ImpactIs East Coast Prepared For Truly Powerful Quake?
Posted: Aug 25th, 2011 11:18 AM
There was a crack in the Washington Monument, and capstones were broken at the National Cathedral. In the District of Columbia suburbs, some people stayed in shelters because of structural concerns at their apartment buildings.
A day after the East Coast’s strongest earthquake in 67 years, inspectors assessed the damage ... Read More
ImpactParking Meters and Halacha
Posted: Aug 22nd, 2011 2:55 PM
It is something that perhaps every resident of New York City and the surrounding area has experienced. You park on a public street and you do not have a quarter to insert in the meter. You quickly search your car and none is available. Nor is there is a quick convenience store around that can facilitate a quick breaking of ... Read More
ImpactWingwalker Dies After Fall At Michigan Air Show
Posted: Aug 22nd, 2011 8:59 AM
DETROIT - A wingwalker at an air show near Detroit fell to his death on Sunday, after he tried to transfer from an aircraft to a helicopter and plunged about 200 feet to the ground, officials said.
The death of wingwalker Todd Green comes one day after an aerobatic flyer crashed and died at a Kansas City, Missouri, air show ... Read More
ImpactFather Being Honest Might Cost His Son $50,000
Posted: Aug 20th, 2011 11:57 PM
11-year-old Nick Smith made the shot of a lifetime during a contest at a celebrity hockey game in Minnesota. His name was called during intermission, and he motored on down to the ice and slapped a puck through a three-and-a-half-inch hole. It was an amazing shot. See for yourself:
All good, right? The little guy just scored ... Read More
ImpactVIDEO: Glenn Beck visits Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Posted: Aug 20th, 2011 11:16 PM
As Glenn Beck prepares to stand up for Israel and the Jewish people on August 24th, he travels to the place where others chose not to, the Auschwitz concentration camp. Go with Glenn on his journey as he revisits the mistakes of the past and vows to not let history repeat them. See the full documentary of Glenn's emotional trip ... Read More
ImpactSen. Joe Lieberman Embraces the Gift of the Sabbath
Posted: Aug 20th, 2011 10:51 PM
Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, looks forward to Fridays, when he can get home, switch his BlackBerry off and just be Joe - Hadassah Lieberman's husband, father of four, grandfather of 11.
Lieberman is an observant Jew who has long made a point to put his faith before politics - even if that means a post-sunset vote in ... Read More
ImpactNew Square Letter: Spitzer Sought Mischief, Not Murder, In Rottenberg Attack
Updated: Aug 20th, 2011 10:57 PM
A community group has circulated a letter claiming Shaul Spitzer just wanted to make mischief on the early May morning that he's accused of trying to kill a dissident resident and burn down the man's house with his family inside.
Spitzer, 18, is charged with trying to kill Aron Rottenberg, 43, who defied Skver Grand Rebbe ... Read More
ImpactVIDEO: Leiby Forever Lipa Schmeltzer - Full Video
Posted: Aug 13th, 2011 10:49 PM
Lipa Schmeltzer sings "Leiby Forever" A tribute song and music video featuring home movies of the slain 8-year-old Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzky A"H. Read More
ImpactUSPS Proposes Cutting 120,000 Jobs, Pulling Out Of Federal Benefit Plans
Posted: Aug 12th, 2011 1:19 AM
The financially strapped U.S. Postal Service is considering cutting as many as 120,000 jobs.
Facing a second year of losses totaling $8 billion or more, the agency also wants to pull its workers out of the retirement and health benefits plans covering federal workers and set up its own benefit systems.
Congressional ... Read More
ImpactNY – Airplane Banner: 'Thanks For The Downgrade. You Should All Be Fired'
Updated: Aug 10th, 2011 6:57 AM
A single mother-of-two delivered a clear message to finance executives after hiring a pilot to fly over Wall Street today.
'Thanks For The Downgrade: You Should All Be Fired,' read the banner that blazed across the Manhattan skyline - and past Standard and Poor's New York headquarters - this afternoon.
