The following appears on the Jewish Chronicle website: A boycott campaign is mounting against Israel’s most prestigious kosher certification. With dozens of different kashrut seals available in Israel, hechsher snobbery
(Videos below of Yaakov Shwekey, Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz, and Mrs. Leah Rubashkin, all speaking at press conference) An unprecedented music video entitled “Unity For Justice” featuring thirty nine Jewish music superstars made its worldwide debut at a press conference held this Thursday afternoon at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights. Recorded to raise awareness […]
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said at Hillcrest Jewish Center in Fresh Meadows that prosecutors and law enforcement officials must work with community members to fight the homegrown terrorism that is of increasing concern in the city. “The rise of local radical terrorism is real,” Vance told Queens and city residents, who packed Hillcrest’s […]
Authorities evacuated a plane at the airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Thursday after one of three people loading the plane failed to produce identification and then disappeared, police said. U.S.
MTA board members approved a whopping fare hike this morning with a 12 to 2 vote — sending the monthly MetroCard to $104 from $89 and increasing the single ride
Members of Pakistan’s spy agency are pressing Taliban field commanders to fight the U.S. and its allies in Afghanistan, U.S. officials and Afghan militants have told The Wall Street Journal,
It’ll be Carl Paladino time and only Carl Paladino time on television Thursday in many parts of the state. The raucous Republican governor candidate bought a bunch of tube time
A Mississippi judge yesterday jailed a lawyer who refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in his courtroom. Attorney Danny Lampley, 49, was taken into custody Wednesday morning after Chancellor Talmadge Littlejohn cited him for criminal contempt of court for failing to recite the 31-word Pledge at the outset of the morning’s proceedings at the […]
Yahoo is rolling out a new search experience today, making its web search more streamlined and visual, improving its mobile search and adding a list of hot search topics to
Multiple media outlets are reporting that that disgraced former NYS Comptroller Alan Hevesi will be in court this morning to be arraigned on charges in connection with an ongoing investigation
A Bronx man busted last year for threatening to assassinate the President and the NYPD’s top cop was arrested Wednesday for threatening to blow up Penn Station, sources said. Jonathan Avalos, 19, allegedly made four calls between Sunday and Tuesday to a tipline run by the Port Authority, threatening to detonate bombs at transportation hubs. […]
Officials are looking to eliminate sugary drinks from the grocery lists of some lower income New Yorkers. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor David Paterson are expected to petition the U.S.
An employee of Cambridge Internet company Akamai Technologies Inc. was arrested today and charged with wire fraud after allegedly trying to sell confidential information about the firm to a foreign government, according to the US Attorney’s office. Elliot Doxer,42, of Brookline was charged in federal court with a single count of wire fraud and was […]
For more than a decade, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been the predominant tool the world uses to connect to the Web, but that’s no longer true, according to a Web
The search for a missing Great Neck man is intensifying, with many volunteer organizations joining the search. Since YWN posted our initial story yesterday, volunteers from Shomrim, Chaverim & other organizations have joined the search. Volunteers are arriving from Chaverim of Lakewood, Monsey, Shomrim of Boro Park, and other neighborhoods. Authorities are searching for 65-year-old Steven […]
Apple Inc. plans to begin mass producing a new iPhone by the end of 2010 that would allow Verizon Wireless to sell the smartphone early next year, said people briefed
The number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to a record 41.8 million in July as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government said. Recipients of Supplemental
Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn’t paid a $75 fee. Gene Cranick of Obion County and his family lost all of their possessions in the Sept. 29 fire, along with three dogs and a cat. “They could have been saved if they had put […]
The recession put a 3.1 percent dent in the personal incomes of New York state residents, who endured their first full-year decline in more than 70 years, according to a
Brooklyn — Councilman David Greenfield is making the community aware that over one-thousand Jewish non-profit organizations are at risk of losing their 501(C)(3) designation because of a new law that enforces the required filing of a Form 990. If an organization has not filed their “990” with the IRS within the last three years they […]
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