NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent a good part of Thursday defending his decision to target New York City’s sweet tooth again.
He’s proposing new rules to ban big sizes of sugary drinks. The mayor said they’re causing New Yorkers to p…

More than two months after the voters cast their ballots in the race to replace Carl Kruger in the State Senate has finally come to a close. The Republican candidate, David Storobin, has won.
“All the votes are in, disputed and otherwise. The co…

Manhattan’s top prosecutor says it’s “premature” to say how confident he is that a former stock clerk is the person who killed a boy who vanished in 1979.
District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. also declined to comment Thursday o…

If you can get a new mortgage or refinance an existing one, interest rates have fallen to incredible new lows.
Interest on a 15-year loan has dropped below 3 percent for the first time ever, according to data from Freddie Mac.
The average rate on the…

The Associated Press reports: For decades, Israel has marketed an array of cosmetics and food products manufactured in the occupied West Bank as “Made in Israel,” blurring their true origins in Jewish settlements opposed by virtually the e…

NY Govenor Andrew Cuomo has cut the heart out of the “I Love New York” campaign.
Cuomo and Empire State Development Corporation Kenneth Adams Wednesday announced a new $5 million tourism marketing campaign that features a revamped “I…

U.S. officials and high-tech business giants have launched an assault against what they view as a massive threat to the Internet and to Silicon Valley’s bottom lines: foreign governments.
In a congressional hearing Thursday, they will warn lawma…

New satellite photographs published by a Washington think tank appear to show intensified efforts by Iran over the past week to cleanse a military site south of Tehran suspected of being used for nuclear-weapons research.
The Iranian actions could aff…

President Obama met this week with about 20 Conservative Jewish community leaders, thanking them for the work they do to improve communities around the country and discussed their shared commitment to rebuilding the U.S. economy.
During  he meeting, …

Today, Israel transferred to Palestinian authorities the bodies of 91 Palestinian militants, saying it hoped the move would help restart peace efforts.
According to Palestinian Authority Minister of Civil Affairs Hussein al-Sheikh, the remains of 80 P…

The Empire State Building in New York will form the focal point of Manhattan’s Israel independence celebrations fromJune 1-3 when it will be lit up in blue and white in honour of the Israeli flag.
The New York landmark will also mark the route …

Lakewood, NJ – This evening the Lakewood Learn and Network Kollel Zichron Mordechai Yosef will be hosting a two-and-a-half-hour cruise featuring a kumzitz, a hot buffet, and a fireworks show. All monies raised will go directly to fund the programs o…

The owners of the kosher restaurant in Rome’s Jewish Ghetto – a historic quarter in the centre of the city – were surprised when Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan walked away without leaving a gratuity.
Their bill came to just 32 euros after a …

Rav Eliezer Rokeach of Amsterdam, the Maaseh Rokeach
Rav Ezra Harari Raful, mekubal of the Aleppo community
Rav Moshe of Rozvadov, son of Rav Eliezer of Dzikov (1894)
Rav Mordechai Rottenberg (1872-1944). Born in Krakow to Rav Naftali, a close confid…

Iran’s enrichment of uranium to 20 percent “is our right” and “is not a step towards a bomb,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday in an interview with the satellite television network France 24.
The enrichment ac…

El Al passengers who seek a middle ground between economy and first class will soon be able to choose a new service – Economy Class Plus. The option is to be offered aboard in the airlines’ Boeing 747 planes, and is expected to be added to its f…

Cyber security experts around the world are racing to dissect Flame, the largest cyber espionage program ever discovered, as clues in the code and vague statements from Western officials fueled speculation as to whether the U.S. or Israel may be behin…

Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe Yaalon today said “Iran is deceiving the West all the way to a bomb.”
For “the last three months, while it talks with world powers, Tehran has significantly accelerated the pace of I…

The National September 11 Memorial and Museum is marking the 10th anniversary of the end of cleanup operations at the site with a tribute to recovery workers and first responders.
The event is scheduled for this evening at the Sept. 11 memorial plaza …