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City Moves to Close All Priority 7 Voucher Cases

Once again Priority 7 vouchers are near the end of the line.The Bloomberg Administration mailed out letters on Friday, informing the struggling families of 2,200 children – most of them orthodox Jewish – that their subsidized childcare will end on Dec. 31, the middle of the school year.A coalition of City Council members from Brooklyn is furious and has asked ...

City Hall Clarifies: Yeshivas Must Report Abuse

In order to clarify existing regulations requiring all staff members in New York state non-public schools to report suspected incidents of child abuse to the authorities, the New York State Education Department has updated its web page to eliminate any possible ambiguities.Section 413(1)(b) of the Social Services Law obligates all school officials in any non-public school in New York who ...

City Council Approves The ‘Culver El’ Project In Boro Park

Today’s City Council approval of the Culver El project marks the end of a 5-year long effort to make this desperately needed affordable housing project a reality. Low and middle income families across this City desperately need safe, affordable housing options. Boro Park, in particular, has a significant need for affordable housing.The 68 units planned for Culver Estates will be ...

Circumcision Tied to Lower Prostate Cancer Risk, U.S. Study Shows

Circumcised men may have a slightly lower risk of developing prostate cancer than those who still have their foreskin, according to a U.S. study.The World Health Organization already recommends the controversial procedure based on research showing it lowers heterosexual men’s risk of contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.Last year scientists also reported that wives and girlfriends of circumcised men ...

Circumcision likened to genital mutilation

A 46-year-old New York man who’s a member of an activist group against circumcision likens the routine practice to female genital mutilation.Anthony Losquadro recently contacted the pediatrician who circumcised him in 1965 and accused the doctor of coercing his parents to approve the procedure.He tells the New York Post that it’s his body and he should have had a choice ...

Circumcision Declared Legal in First of 16 German States

Infant male circumcision was declared legal Wednesday in one of Germany’s 16 states, following weeks of controversy about whether the Jewish and Muslim ritual is a crime or not.The city-state of Berlin became the first to rule on the issue, saying its prosecutors had been instructed not to charge doctors if the boy’s parents had consented in writing and proved ...

Circumcision ban comic book shows ‘grotesque anti-Semitic imagery,’ ADL says

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday strongly condemned a comic book created by supporters of an anti-circumcision movement in San Francisco, saying it contained “grotesque anti-Semitic imagery and themes.”The “Monster Mohel” comic book is one of two titles in the “Foreskin Man” comic book series – which was created by the president of the Male Genital Mutilation Bill group and ...

Christmas Blizzard of 2010: Mayor Bloomberg defends NYC’s response to winter storm, mass transit

The sixth largest snowstorm in New York history buried the streets in four-foot drifts, brought transit to a halt and spread a strange and wonderful hush over the city.The Blizzard of 2010 dumped between 18 and 24 inches of snow – with 29 inches reported in parts of Staten Island – and winds gusts up to 60 mph.Remarkably for such ...

Chilling picture emerges of Nazi leader Himmler taken just moments after he swallowed cyanide pill

The moustache is gone but the familiar round glasses are still there in this chilling photograph of Heinrich Himmler seconds after he killed himself.This is the first time this picture has been seen of the architect of the Holocaust, which claimed the lives of six million Jews, just after he crunched a cyanide capsule in his mouth.The photograph, which is ...

Chilean MPs Give Thanks at Kotel

Last week, people around the world watched as 33 Chilean miners were rescued after being trapped underground for more than two months. On Sunday, five Chilean MPs were in Israel to give thanks at the Western Wall (Kotel) for the amazing rescue.The parliamentary delegation was accompanied by leading figures in the Chilean Jewish community.Read More: @ israelnationalnews.comVisitors found this page by ...

Chilean Miners: Just Like the Jews, We Kept Our Faith

It was right before noon when the visitors to the Western Wall heard a loud sound of joy, which is quite unusual for the holy place of prayer, the only vestige of the Holy Temple complex, destroyed in 70 C.E. by the Roman Legion and considered Judaism’s most sacred site.The jubilant cries came from the 24 Chilean miners who were ...

Chief Rabbi: Woman Can Serve on Dayanim Committee

The Chief Sephardic Rabbi, Rav Shlomo Amar, said Sunday he does not object to the idea that women would sit on the Committee for Appointment of Dayanim (Rabbinical Judges). In an interview on Radio Kol Chai, Rav Amar said categorically, however, that women can never be rabbinical judges themselves.“G-d forbid that this bad dream ever materialize,” he said. “It contradicts Halakha ...