Local NewsLakewood Township has competition – shutting down the farmers market
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:18 AM
Seven-year - old Julie Murphy of Oregon City still smiles about her enterprise despite running afoul of county inspectors for an unlicensed lemonade stand at Last Thursday.
UPDATE: Multnomah County chairman tells inspectors to stand down and apologizes to Julie and her family.
It's hardly unusual to hear small-business ... Read More
Local NewsSouth Brunswick Schools to Close For Two Muslim Holy Days
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:18 AM
Tom Haydon/Star Ledger
South Brunswick — As a Muslim growing up in East Brunswick, Atiya Aftab missed classes and had to make up school work to be with her family on two important holidays: Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, and Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice.
As a ... Read More
Local NewsLaughter followed shooting of Hasidic man
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:14 AM
Police are on the lookout for two suspects who shot a Hasidic man in his stomach, then laughed at him as he lay bleeding on a quiet residential street in South Williamsburg early Tuesday morning.
Witnesses described a shocking scene, where two men got out of a white car parked on Driggs Avenue near S. Ninth Street at 12:15 am ... Read More
Local NewsGov. Christie to apply for $268M in federal education aid bill signed by Pres. Obama
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:15 AM
An infusion of $268 million in last-minute federal money for teachers’ jobs is coming to New Jersey, though it’s still unclear which districts will get help.
After wavering on the issue, the Christie administration today committed to applying for the money — part of a $26 billion spending bill signed today by President ... Read More
Local NewsWHO Decides H1N1 Pandemic Is Over
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:15 AM
GENEVA — The World Health Organization declared the swine flu pandemic officially over Tuesday, months after many national authorities started canceling vaccine orders and shutting down hot lines as the disease ebbed from the headlines.
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said the organization's emergency committee of top ... Read More
Local NewsPUMP: Fed To Buy More Debt
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:15 AM
The Federal Reserve on Tuesday took fresh steps to lower borrowing costs amid a softening economic recovery, announcing it would use proceeds from its maturing mortgage bonds to buy more government debt.
The decision to reinvest proceeds from the more than $1.3 trillion in mortgage-related debt the Fed holds, an effort to ... Read More
Local NewsGoogle Verizon Net Neutrality Pact: 5 Red Flags
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:15 AM
Google and Verizon unveiled a proposal to maintain an open Internet while creating room for a broadband network of premium services. The proposal has no legal standing whatsoever, and is basically a policy paper on network neutrality for consideration by Congress and the Federal Communications Commission. Network neutrality is ... Read More
Local NewsVerizon iPhone Coming in January??
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 12:42 AM
The tech boy has cried "Verizon iPhone" so many times that this villager hardly listens anymore. Indeed, it wouldn't be a day if a new rumor didn't pop up, but just wanting a Verizon iPhone to cure the AT&T woes isn't going to make it happen.
The latest tidbit comes via TechCrunch, which reported Sunday that Apple has ... Read More
Local NewsNew Pamphlet Aims To Teach Sensitivity
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:10 AM
Sometime words can hit harder than fists. The New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities has released an informational pamphlet to help bring an awareness to a word that many people say without understanding its ramifications. The "R" word campaign, as it is called in the pamphlet, is not just some politically ... Read More
Local NewsTexting generation doesn’t share boomers’ taste for talk
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:12 AM
Ethan Seidel, rabbi of of Tifereth Israel in the District, said he cannot count on younger members to return his calls.
Jane Beard and Jeffrey Davis didn’t realize how little they speak to their children by phone until they called AT&T to switch plans. The customer service agent was breathless. The Silver Spring couple had ... Read More
Local NewsChristie administration may not apply for $268M U.S. education aid
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:12 AM
The Christie administration may not apply for $268 million in federal education aid up for a vote in Washington Tuesday, the governor’s spokesman said.
Some estimates show the aid could save thousands of teaching positions at a time when state budget cuts are squeezing New Jersey school districts. A survey released today ... Read More
Local NewsReal Estate Tycoon Gets Back $23m in Fraud Battle
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:12 AM
A British property tycoon has won a US court battle against an Orthodox developer who swindled him out of £23 million.
Berish Berger gave XX, of New Jersey, $36.5 million, believing the money would be invested in two lucrative real estate deals in Philadelphia.
But a court heard the deals were part of a scam targeting ... Read More
Local NewsFirefighters Extinguish Fire at Dorm of Beth Medrash Govoha Yeshiva
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:08 AM
Lakewood, NJ - Firefighters extinguished a small dorm fire in Lakewood this morning, township police reported.
At about 9:15 a.m., police received reports of a dorm fire at the Beth Medrash Govoha yeshiva on 6th Street.
Local firefighters determined a mattress was on fire, and extinguished it. There was no major damage to the ... Read More
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Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:08 AM
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Local NewsGround Zero Mosque Gets Support From Jewish Activists
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:08 AM
NEW YORK — A group of Jewish activists and community leaders voiced their support for a planned mosque near ground zero and said opponents, including the nation's leading Jewish civil rights group, are perpetuating misunderstandings about Islam.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow, of the Philadelphia-based Shalom Center, joined about ... Read More
Local NewsTrenton Mayor Tony Mack faces foreclosure as sheriff posts sale of home
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:18 AM
TRENTON — New city Mayor Tony Mack and his wife Kara face foreclosure on their Berkeley Avenue home at a sale on Wednesday, Aug. 25, ordered Mercer County Sheriff Kevin C. Larkin in public notices published yesterday.
