Yearly Archives: 2008
Clifton, NJ – Orthodox Jewish Hair Salons To Be Trained To Recognize Physical Abuse In Woman.
Clifton, NJ - A family services agency in the New York City neighbourhoods of Washington Heights and Central Harlem has launched a three-year pilot project to partner with local ha...
New York, NY – City Hall Reduces Parking Placards 20%
New York, NY - City Hall's crackdown on government employee parking placards has arrived. Acknowledging the dissonance between his congestion mitigation efforts and City emplo...
New York – Creative Entrepreneur Fights Menus-Under-Doors With DANGER Stickers.
New York - Menu littering is a huge problem in New York City. The increasingly competitive takeout and delivery industry hires their delivery guys during off hours to foist menus ...
Brooklyn, NY +Child Bitten by Doberman+
Brooklyn, NY +Child Bitten by Doberman+ NYPD ESU and Emergency Medical Services are all on the scene at 71 Ocean Parkway at Caton Place and East 8th Street for an unconsicous baby ...
Randolph, MA – Strong Determination To Oust Board member Of School For Anti-Semitic Remarks.
Randolph, MA - Organizers of an effort to remove Maureen Kenney from her seat on the board of selectmen say they are ready to collect the thousands of signatures needed to put a re...
Brooklyn, NY – Store Manager Arrested for Beating Competitor
Brooklyn, NY - NYPD of the 67th Pct have arrested a 27-year-old Flatbush shoe-store manager after beating up the boss from the competition store with a shoe during an argument over...
New York, NY – Citibank Limits ATM Cash from Customers Own Accounts
New York, NY - A jump in ATM fraud led Citibank to slash the maximum amount of cash available to customers from their accounts.
The new cap on cash kicked out by the c...
New York – NYS Yeshivos to Receive Millions in Mandated Services Funding
New York - The New York State Education Department (SED) has finally released the $39.9 million appropriated in last year’s budget to reimburse the state’s nonpublic schools for th...
Roosevelt, NJ – Justice Dept. Investigating Borough’s Handling of Yeshiva Me’on Hatorah
Roosevelt, NJ - The U.S. Department of Justice has initiated an investigation of Roosevelt and its zoning and landuse practices.
In a letter, R. Tamar Hagler, an attorney on beh...
New York – Congressman Lantos Retirement Greeted With Great Sadness In NY.
New York - The announcement by Congressman Lantos that he is battling cancer and will retire from the House will be greeted with sadness here in New York. The congressman may repre...
Belmonte, Portugal – After 500 Years in Hiding, Jews Bring Prosperity to Iberian Town.
Belmonte, Portugal - While most of the towns in central Portugal are suffering through difficult economic times, this small village northeast of Lisbon is enjoying a revival: The p...
Israel – Is The Lubavitcher Rabbi The Messiah? If You Answer Yes, You Can’t Convert.
Israel - If you believe that a dead man is the messiah, does that disqualify you from converting to Judaism?
Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994), the last Lubavitcher Rebbe. A...
Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY – Robbers Kidnap Chasidic Jeweler at Brooklyn Navy Yard
Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY - A Brooklyn jeweler was kidnapped on New Year's Eve by two gun-toting thugs who forced him to drive to his warehouse, then grabbed more than $1 million w...
New York, NY – Weeding Out Begins Over September 11 Suits
New York, NY - Legal efforts are now under way to identify which of the thousands of workers with respiratory injuries stemming from their efforts at ground zero following the terr...
Suffern, NY – Good Sam’s First Baby of the Year Born is Sixth Child to Family.
Suffern, NY - Good Sam Hospital in Suffern welcomed its first baby of the new year, a boy, at 5:58 a.m. yesterday. At 6:10 a.m., Miriam Rosenberg of Spring Valley, gave birth at th...
Freehold Township, NJ – Town Asks Court to Let State Consider Lawsuit by Rabbi
Freehold Township, NJ - The township is asking a U.S. District Court not to hear the civil rights lawsuit filed by Rabbi Avraham Bernstein.
"There is a state action that Bernstein...
Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY +Apartment Fire+
Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY +Apartment Fire+ Fire Department and Hatzolah are on the scene after numerous calls for a working fire at 5225 14th Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets ...
Denver, CO – 44 on Plane with TB Patient Sought
Denver, CO - Health authorities are searching for 44 passengers who sat near a woman flying from India to the U.S. with infectious multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
The sick trave...
Israel – PM Olmert In Fire Storm Comment, “Only Secular Jews Can Adequately Manage Haredi Education”
Pinned News - January 2, 2008
Israel - At a special Knesset session addressing the ongoing education crisis Wednesday, PM Ehud Olmert noted that the longstanding problems facing I...
West Hartford, CT – Synagogue to Celebrate Baby Boom
West Hartford, CT - Michael Levine has instituted a new agenda item at the Board of Directors meetings at The Emanuel Synagogue in that is a testament to the cycle of life.
From n...