The aerial stunt ... Read More
ImpactComcast Rolls Out $10 Internet Access for Low-Income Families
Updated: Aug 8th, 2011 8:54 AM
Cable and Internet provider Comcast is launching a new program to offer discounted Internet service and computers to low-income families.
The program, called Internet Essentials, will “provide low-cost access to the Internet and affordable computers as well as digital literacy training to families with children who are ... Read More
ImpactSenator Lieberman stopped Rubashkin raid in 2000?
Posted: Aug 7th, 2011 11:51 PM
Immigrant raid halted in 2000 on election fear, ex-agent says
Federal authorities could have spared Postville a great deal of upheaval if they had gone ahead with a planned 2000 immigration raid there instead of waiting nearly eight years to deal with a blatant case of illegal hiring, a retired federal agent says.
Estela ... Read More
ImpactReports: Corzine Being Eyed As Possible Replacement For Geithner
Posted: Aug 5th, 2011 8:56 AM
Washington - Former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine may be looking at a new job in Washington.
He’s reportedly being eyed as a possible replacement for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
That’s if Geithner leaves before the end of President Obama’s first term.
Corzine is former chairman of Goldman-Sachs and now ... Read More
ImpactEXCLUSIVE: 10 Charged in $60 Million Mortgage Fraud Scheme
Posted: Aug 4th, 2011 10:44 AM
The FBI has arrested 10 people for allegedly participating in a $60 million mortgage fraud ring early Thursday morning in the New York area, FoxNews.com has learned.
Three more suspects are expected to be in custody by the end of the day, an FBI official said.
The 13 alleged members of the mortgage fraud ring include real ... Read More
ImpactWATCH: Mayor Crushes Car With Tank To Send 'Message'
Posted: Aug 3rd, 2011 9:11 AM
Having grown tired of a series of complaints over illegally parked cars, the mayor of Lithuania's capital opted to send his city's abundance of disrespectful drivers a very public, outrageous message.
To produce this newly-released clip, Vilnius Mayor Arturas Zuokas commissioned an armored personal carrier and used it to ... Read More
ImpactMagnitude 5.8 Earthquake Rocks East Coast
Posted: Aug 23rd, 2011 2:07 PM
Update at 2:18 p.m. ET: In "the East Coast you have this old hard, cold crust that does a lovely job of transmitting the waves," says Lucy Jones, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. "This large of an earthquake …. could definitely have been felt hundreds of miles away."
Update at 2:16 p.m. ET: Fox News reports ... Read More
ImpactRed-light cameras throughout NYC are bringing million
Posted: Aug 22nd, 2011 9:01 AM
Lights, cameras, cash.
New York's driver nanny cams are working, generating more than $52 million in fines last year from unsuspecting motorists who blew through red lights while the cameras were rolling, records show.
There are now 150 red-light cameras scattered throughout the city, and the pressure is on in Albany to ... Read More
ImpactNJ Sen. Lautenberg among richest in Congress with $55M in assets
Posted: Aug 21st, 2011 8:39 AM
New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg, one of the most liberal members of Congress, is also one of its wealthiest, according to a Capitol Hill publication.
The Democratic senator is the seventh-richest lawmaker on Capitol Hill, with his and his wife’s assets worth at least $55.07 million and no reported liabilities, according ... Read More
ImpactFederal Officials Reject City’s Plan to Ban Food Stamps for Soda
Posted: Aug 20th, 2011 11:34 PM
Federal officials on Friday rejected Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposal to bar New York City’s food stamp users from buying soda and other sugary drinks with their benefits.
In October, the city proposed a two-year experiment to see if the prohibition would reduce obesity among people who buy their groceries with ... Read More
ImpactVIDEO: 20 Years Ago Today Crown Heights Riots
Posted: Aug 20th, 2011 11:11 PM
Crown Heights Brooklyn, NY August 19, 1991 Riots.
Despite living side by side, Hasidic Jews, African Americans, and people from the Caribbean in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, rarely socialized before 1991. The groups occupied separate cultural worlds, and a climate of mutual suspicion and tension prevailed. On 19 ... Read More
ImpactLulav Imports From Egypt In Danger?
