Catskills Hatzolah has just placed all their units in the Ellenville area on “Emergency Mode”. There is serious flooding being reported throughout the area and , Route 209 is completely shut down. Camps and bungalow colonies are experiencing flooding, and some have begun to evacuate with the assistance of emergency personnel. CATSKILLSCOOP.COM

The following are links to four albums of photos taken on Tisha B’av 5771 at Yeshiva Chaim Berlin, Yeshiva Ohr Yitzchok, Rav Hillel David’s Shul, and in Landaus (Veretsky). READ MORE: FLATBUSHSCOOP.COM

I love making this soup, it is real more a meal than a soup, and is a great dish to make when you need something to serve for a lot of people, but don’t want to spend too much time patchking. Because I am an over zealous mushroom buyer, many times I have an overflow [...]

Today the IDF and Israel Police thwarted an attempt by two Palestinians to smuggle weapons from Jordan to the West Bank. A rubber-inflated boat carrying ten AK-47s, ten matching magazines and approximately 300 bullets along with the Palestinian suspects, was apprehended by the IDF and Police in the Dead Sea. The two Palestinians onboard will [...]

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he has no plans to seek office again. But he’s still spending millions of dollars of his own money on political advertising. Financial disclosures released Friday show that Bloomberg spent $5.6 million on television ads, polling and direct mail in the weeks surrounding the passage of a state budget that met few [...]

Compiled by Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits who can be reached at mlebovits@kof-k.org Reviewed by Rabbi Ben-zion Schiffenbauer Shlita All Piskei Harav Yisrael Belsky Shlita are Reviewed by Harav Yisrael Belsky Shlita Volume 6 Issue 6 7-2 Passing Through a Heavily Populated Area It is permitted b’dieved to send food without a seal with a non-Jew76 who is delivering through a [...]

For the first time in its history, the nation’s largest retailer Wal-Mart is coming face-to-face with the nation’s largest insurer, Medicaid. Wal-Mart is partnering with the Arkansas Children’s Hospital to provide legal support for Medicaid patients and their families, free of charge. This type of arrangement means Wal-Mart’s lawyers will be taking on the government and other [...]

My love of feta cheese knows no bounds and this fantastic Mediterranean salad is my alternative to the more common Greek feta salad that we all know and love. I make this salad for shalosh seudot all the time when I can. It is the perfect late night supper salad. 1 cucumber, diced small 1/2 cup cherry [...]

My love of feta cheese knows no bounds and this fantastic Mediterranean salad is my alternative to the more common Greek feta salad that we all know and love. I make this salad for shalosh seudot all the time when I can. It is the perfect late night supper salad. 1 cucumber, diced small 1/2 cup cherry [...]

City police officers who stop and frisk people on the street will soon have to give a better explanation for their actions, according a published report. The Daily News says the New York City Police Department is changing stop and frisk forms to include a new field called “Reason For Force Used.” The field gives officers six [...]