several members of Knesset from religious factions in order to garner support […]
New Jersey did away with its death penalty in 2007, but Lakewood’s representative in the state Senate said the cold-blooded killing of a township police officer is a striking example
President Obama has “learned from experience” that some of the Bush administration’s decisions on terrorism issues were necessary, according to former Vice President Dick Cheney. In his first interview since undergoing major heart surgery last July, Cheney said he thinks Obama has been forced to rethink some of his national security positions now that he […]
The feds are expanding an investigation into who swiped hundreds of thousands of dollars from area synagogues, Assemblyman Dov Hikind said Monday. Checks ranging from $5 to $18,000 were reported stolen from temples in Queens, Brooklyn, New Jersey and Michigan. Hikind said he gave information to the FBI last month after receiving reports that at […]
On Sunday morning January 16th, Agudath Israel of Maryland presented a seminar on tax and legal compliance titled “What Nonprofits Need to Know in 2011”. The event was held in the Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion social hall in Baltimore and drew an impressive crowd of 75 individuals representing the majority of Baltimore’s shuls, schools, and […]
Dear YWN, Lakewood, NJ – The scene is all too familiar. Someone from our community is robbed, has his house vandalized or the like; we usually have the same reaction. Either we scream and yell why the Police response time was too delayed, or we say to ourselves, “thankfully I live on the other side […]
Brooklyn – At Friday’s all-day hearing of the New York City Council’s Transportation Committee, Councilman David Greenfield grilled New York City Transit President Thomas Prendergast about the MTA’s mishandling of the December 2010 blizzard, which left nearly one thousand buses stranded across the city and subway service suspended to Southern Brooklyn for four days following […]
Montreal’s Jewish community fears it is being targeted in an orchestrated campaign of hatred. Three synagogues, a Jewish school and a daycare had their windows smashed with rocks over the weekend. Meanwhile, controversy continued to rage over a local shoe store that is being boycotted by some Montrealers because it sells shoes made in Israel. […]
Yesterday, January 16, 2011, leaders from Jewish communities around North America came together to participate in the Orthodox Union’s 112th Anniversary Convention. It was an exceptional weekend of learning, seminars; workshops and discussions that helped chart the course of the Jewish community for the coming years. Every two years, the OU meets in Convention to […]
Law enforcement officials will not say whether the suspect in the fatal shooting of a Lakewood police officer is a member of a gang. But one thing is certain: Lakewood
A city councilman invoked the threat of a terrorist attack to demand answers from Mayor Bloomberg about who’s in charge when Hizzoner leaves town. “While I am aware that you and your team are always in constant communication, that may not be possible during a potential terrorist attack,” Peter Vallone wrote in a letter to […]
Albany, NY – Andrew Cuomo said during his campaign that he wants to make same-gender marriage legal in New York and a new appointment may signal he means business – even if it’s still an uphill battle. Cuomo is naming Erik Bottcher, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s liaison to the Toeiva community, to the newly […]
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs wrote in an e-mail to employees Monday that he is taking a new leave of absence from the technology company so that he can focus
The following is NY Post exclusive: Gov. Cuomo is threatening to shut down state government in early April if the Legislature refuses to pass a new budget that slashes spending by an unprecedented $10 billion, The Post has learned. Insiders said Cuomo is determined to avoid the long budget delays that have plagued and crippled […]
A Swiss whistle-blower Monday handed over what he said were secret Swiss banking records to WikiLeaks, the website dedicated to revealing secrets. Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer handed two discs to
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