Yearly Archives: 2008
New York, NY – Increase in Hotel Tax and 7% Property Tax Signed by Bloomberg
New York, NY - Property taxes and hotel rates are set to increase after Mayor Bloomberg grudgingly signed two tax hikes into law yesterday.
Property-tax bills, which were sent o...
Jerusalem, Israel – 4-Year-Old Son Of Kedoshim Holtzberg Dies of Illness
Jerusalem, Israel - Another tragedy befell the family of Mumbai attack victims, Dov-Ber Holtzberg, the four-year-old son of murdered Chabad emissaries to Mumbai, India, Rabbi Gavri...
Woodmere, NY – Kids of Wonderland Crash Get Another Hanukkah Party, Meanwile Town Fines Owners of Building
Woodmere, NY - At first, Dan Smith wasn't sure he wanted to bring his toddler, Judah, to another Hanukkah party.
Smith, 31, of Far Rockaway, said he, his wife, and their two chi...
Baltimore, MD – Sudden Auto Fatality Shocks Frum Community
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Baltimore, MD - Baltimore's Ner Yisroel community joined their brothers worldwide in shock...
Queens, NY – Subway Travel To Become More Dangerous With Cut Of Late Night Patrol
Queens, NY - The subways of Queens are already seeing an uptick in crime - but they're about to get scarier.
An NYPD unit that patrols the borough's trains at night is on the v...
New York City – Mayor Bloomberg: Israel Has An Obligation To Defend Itself
New York City - “I just wanted to say that I feel very strongly that Israel really does have a right, in fact an obligation, to defend itself against terrorist attacks. New Yorker...
Washington, DC – Jewish Institutions Warned to Review Security Details
Washington, DC - A group coordinating security for American Jewish institutions urged member organizations to review their security procedures in the wake of Israel's operation in ...
Jerusalem – Rav Amnon Yitzchak vs. B’Chadrey Chareidim Internet Forum
Jerusalem - The rav billed "the greatest of all machzirim b'tshuva" has opened a file in Rav Nissim Karelitz's beis din against the owners of the B'Chedrei Chedorim chareidi web si...
Washington – Wall Street Journal: Respected Russian Professor Predicts U.S. Will Fall Apart Due To Civil War
Washington - For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an ec...
New York – Ganof Of The Century Might Be Hiding Money In Offshore Accounts
New York - Investigators believe that Bernard Madoff has stuffed hundreds of millions of dollars in Ponzi profits into offshore tax havens from which they could prove tricky to rec...
Atlanta, GA – Jimmy Carter Proudly Becomes Hamas Advisor
Atlanta, GA - Former US President Jimmy Carter proudly announced on his website at the weekend that during his recent visit to Damascus he advised Hamas leader Khaled Mashal on wha...
New York, NY – Two of Bloomberg’s Crucial Voting Bases Got Changes in Parking Rules as Election Heats Up
New York, NY - Two of Mayor Bloomberg's crucial voting bases got some transit-related relief this month, just as his controversial campaign for a third term heats up.
The city a...
Orange, NJ – Advocate Fights For Non-Jews Who Helped Protect Them in Holocaust
Orange, NJ - Stanlee Stahl, a feisty tornado of a woman with a strong dislike for the word "no," is at this moment trying to overcome the innumerable obstacles of international pho...
New York – Senator Schumer: NY State Could Get $5B in Fed Financial Aid
New York - Sen. Charles Schumer says the state could get at least $5 billion in financial aid under a new economic stimulus package being developed by President-elect Barack Obama'...
Dubuque, IA – Dozens Protest Rubashkin Bail Denial [video]
Dubuque, IA - Some members of Postville's Jewish community say a recent federal court ruling involving a former Agriprocessors CEO is religious discrimination.
Sholom Rubashkin...
Chicago, IL – Molotov Cocktail Thrown At North Side Synagogue
Chicago, IL - Authorities are investigating after someone threw a Molotov cocktail at a North Side synagogue early this morning on Lake Shore Drive. No one was hurt.
Police were...
Jerusaelm – Barak: This Is An All Out War
Jerusalem - Defense Minister and Labor Chairman Ehud Barak on Monday said that Israel would extend and increase its military operation in the Gaza Strip until all the goals were ac...
Israel – 4 People Stabbed in Kiryat Sefer [photos]
Kiryat Sefer, Israel - Two Arab handymen armed with a sharp tool began running wild and stabbing the members of an Israeli family which hired their services. The incident took plac...
Israel – Arab Media: Kidnapped Israeli Soldier Gilad Shalit Wounded in Bombing
Israel - Kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit was injured in one of the Air Force strikes in Gaza, Egyptian television reported Sunday night.
"There are reports that the Israeli soldi...
Sacramento, CA – Oldest Man in the US, Who Lived Through 19 U.S. Presidencies, Dies at 112
Sacramento, CA - Sacramento's George Rene Francis, officially recognized as the oldest living man in America and the joint second-oldest living man in the world, died at 112 years ...