Tag: Westchester County

AIPAC has already pledged its full support to Bowman's challenger George Latimer.

NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo: “We are testing aggressively. The more positives you find, the better.”

Westchester County Police would not release the images on the flyers, calling the graphics “offensive” and the wording “obscene.”

Only six children remain on the grounds of Hawthorne, and they are expected to be moved to a new location by Tuesday.

Radioactive contaminated water leaked out of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.

Vilifiers of Israel will be inside the Greenburgh Town Hall, Israel supporters will be outside Mon, Oct. 19.

L’Chaim. Observing the Jewish Sabbath is secondary when it comes to saving a person’s life or performing a circumcision. But what happens a whiskey festival occurs on Shabbat? Hold a Whiskey Jewbilee.

Early American Jewish history is unfortunately replete with examples of observant families who came to America and, within a relatively short period of time, not only abandoned much of their commitment to religious observance but even had the sad experience of having some of their children intermarrying and assimilating. One family that did not follow this trend was the Hays family.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the influential paper published by a Mount Sinai physician, Dr. Burrill Crohn, and his colleagues that for the first time characterized a disease associated with severe inflammation of the intestine. Patients with what was later named Crohn’s disease develop diarrhea, fever, stomach pain, and often lose weight. Crohn’s is now classified as an autoimmune condition in which the immune system attacks its own healthy tissue in the gastrointestinal tract, causing chronic inflammation. It affects young individuals, and, even though it is not curable, it can be treated and controlled by medications and surgery.