A bill raising fines for taxi drivers who unlawfully overcharge or refuse to take passengers to a destination in the five boroughs has passed the City Council.
It was a hair’s breadth escape by a woman from a bank robbery suspect in northern New Jersey last week.
A Jewish woman and her Armenian Christian husband were executed in Iran for undisclosed reasons, a top State Department official said.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Henya Shusterman OBM, wife of Reb Mordechai AH who was the Rebbes Baal Korah, and long time Crown Heights resident.
She is survived by her children Laya Klein (Crown Heights), Miriam Nemanov (Crown Heights), Faigy Wolf (Nachlas Har Chabad), Gershon Shusterman (Long Beach, CA), Zisel Gurevitch (Crown Heights), as well as many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Rabbi Dovid Raskin, dean of the Central Lubavitcher Yeshivah in Brooklyn, and a senior member of Chabad’s central leadership, passed away yesterday, Tuesday, May 10 after a lengthy illness. He was 84.
“They say 20,000, and I say where?” tour guide Claudia Kravetz says of Chile’s Jewish population as we drive through the intersection of Las Condes and La Dehesa streets in Santiago’s Lo Barnechea neighborhood. With its wide, palm-tree-lined boulevards, reminiscent of Los Angeles, the area is nicknamed Little Israel for its concentration of synagogues.
The Aliya Youth center located in Crown Heights,Brooklyn. Open for nine years, the center serves as a support system, for troubled Jewish teenage boys that fall through the cracks of the Lubavitcher Hasidic Jew community.
Better known for Apple than challah, Cupertino, Calif. – as headquarters to some of America’s top high-tech companies – has rocketed from a post-war suburban enclave to an important link in the Silicon Valley economy, fueling the growth of a local Jewish community as well.
A poll out Wednesday from Quinnipiac University shows that most city voters still give Bloomberg failing grades. Just 40% of voters approve of the way he runs the city and only 25% say he’s doing a good job of running the schools.
The U.S. Postal Service continues to hemorrhage money, with a loss of $2.2 billion in the most recent quarter.
Children and parents from New Zealand to New York, stunned by the March 11 massacre of five members of Itamar, Israel’s Fogel family by Palestinian terrorists, have penned countless letters of support to its orphans, extending words of comfort, love and support.
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