Month September 2022
Brooklyn prosecutors moved Wednesday to vacate nearly 400 criminal convictions based on the work of 13 former New York Police Department officers later found guilty of crimes themselves. Only 12 percent of the 378 convictions being eyed by the office… Continue Reading →
Brooklyn prosecutors moved Wednesday to vacate nearly 400 criminal convictions based on the work of 13 former New York Police Department officers later found guilty of crimes themselves. Only 12 percent of the 378 convictions being eyed by the office… Continue Reading →
My first words as a mother were, “Don’t drop him.” It was as if I knew, even before I held my first child, that I wouldn’t be able to hold onto my children. We are the family who lost half… Continue Reading →
Brooklyn’s district attorney moved Wednesday to throw out nearly 400 convictions tied to 13 former police officers convicted of a variety of crimes committed while on duty. In a statement, prosecutor Eric Gonzalez said that though an investigation didn’t uncover… Continue Reading →
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas-area elected public official was arrested Wednesday and identified by police as the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a veteran newspaper reporter whose investigations of the official’s work preceded his primary loss in… Continue Reading →
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Memphis, Tennessee, warned residents to shelter in place as a man drives around the city shooting at people on Wednesday night. Memphis police said 19-year-old Ezekiel Kelly was driving a light blue Infiniti and… Continue Reading →
The death toll in this week’s earthquake in western China has jumped to 74 with another 26 people still missing, the government reported Wednesday, as frustration rose with uncompromising COVID-19 lockdown measures that prevented residents from leaving their buildings after… Continue Reading →
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — A New York man has been arrested and charged with killing a law enforcement officer in Maryland more than 50 years ago, police said Wednesday. Larry David Smith, 70, admitted to shooting Montgomery County Special Deputy… Continue Reading →
New York state is dropping its mask requirement on public transportation thanks in part to the availability of new booster shots targeting the most common strain of COVID-19, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. Masks will be encouraged but not required… Continue Reading →
Against the full force of the FBI and the Justice Department, former President Donald Trump’s legal team pulled off a remarkable win in court, one not expected by the major media organs. The recent unprecedented raid on Mar-a-Lago by the… Continue Reading →
BROOKLYN (JTA) – A single mother who is a well-known civic leader in Brooklyn’s Orthodox community announced her campaign last week for New York City Council in 2023. Amber Adler, 38, will run as a Democrat for the City Council’s… Continue Reading →
Who knows? Maybe this is the reason LBA was founded. To bring a Jew back to his roots.” Shimon Friedman, founder of LBA leagues, is sitting in his office, overlooking Avenue of the States in Lakewood, NJ. I’ve come here… Continue Reading →
Elon Musk will be able to include new evidence from a Twitter whistleblower as he fights to get out of his $44 billion deal to buy the social media company, but Musk won’t be able to delay a high-stakes October… Continue Reading →
A city cab driver accused of dragging a 78-year-old woman out of his vehicle was arrested by the NYPD on Wednesday, but in good New York fashion, the suspect was released without bail, Flatbush Scoop reported. The suspect, Elsakran Mohamed,… Continue Reading →
Can you spot the pattern in these quotes from public servants and other personalities about the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and the seizing of government documents therefrom? Here goes: Florida Senator Rick Scott: “The way… Continue Reading →
Following years of mismanagement and dysfunction, Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn is on the verge of bankruptcy and may be forced to shut its doors by the end of this year due to a self-inflicted fiscal crisis that has spiraled… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JNS) – Yeshiva University and cybersecurity. The former conjures up images of Jewish tradition and religious study. The latter takes a deep dive into a high-tech digital world of criminals and rogue actors. The two have now been… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israeli officials representing several ministries, the Israel Defense Forces and the health system met on Tuesday for a “war game” exercise at the headquarters of the military’s Alon coronavirus task force in Ramle, ahead of a winter… Continue Reading →
Israel rejected the urging of the Biden administration to review its open fire rules in the wake of the Israeli report that Abu-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh may have accidentally been killed by IDF fire. Speaking at a graduation ceremony for… Continue Reading →
There are different theories of history. Some historians focus on the so-called Great Men (and Women), whose individual actions of leadership are seen as changing the course of history. Others focus on the people, more interested in how the masses… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (JNS) – U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides on Wednesday said it is his guiding principle to advance a two-state solution with the Palestinians, because failure to do so is making it difficult to ensure his “North Star” of… Continue Reading →