Yearly Archives: 2009
Jerusalem – Hamas: Israel Caught In Failed Shalit Rescue Attempt
Jerusalem - Hamas said Wednesday that it had thwarted an Israeli attempt to release kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit through non-diplomatic means. Hamas security claims the Shin Be...
Kiamesha Lake, NY – Owner Vows to Build Catskills Entertainment City Resort
Kiamesha Lake, NY - Another deadline on the stalled Concord project has come and gone, but developer Louis Cappelli said this week he'll build an Entertainment City resort in Sulli...
Jerusalem – Ethiopian Israelis Appeal to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef to Push To Allow Their Relatives to Make Aliyah
Jerusalem - Interior Minister Eli Yishai is slated to submit a proposal to the government on Sunday to allow over 8,000 remaining Falashmura in Ethiopia to immigrate to Israel. Bu...
New York – Bloggers Left and Right Agree to Hate Health Care Reform
New York - In the snarkier precincts of the left-wing blogosphere, mainstream journalists like me are often called villagers. The reference, so far as I can tell, has to do with is...
San‘a’ – Yemen Raids Al Qaeda Hide-Out; 1 Arrested
San‘a’ - Yemeni security forces stormed an al Qaeda hide-out Wednesday in a principle militant stronghold in the country's west, setting off clashes, officials said, as a security ...
Jerusalem – New iPhone Application Keeps You Covered
Jerusalem - With its many applications the iPhone has a wide range of capabilities, and now it can also serve as a virtual yarmulke in a bind.
The iKippa application, which arri...
Butner, NC – Madoff Leaves Hospital, Returns to Cell
Butner, NC - Bernard Madoff has left his North Carolina prison's hospital unit and returned to his cell.
The 71-year-old disgraced financier had been transferred to a prison hos...
Egypt – Mubarak to Allow Jewish Pilgrims to Visit Famous Rabbi Abuhatzeira’s Tomb
Egypt - President Hosni Mubarak acceded to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request to allow hundreds of Jewish pilgrims to visit the tomb of Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira ne...
New York City – Yeshiva University Rabbis, Students Decry Gay Forum Calling It A Chillul Hashem
New York City - There has been a very strong response at Yeshiva University to last week’s panel on Homosexuality in the Orthodox World.
A week ago, the panel was organized by ...
New York – When Scholars Fall
New York - There is a well-known Mitzvah to honor Torah scholars (Sefer HaMitzvos 209). Although the Rishonim cite different verses as to the source for the Mitzvah, it is almost u...
Jerusalem – The Woman in the Way of a Palestinian Shalit Prisoner Deal
Jerusalem - Amneh Muna is high on the Hamas list of Palestinian prisoners to be exchanged for the soldier Gilad Shalit. Serving a life sentence, she has become a symbol of Palestin...
New York, NY – Mayor Bloomberg Dishes Out $1 Million for Campaign Staff
New York, NY - Mayor Bloomberg's campaign staff found a little something extra - more than $1 million in bonuses for a job well done.
Workers said they found bonuses equal to 20...
Monticello, NY – Sullivan County OKs New Trash Hauler
Monticello, NY - The Sullivan County Legislature voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a contract with New Jersey trash hauler IESI worth more than $3 million.
This vote marks...
Los Angeles, CA – Noted Survivor of Nazi Death Camps Lectured on Holocaust Passes Away
Los Angeles, CA - Eugene Zinn, who spent three years in Nazi death camps and regularly lectured about the horror of the Holocaust after The Times profiled him in a 2005 front-page ...
New York – Editorial: Reversed Wisdom: Daas Torah vs. Daas Baalei Batim
New York - An oft-repeated idiom in the circle of those who follow the pronouncements of today’s Gedolim is “Daas Torah is hepech daas Baalei Batim”. Loosely translated, this conve...
Jerusalem – Israel’s Population Sits at 7.5 Million at Close of 2009
Jerusalem - The population of Israel stands at 7,509,000 at the close of 2009, according to new data released Wednesday by the Central Bureau of Statistics,
American Jews make ali...
Mogadishu, Somalia – Man Arrested At Airport With Chemicals, Syringe
Mogadishu, Somalia - Officials say a Somali national tried to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu last month with powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe that together could...
Washington – NY Daily News Editorial: It’s Time To Get a Grip, Mr. President!
Washington - The attempt to blow Northwest Flight 253 out of the air was planned as an attack on the United States and very nearly succeeded in accomplishing that horrific goal. Th...
San Francisco, CA – Court Nixes Vatican Bank Holocaust Suit
San Francisco, CA - An American appeals court dismissed a lawsuit by Holocaust survivors who alleged the Vatican bank accepted millions of dollars of their valuables stolen by Nazi...
Brooklyn, NY – B’klyn ‘Beat’ Butcher Busted
Williamsburg, NY - A Brooklyn butcher-shop worker was busted for assaulting a co-worker over the way she was chopping meat, cops said yesterday.
Antonio Pareja, 27, allegedly fl...