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New Law Makes Retail Theft and Assault a Felony In New York State
A new law included in the New York State Budget for fiscal year 2024-25 makes retail theft more likely to be charged with a crime. According to the governor’s office, the new approach “targets every area of vulnerability” and “...
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Agudas Yisroel Delegation Fights for Armed Security Guards at NY Mosdos
Agudah’s three-part advocacy mission to the states capital in Albany NY. The mission consisted of delegates, including Rabbi Yeruchim Silber met with their legislators and discussed issues facing our frum communities and Yeshiva's in...
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Williamsburg: Driver Who Killed Glaubers Couple Gets Conviction Overturned by Appeals Court, Again
The Appellate Court, Second Division overturned the sentence of Julio Acevedo, who killed Williamsburg couple Reb Nachman and Raizy Glauber and their baby born prematurely, z”l, in a devastating hit-and-run in 2013....
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NYC Lawmakers To Commissioner: “Address Food Stamps Skimming Now”
As FrumNews.com reported several times, Food Stamp (EBT) skimming scams have increased recently in New York including the neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Crown Heights, Boro Park and Flatbush. Hundreds of frum residents from each neighb...
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Frum Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Celebrated at Induction Ceremony
Frum Justice Saul (Shaul) Stein was inducted as a justice of the New York Supreme Court in Kings County (Brooklyn) at an event in Yeshiva University’s Benjamin Cardozo School of Law’s Moot Court Room....
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Five RNSP Volunteers Honored For Stepping Up In The Aftermath Of October 7th
After the massacre on Simchas Torah, better known as October 7th, Jessy Vogel, Michael Cedar, Isaac Stern, Izzy Sicherman and Micha Lader of the Five Towns and Far Rockaway flew out to Eretz Yisroel to team up with the ZAKA Search and ...
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NY Elected Officials Pass Bill To Stop Food Stamps Skimming
Food Stamp (EBT) skimming scams have increased recently in New York including the neighborhoods of Monsey/Rockland County, Kew Gardens Hills, Williamsburg, Crown Heights, Boro Park and Flatbush. Hundreds of frum residents from each nei...
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DSNY Officials Show Off Next Gen Tech To Enhance Snow Operations in NYC 2025
For the winter of 2024/2025 - According to the DSNY, Bladerunner 2.0 Technology Will Better Deploy, Track Snowplows, Salt Spreaders, and Brining Vehicles to Help City Clear More Streets More Efficiently....
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JetBlue Apologizes After Anti-Semitic Flight Attendant Retaliates Against Jewish Passenger
Paul Faust, a proud Yid who often flies with JetBlue, ripped into the airline for falsely accusing him of ‘causing a disturbance,’ and the airline threatened to call the police on him....
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FLORIDA: FrumNews Endorses Bryan Leib for U.S. Congress
At FrumNews.com we rarely make endorsements in support of a candidate running for elected office, simply put—we cover the Jewish community news, we don’t try to influence our personal opinions to our readers. What changed?...
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Telling Its Own Story: KnowUs Billboard Campaign Celebrates Chinuch
Not content to have others tell their story, KnowUs, a project of Agudath Israel of America, has erected large billboards across the Manhattan skyline. The billboards, depicting a yarmulke-wearing teen and the words “Our boys will no...
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Sweden Officially Joins NATO as 32nd Member
Following the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war in February 2022, a consequential under-the-radar story broke out: Long-standing neutral European countries, Sweden and Finland, decided to join the NATO alliance, due to growing fear...
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NYC Lowering Speed Limit To 20 MPH As State Hands Power Over Local Roads
“Sammy’s Law,” which passed the legislature and was signed by Governor Kathy Hochul, gives New York City the power to lower the already low-speed limit on most streets even further, as first reported on FrumNews.com....
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