Brooklyn, NY – Live kaparos will be continuing in New York City, at least for now, as a Manhattan Appellate court affirmed a lower court’s decision that refused to ban the practice because of claims that it is cruel and unsanitary.
Iraq war veteran. Married father of three children. Ten-year member of the Watervliet police force, the last two as a resource officer at Watervliet High School where his job was to promote student safety.
New York – The New York State Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman has waded into the controversial, potential sale of two more nursing homes to a company already caught up in one of the ongoing probes into Mayor de Blasio and his administration.
Drunken-driving charges against a woman in upstate New York have been dismissed based on an unusual defence: her body is a brewery.
UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan – Police are investigating an assault on the manager of a Jewish bookstore in Manhattan as a hate crime.
A state judge in Manhattan on Monday refused to block Orthodox Jewish congregations in Brooklyn from carrying out the bloody Kaporos chicken-slaughter ritual on public streets in advance of Yom Kippur.
NEW YORK – Gabriel Sassoon remembers the days before last year’s Yom Kippur like it was yesterday.
Saranac, NY -Eight days into the massive manhunt in upstate New York for two convicted killers, state police say they have no new leads.
Spring Valley, NY – Police have hit a dead end in the investigation of who sent Rockland County Legislature majority leader Aron Wieder (D-Spring Valley) a letter with his head superimposed on a beheading victim.
An upstate New York school district will pay $4.48 million and pass curriculum and training reforms to settle a lawsuit filed by five current and former Jewish students who claimed they were victims of anti-Semitism in the schools.
