Miami, FL – Grand Rebbe Meshulem Feish Seigel Lowy of Kiryas Tosh, who resides in Montreal, Canada but has spent the past few months in Florida for health reasons, is in grave condition at Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.
The Tosher Rebbe, who is considered by many to be one of the [...]
Jewish Community News continued:
Miami, FL – Jewish World Praying For Tosher Rebbe
New York – Brooklyn is a fascinating place. For those who were born and raised there and attended yeshiva there, it has its advantages. We were brought up to respect our gedolim and da’as Torah. People who operated outside of the perimeter of da’as Torah were beyond the pale of what was acceptable. In the [...]
Jewish Community News continued:
New York – Editorial By Five Towns Jewish Times: Da’as Torah Has Become The Code Word to Promote Personal Agendas
New York – Investigators have found little direct evidence that Gov. Paterson tampered with a witness in a domestic abuse case against one of his top aides, the Daily News has learned.
While several key people have yet to be interviewed, the woman at the heart of the case, Sherr-una Booker, told probers she didn’t feel [...]
Continue reading Jewish Community News:
New York – Governor Paterson’s Blindness Finally Works in His Favor
Manhattan, NY – There was scarce evidence of the global recession at a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser for the IDF in New York City on Tuesday night.
Even as protestors outside the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel decried the guest of honor – Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi – donors pledged six-figure sums, topping $20 million by the end [...]
More Jewish Community News:
Manhattan, NY – IDF General Ashkenazi Raises Over $20M at Fundraiser in Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Ramallah, West Bank – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has told the Palestinians that they deserve a “viable” independent state with contiguous territory.
Biden’s comments on Wednesday appeared aimed at reassuring the Palestinians of U.S. support a day after Israel announced plans to build 1,600 new homes in disputed east Jerusalem. The Israeli move has overshadowed [...]
Continue reading Jewish Community News:
Ramallah, West Bank – Biden: Palestinians Deserve ‘viable’ State
Jerusalem – Israel humiliated visiting Vice President Joe Biden yesterday with a surprise announcement of Jewish settlement plans that pulled the rug out from under a long-awaited US peace push — and drew a scathing response from the embarrassed veep.
Biden, on a five-day trip to the Mideast, had just wound up praising Prime Minister Benjamin [...]
Jewish Community News continued:
Jerusalem – Was Israeli’s Slap in Biden’s Face Purely Coincidental?
Monsey, NY – A Rockland group that caused a worldwide uproar when it purportedly put the pox on lox by claiming that the popular Jewish nosh isn’t kosher said yesterday that the warning was nothing but a fish tale.
“Go ahead, eat lox,” said Yisroel Neiman, a member of Chevra Mehadrin, a Monsey organization that prepared [...]
Additional Jewish Community News:
Monsey, NY – Rabbi: Ban On Lox Story Made Up By The Media
Brooklyn, NY – Amid alleged dirty politics, Republican candidate Jonathan Judge was thrown off the ballot Tuesday for the special 44th District City Council election.
State Supreme Court Judge Larry Martin ruled that Judge only had 750 valid signatures on his petitions, 15 short of the needed 765.
The decision came about two weeks after the city’s [...]
Continue reading Jewish Community News:
Brooklyn, NY – Judge Gets Tossed from 44th District City Council Race
Great Neck, NY – Like biblical plagues raining down on them from an angry God, the white-bearded, black-hatted rabbi laid a string of curses upon the unsuspecting suburban partygoers. Banging a siddur on a table and screaming “Shema Yisrael,” the rabbi, accompanied by a four-man entourage — all of whom had burst into a Great [...]
Read more Jewish Community News here:
Great Neck, NY – Fear Of Indecency Prompts Rabbi To Crash Party
New York, NY – New Yorkers can smell a con from a mile away.
Federal statistics show city residents are among the least likely to fall victim to fraud.
Scammers successfully ripped off more than 1.3 million consumers across the U.S., but the city didn’t even make the list of the top 50 complaint centers.
The most vulnerable? [...]
Additional Jewish Community News:
New York, NY – City Residents Among Least Likely to be Scammed
