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Eliot Spitzer Courts Young Crown Heights Voters 27 Aug 2013 | 06:35 pm
Several dozen members of the Crown Heights Jewish community gathered tonight, August 26, at the Basil Pizza & Wine Bar to meet with Democratic candidate for New York City Comptroller Eliot Spitzer. Mr...
Muriel Siebert, First Woman on N.Y. Stock Exchange, Dies 27 Aug 2013 | 05:13 pm
Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, has died. Siebert, who also became the first woman to head a member firm of the exchange as well as many other firsts, die...
WOW Oppose New Prayer Area at Kotel 26 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm
Women of the Wall staged a sit-in Sunday in protest of Minister Naftali Bennett’s outline for a new prayer area in the Western Wall. After months of disagreements regarding Women of the Wall’s right t...
MK Calderon a Hit in Australian Media 26 Aug 2013 | 06:37 pm
During the current Knesset recess, MK Ruth Calderon (Yesh Atid) has been on a trip to Australia – and has found herself to be a big media hit. Interviewed by numerous media outlets, Calderon has recei...
New Sefer Torah Completed in Honor of Kazi Benjamin 26 Aug 2013 | 05:20 pm
On Sunday, August 25, hundreds of members of the Crown Heights community gathered to mark two years since the untimely passing of Kazi (Kasriel) Benjamin, OBM. It was a bittersweet event, as friends a...
German Probe of 50 Alleged Ex-Auschwitz Guards Nears End, Charges Likely 26 Aug 2013 | 04:55 pm
The head of the special German prosecutors’ office that investigates Nazi crimes says a probe of 50 suspected former Auschwitz guards is near complete and may result in charges against many of them. B...
Sid Bernstein, the Man Behind Beatlemania, Dies at 95 23 Aug 2013 | 03:34 pm
Music promoter Sid Bernstein, who worked with legends from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix and orchestrated the Beatles’ historic concert in New York’s Shea Stadium in 1965, died on Wednesday aged 95. Be...
Abbas to Host Rosh Hashana Toast with MKs 22 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm
Knesset members are used to attending new year’s toasts with their supporters around the country ahead of Rosh Hashana. But as many as 40 ministers and MKs will be attending a very different toast on ...
Haredim Combat Smoking Epidemic 22 Aug 2013 | 04:04 pm
Although recent years have seen a drop in the number of ultra-Orthodox smokers and a rise in the sector’s awareness of the dangers of smoking, the percentage of smokers in the haredi society is believ...
City Faces Balancing Act as Hasidic Community Grows 22 Aug 2013 | 03:46 pm
Needing to abide by their traditions of modesty, Hasidic women want the city to post a female lifeguard during a women-only swim session at a municipal pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and have lobbied...
