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Brooklyn, NY – As part of annual recognition, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is honoring today thirty one Brooklyn women for their community service and accomplishments, among them three Orthodox women: Chaya Lipschutz, Jodie Reznik and Amy Cohen. District Attorney Hynes awarded the title of Special Ambassador to each of [...]

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Brooklyn, NY – Orthodox Women Among Those Honored By Brooklyn DA For Their Community Service

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? [...]

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New York, NY – City Residents Among Least Likely to be Scammed

Manhattan, NY – Ronan Tynan became a walk-on Yankee star in 2000, when he stepped onto the field with his artificial legs and clarion voice and belted out “God Bless America” during the seventh inning stretch of important games.
But that stopped on Oct. 16 of last year, when a woman accused Mr. Tynan of making [...]

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Manhattan, NY – After Anti-Semitic Slur, Yanks’ Most Annoying Tenor’s World Turned Up Side Down

Ohio – The only certainty about the Warsaw Ghetto’s underground medical school is that it existed, functioning amid the chaos, one of the least-known stories of WW II. Of the 200 students, about five survived. Amazingly three settled in Ohio: my late friend Marc Balin in Timberlake (Lake County); his friend in Canton, the late [...]

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Ohio – The Secret Medical School in The Warsaw Ghetto

Brooklyn, NY – Robert M. Scarano Jr., a Brooklyn architect who has long been criticized by community groups for flouting zoning laws, was barred by the Department of Buildings from filing construction plans – threatening, at least temporarily, his ability to work as an architect in the city.
The order, which applies both to pending applications [...]

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Brooklyn, NY – Controversial Local Architect Is Barred by Dep. Of Buildings

Toronto, Canada – Just months after Ontario decided not to charge a Toronto man with hate crimes, partly because he was undergoing rehabilitation, he is again being investigated over his online writings on a website called Filthy Jewish Terrorists.
Police are probing Salman Hossain’s recent postings on the Arizona-based Internet site on which he writes harshly [...]

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Toronto, Canada – Police Probe Man’s anti-Semitic ‘Filthy Jew’ Site

Today, Sunday, is Zayin Adar, the Yartzheit of Moshe Rabbeinu. It is a day that Chevra Kaddisha’s around the globe hold as a fast day, and is a day sacred and special to them. In honor of Zayin Adar, we present the following true story which took place two weeks ago. It was written by [...]

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In Honor Of 7 Adar: Misaskim Intervenes To Prevent Cremation Of Holocaust Survivor

Havana, Cuba – The wife of a U.S. contractor jailed in Havana denied Cuban allegations he was working for U.S. espionage services and said she hopes his case will be resolved at U.S.-Cuba migration talks on Friday.
In her first extensive comments since his December 4 detention, Judy Gross told Reuters via email on Thursday that [...]

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Havana – U.S. Contractor Jailed in Cuba Not a Spy Says Wife

New York, NY – Bill Clinton has left the hospital after undergoing a heart procedure in Manhattan, NBC has learned.
The former president, who had quadruple bypass surgery in 2004, was taken into New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center late Thursday afternoon and was expected to remain at the Washington Heights hospital overnight.
Clinton felt chest pains, [...]

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New York, NY – President Clinton Leaves Hospital After Heart Procedure

New York City – According to ABC News Former President Bill Clinton has been Hospitalized in New York City at Colombia University hospital, Clinton, 63, was transported to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan for a condition related to his heart.
ABC News’ chief political correspondent George Stephanopoulos reported that sources said he was taken to the [...]

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New York City – Former President Bill Clinton Hospitalized