NEW YORK [CBS] — Another snowstorm is on its way to the Tri-State on Tuesday night, but it won’t be as powerful or disruptive as the post-Xmas blizzard.
Yoni Almagor (New York) and Ahuva Greisman (Crown Heights)
Tucson, AZ [AP] — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head Saturday when an assailant opened fire outside a grocery store during a meeting with constituents, killing a 9-year-old boy and a federal judge and wounding several others in a rampage that rattled the nation.
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The blizzard saved his life. A despondent West Side man took a leap out of his ninth-floor window this afternoon — but was saved when he landed onto a huge pile of garbage that’s been collecting since New York’s devastating post-Christmas blizzard, officials said.
One of the biggest names in the Jewish music business, noted producer Sheya Mendlowitz is turning to the public for material to be used in a major upcoming production that is currently in the planning stages.
Nearly 1,000 years ago, a rabbi instituted a revolutionary ban that might have prevented the whole WikiLeaks shake up.
The Darchai Menachem Chanuakah Auction held its first of two drawings today, pulling the 2 Menorahs just in time for Chanukah.
TEL AVIV, Israel [AP] — Israel’s prime minister said Monday that newly leaked U.S. diplomatic memos provide clear proof that the Arab world agrees with his country’s assessment that Iran is the chief danger to the Middle East.
If Cathie Black wants to learn how to run the city’s public schools, she should hop in her limo and check out a new one in Brooklyn that’s throwing education “rules” out the window.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — The students of Rabbi Yossi Goldsteins Pre-1a class got together to perform the minhag of saying Shema over an infant on the night before his Bris Milah.
A new website dedicated to publishing memories of Rabbi Levi Deitsch was launched yesterday. RabbiLevi.com already features a number of stories of his self-sacrifice to his Shlichus, his energy and positive outlook, and his genuine care for others.
With great excitement and much anticipation, community members of S. Agathe and many Montrealers gathered together on Friday evening, October 22nd to welcome the Seminary BMC girls to a new year of learning in our beautiful Laurentian mountains.
CNN — ACORN, the community group from which a mighty oak of political controversy grew, announced it is filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy by the close of business Tuesday. In March, it began bringing its national operations to a close.
Congresswoman Jackson Lee, a friend of President Obama and Congressman Filner, have both sent letters to Attorney General Holder, in defense of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin.
Understanding the past is critical to understanding the present. Attention to history slows the racings of contemporary life. It lends context to confusion and provides the lens which sharpens our perspective.
So let us survey the plains of the past. Let us gather ourselves about the hearth of lore and legend and perhaps be enlightened.
As Jewish singers & artists from around the world gathered to celebrate the release of a song in support of Sholom Rubashkin on Thursday, 29 Tishrei, one of the biggest stars was nowhere to be found. Singer and co-composer, Mordechai Ben David, was in Cincinnati, OH visiting a little boy, who needed some support and cheering up of his own.
MUMBAI — A court began hearing an appeal Monday of the death sentence handed to the only surviving gunman of the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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