Jewish News

NY Welcomes Back the “Bike 4 Friendship” Team

This past Shabbos the “Bike 4 Friendship” cross-country team reunited for a Shabboton in Crown Heights, at The Shluchim Office, the central headquarters where the Friendship Circle International offices are located.Held over 3 months after the cross-country ride, the reunion allowed the cyclists to get together and relive the memories of their amazing journey across the country to benefit children ...

NY, Serious Accident On NYS Thruway Injures 9

An Accident at around 5:00am this morning on the NYS Thruway near exit 18 injured 9 people after their vehicle overturned, there were three couples and children in the vehicle that were on the way back to NY from a wedding in Montreal. Two seperate Hatzolah Members happened to pass by and wittness the accident, and immediately called Hatzolah Of Monroe, who sent out two Ambulances, The ...

NY, Officials Meet With Askanim On Traveling Safety Issues From NY To Montreal

This past Tuesday there was a meeting with askunim from Montreal and personnel from New York state police, Local sheriff, EMS, Fire & local hospitals in Essex County NY.Rabbi Berish Freilich special assistant to the superintendent of the NYSP was instrumental in arranging this meeting and traveled from the city to lecture regarding the special needs of the Jewish community.Essex county ...

NY Jews criticize kosher inspector cuts

Jewish leaders are criticizing layoffs at New York State’s kosher law enforcement division that are a result of budget cuts.The Orthodox Union’s Rabbi Menachem Genack told The Wall Street Journal in Sunday’s online edition that there is a need to protect the kosher consumer from potential fraud.The division’s eight inspectors and an assistant were laid-off January 1. The cuts were ...

NY Jewish Community Sets Guinness World Record

The UJA-Federation of New York set a Guinness World Record making 1,660 sandwiches in one hour to be donated to feed the hungry. The sandwich marathon was part of the annual Mitzvah Day, dedicated to doing good deeds to benefit local Jewish communities.After recording the event for Guinness World Record certification, the sandwiches were donated to the Queens Jewish Community ...

NY Governor Pardons Famed Jewish Singer

Sources Confirm to YiddishNayes that the New York Governor David Paterson has pardoned Michoel Streicher after he was sentenced for stealing $36,000 from a Washington Heights woman.Streicher, 50, scammed the money from his victim — a fellow Orthodox Jew — by promising he would invest it in a coveted Torah scroll, which he said he would acquire through his connections ...

NY Bar Mitzvah Boy Helps Israeli Kids

In the Yud Alef neighborhood of Beersheba, a tough neighborhood mainly home to immigrants from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union, the children still can’t believe their eyes – the old basketball court at the Rimonim elementary school in the middle of the neighborhood was transformed overnight to a stunning brand new court.Even more exciting is that in January 2013, ...

Nursery owner invents wristband that warns children when to stop playing in the sun

A nursery owner has invented a wristband that will protect children from skin cancer.Bali Carty, 29, said she came up with her product after realising parents were worried their youngsters were spending too much time in the sun.Over-exposure to UV rays can burn the skin, hair and eyes and lead to skin cancer, premature ageing and eye disorders such as ...

Number of yeshiva students plummets

The number of yeshiva students in the Education Ministry records dropped by an unprecedented rate of 6.5% due to the tightened supervision on yeshivot and kollelim and the conditions for receiving financial support from the State, Ynet has learned.The number of yeshiva and kollel students has been reduced by some 8,500 students since December 2010. The Education Ministry confirmed the ...

Number of gender-segregated religious schools in Israel tripled during past decade

Gender segregation is in effect at 65 percent of the state-run religious elementary schools in Israel, according to data obtained by Haaretz from the Education Ministry’s elementary school supervision department. The figures show that boys and girls study together in only 140 religious elementary schools around the country, with the remaining schools strictly adhering to absolute gender separation – in ...

Nude images hung in religious J’lem neighborhood

The Secular-haredi tensions over the exclusion of women reached new heights in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Yovel where there is a growing haredi community. Local bulletin boards were recently pasted with pictures of women posing almost entirely in the nude.The pictures were put up suring the Sabbath and included a caption that read: “The glorification of women.” The haredi ...

Nuclear Summit Part of Obama Administration’s ‘Fantasy Foreign Policy,’ Newt Gingrich Says

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich characterized this week’s nuclear summit in Washington as a “charade” that reveals the Obama administration’s “fantasy foreign policy.”“When you can give a speech on nuclear disarmament while the North Koreans are proving on the same day – deliberately – that they have no interest in your policy” — that’s fantasy, Gingrich told journalists at an ...