Savannah, GA – 2yr Old With Cancer in Need of Tefillos and Funds
Savannah, GA - A Savannah family is taking a leap of faith and hoping their fundraiser goal can be met by Thursday. That's when their two-year-old son heads to New York for what could be a lifesaving...
Mumbai – ‘even mikir tizak’ – The Stone Shall Cry Out of The Wall
Mumbai - They said that just one look at the bodies of the dead hostages as well as terrorists showed it was a battle of attrition that was fought over three days at the Oberoi and the Taj hotels in M...
New York, NY – City to Raise Taxes Earlier Than Anticipated Due to $800 Million Forced Refunds in Corporate Taxes
New York, NY - The city grappling with the aftershocks of the global financial crisis, has been forced to refund more than $800 million to companies that overpaid their taxes this year based on expect...
Mumbai, Israel – Haaretz: Report of Chabad House Victims Wrapped in a Tallit is False
Mumbai, India - A report in several media outlets that some of the killed during the terrorist raid of the Chabad House were found wrapped in prayer shawls is false, despite the credence lent it by Is...
Jerusalem – Netanya Resident Survives Miraculous Ordeal In The Chabad House In Mumbai
Jerusalem - David Bialka, a resident of Netanya, Israel, was miraculously saved from the tragic events that occurred this past week in Mumbai, India. “The Creator of the World gave me my life anew,”...
Mumbai, India – The Last Shabbat with the Holtzberg Kadoshim
Mumbai, India - On the last Shabbat evening in Mumbai before Rivka and Gavriel Holtzberg were brutally murdered by Islamic terrorists, there was an unusually rapturous mood at the Sha'ar Shamayim Syna...
Williamsburg, NY – City Cuts $500G from Pledged $2M Fund to Protect Waterfront Renters
Williamsburg, NY - The city is backing off a pledge to spend $2 million to battle tenant displacement along the Brooklyn waterfront.
The Bloomberg administration committed to creating the fund in an ...
New York City – Council Members Want Legislation To Ban Bottled Water Coolers In Gov. Offices
New York City - Councilman Eric Gioia (D-Queens) and Councilman Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn) announced today they will introduce legislation which would ban the city from purchasing bottled water and wa...
India – Top Russian Counter-terrorism Expert: Mumbai Terrorists Trained By U.S. Experts In Pakistan To Fight Afghanistan
India - A top Russian counter-terrorism expert on Sunday underlined that the Mumbai attackers were not "ordinary terrorists" and were probably.
trained by the special operations forces set up in Pa...
Washington – Rabbi Shemtov Recounts His Conversation With The Terrorists In Chabad House
Washington - An American rabbi said Sunday that he heard a woman's desperate cry for help as he spoke to one of the assailants at the Mumbai Jewish center before everyone inside the building was kille...
Washington – Mumbai A Sad Warning that U.S. Remains Vulnerable
Washington - Although Americans' attention has been focused primarily on domestic issues, including the sour economy in recent months, this week's deadly attacks in Mumbai are a horrific reminder that...
Postville, IA – Feds seek Rubashkin Life Insurance Policies
Postville, IA - Federal authorities are going after two life insurance policies held by the owner of Agriprocessors.
Court records allege the troubled Postville meatpacking company has been paying th...
New York, NY – Late Workers, Students Get Notes Blaming NY Subway
New York, NY - People late for school or work because of New York City subway delays can get notes from the transit agency to give to their teachers or bosses.
The New York City Transit division sa...
Israel – Israeli Military Responding to Families Plea to ‘Bring Mumbai Martyrs Home Immediately’
Israel - Foreign Ministry officials say the bodies of Rabbi Gavriel and Rebetzen Rivka Holtzberg are not being delayed at this point by anything other than typical flight scheduling problems.
"A plan...
Mumbai, India – 3 Bodies in Jewish Center Still Unidentified
Mumbai, India - Four days after the attack on Nariman House, a Jewish religious centre in the Indian city of Mumbai, three of the nine bodies found in the centre have not been positively identified.
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Jerusalem – Israel Seeks Foreign Assistance in Securing Jewish Institutions
Jerusalem - "The attacks in Mumbai will force us to readjust ourselves to a new reality," diplomatic officials said following the infiltration of the Chabad center in India.
Israel will now begin w...
Mumbai – Mexican Jewish Woman 6th Victim In Chabad House Massacre.
Mumbai - A Mexican national was among the victims of an attack by militants on a Jewish cultural center in Mumbai, the Mexican Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday.
The ministry said in a stateme...
Jerusalem – Kadosh Rabbi Bentzion Kroman, h.y.d.
Jerusalem - Among the murdered in the appalling terror attack on Chabad of Mumbai were Rabbi Benzion Kroman, of Bat Yam Israel, may G-d avenge his blood.
Bentzion, who survived an earthquake in Chi...
New York – Clinton Statement on Indian Chabad Massacre
New York - My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and families touched by these acts of terror in Mumbai. We still do not know the full measure of this tragedy, which has taken the lives of Indi...
New York – Kadosh Rabbi Aryeh Leibush Teitelbaum, h.y.d.
New York - After two days of streams of prayers and high hopes throughout the world, the bitter news hit just before the onset of Shabbos in Israel, shocking and melting every heart, that the entire ...