A suspicious odor prompted dozens of emergency personnel from the FDNY, NYPD, and Flatbush Hatzolah to be dispatched to the East Midwood Hebrew Day School on Wednesday morning. Sources tell
Even as New York City’s overall crime rate drops for the 22nd straight year, murders, rapes and robberies are all on pace to show increases. The New York Police Department
If a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine the impact the thousands of audio-visual pictures in a film can have on the minds and imaginations of impressionable children in Yeshivos and Day Schools throughout North America. Now Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Hill – better known as “Rebbee Hill” to the thousands of young (and not-so-young) […]
Chevy Chase, MD – Police are searching for the person who spray painted swastikas on a Chevy Chase sidewalk and the driveway of a Jewish family that lives in the
London – A mayor has provoked outrage by allegedly claiming Adolf Hitler had the ‘right idea’ about dealing with Germany’s gipsies. Mike Eckersley is said to have made the remarks at a council equalities meeting, which was immediately halted. Fellow councillors called for him to quit and for David Cameron to throw him out of […]
It was 65 years in the making, but a Holocaust survivor finally got a chance to personally thank the Polish rabbit farmer who saved her life in World War II,
Joe Lieberman essentially has two options for 2012: Retire or become a Republican. The Connecticut senator and Democratic exile hasn’t made up his mind whether to seek a fifth term,
All 29 miners trapped underground in a New Zealand mine are dead, the official in charge of a the rescue attempt said Wednesday. Gary Knowles, superintendent of Tasman Police Command,
The following is a statement by Lubavitch World Headquarters in regards to the earlier article from the Indian Express, where Rabbi Nachman Holtzberg accuses Chabad of fraud & embezzlement: Allegations
The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for U.S. vulnerabilities, making tighter security standards necessary. “[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through,” Napolitano said in an interview […]
Stocks ran into a wall of worry Tuesday as violence erupted on the Korean peninsula, concerns about Europe’s debt crisis expanded and the Federal Reserve issued a dour economic outlook.
Today, New York City Comptroller, John C. Liu, visited the Manhattan headquarters of the Orthodox Union, the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization. There he met with OU lay and professional leaders, synagogue rabbis and community leadership. This was Mr. Liu’s first chance to dialogue with Orthodox Union leaders and he used the opportunity to […]
Johnson & Johnson says it has ordered a voluntary recall of about 4.8 million packages of children’s medicines due to “insufficiencies” in the manufacturing process. A company spokeswoman Bonnie Jacobs tells WebMD the company is recalling 4 million packages of Children’s Benadryl allergy tablets and 800,000 bottles of junior-strength Motrin caplets. She says the medicines […]
Mayor Bloomberg had a message Tuesday for air travellers outraged by full-body scanners and intrusive airport pat-downs: Get over it. “We have to stop all this shilly-shallying and understand if you want to be safe on airplanes we have to make sure that we keep you safe,” Bloomberg said. Bloomberg said he underwent a pat-down […]
New York City – Dangerous or toxic toys can still be found on America’s store shelves, the New York Public Interest Research Group announced today in its 25th annual Trouble in Toyland report. NYPIRG’s report, released this morning, reveals the results of laboratory testing for toxic chemicals, identifies toys that pose choking hazards, and includes […]
Ottawa, Canada - Canadas decision to stay in Afghanistan past 2011 wont go unnoticed in either the United States or around the world, according to U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman. The longtime American political veteran offered his heartfelt thanks to Canada Monday for the Canadian governments recent decision to keep about 1,000 Canadian Forces personnel in Afghanistan […]
The following is a report by the Indian Express: Mumbai – Rabbi Nachman Holtzberg, father of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg HY”D who was killed in the attack on the Chabad House during 26/11, has accused the ultra-orthodox Jewish group his son worked for of “large scale manipulation and falsification of records… to grab” the Nariman House property […]
The companies with multimillion-dollar contracts to supply American airports with body-scanning machines more than doubled their spending on lobbying in the past five years and hired several high-profile former government
There was a new parking decree Monday from Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Drivers will no longer be “nickeled and dimed” to death when they park on city streets. Instead, they’ll need dollars. As CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer reports, metered parking is going up – again — as the mayor searches for more money to close his […]
A 23-year-old Yeshiva Bochur is in critical condition after being struck by a bus early Tuesday afternoon, YWN Israel has learned. The accident occurred on the corner of Bar Ilan
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