New York, NY – City Tilting Contracts to Minorities, Women
New York, NY - New rules issued by the Bloomberg administration allow minority- and women-owned businesses to circumvent the system for awarding small city contracts -- an advantage denied white-owned...
Atlanta, GA – Conservative Rabbi Challenging Orthodox Criteria for Kosher Law
Atlanta, GA - A Cobb County rabbi is seeking to declare Georgia’s Kosher Food Labeling Act unconstitutional on grounds it de-legitimizes interpretations of “kosher” by different Jewish communities.
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Greenfield Park, NY – Near Drowning in the Pool
Greenfield Park, NY - Hatzolah on the scene in Greenfield Meadows at 32 Tamarack Road for a child who is unconscious after near drowning in the pool.
Hatzolah requesting a chopper to respond for the ...
Jerusalem – More Than 60 Different ‘Yarmulkes’ On Display At Exhibit
Jerusalem - Dozens of knitted kippot of all sizes and colors comprise a new exhibit attempting yet another way to define the religious-Zionist community.
“Walking Between the Kippot,” which in Hebr...
Manhattan, NY – Homeless Woman Wills $100G for Man She Worked to Avoid His Parking Tickets
Manhattan, NY - A homeless, anonymous Holocaust survivor who passed away recently at the age of 92 left $100,000 to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, even though she had no known connection to the i...
Washington – Pelosi Uses Swsatika Remark To Downplay Angry Town Hall Meeting Protesters
Washington - The Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, recently denounced the protesters at health care town hall meetings as people who carry swastikas.
In a short interview that has been...
New York – Big Win For Bloomberg: State Senate Passes Mayoral Control Of New York City Schools
New York - Mayor Bloomberg is still the undisputed educator-in-chief of New York City public schools!
The state Senate passed legislation today by a 47-8 vote renewing mayoral control of the Big Ap...
Washington – CNN Poll: More View Obama’s Presidency as a ‘Failure’ Than Bush’s
Washington - A rather surprising finding from the newly released CNN poll. Question three on the national survey of 1,136 adults (which includes an oversample of African-Americans) asks, "Do you consi...
Washington – Record: 34 Million Americans On Food Stamps
Washington - For the first time, more than 34 million Americans received food stamps, which help poor people buy groceries, government figures said on Thursday, a sign of the longest and one of the de...
Israel – Passenger Stumbles While Getting Off Plane Stairs
Israel - A 60-year-old tourist was seriously injured this afternoon after stumbling and falling down a ramp of a Russian plane which landed in Israel, hitting his head on the metal steps.
A Magen Dav...
Israel – High Court: Ashkenazi Charedi School Must End Discrimination Against Sephardim
Israel - The High Court of Justice today ordered a haredi girls' school in the settlement of Emmanuel to stop separating students based on their ethnicity and to remove all marks of discrimination fro...
New York City – Bloomberg Campaign Hits Back Thompson’s Continued Attacks On The Mayor’s Housing Record
Thompson’s Rhetoric on Affordable Housing Doesn’t Match His Record of Taking Developer Cash and Failed Affordable Housing Projects
1. Thompson describes himself as an affordable housing advocate, b...
Lowville, NY – Judge Kicks Out Ahava from the Kosher Dairy Plant
Lowville, NY - The Lewis County Dairy Corp. plant on Route 812 in New Bremen soon will be operating at full capacity, representatives of FJB LLC and Toobro NY LLC said.
FJB and Toobro were granted ...
New York – Hackers In Major Attack On Twitter Site, And Others
New York - The social network site Twitter has been down, since 9 am EST a victim of a denial of service attack. Another social site, LiveJournal is also reportedly said to be down.
Twitter has som...
Spring Glen, NY – Judge Extends Stay of Skver Girls Camp
Spring Glen, NY - Judge Burton Ledina has given a Hasidic group another weekend at the former Homowack Lodge.
The judge set a new deadline of 5 p.m. Sunday for the Congregation Bais Trana to evacuat...
Washington – The Power Of Bill Clinton’s Rolodex
Washington - Former president Bill Clinton's central role in the return of two journalists detained by North Korea has once again cast a spotlight on his vast web of financial and political contacts, ...
New York City – Developers Who Got City Land To Build Affordable Housing Never Verified If Followed Trough
New York City - The Bloomberg administration never checked to see if developers who got discounted city land in exchange for building affordable housing kept their end of the deal, the Daily News has ...
New York, NY – Hundreds of Public Housing Residents Accidentally Overcharged
New York, NY - A rent-calculation error at the New York City Housing Authority has threatened hundreds of families with eviction.
Families whose sole income is public assistance were overcharged be...
New York – Shmuley Boteach: Chabad, Orthodox Jews Must Be More Tolerant, Silence Its Fanatics, or Face Catastrophe
New York - Orthodox Judaism has reached its moment of truth. With the many scandals involving religious Jews of late, an increasing number of people no longer believe that Jewish observance necessaril...
Manchester, UK – Scholars: Program to Tackle Agunot Issue
Manchester, UK - Academics at a British university claim to have devised a more comprehensive approach to the problem of agunot - Jewish women whose husbands refuse to grant them a religious divorce.
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