The mayor wouldn’t say how many months he is behind or how much he owes in mortgage payments.
“The ... Read More
Local NewsBack to school: Jewish holidays out in Providence
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:14 AM
(JTA) -- The largest school system in Rhode Island is removing the Jewish High Holidays as vacation days after more than 30 years.
The Providence School District deleted Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur on the public school calendar, the Providence Journal reported. Absence from school on those days will be excused. The system ... Read More
Local NewsThree indicted in Lakewood murder, witness tampering
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:14 AM
TOMS RIVER — An Ocean County grand jury has charged three men with the murder of a Lakewood teenager, attempting to murder the victim's younger cousin and conspiring with each other to commit the murder and tamper with a witness.
The grand jury recently handed up the indictment containing the charges against Jamil Parson, ... Read More
Local NewsNBA Star LeBron James Hires Rabbi To Consult on Business Affairs
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:15 AM
According to TMZ, LeBron James paid controversial Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto six figures to sit in on a merchandising meeting on a yacht somewhere off the coast of New York.
Pinto is styled as something of a business guru-slash-spiritual leader to the rich and famous. He only speaks Hebrew, and refuses to meet with ... Read More
Local NewsClass Act: House Passes $26 Billion State Aid Bill, Prevents 161,000 Teacher Layoffs
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:15 AM
The House passed a bill Tuesday afternoon providing $26.1 billion to cash-strapped state governments, and preventing roughly 161,000 teachers and 158,000 public works employees from being laid off. The vote was 247-161.
Democratic leadership has been under tremendous pressure to pass legislation before the start of the ... Read More
Local News‘Hillary for Vice President’ movement gains traction…
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:15 AM
As President Obama sinks in the polls, Democrats and liberal pundits inevitably are searching for a scapegoat. The most likely victim appears to be gaffe-prone Vice President Joe Biden, who has become the focus of speculation that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just might replace him on the 2012 Democratic ticket.
Former ... Read More
Local NewsViznitz Yeshiva Sues NYC For ‘Unfair Crackdown’ On Weddings At School
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:15 AM
A Brooklyn yeshiva says in a new federal lawsuit that a recent city crackdown on weddings at the Jewish school is just not kosher.
Yeshiva Imrei Chaim Viznitz in Borough Park has been able to hold weddings at its assembly hall since the 1990s.
But two years ago, the Buildings Department decided that it needed to approve ... Read More
Local NewsNew State Song Sponsored By Senator Singer “I’m From New Jersey, I Don’t Expect Too Much”
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 12:43 AM
Senator Singer is currently sponsoring the song- I'm From New Jersey- to be our state song.
Many people feel the song, with its tongue in cheek perpetuation of stereotypes of New Jersey, is a very bad choice. Ironically the words" I don't expect too much", are typical of how we are constantly made to feel with all of our ... Read More
Local NewsAdolf Hitler Is Up for Adoption
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:12 AM
A New Jersey court ruled Thursday that Heath and Deborah Campbell will not regain custody of their children, Adolf Hitler, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, according to the Philadelphia Enquirer.
Adolf and JoyceLynn are of course named after Adolf Hitler and the Aryan Nation, respectively, while ... Read More
Local NewsFormer NJ union official admits taking kickbacks
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:12 AM
A former New Jersey union official has admitted accepting kickbacks from a company he hired to install electronic equipment at the union's offices.
Dennis J. Giblin of Jersey City pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Newark to receiving kickbacks and embezzlement.
Giblin was administrator of the Local 68 Education Fund, ... Read More
Local NewsJetblue steward at JFK pulls Emergency Chute
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:12 AM
A flight attendant on a plane that had just landed at Kennedy Airport on Monday afternoon ran out of patience only a few steps from the terminal gate, sources said.
Jet Blue employee Steven Slater was on Flight 1052 from Pittsburgh just after landing at around 12 p.m. when he got into a verbal altercation with a passenger, ... Read More
Local NewsComing Soon: Full-body Body Scanners at Newark, JFK, LaGuardia next month
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:12 AM
NEWARK — Full-body scanners, the controversial imaging technology that displays virtually naked images of airline passengers, are coming to Newark Liberty International Airport next month.
Susan Baer, director of aviation for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said Thursday the scanners would also be installed ... Read More
Local NewsModesty Patrol Follows Students on Camera, Images Will Be Passed to Roshei Yeshivas
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:08 AM
The next hot item in the haredi fight against immodesty is debuting this summer – professional photographers hired by the Committee for Preserving Sanctity and Education to catch yeshiva students on film at “immodest” concerts.
Rabbi Mordechai Baloi, chairman of the committee, recently announced that whoever attends the ... Read More
Local NewsFEDS: HOUSING MARKET NOT STABILIZING..Risk Of Double-Dip Recession Grows.
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:08 AM
Fannie Mae Reverses Earlier Projections.
Home prices will decline into next year, Fannie Mae said Thursday, reversing earlier projections that the housing market would stabilize this year.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" that a so-called double-dip recession was ... Read More
Local NewsLakewood to open its own impound lot
Updated: Nov 30th, 2010 8:08 AM
LAKEWOOD — The township is planning to open its own impound lot, a move the mayor says will put $200,000 a year into the municipality's coffers but that local towers fear will mean heavy losses to their businesses.
The proposal would require all cars seized by police, whether because they were abandoned or involved in ... Read More
