Comptroller Scott Stringer says New York City should be quicker to repair the potholes that have cost taxpayers $138 million in settlements over the last six years. Stringer released an
A 12-year-old boy riding his bicycle in Elad was stopped by a policeman and fined NIS 1,000 (one thousand) for speaking on his cell phone while riding, thereby endangering the
Congress is heading out for a five-week summer recess in anything but a cheerful vacation mood, leaving behind a pile of unfinished business that all but guarantees a painful fall.
During his address at a symposium, MK Moshe Gafne lashed out at the Agudas Yisrael faction of Yahadut Hatorah regarding the new arrangement with the coalition vis-à-vis monthly child allowance
Iran will not allow American or Canadian inspectors working for the U.N. nuclear watchdog to visit its nuclear facilities, an official said in remarks broadcast by state TV on Thursday.
A former New York state Senate leader and his son have pleaded not guilty to the latest charges against them in a corruption case. Dean Skelos and his 33-year-old son,
Council Member Mark Treyger, Chairman of the Committee on Recovery & Resiliency, strongly applauds members of Congress, including Rep. Grace Meng of Queens, for reintroducing the Federal Disaster Assistance Nonprofit
An MTA train operator has been arrested in connection with the hit-and-run death of jeweler-to-the-stars Aranbayev in Queens. The suspect, 46-year-old Charles Jordan, was taken into custody at his Valley
All of the protesters detained by police during confrontations in Beit El have been released except for one who was being held in the Shaar Binyamin Police Station. The protesters
Before the NYPD moves forward with its body camera program for officers, the department’s inspector general wants his own say on how the program should be expanded. In December, the
Shmuel Isaac Heller, a 19-year-old talmid yeshiva, was placed in custody by military police upon arrival at an induction center. He came to declare his status and found himself in
Ignoring pleas and petitions by civil society groups, India on Thursday hanged an accountant convicted of supporting the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people in the country’s worst terrorist
A chareidi couple in their 20s, from the southern city of Ofakim, is in police custody on suspicion of beating their 18-month-old daughter. The child is currently admitted to Soroka
Following the publication of the over 100 girls from Elad whom have been rejected by the city’s seminaries (high schools) despite being Beis Yaakov graduates, Knesset Education Committee Chairman Yaakov
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Tu B’Av is a day that comes six days after Tisha b’Av. It was, however, a special day in the Jewish calendar in and of itself.
Nonprofit co-ops, the health care law’s public-spirited alternative to mega-insurers, are awash in red ink and many have fallen short of sign-up goals, a government audit has found. Under President
A group of Jewish singers and superstars visited famed Jewish guitarist and singer Yossi Piamenta last week, and made a “Kumzits” for him. Yossi Piamenta has been battling a dreaded
The Israel Foreign Ministry issued an official response to the latest Israel-bashing Amnesty International report. Following is the ministry’s response. The methodology the report is based upon is fundamentally flawed,
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