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Tue, Jul 8 • 5:08pm EST • 12:08am IDT
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UPDATED - Frum Man Stabbed Overnight in Lakewood [UPDATE IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] At approximately 12:45AM, a 45-year-old man was stabbed as he was walking into his Forest Avenue home - in the heart of Lakewood's Jewish community. Hatzolah Paramedics from Lakewood Hatzolah were scrambled to the scene at 308 Forest Avenue, and rushed the man to the ...July 08 15:30 Read Full Story » Hizbullah Missile Victims Sue Lebanese Canadian Bank Canadian victims of Hizbullah terror attacks have filed a precedent setting civil action in the Quebec Superior Court against the Lebanese-Canadian Bank (LCB) in Montreal. The plaintiffs, all of whom were injured in Northern Israel in Katyusha rocket attacks, allege that LCB unlawfully provided financial services to the Hizbullah ...
July 08 15:25
Governor Paterson Signs Concord Bill Governor David Paterson Tuesday signed the Concord development bill paving the way for the $1 billion project to move forward, MidHudsonNews reports.
The plan is for Louis Cappelli's Concord Associates and Empire Resorts to build a new gaming resort with a hotel, conference center, racino and Monticello Raceway. The racetrack and ...
2 Comments | July 08 13:54
Gazan Residents Filing Suit Against Gush Katif Farmers If it were not so sad and absurd, one might even think of laughing but residents of Hamas-controlled Gaza are now taking legal action against former Gush Katif farmers, seeking compensatory damages for wrongful dismissal.
According to one Gush Katif refugee, Yossi Schwartz, 45, he was served with papers seeking over NIS 500,000 in ...
5 Comments | July 08 13:13
Uri L'Tzedek Statement on Agriprocessors On May 23rd of this year, Uri L'Tzedek wrote an open letter to Aaron Rubashkin, expressing how deeply upset we were by evidence of worker mistreatment in his company, Agriprocessors, and calling on the community of kosher consumers to join us in demanding change. Since the outset of our campaign, Uri L'Tzedek has ...
12 Comments | July 08 13:12
ALERT - FDA Issues Warning on Cipro and Similar Antibiotics Federal Drug Safety (FDA) officials have imposed the government's most urgent warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics (see list below), citing risks that they can cause tendon ruptures, a serious injury that leaves some patients incapacitated.
The FDA ordered makers of flouroquinolone drugs — a potent class of antibiotics — to add a ...
2 Comments | July 08 11:53
Out Of The Mailbag: (Cautionary Story About Hotels) Dear YWN readers,
This past Shabbos my wife, kids and I stayed at a hotel.
This well-known hotel is located in the Catskills and was advertised in a popular Jewish newspaper.
The caterer is someone we know slightly, and the mashgiach is well-known and respected in the hashgocho world.
My wife called the hotel ...
1 Comments | July 08 11:33
Community Board Funding Restored, New Members Appointed, 66th Precinct Honored at CB12 Brooklyn, NY - Councilman Simcha Felder and his colleagues in the New York City Council worked with the Bloomberg Administration to restore cuts to the operating budgets of the City’s fifty-nine Community Boards. The Community Boards had been budgeted for a 5% cut before executive budget hearings of the Council’s Committee on ...
July 08 10:33
New Jersey Gas Prices Hit $4.00 - Use YWN Ride-Sharing! Although it has been this way for some time already, the AAA of New Jersey has announced that the price of gas has officially reached the $4 per gallon milestone overnight.
Average prices were the highest in the Trenton area, at $4.03 per gallon, and in Middlesex, Somerset and Hunterdon counties, at $4 per gallon, ...
July 08 10:27
Israel: Successful Class Action Suit Against Charges for SMS' to Kosher Phones Attorney Moshe Fogel is quite pleased, having taken on the country’s cellular telephone companies and emerged with a victory in hand.
Fogel filed a class action suite after realizing that a client sending a SMS text message to a kosher phone, which is blocked to text messaging, will pay for the message which will never ...
1 Comments | July 08 06:52
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