Crown Heights, NY – A Brooklyn rabbinical court has a new commandment for the thousands of religious Jews under its jurisdiction: Thou shall not snitch. The Beth Din of Crown Heights has ordered an estimated 10,000 members of the Lubavitch Hasidic sect not to gripe about cops or blab about crimes to outsiders. “No one […]
White House victories are rare these days, but President Barack Obama can claim solid progress in his lonely battle to quit smoking. The president has gone a full nine months without sneaking a cigarette, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs reported Thursday. Every day is a struggle and there’s no guarantee the president won’t light […]
As if crashing your car isn’t bad enough, the Fire Department now wants to charge you for it. The FDNY plans to bill drivers $490 to respond to a crash
Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil division announced a recall Thursday of more than 13 million packages of various Rolaids medicines following consumer complaints of foreign materials, including metal and wood particles.
It is said that General Sherman Patton was a master at it, and reached Shakespearian levels of originality in the form. It is highly likely that it is true because soldiers and war have always involved cursing and profanity since the dawn of warfare. In fact, the Midrash attests to this on the verse in […]
More than 50 percent of Americans say they are worse off now than they were two years ago when President Barack Obama took office, and two-thirds believe the country is
Long-stalled legislation to provide health care for sick Ground Zero workers failed a key test vote in the Senate Thursday, as Republicans remained united in opposition to the measure until
London – The government is to pick up the cost of providing security guards at Jewish faith schools in England amid concerns about anti-semitic threats to pupils. At the moment, parents of children at 39 state-funded Jewish schools in England pay £1.6m towards the cost of enhanced measures like security guards. Ministers have decided to […]
Defying President Obama, House Democrats voted Thursday not to bring up the tax package that he negotiated with Republicans in its current form. “This message today is very simple: That
Three current and former city welfare workers were busted today along with an alleged accomplice on charges of scamming more than $8 million worth of food stamps. The brazen rip-off
Oorah’s last Early Bird drawing is today at noon. This is your final chance to take advantage of this greatly increased chance of winning a flight to Israel. By donating $36 or more, you are automatically entered to win not one but five free chances to fly to Israel. Each year, the Oorah Auction offers […]
One of two Brooklyn teenagers accused in the Monday beating of a Hasidic Jew attacked two other Orthodox Jews over the last two weeks, it was revealed Wednesday, (as was
NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said the following after the arrests of the suspects in the recent anti-semitic hate crimes in Williamsburg: “I commend the 90th precinct under the leadership of Deputy Inspector Michael M. Kemper for swiftly apprehending the suspects that have allegedly been terrorizing the Williamsburg community. The NYPD Hate Crime Task […]
Helen Thomas said on a radio show that aired Tuesday that the Anti-Defamation League was intimidating her. The journalist defended comments she made last Thursday in Dearborn. “I just think that people should be enlightened as to who is in charge of the opinion in this country,” Thomas, 90, told the Marion, Ohio, radio station […]
Chairman of the International Association of Holocaust Survivors Noah Flug on Thursday inveighed against a ruling by rabbis prohibiting the rental of homes to non-Jews. “These rabbis need to retract
After the alleged assault of a black teenager by a member of the Shomrim neighborhood patrol group, black and Jewish community leaders met at a closed meeting to facilitate relations
Can’t sell your home for a decent price? You’re not alone. American homes are expected to be worth $1.7 trillion less in 2010 than they were worth last year, according
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski made public for the first time Wednesday that his family was one of many in World War II Poland that sheltered Jews from Adolf Hitler’s Nazis.
ew York, NY – New York City will begin charging private hospitals as much as $1 million a year for hospital ambulances dispatched by the city’s 911 system, a controversial initiative that some medical professionals fear will prompt hospitals to stop providing the service. Mayor Michael Bloomberg approved the new fee as part of his […]
New York – Earlier today, a group of Council Members leading the fight to restore Priority 7 vouchers had a rare meeting with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and several of his top aides to discuss the fate of the Priority 7 program. Priority 7 is a lifeline for thousands of this city’s neediest families, ensuring that […]
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