A Jewish doctor in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Paderborn has reportedly walked out of a surgery after discovering a Nazi tattoo on the arm of a patient. The 36-year-old
President Obama was adamant on Friday that he isn’t caving in to GOP pressure to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, despite a recent report claiming that
Nearly five years after he sank into a coma, former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon left the Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer Friday morning for continued care at his
Big Apple residents spent $165 million last year to buy low-cost products at Walmart’s suburban stores because there aren’t any outlets in the five boroughs, according to an analysis obtained
If you stand on a street corner long enough, the Google Street View cameras will find you — a lesson three Brooklyn heroin dealers just found out the hard way.
A young girl who lost her brother to the combat in Iraq is carrying on his memory by raising money for other military families. Like many Jewish troops, 25-year old
In the latest sign of the meltdown of the economy, one of the leading girls yeshivas in Brooklyn, The Yeshiva of Bensonhurst, was evicted from their premises late Tuesday night
A truck has crashed into a bus stop near the Akko train station a short while ago, killing one person R”L, and injuring seven pedestrians, four of them seriously. MDA
A disagreement over funding for a rabbinical seminary is causing friction between Germany’s orthodox Jewish community and the government. Orthodox leaders have pressed the government — so far unsuccessfully — to give their facility the same funding it grants Germany’s only other rabbinical seminary, which is liberal. Rabbi Josh Spinner of the orthodox Rabbinical Seminary […]
One of the largest Israeli retailers, “Co-op,” will soon be opening in Russia. The company intends to open its first major kosher food supermarket in Moscow by the end of 2011. If the Moscow store is successful, the company intends to open a similar store in S. Petersburg. The Moscow Co-op supermarket will sell on […]
For the past three days, the giant cruise ship Carnival Splendor — with a small city of nearly 4,500 passengers and crewmembers aboard — has been without power 55 miles off the coast of Punta San Jacinto, disabled by an engine fire that has made the ship the focus of a military relief effort and […]
The following is a NY Times article: The tall man in the velvet fedora and knee-length black jacket with ritual fringes peeking out takes long, swift strides toward the Western Wall. It’s late in the day, and he does not want to miss afternoon prayers at Judaism’s holiest site. “We have to get there before […]
A short while ago, in a joint IDF-ISA operation, IAF aerial vehicles and IDF ground forces fired toward a building in the central Gaza Strip, in which armed militants were
Rahm Emanuel has been traveling to different parts of the city in recent weeks, meeting residents and talking about his mayoral plans. Today, he was in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood
Clifton, NJ – An Orthodox Jewish congregation is again suing the city, demanding a fair hearing for its proposal to develop a house of worship at Virginia Avenue and Dwasline Road. The lawsuit by Congregation Shomrei Torah comes after the city’s Planning Board and Board of Adjustment refused to hear its application for a new […]
The following is from the NY Observer: Israel is the fastest growing real estate market in the world right now. Foreign investors — including many a New Yorker — are snapping up property in the often troubled paradise. But that might be a mistake. Global Property Guide ranked Israel the hottest housing market for the […]
Hundreds of students protested at Tel Aviv University on Thursday against a bill granting yeshiva students millions in state funds. The students attempted to block a major junction outside the
Former President George W. Bush refused Wednesday to comment on the controversial proposal to build a mosque and community center near Ground Zero in New York City — saying he
The number of times the New York City Police Department stopped, questioned and sometimes frisked people dropped slightly in the third quarter compared to numbers from the same period last year, but the total number of police stops is up slightly in 2010. Police filled out 137,301 so-called “stop, question and frisk” reports, known inside […]
Corpses, cancer patients and diseased lungs: These are some of the images the federal government plans for larger, graphic warning labels for cigarette packages. The images are part of a
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