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New York – Governor Faces $96,375 Fine for Accepting 5 Free Yankee Tickets

New York – That could be one of the most expensive baseball games ever.The state’s top ethics watchdog wants to slug Gov. Paterson with a $96,375 fine for allegedly shaking down the Yankees for free tickets to Game 1 of last year’s World Series.The Public Integrity Commission requested the historic penalty—the first of its kind sought against a governor—after a ...

New York GOP Gov. Hopeful Paladino Takes Shot At Orthodox Rabbis

Gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino came out swinging this afternoon, blasting religious leaders who do not forcefully support anti gay candidates.Paladino met this afternoon with a group of rabbis in Rabbi Yechezkel Roth’s 53rd Street synagogue in Borough Park, where he presented himself as the candidate with values, proudly proclaiming that both he and the religious community share the same “values, ...

New York City Water Warning

New York City officials have detected elevated lead levels in the water in dozens of privately owned buildings. They are telling New Yorkers to run their taps for 30 seconds before drinking water, cooking with it or using it to make baby formula anytime the tap has not been used for several hours.The New York City Department of Environmental Protection ...

New York, NY – City Remains Top Terrorist Target in U.S., Commish Says

New York, NY – The city remains the preeminent target for terrorists plotting attacks on U.S. soil, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.There have been 11 known plots against the city since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, while there have been no publicly acknowledged terror conspiracies against Washington during that same period, Kelly said today following a press conference at police ...

New York-based testimony for Olmert trial to be closed to public

Witness testimony that is expected to be given in New York during the trial of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be off limits to the media and the public, according to prosecutors.The request to deny public access to the hearings was made by Israeli officials, according to legal officials in the New York Attorney General’s office.Those who will be ...

New York authorities threaten to shut down segregated bus run by Orthodox Jews

New York City authorities said they will shut down a city bus service run by Orthodox Jews if the group doesn’t stop making women sit at the back of the bus.The Private Transportation Corp, which operates the city’s public B110 bus under a franchise arrangement, has come under criticism following publicity about its practice of making women give up their ...

New Wal-Mart Service Lets Customers Test New Foods By Mail

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Wednesday will officially launch a mail subscription service, called Goodies, that lets shoppers discover new foods from the comfort of their homes.For a monthly fee of $7 that includes tax and shipping, customers get a box of five to eight hand-picked, sample-size food items, ranging from organic to ethnic products that are not currently carried on ...

New Volume Opens Door to Rebbe’s Rashi Sichos

Scholars for generations have tried to decipher the seemingly simplistic words of Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, the 12th-century commentator known as Rashi whose glosses on the Five Books of Moses have become standard fare for any student of the Torah. But a new English volume attempts to reveal some of the principles behind the commentary, drawing on several talks delivered by ...

New start-up: Kosher clothing stores

An extreme ultra-Orthodox body has established a kashrut department supervising clothing stores in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim and Geula neighborhoods.Haredi women have begun supervising businesses in the neighborhoods on behalf of the new department, checking whether the clothes sold in the stores meet the requirements of Jewish Law. The department’s findings will be published across the neighborhoods.Read More: @ ynetnews.comReaders found more ...

New Square rabbi condemns violence; burn victim’s family seeks federal probe

Grand Rebbe David Twersky publicly denounced violence and said he’s praying for Aron Rottenberg’s recovery from Sunday’s near-fatal arson attack in his community, but the victim’s family on Friday rejected the overture and blamed the rabbi for inciting the attack by a teenage assistant who slept in his home.The family said in a statement that the Skver Hasidim’s rabbi “gave ...

New ‘Spiritual Growth’ Course for US Jewish Teens

A Jewish nonprofit organization has just received funding to create a junior version of its unique Jewish adult education course to raise spiritual awareness among American teens.Ayeka, an NGO for Jewish spiritual growth, announced it has received a one-time grant of $95,000 from the AVI CHAI Foundation to fund the development of the course, to be called “Spiritual Living.”The course ...

New Recruits Join Haredi Battalion

Less than a week before the Tal Law is revoked, on Thursday, the Netzah Yehuda haredi battalion, which was established 13 years ago because of the soon to be cancelled law, saw the enlistment of its August 2012 class.Dozens of haredim and religious men arrived at the IDF recruitment centers to join the battalion which is considered the largest in ...