NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly Sunday night asked the city’s 35,000 officers to be alert following the death of Osama bin Laden despite the fact that there is no specific threat to New York.
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A S. Francisco group opposed to circumcision is one step closer to the city banning the practice after submitting 12,000 signatures to the local Department of Elections – nearly twice the required number – requesting a November ballot measure on the issue. If approved by voters, the law would classify circumcision of boys under the age of 18 as a misdemeanor carrying a maximum punishment of one year in prison and a $1,000 fine.
Levi New (Montreal, Canada) and Ita Raskin (Melbourne, Australia)
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States, is dead, and the U.S. is in possession of his body, a person familiar with the situation said late Sunday.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for new regulations to require banks to clearly and briefly describe checking account fees now buried in applications that can be more than 100 pages long.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A clear brisk morning greeted players in the Crown Heights softball league who opened the 2011 season today. Beginning at 9:45am the Daily Steals Kloppers squared off against the Landmark Funding Red Heifers. Later on the Advantage Wholesale Skullcaps played the Tribe.
Anti-Semitic incidents worldwide dropped sharply in 2010 from their peak in 2009, according to an annual report issued by an Israeli university on the eve of the nation’s Holocaust Memorial Day.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Esther Shur of Montreal, who passed away today. She was 81.
She is survived by her husband Reb Zalman, and her children, Rebbetzin Shaindel Chaikin (Cleveland, OH), Yosef Yitzchok (Fitche) (Crown Heights), Alta Silberstein (Montreal), Moshe (Montreal), Kreina Lepkivker (Crown Heights), Berel OBM, and Yona (Toronto).
In an age of constant contact and an almost umbilical attachment to an array of communications devices where what is important is often displaced by what seems to be urgent, the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) is launching a course on Shabbos: the block of time where nothing intrudes on the peace and sanctity of being fully present with ourselves, our family, our Maker.
Zev Henig (Monsey, NY) and Yehudis Elkayam (Monsey, NY)
Aryeh and Sashie Kay (Crown Heights)
Tzvi and Sarah (nee Dworcan) Schectman (West Bloomfield, MI)
Shmuel and Henna Kopel
Mayor Bloomberg signaled support Friday for a City Council plan to reduce alternate-side parking restrictions – but worries too many loopholes could make it difficult to enforce.
Government’s role in promoting intercultural relations is to ensure that “no religious denomination will bring ideas of violence or extremism to the people,” said Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar at an international human rights council that met recently.
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