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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The businessman, father of five and native of Brooklyn, N.Y., seemed surprised by his election victory.
“The Flatbush Jewish community, our leadership, residents, yeshivah leaders, parents and business owners all agree that, for our community, the No. 1 issue in the election was public safety,” said community leader Chaskel Bennett.
By Sam Spirgel
The following is an interview of Maya Wiley that was conducted as part of an ongoing series of interviews of candidates running for NYC Mayor.
The leadership of the Satmar Chasidim in New York announced that they are backing of Brooklyn Borough president Eric Adams for mayor after previously endorsing his closest competitor former Democratic mayoral candidate Andrew Yang.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang said he has an issue with organizations that don’t disavow “very, very violent tactics” towards Israel, though he doesn’t have an issue with individuals or activists “making a case for what they think is right.”
By D.J. Kolpak
Only 3% of New Yorkers will actually get to choose the next mayor in the coming primaries this June.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It comes after New York Mayor Bill de Blasio upset many with a series of tweets about hundreds gathered in the Williamsburg neighborhood for the funeral of a respected rabbi.
The Mayor committed to talk with his team to discuss whether or not taking down the tweet is the right thing to do.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A mayor, government office directors and former public officials were arrested as part of a large corruption investigation.
By JNi.Media
Theoretically, an Arab candidate for Mayor of Jerusalem should have a clear path to the job – should he be able to maximize the support of eligible Arab voters.
By JNi.Media
The Chasid, who has been running the stall near the Jerusalem Central Bus Station for the past four years, was asked by a municipal inspector to fold up his stand and walk away, and when he refused, he received the fine.
By JNi.Media
The famous Battle of Karney Hittin that was fought on July 4, 1187, resulting in the defeat of the Crusader Kingdom by Saladin's army, was a direct outcome of the events in Tiberias.
By JNi.Media
The Municipality removes garbage from the main roads and ensures that parks and public gardens are cleaned during Ramadan, to provide a dignified atmosphere for all celebrants.
Howie is furious that a convicted murderer who killed a family member is now Mayor of Hevron.
"We are committed to doing everything in our power to strengthen the Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria," said Rabbi Ben Dahan.
The protest will be at 9 PM at the Givat Bet entrance to Beitar.
Two STRONG women who are not afraid to fight the expulsion orders on Jews in Amona.
"I am confident that you will continue to empower our city by reaffirming its sovereignty and moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem."
By JNi.Media
"It has been brought to my attention recently that in my city of Jerusalem there are cases which are similar in principle, whereby Arab settlement has been established on Jewish owned land in the eastern part of the city,"
Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat saying Selichot.
By JNi.Media
Barkat told the Pollards, "Since Jonathan is not allowed to go to Jerusalem, the eternal city of the Jewish people will come to him in New York or anywhere else in the world."
By JNi.Media
Although it does not spell it out, the rules for the award most likely do not allow for the recipients to be under police investigation.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry slammed the short-lived policy, saying the Palestinian Authority is “no longer satisfied with poisoning the minds of Palestinian youth. Now it wants to spread lies and misinformation among Czech youth as well.”
By JNi.Media
Mayor Feirberg is the first female mayor elected in Netanya and one of very few women who have served as mayors in Israel.
By JNi.Media
No one is allowed to stand where the parade is going, the sidewalks will be kept deserted by heavy police guard.
The alert guards stopped a major terror attack from succeeding.
Jerusalem Mayor Barkat is set to fire the ancient cannon to end the Islamic Ramadan fast.
By JNi.Media
The Brexit camp wants Britain to take back full control of its borders and reduce the number of people coming over to work.
By JNi.Media
“I think it’s a very good thing, and I hope he does a very good job because frankly that would be very, very good.”
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is visiting Yad VaShem Sunday during his two-day tour in Israel for the 30th International Mayors Conference. He will be joined by approximately 40 other international mayors participating in the conference. Mayor de Blasio will tour the Holocaust History Museum, participate in a memorial ceremony in the Hall […]
Hizzoner is in Israel this weekend. Unlike his predecessors, he planned a trip to a Ramallah school, but the wave of terror nixed it.
Galloway apparently was not satisfied with his stinging defeat in recent elections for parliament.
Moshe Lion's team has gone on the offensive, and claim mayoral incumbent Nir Barkat is making backroom deals.
By Shalom Bear
The pro-Israel activist is courting the Arab vote for a Jerusalem city council seat - and he may get it.
At his campaign launch on the steps of City Hall, Mr. Catsimatidis pointed to his suit as an example he’s not a Michael Bloomberg billionaire.
The candidate appeared defiant and hopeful about his chances winning the New York City mayoral race this fall.
I have had reoccurring severely sprained ankles from a previous injury at work in late 2010, so I cannot get all the required signatures on foot myself.
Black hat extremists in Beit Shemesh are giving Israel a black eye again. A Haredi couple tells a woman to go back to the bus. Police arrest them, and rioters smash bus windows.
Anthony Weiner does not think Judea and Samaria are “occupied.’ Neither does former Supreme Court Edmund Levy. But that statement makes Weiner a far-right ignorant radical, in the eyes of “Open Zion.”
MK Eli Yishai, the former head of the Shas party has decided he will not be running for mayor of Jerusalem, according to a report in the Israeli, Chareidi La'Daat website. Yishai was the political head of the Shas party until Shas's spiritual leader, Rav Ovadia Yosef, kicked him out and replaced him with Aryeh […]
By JTA
Montreal’s first Jewish mayor and a Jewish former alderman were arrested as part of a crackdown on corruption. Michael Applebaum, who was appointed mayor last November, was taken into custody Monday morning by agents of the anti-corruption unit, l’unite permanente anticorruption (UPAC). Also arrested was Saulie Zajdel, an Orthodox Jewish former city council member who […]
“Too often, the Bloomberg approach has been My way or the highway. I'll do things differently.”
Anthony Weiner, New York City, new york city politics, Mayor, elections, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, polls,
Approximately 25 percent of the New York City electorate is Jewish, and a growing number are Orthodox.
