Swastikas Painted in Teaneck, NJ
Someone carved a swastika and the word �Jew� in freshly poured concrete outside Holy Name Medical Center�s emergency room on Grange Road late Wednesday or early Thursday, authorities said. Police also took three boys into custody � ages 14, 15 and 17 � for stepping on and writing in the soft concrete, though they were […]
Tornado Warning Issued for Eastern NYC
5:40PM EST: The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for New York. While no tornados have been sighted, doppler radar indicates that a tornado could form in Staten Island and Brooklyn. Area’s most likely to be affected are Port Richmond, Todt Hill and Tomkinsville in Staten Island, and Park Slope in Brooklyn, meteorologists […]
DOT Installing Countdown Pedestrian Signals In Brooklyn
The Department of Transportation installed the first countdown pedestrian signals in Park Slope earlier today. When the traffic lights at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and 9th Street turn red, pedestrians will see a walking man for 15 seconds. Then, a 22-second countdown begins so pedestrians know exactly how much time they have left to […]
Greenfield Wants Federal Monitors To Ensure Ballot Secrecy In November Election
Brooklyn � Councilman David Greenfield has requested that the Federal government dispatch monitors to random polling sites to oversee the November 2nd general election in New York to ensure the preservation of New Yorkers� rights to a secret ballot. In a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice�s Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez, Councilman Greenfield […]
F-35 Stealth Planes On Their Way To Israel
A ministerial committee headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak authorized the purchase of 20 F-35 stealth fighter jets on Thursday. “Procuring the most advanced fighter jet in the world is a significant step towards bolstering the State of Israel’s military capability,” said Netanyahu. The decision to purchase the fighter jets […]
Baltimore: Man Shoots Jewish Doctor , Then Kills Himself At Johns Hopkins Hospital [UPDATED 3:15PM EST]
1:00PM EST:�[UPDATES BELOW] A man who shot and wounded a doctor at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, later killed himself and a third person on Thursday, police said. The suspect shot a faculty physician at the hospital just after 11 a.m., police said. The doctor was rushed to surgery and is expected […]
Bank Threatens To Seize Five Sifrei Torah Due To Delinquent Loan
The Palm Beach Post reports: When Jews at Congregation Chabad-Lubavitch west of Boynton Beach gather Friday for the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest of Jewish holidays, they will be under a cloud of uncertainty. A bank is seeking to grab the Chabad’s property and assets to pay off a delinquent loan. Among those assets […]
General Closure In Judea, Samaria For Yom Kippur
During the Yom Kippur holiday, September 17th, 2010 to September 18th, 2010, security crossings into Israel will be temporarily closed. The crossings will close on September 16th, 2010 at 23:59 and will open again on September 18th, 2010 at 23:59 in accordance with security assessments adopted by the defense establishment. For the duration of the […]
Small Biz Jobs Bill Passes
After months of debate and significant pressure from the White House, the Senate on Thursday passed a $42 billion bill aimed at helping small businesses. The House passed its own version of the bill about 3 months ago. The Senate’s version of the Small Business Jobs Act will now have to go back to the […]
Hatzolah Of Philadelphia Launches: Emergency Responders Answer to Higher Calling
On a recent summer day, Rabbi Shloime Isaacson received an urgent call: A 98-year-woman was having difficulty breathing. Isaacson was on his way to a meeting with a potential donor for a summer-camp program connected with his Northeast Philadelphia Orthodox shul, but he quickly took a detour. He was only about a mile from the […]
United States Poverty Rate At Highest Level In Half-Century
One in seven Americans is living in poverty, the highest number in the half-century that the government has kept such statistics, the Census Bureau announced Wednesday. Last year was the third consecutive year that the poverty rate climbed, in part because of the recession, rising from 13.2 percent in 2008 to 14.3 percent, or 43.6 […]
$25,000 Drawing Tonight for Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim
For over 75 years, the Rabbinical Seminary of America, popularly known as Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim, has been fulfilling its two-fold objective: to provide young Jews with an outstanding Torah education of the highest caliber, and to equip them with the training and commitment to serve in leadership positions for Jewish communities throughout the world. With […]
Vegetarian Moroccan Chili
2 onions, chopped 2 teaspoons minced garlic 4 tablespoons oil 2 (29 ounce) cans diced tomatoes, undrained 2 (12 ounce) bottles beer 2 chipotles chili peppers in adobo sauce, chopped 2 tablespoons cumin 2 teaspoons sugar 2 (19 ounce) cans cannellini beans, drained 2 (19 ounce) cans black beans, drained 2 pounds butternut squash, peeled […]
NYPD Traffic Agent Writes Ticket To Driver As He Lay Dead In Vehicle
A man was slapped with a parking ticket as he lay dead in the driver�s seat of his car, cops and family said Wednesday. Nicholas Rappold, 21, of Flushing, was slumped across the front seat of his Jeep Cherokee on 165th St. near 35thAve. Tuesday morning when a traffic agent wrote him up for being […]
Levaya of Mrs. Shalva Dershowitz A”H
We regret to inform you of the Petira of Mrs. Shalva Dershowitz [nee Schaffer-Monsey] A�H, (wife of R� Chesky, and daughter� of R� Pesach Schaffer), a young mother and wife, who was R”L Niftar after an illness on Wednesday evening.� The Levaya [and Kevurah] took place on Thursday morning at the Holocaust Memorial Chapel on […]
Officials: Ex-NYC Teacher Attempted To Send Weapons To Terror Groups
A former teacher at the prestigious Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan is being held Wednesday on charges he tried to send assault weapons to terror groups in the Mideast. Investigators say he also talked about killing cops and Jews. Theophilus Burroughs, 49, pleaded not guilty in Bronx Supreme Court to a multiple-count indictment Wednesday, officials […]
MK Gafni Slams High Court Says Charedim Will Stop Paying Taxes If Rulings Continue
Knesset Member Moshe Gafni lashed out at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, saying it kept on ruling against Israel’s Charedi residents. “You know what we will do? We’ll stop paying taxes,” he said in an interview to Kol Chai Radio. In the interview, conducted after the High Court approved the opening of a separate school […]
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As the double three-day Yom Tov of Sukkos approaches, (with no Yeshiva World News to read�), Israel Bookshop Publications is offering a special 20% discount exclusively to YWN readers, who order via our website. Simply enter Coupon Code: YWNSUKKOS10 into the required field to receive 20% off of list price on our entire line of […]
Yankel Rosenbaum’s Brother Norman Reacts To Lemrick Nelson Stabbing
The brother of murdered Australian Yankel Rosenbaum has expressed no surprise that his killer is lying in a coma after being stabbed in the head with an ice pick. �He is a violent criminal, a dangerous person, a bad guy. It doesn’t surprise me that he would get himself into this situation,� said Melbourne lawyer […]