New York, NY – City traffic agents have begun training to learn how to deal with a new law that gives drivers a five-minute grace period in some parking zones. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told the City Council Thursday that officers are training for the law that takes effect March 21. The City Council passed the law [...]

Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical service provider complained to Kiryat Gat City Hall officials, that too many streets in the newly developing Guggenheim neighborhood lack names, making emergency response to that areas extremely complicated and time consuming. As such, the city’s street naming committee convened this week, including Agudah councilman, R’ Shmuel Shapira, and six [...]

New York – Digital images of the profoundly disturbing computer-smashing ceremony conducted by Rabbi Aaron Feinhandler have been viewed by countless thousands of Jews worldwide over the past few weeks. Rabbi Feinhandler, who serves as the head of Yeshiva Machne Yisrael in Jerusalem, gathered a group of his students and delivered a short lecture about the [...]

New Britain, CT – A 76-year-old Connecticut woman is blaming a stuck gas pedal after her Toyota Camry went out of control, struck the front steps of a New Britain church and sailed down a flight of stairs. The woman’s 15-year-old grandson was in the car with her during Tuesday’s accident at St. George Greek Orthodox [...]

Manhattan, NY – Mayor Michael Bloomberg keeps raking it in. The third-term mayor and finance whiz is the 23rd richest man in the world, according to the 2010 Forbes World’s Billionaires list. Once again, that makes him the wealthiest person in New York City. Spending about $90 million on his latest campaign — the most expensive one [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Agudath Israel of America, a grassroots advocacy and social service organization representing Orthodox Jews across the nation, joins with other groups in calling upon the U.S. Senate to reauthorize the successful D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP). OSP is currently the only federally funded voucher system in the country. Agudath Israel advocates on behalf of 250,000 [...]

The following are excerpts from a NY Daily News article: Ira Goldberg had heard talk of a new traffic agent ploy, but the rumors still seemed too far-fetched to be true as he parked his Mitsubishi Montero on E.52nd St. off Park Ave. on Monday. The 54-year-old courier proceeded directly to the nearest muni meter, paid, and [...]

The FDNY will be forced to close a staggering 62 fire companies and lay off more than 1,000 firefighters if the bad-news state budget becomes reality, Commissioner Salvatore Cassano told the City Council Wednesday. “We would be very, very taxed,” warned a grim-faced Cassano. “Our operations would be impacted and every neighborhood in this city would [...]

Albany, NY – Gov. Paterson pushed back at Mayor Bloomberg today for criticizing Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch’s budget-reform proposal, saying mayor already has some of the powers that Ravitch would give the governor. “The mayor has some of the authority himself that we’re trying to get in the legislation here and when the mayor doesn’t get [...]

Human rights group urges West to probe detention of pro-democracy activists.