Maybe this is why Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesnt take a salary. The billionaire mayor has only two pairs of work shoes, which he has been wearing for 10 years, the New York Post reported Monday. “The mayor owns only two pairs of work shoes,” Bloomberg spokesman, Stu Loeser, told the Post. “One day he’ll wear […]
Chacham Hagon Ovadia Yosef Shlita, turned 90 on Sunday, continuing his busy schedule of meeting people, delivering Shiurim, and writing Seforim. Rav Ovadia Yosef was born in Baghdad on September
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World leaders are descending on the city this week for the United Nations General Assembly, bringing major traffic tie-ups and gridlock on the east side of Manhattan. An increased police presence is already visible in the area. All this week, First Avenue will be closed from 42nd Street to 48th Street, though the tunnel underpass […]
The White House is pushing back hard against a New York Times report that the president’s political team is considering a national ad campaign that would cast the GOP as taken over by tea party extremists. The story is 100 percent inaccurate, a White House official told POLITICO. Times Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet counters […]
The United States under President George W. Bush was prepared to take in 100,000 Palestinian refugees as part of a Middle East peace deal, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
The longtime White House correspondent who resigned from Hearst newspapers in June in the wake of comments she made about Israel will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Council
U.S. officials formally declared an end to the worst oil spill in U.S. history Sunday, a milestone that followed nearly five months of dashed hopes and blistering criticism of nearly
From last minute kapparos and the start of sukkos preparations on Erev Yom Kippur to the Tisch by the Belzer Rebbe after the fast, the photographers of Kuvien Images hit
The travel period for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot is from September 19 through October 4, 2010. Observant Jewish travelers may carry four plants a palm branch, myrtle twigs, willow twigs, and a citron in airports and through security checkpoints. These plants are religious articles and may be carried either separately or as […]
A summit of U.S. Muslim organizations is scheduled to begin Sunday in New York City to address a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero and the anti-Muslim sentiment that has
Excerpts from a NY Post exclusive: Assemblyman Vito Lopez bullied and cajoled eight little old ladies during an arm-twisting session aimed at getting them to back his candidate in a
Bedbugs have infiltrated yet another NYC apparel giant — this time it was Niketown, the company’s flagship store on East 57th St., that was forced to close Saturday. Disappointed shoppers
Starting this Sunday and stretching through the winter of 2015 the Hudson Street entrance to the Holland Tunnel will be closed for improvements to the infrastructure. Drivers heading to New
The tornado that blew through New York City Thursday, knocking down thousands of trees and limbs has doubtless sent many people scurrying to their insurance papers to find out whether theyre covered for downed tree limbs damaging homes and cars. The Insurance Information Institute, an industry trade group, said people whose homes are damaged by […]
The Pope told a Mass attended by more than 50,000 in England on Sunday that the world felt “shame and horror” at suffering inflicted by his German homeland in World
Iran’s loopy dictator, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is headed to the Big Apple this week for the meeting of the UN General Assembly. In the spirit of “peace” in his region, Ahmadinejad
President Obama is preparing to seek Congressional approval for a huge arms sale to Saudi Arabia, chiefly intended as a building block for Middle East regional defenses to box in
With praise and thanks to Hashem, the Jewish community of Northeast Philadelphia is happy to announce the formation of Philadelphia Hatzolah. The program has been formed utilizing a core of
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