Yearly Archives: 2009
The Hague, Netherlands – Dutch to Start Using Full Body Scanners For U.S. Flights
The Hague, Netherlands - The Dutch government says it will immediately begin using full body scanners on flights to the United States to prevent future terrorist attacks like the C...
New York – Today’s DAF (Bava Basra 131b): Stepmothers
New York - The Rashbam on today’s Daf (Bava Basra 131b) the Gemorah which discusses a person who has written that all his belongings should be given to his wife has made her a guar...
New York, NY – City Marks Fewest Murders Ever
New York, NY - Calling a sharp drop in overall violence throughout America's most populous city "one for the record books," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that 2009 saw...
Washington – CNN: U.S. Military Reviewing Targets In Yemen For Possible Retaliation Strike
Washington - The U.S. and Yemen are now looking at fresh targets in Yemen for a potential retaliation strike, two senior U.S. officials told CNN Tuesday, in the aftermath of the bo...
Washington – US State Dept Warns Travelers Against Israeli Drivers
Washington - Aggressive driving is a serious problem in Israel, and many Israeli drivers do not obey traffic laws – they don't keep a safe driving distance and don't signal before ...
Washington – U.S. Had Information Before X-mas of a Terror Plot
Washington - Two officials said the United States government had intelligence from Yemen before Christmas that leaders of a branch of Al Qaeda there were talking about "a Nigerian"...
New York – Wall Street Journal On The Health Benefits Of Coffee
New York - To judge by recent headlines, coffee could be the latest health-food craze, right up there with broccoli and whole-wheat bread.
But don't think you'll be healthier gr...
New York – NY Comptroller: State is ‘down to petty cash’
New York - State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s latest “Cash Watch” bulletin suggests the state will deplete its cash resources to an “all-time low” after tomorrow’s scheduled $1.3 bil...
Lakewood, NJ – $200 Million Alleged Fraud Hits The Charedi Community
Lakewood, NJ - In an alleged financial fraud that has ensnared Orthodox Jewish investors from New York to Florida to London, a Lakewood, N.J., businessman is accused of bilking the...
Jerusalem – Major Israeli Charedi Website Now Under Secular Ownership
Jerusalem - Following the resignation of its top two editors, the leading Hebrew-language charedi website is now headed by its completely secular CEO.
Just hours after gedolei Y...
Honolulu – Obama Acknowledges Government Screw-Up About Terror Suspect
Honolulu - President Barack Obama said Tuesday "a systemic failure" allowed the attempted Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound flight from Amsterdam. He called it "totally unacc...
New York – State Ranks Among 10 Least-Religious
New York - The state of NY is one of the 10 least-religious states in America, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center.
Forty-six percent of New Yorkers say that rel...
Jerusalem – Israeli Court Rules Against Segregated Palestinian Road
Jerusalem - Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a major access highway to Jerusalem running through the occupied West Bank could no longer be closed to most Palestinian tr...
Yemen – Jews Remain in Eye of Al-Qaeda Storm
Yemen - Attention in the war against int’l terrorism and Al-Qaeda is once again drawn to Yemen, the Arabian peninsula country where perhaps 300 Jews still remain.
Yemen’s ties w...
Atlanta, GA – Muslim Woman Files Lawsuit for Not Being Permitted to Wear Hijab as a Police Honor Guard
Atlanta, GA - A Muslim woman is claiming in a federal lawsuit that she was dismissed from the Atlanta Police Department's civilian honor guard because she refused to remove her tra...
Rockland County, NY – Judge Shuts Down New Square Kosher Poultry Plant
Rockland County, NY - A federal judge has ordered a New Square kosher poultry slaughterhouse padlocked for unsanitary conditions that pose a health risk to the community.
The U....
Tehran, Iran – Ahmadinejad: Riots are U.S. and Zionist Masquerade
Tehran - Hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the United States and Israel on Tuesday of staging an anti-government protest in which at least eight people died, s...
Manhattan, NY – Madoff Victims Upset for $22 Million Trustee Fee
Manhattan, NY - Helen Chaitman, a victim of Bernard Madoff’s fraud and a lawyer representing hundreds of other investors, said the trustee for the con man’s firm shouldn’t be paid ...
Kiryas Joel, NY – In High Demand KJ Poultry Leaves Shelves Stocked
Kiryas Joel, NY - With all the challenges the kosher meat and poultry market has encountered in the last several years, the emergence of Kiryas Joel Poultry (KJ) couldn’t have come...
New York – Ed Koch: Carter’s ‘Al Chet’, How Would One Know You’re Really Sorry?
New York - Former President Jimmy Carter recently sent a letter to the JTA, which is a wire service for Jewish newspapers. The letter was made public by the JTA on December 21st, a...