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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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NYS Assemblyman Sam Berger Allocates $300k to Queens Shmira

Assembly member Sam Berger (D-Kew Gardens Hills) announced $300,000 in capital funding for emergency services group Queens Borough Safety Patrol Shmira to support their public safety mission...

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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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Crooks Attack NYC Store Owner, Store Owner Gets Arrested

A New York City liquor store owner, who has a gun license, is facing seven years in prison after he accidentally shot a burglar, while defending himself during a brawl outside his Queens shop....

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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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New York State Confirms New Congressional Maps, Again

After a map created by the bipartisan commission tasked with creating the New York State congressional maps, ruling democrats in Albany NY created a modified map....

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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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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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Davening, Torah and Chessed Doesn’t Stop In Woodbourne — A Peek Into The Woodbourne Shul

Over the past decade, the charismatic Rabbi Mordechai Jungreis shlit”a, the Nikolsburger Rebbe, has been a growing fixture in the Catskills during the summer season. He serves as Rav of the historic “Congregation Bnei Israel” shu...

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Trump’s Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman Endorses Bryan Leib for Florida’s 25th Congressional District

President Trump's Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman Announces His Endorsement of Bryan Leib for Florida's 25th Congressional District!...

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Summer Season Starts at Woodbourne Shul With Nonstop Davening, Torah, and Chessed

As thousands of families escape the city heat and head off to the Catskills, a growing fixture—the historic “Congregation Bnei Israel” Shul in Woodbourne—has been in full swing. The Shul reaches thousands each day who come for ...

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