Brooklyn, NY – Avraham Tischler, the 18 year old candidate in the hotly contested race for City Council in Brooklyn’s 44th District, has until 5 PM today to submit a validating petition which will give him the opportunity to get back on the ballot for the March 23rd election. Tischler was removed from the [...]

New York – After a lengthy negotiation with the Rabbinical Council of America, Rabbi Avi Weiss has agreed to not use the title of Rabba. A press release from the RCA included a letter from Rabbi Weiss addressed to RCA President Rabbi Moshe Kletenik: “It is not my intention or the intention of Yeshivat Maharat to confer [...]

Austria – Vandals have defaced a former Nazi concentration camp with anti-Jewish and anti-Turkish graffiti, Austrian authorities said Friday. The spray-painted graffiti extends about 10 meters (33 feet) along the wall of the former Mauthausen concentration camp, which is now a memorial site, according to police in Upper Austria province. The vandalism was discovered Friday morning [...]

The Rabbinical Council of America has today issued the following statement regarding Orthodoxy and Women’s Leadership Roles: Over the course of the last several weeks, at the request and initiative of Rabbi Avi Weiss, the leadership of Rabbinical Council of America and Rabbi Avi Weiss have engaged in discussions concerning the issue of ordaining women as [...]

Union City, NJ – A Hasidic charity whose bank account was seized as part of last summer’s mass public corruption sting in New Jersey and New York can’t sue civilly to get its money back, a federal judge ruled. U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Falk held that Gmach Shefa Chaim had an adequate remedy in a criminal [...]

Florida – Some passengers traveling through Miami International Airport will have to go through a new security scanner, and it comes several months after the attempted Christmas attack on a plane headed for Detroit. The Transportation Safety Administration is expanding testing for explosives, and that means passengers will notice a difference. “They’re checking people as they [...]

The residents of the top three floors of the seven-story structure in the Shiloach area of the capital known as Beit Yehonatan on Thursday sent a letter to State Prosecutor Moshe Lador indicating a willingness to evacuate the top floors in exchange for authorization for residents of lower floors to reside in the structure. Attorney Yechiel [...]

Over 100 plus boys learning in the bais hamedrash on Purim by night! It was like a regular first seder and the spirit was beautiful and festive! A true kimu v’kiblu! Some bochurim stayed hours after the program ended to continue to learn. Many of the bochurim came over and thanked us personally for making their Purim [...]

New York City – PIX News caught a New York City cop snoozing inside a high security fishbowl near Grand Central. The photos were taken Mar 4 around 9:44 a.m.and show the officer sound asleep inside the platform surveillance booth on the 7 train in Grand Central. The officer was apparently nodding off for about 30 [...]

The White House is apparently ready for an about face on where and how to conduct the September 11th terror trials. The Associated Press is reporting advisers to President Barack Obama are close to suggesting a military trial for self-professed September 11th attack mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators. A recommendation will be made to [...]