Yeshiva Student Killed In Car Accident on Way To Jerusalem
A teenage yeshiva student from Ashdod was killed early Monday morning in a car accident as he drove to Jerusalem.
Port Authority Rejects Ad Encouraging Women Not To Switch Seats To Accommodate Orthodox Male Flyers
New York – It was a colorful billboard intended to advise women flying from Newark International Airport during the busy holiday season that no one could force them to change their seat to accommodate the religious preferences of male passengers.
Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson Dies At 50 After Battle With Cancer
Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson died Sunday night, just days after publicly revealing his battle with cancer.
Orange County, NY – Times Herald Article Spotlights Expansion In And Around Kiryas Joel
When Peggy Nikolopoulos and her husband moved from Middletown into a new, four-bedroom, Colonial-style house in the Woodbury Junction development two years ago, she expected that to be their last stop: a dream home in a gated community where the couple could set down roots.
High Court Should Deal With Traffic Violations Not Jewish Law, Says Sephardi Chief Rabbi
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has spoken out strongly against the High Court of Justice after legal pressure that forced the Religious Services Ministry to change its regulations to allow women to immerse in public mikvaot without the presence of a mikve attendant.
Activists Want NYC To Axe Chicken-Slaughter Ritual
A group of animal-rights activists want the city to stop the slaughter of 50,000 chickens on the streets of Brooklyn in the days leading up to Yom Kippur.
The Sex Scandal That Exposed Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
In 2005, the world was introduced to reclusive billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, friend to princes and an American president, a power broker with the darkest of secrets: He was also a pedophile, accused of recruiting dozens of underage girls into a sex-slave network, buying their silence and moving along, although he has been convicted of only…
DetailsKansas sheriff’s Deputy Is Kidnapped and Sexually Assaulted
As authorities continued their search for two men for questioning in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a Johnson County sheriff’s deputy, authorities on Sunday released video of the car believed to have been used in the abduction.
Police Say 5 People Killed By Wrong-way Driver In Vermont
A wrong-way driver allegedly slammed his truck into another vehicle on a Vermont highway, killing five high school students, before the suspect took off in a stolen police cruiser and crashed into seven more cars, police said.