Brooklyn - With Election Day just hours away, Councilman David G. Greenfield is making voters aware of their privacy rights and providing some helpful information before the first General Election with the new paper ballots gets underway in New York. “I received numerous complaints during, and after, the September 14th primary elections,” said Councilman Greenfield. […]
A Chilean miner will go from running underground to running through the streets of New York. A spokesperson for New York Road Runners says Edison Peña will take part in the ING New York City Marathon this Sunday. The 34-year-old from Chile ran up to five miles a day to keep his body and mind […]
Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations strongly criticized the resolution passed recently by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, in which it labeled Kever Rochel a mosque. “The UNESCO resolution is an affront to history and to truth and to the very principles that UNESCO was […]
A nonprofit formed to create an eruv in the Hamptons has received preliminary permission from two utilities to use their poles in creating the symbolic religious border in the Westhampton
New York area synagogues were on heightened alert Monday, and some New York City apartment buildings were taking the extra precaution of not accepting package deliveries at all. This was all in response to Friday’s discovery of an international terror plot from Yemen targeting synagogues in Chicago, CBS 2HD’s Derricke Dennis reports. “When something like […]
Former Governor of New York George Pataki today endorsed Buffalo builder Carl Paladino for Governor of New York. “We do agree on three essential Republican-Conservative core beliefs: the need to
Some 5,000 students have left Jerusalem’s Paris Square and are marching towards Zion Square as part of a protest against the yeshiva student funding bill – allotting millions in state
On Tuesday, for the first time, voters in 33 states will be able to vote using some aspect of the Internet. But no matter the outcome, experts say no one will be certain those votes haven’t been tampered with. “We are still a decade away from being sure that Internet voting is secure and not […]
Imagine virtually all the askonim, advocates, and activists of our community all joined together in one room. Imagine them gathered for the singular purpose of serving the people of our community as best as they can. Now imagine that dozens of legislative and political officials are spending the morning together with them working towards a common goal. If […]
Maggie Haberman of Politico reports: There have been lots of reports this weekend about pushes with the ultra-Orthodox community of Kiryas Joel – which helped provide Democratic Rep. John Hall
A military jury on Sunday gave teen terrorist Omar Khadr a 40-year prison sentence for killing an American commando in Afghanistan, but the sentence was merely symbolic — the United States already had agreed to limit Khadr’s prison time to eight years, and Canada last week said it would allow Khadr to serve the bulk […]
The tip-offex to authorities about two U.S.-bound cargo plane bomb parcels came from a penitent al Qaeda member formerly held at Guantanamo Bay, according to British officials cited Monday by
Sounds crazy, right? Hamodia, the newspaper of “Torah Jewry,” promoting intermarriage, how can that be?!?!? As much as it pains me to write this letter, I feel that I have an obligation to do so. You see, I am a Rebbe in yeshiva. I spend my life trying to instill in my talmidim yiras shomayim. […]
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and a North Side rabbi met Sunday in a show of solidarity after packages containing explosives bound for different Jewish houses of worship in Chicago were intercepted overseas. “The fact is that while synagogues here in Chicago were targeted, the reality is that when a house of worship is under threat […]
Maggie Haberman of Politico reports: A spokesman for House Minority Whip Eric Cantor is denying a report that he told Hasidic leaders in Kiryas Joel that he would himself be
Strasbourg – Forty-nine tombstones were desecrated in the Jewish cemetery of Bar-le-Duc in northeastern France, police announced on Sunday. No claim nor inscription was found in the cemetery where police
Civilian Internet applications now offer militant groups access to intelligence that rivals what government spies can get, Israel’s domestic security chief said on Monday. Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin, in
Two years after seizing control of the State Senate for the first time in more than four decades, New York Democrats are in grave danger of losing their narrow majority
Alcohol ranks “most harmful” among a list of 20 drugs — beating out crack and heroin — according to study results released by a British medical journal. A panel of
The following is a NY Post exclusive: Eric Schneiderman, the Democratic candidate for state attorney general, voted three times as a state senator against antiterrorism bills banning the possession of
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