Updated: Aug 20th, 2011 10:56 PM
Following Mubarak's downfall, Israel fears for annual import of 700,000 palm branches for Sukkot holiday
Every year for the past three decades, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, Israel imports from Egypt some 700,000 lulavim (one of the Four Species mentioned in the Torah), originating in palm trees in the northern ... Read More
ImpactBrooklyn Day Camp Entertains Its Campers By Offering Free Car Washes
Posted: Aug 13th, 2011 10:50 PM
A Borough Park camp found a unique way to both entertain its campers and provide a service to the community by offering free car washes the day after Tisha B'Av.
The Sanz Klausenberg Day Camp, located on 50th Street between 13th and 14th Avenue, arranged a full service car wash which was advertised on the Dee Voch ... Read More
ImpactButcher Levi Aron Won't Apologize for Brutal Slaughter
Posted: Aug 12th, 2011 9:17 AM
Levi Aron says he has a hard time talking about the day he chopped up a lost little boy who came to him for help.
"It hurts too much to think about it," the accused Butcher of Borough Park said in an exclusive Daily News interview - his first with any news organization since the July 11 murder that sickened the city.
"I ... Read More
Entertainment, ImpactChabad Rabbis: Flyer Against Singer Avraham Fried Nothing Personal
Posted: Aug 12th, 2011 1:15 AM
Rav Yeshayahu Herzl, Chief Rabbi of Natzerat Illit, said Thursday that a flyer signed by Chabad rabbis against mixed-audience music performances was not directed against an upcoming show in Afula, located at the northwest corner of the Jezreel Valley, by singer Avraham Fried.
"The headline that said that we forbid ... Read More
ImpactMANIC MONDAY: Global Markets Slide As U.S., Europe Face Uncertain Financial Future
Posted: Aug 8th, 2011 9:37 AM
U.S. stock futures tumbled Monday amid a rout in global stocks after Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. credit rating for the first time.
S&P cut the long-term debt rating for the U.S. by one notch to AA+ from AAA late Friday. The move wasn't unexpected, but it comes when investors are already feeling nervous about a weak ... Read More
ImpactWall Street Braces...
Posted: Aug 7th, 2011 11:54 PM
A downgrade of United States' top-tier credit rating has Wall Street scrambling to figure out the knock-on effects for the financial system, from mortgages to banks to markets that rely on U.S. Treasuries for collateral. Read More
ImpactStop Funding Shomrim: NY Post Says
Posted: Aug 7th, 2011 11:49 PM
Obstructing the police is bad enough. But it’s completely unacceptable if that obstruction is being funded by the taxpayer.
Yet that’s exactly what’s happening with the Shomrim, the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood patrol groups in Brooklyn.
Shomrim — which received $130,000 in City Council member items in the current ... Read More
ImpactTenafly Jewish Firefighter Claims Discrimination
Posted: Aug 5th, 2011 8:53 AM
A Tenafly firefighter on medical leave is suing the borough and several senior members of the fire and police departments for alleged racial discrimination and infringement of his civil rights.
David Kurtz, a volunteer firefighter since 2003, claims he's a victim of anti-Semitism. He also claims that he has faced constant ... Read More
ImpactN.J. Auto Insurance Rates On The Rise Again
Posted: Aug 3rd, 2011 11:57 AM
After years of steady declines, New Jersey’s notoriously high auto insurance rates are on the rise again.
And, to stem the tide, the Christie administration is proposing new rules that would limit the kinds of medical care injured drivers can receive under their auto policies.
The proposed rules could rekindle debate ... Read More
ImpactFOR SALE: NYC's Garbage
Posted: Aug 3rd, 2011 9:05 AM
"One man's garbage is another man's treasure. But New York City's garbage, well, that's art."
This is artist Justin Gignac's prelude to his brilliant concept in package design, NYC Garbage.
What began as a bet with a friend at an ad agency has turned into a mini boon for Gignac, who says on his website he has so far sold ... Read More
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