Month April 2019
This year’s Boro Park Pesach food distribution event benefited more than 1,000 needy families equal to more than 6,500 vulnerable and insecure individuals. The Boro Park participants were supplied with Passover staple food items during the annual holiday food distribution… Continue Reading →
A tour bus carrying German tourists crashed on Portugal’s Madeira Island on Wednesday, killing 28 people and injuring 28 others, local authorities said. The bus carrying 55 people rolled down… Read more » The post Bus Carrying German Tourists Crashes,… Continue Reading →
Authorities Investigate American Airlines Flight at JFK Airport NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Wednesday it is investigating an April 10 American Airlines… Read more » The post Regional Briefs – April 17,… Continue Reading →
Former radical militant Judith Clark was granted parole Wednesday after serving more than 37 years behind bars for her role as getaway driver in a 1981 Brink’s armored truck robbery… Read more » The post Parole Granted for Driver in… Continue Reading →
San Francisco – Some of Samsung’s new, almost $2,000 folding phones appear to be breaking after just a couple of days. Journalists who received the phones to review before the public launch said the Galaxy Fold screen started flickering and… Continue Reading →
New York state will grant free state tuition and room and board to the families of New York military members killed or disabled while on duty, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo… Read more » The post Gov. Cuomo: NY to Waive… Continue Reading →
Tonight, the Lakewood Township read a second Ordinance authorizing the private sale and conveyance of Block 554, lot 1 to Hatzolah of Lakewood. This welcome move by the Township committee will help bring Hatzolah to a more centralized location to… Continue Reading →
Attorney General William Barr will hold a news conference Thursday to discuss special counsel Robert Mueller III’s final report, adding a must-see- event to the day he will release the… Read more » The post Barr to Hold a News… Continue Reading →
A resident of Katzir, located in northern Israel, southwest of the Israeli Arab Municipality of Um el-Fahm, called authorities to state that he now realizes that he had been targeted in a shooting attack about ten days ago when driving… Continue Reading →
Inmates at the Otisville Correctional Facility in Upstate NY received some good news today, that the prison will once again allow visitors this Friday – just in time for Pesach. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Seoul – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the testing of a new type of tactical guided weapon on Wednesday, state media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Thursday. It is North Korea’s first public weapons test since… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] In just a few hours, the world’s largest chalikeh will be over. But there are still so many families who don’t have the basics for Pesach! Donate a box now and watch as a child comes to pick it up… Continue Reading →
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Palm Bay, FL – A Jewish Florida state representative called one of his constituents a “Judenrat” on Facebook. The constituent, also Jewish, says the lawmaker should apologize for describing him with a term that refers to Jews who collaborated with… Continue Reading →
Two New Jersey congressmen are saying “no way” to New York City’s plan to charge motorists a fee for entering Manhattan. Democrats Josh Gottheimer and Bill Pascrell announced legislation Wednesday… Read more » The post 2 NJ Congressmen Say ‘No… Continue Reading →
A person is fighting for his life after being struck by a vehicle in Boro Park, Wednesday afternoon. It happened at around 5:30PM at 17 Avenue and 47 Street, when an approximately 25-year-old male riding a bicycle was struck by… Continue Reading →
Albany, NY – Former radical activist Judith Clark was granted parole Wednesday after serving more than 37 years behind bars for her role as getaway driver in a 1981 Brink’s armored truck robbery that left two police officers and a… Continue Reading →
A 20-year-old man was seriously injured early Wednesday morning when he fell from a rooftop on Avtalyon Street in Elad. At about 1:30 AM Wednesday morning, emergency responders were summoned to the Avtalyon Street home, and when MDA arrived on… Continue Reading →
A Florida teenager who authorities say was obsessed with the Columbine school shooting and may have been planning an attack of her own in Colorado just days ahead of the… Read more » The post Young Woman Obsessed With Columbine… Continue Reading →
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Councilman Chaim Deutsch announced Wednesday the Pesach trash-collection schedule for Midwood: ALL of Community Board 14 and 15 will have recycling collection on Friday morning, April 19 between midnight and… Read more » The post Midwood Pesach Trash Collection Schedule… Continue Reading →