The NY Daily News reports: A group called Save the Graves wants to bury real estate developer Aby Rosen in protests. After staging demonstrations outside the Lever House headquarters of Rosen’s RFR Holding and, last week, outside his upper East Side home, the Central Rabbinical Congress of the USA and Canada has announced it will […]
WBAL Reports: Baltimore City fire units are in the 2200 block of Fleetwood Ave for reports of extensive damage to about 100 homes and several injuries to residents. Around 1:30-1:50
Mayor Bloomberg contributed an eye-bulging $420 million to his charitable foundation last year, catapulting it to the 17th largest in the United States, with assets of more than $2.2 billion,
Los Angeles - The Los Angles County board of supervisors voted today to ban stores from using plastic bags. The board approved the measure in hopes of curbing pollution, saying billions of bags end up polluting neighborhoods and waterways. Beginning next year, stores will not be allowed to give single-use plastic bags to customers. Customers who […]
The following was written by Mark Hemmingway, a staff writer at the Beltway Confidential: Two weeks ago, my wife flew alone out to Colorado with our two young children. Unaware
Plans to reduce the great divide caused by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in one part of Brooklyn are now a reality, but as CBS 2HD’s Magee Hickey reports, three big questions remain. At issue is what to do about a deep trench caused by the BQE where it slices through the neighborhoods of Carroll Gardens, Cobble […]
Monticello, NY – Governor David Paterson and other government officials are expected in Monticello early next week to sign a contract with the Stockbridge Munsee Indians to operate a gaming
Joined by an all-star cast from his days in the White House, former President George W. Bush plunged a shovel into dirt on Tuesday and kicked off construction of his presidential library. As former Vice President Dick Cheney put it, “this may be the only shovel-ready project in America.” Mr. Cheney’s attendance was a rare […]
Brooklyn – Last week Councilman David G. Greenfield, joined by Councilmembers Steve Levin and Brad Lander, hosted an emergency meeting at Greenfield’s office with administrators from over 40 yeshivas to discuss strategies for fighting the City’s intention to permanently end the Priority 7 voucher program at the end of this year. Since April, a coalition […]
Nearly 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic — including data from the Pentagon, the office of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and other U.S. government websites — was briefly
A secret NYPD effort to evaluate the impact of proposed security measures at the new World Trade Center is giving site participants and other downtown players the jitters. Executives and
Mispalilim coming to Skver’s main Bais Medrash have been Davening in the dark since Monday morning after Orange and Rockland Utilities cut off power when bills were not paid. Congregation Zemach owes the utility $78,332 dating to late 2009 and payment negotiations have been ongoing for several months, a utility spokesman told LoHud. The congregation must […]
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) has been found guilty on 11 ethics charges, ending a two-year investigation into his personal finances. A special eight-member panel of the House ethics committee, after
Media reports from upstate New York regarding the termination of 98 employees of the Kosher Valley Poultry brand are incorrect, YWN has learned. Various Jewish media websites using WSYR as their source, stated that the employment of 98 individuals had been terminated at the Kosher Valley plant, when in fact the terminated employees had been employed by Hain Pure […]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is heading to Washington today in an effort to persuade Republican senators to support the health care compensation bill for first responders to the September 11th terrorist
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer has been tapped for a new leadership job in charge of “policy, press and politics” for the US Senate’s Democratic Conference, officials said last night.
Ynet reports: A mild earthquake was felt in northern Israel early Tuesday, many residents reported. The Geophysical Institute reported an earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter Scale was felt in
Lakewood, NJ – YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of R’ Aharon Sturman Z”L, who was Niftar overnight at the young age of 37. R’ Aharon had R”L suffered terribly from Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) for the past few years. R’ Aharon was the son of Rav Shimon Dovid Sturman Z”L, who was a Magid […]
The New York Police Department has begun photographing the irises of people who are arrested in an effort to prevent escapes as suspects move through the court system, a police
The number of Americans fighting off hunger stayed level last year, though food insecurity rates remain the highest they have been since the federal government began keeping track 15 years
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