With one final, fitting blast of 96-degree heat on Tuesday, the summer of 2010 went down in the National Weather Service’s record books as the hottest ever in New York City. Hotter than the previous high of 77.3 degrees set in 1966, when more than 1,100 deaths were attributed to heat that repeatedly exceeded 100 […]
After more than seven years of American military operations in Iraq, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will help mark the transfer of U.S. military command in Iraq on Wednesday. The
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he doesn’t have an eye on the White House but it sure seems to have one on him. The mayor’s summer datebook has included golf with the president, breakfast with the vice president, a chat with the Treasury secretary. Mr. Bloomberg, who contemplated running for president in 2008 and has repeatedly […]
New York, NY – Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly presided over the NYPD’s annual High Holiday security briefing at One Police Plaza Tuesday. As it has every year since 9/11, the NYPD will increase security to protect New York’s Jewish community on Rosh Hashanah, which starts at sundown on Wednesday, Sept. 8, and Yom Kippur, beginning […]
WJZ Reports: There are three more ambulances responding to emergencies in Northwest Baltimore. As Suzanne Collins reports, they were purchased with private funds, and the paramedics are volunteers from Baltimore’s
Police have tracked down and suspended an officer accused of refusing to help a Brooklyn girl dying from an asthma attack last Friday. The mother of Briana Ojeda, 11, says
Around 10,000 Charedim protested Tuesday morning at dawn in Kikar Shabbos in Jerusalem against the continued desecration of graves in Jaffa. Thousands of participants were wrapped in their talleisim for
Hackensack, NJ - Officials from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office today announced that more than 700 firearms were taken in over the weekend as part of the county’s first-ever Gun Buy Back initiative, which allowed individuals to anonymously surrender their unwanted firearms for cash. “We’re very grateful this program was such a tremendous success,” Sheriff Leo […]
For the second time in a month, tragedy has struck the ZAKA family of volunteers. Mommi Ben Chaim, a ZAKA volunteer from the South Hebron region, hurried to the scene of tonight’s fatal shooting attack near Kiryat Arba and began his sacred work at the site. ZAKA volunteers at the site were horrified to discover […]
Excerpts from Aron Klein / World Net Daily exclusive: Today’s deadly terror attack that killed four people took place on a road where the Israeli government removed staffed anti-terror checkpoints
Seven in ten New Yorkers say the proposed mosque/Islamic community center near Ground Zero should be relocated because of opposition from 9/11 families — and an equal number want state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to probe the group’s finances, a new statewide poll released today found. “Overwhelmingly — across party and regional lines — New […]
The City is known for having excellent tap water, but why does it taste so good? It might be the microscopic shrimp. Tiny copepods were discovered after a reddit user
Republicans have the biggest lead ever — by a whopping 10% — over Democrats, according to a new Gallup poll, which asked whether voters prefer a Democrat or Republican congressional candidate. The margin, 51% to 41%, is by far the largest ever earned by the GOP since the polling firm began tracking the generic ballot […]
A 5-year-old was critically injured Tuesday after a 150 kg. metal gate collapsed on him at the Chofetz Chaim Yeshiva in Ofakim. He was found lying on the ground bleeding,
President Obama’s health care overhaul is getting less popular as time goes on. After a slight uptick in June and July, the law’s popularity sank to 43% in a Kaiser
Carol Aiello used to spot the intruders only at night, prowling her backyard or scurrying along her street in Glendale, Queens. But one morning not long ago, she caught one of them staring at her from a neighbor’s gutter and all of a sudden — perhaps for no reason other than seeing those black-rimmed eyes […]
Hurricane Earl is on a collision course with the East Coast and Americans from the Carolinas to Cape Cod are bracing for the worst hurricane to hit the area in
The following is from Ynet: Two residents of Jerusalem, aged 13 and 15, are suspected of beating a 60-year old American Jew to death in the city center a week
Tenafly, NJ – Tenafly is a tony suburb across from the Bronx and a stone’s throw away from the George Washington Bridge. Folks there aren’t used to seeing bears in their backyards. At around 8 p.m. Monday night, a medium-sized black bear wandered into a playground at the Jewish Community Center. “It was basically rooting […]
Yeshivah Bais Hatorah which suddenly closed two weeks ago due to financial hardships, will be reopening under a new leadership. The Yeshivah has been taken over by Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Kanarek Shlita and will be basically running on the same Derech Halimud, with slight modifications. On Wednesday, a meeting will be held for parents who wish […]
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