NEW YORK [NBC] — The FBI calls it the biggest mafia round-up in New York history. More than 100 suspected mobsters are being arrested this morning in connection with numerous federal investigations into New York area mob groups.
Avraham and Hinda (nee Rogachyova) Khayut (S Diego, CA)
Zalman and Nechama Dina (nee Schusterman) Baras (Cincinnati, OH)
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A man was shot this morning on Carroll Street, and was rushed to the hospital where he was treated for two gunshot wounds.
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NEW YORK — A cooperation agreement was signed last week in New York between Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, the Chairman and Founder of the Israel-based ZAKA Rescue and Recovery Organization and Rabbi Mendel Rosenberg, founder and president of the American organization Chesed Shel Emes.
On January 30, 2011, at 1 pm, at Synagogue Beis Shmuel in Crown Heights, constitutional lawyers Norman Siegel and Earl Ward along with 57th District Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Eric Adams will be coming together to help educate citizens about their rights and responsibilities when stopped, questioned, arrested, ticketed or searched by the police.
With buzz words like “sustainablitiy,” “going green” and “organic lifestyle” becoming part of our everyday language, we are forced to ask the question: Do environmental awareness and Judaism go hand in hand or do they conflict in their basic precepts?
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Black man robbed a Black woman, and was apprehended by a police officer who chased him for over 10 blocks.
NEW YORK [AP] — A suspicious white envelope delivered to the New York offices of Israeli Bank Hapoalim in Manhattan on Wednesday turned out to be an electronic greeting card from a job recruiting firm, police said.
A Brooklyn developer got a slap on the wrist Tuesday for masterminding a massive fraudulent mortgage scheme that left dozens of Lubavitcher residents in fear of losing their condo apartments.
RICHMOND — While a rabbi prayed in a Richmond synagogue, a group of Orthodox Jews passed around an AK-47 before a ceremony celebrating the end of the Sabbath.
Yisroel Schulman meeting with newly elected Rockland State Senator David Carlucci in Albany.
On Monday, the My Encounter with the Rebbe interview team arrived in Montreal and has already captured the testimony of 5 individuals. The rigorous interview schedule includes 25 interviews to be conducted by two experienced interviewers over a 10-day period.
AJN TV’s Gareth Narunsky reports that Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen, run by Rabbi Dovid Slavin of Chabad of NSW, launched a major baking initiative to help relieve the victims’ dire situation.
Amid a firestorm of allegations, Zaki Tamir closed his personal blog with which he gave unfiltered updates to the community.
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