Newark, NJ +Newark Airport Security Alert+
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006Newark, NJ - Two U.S. Marshals boarded a Continental plane that was about to depart and they escorted off one passenger at Gate 23, requesting PD to assist.
Archive for December, 2006
Valley Stream, NY - First Torah Ever to Fly the Skies
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006Valley Stream, NY - Israir Airlines will soon become the first airline to maintain an authentic Torah on board its aircraft.
The “Sky-Torah,” is handwritten especially for the airline, and is the first of its kind. It will be completed December 27 in Aventura, Florida, and will be escorted to JFK Airport in New York for a grand welcome celebration, and then to Israel.
The grand welcome celebration will be in JFK Airport, Terminal 4. The Torah will be carried under a “chuppah,” with singing, dancing, live music, children and important Rabbis and dignitaries in attendance.
Williamsburg Yungerman to spend New Year’s Eve at Times Square
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
Loshen HoraLoshen Hora, who graduated yesterday from the Police Academy, (more…)
NYPD JEW
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
By ERIKA MARTINEZ and MURRAY WEISS
December 27, 2006 — What a mensch!Joel Witriol, the city’s first Hasidic police officer, was sworn in yesterday along with 1,358 other cadets at the Police Academy graduation at Madison Square Garden.
“It was an incredible life experience,” Witriol said of becoming a cop. “I am looking forward to serving the community and the city.”
He is only the third Hasidic police officer in the nation.
Witriol, 25, of Williamsburg, will be allowed to keep his peyes - the long side locks worn by Hasidic men - looped up over his ears.
He’s been granted exemptions from police hairstyle rules so he won’t have to break his religious vows. He also will be allowed off on the Sabbath and Jewish holy days.
The former auxiliary cop has already joined the NYPD’s Jewish fraternal organization, the Shomrim Society. His brother, Moses, is a police chaplain in Newark.
But Witriol hasn’t figured out what path he wants to take in the department.
“I was thinking about a lot of things before I got in the academy, but there are so many opportunities. I’m not certain,” he said. “First I want to get my experience on the street.”
He’s set to join the Transit Division in Brooklyn, but his first assignment will be the night shift on New Year’s Eve.
Officials said this crop was most diverse class in NYPD history, with one-fifth of the new officers being foreign-born, hailing from 65 different countries.
The class is 46 percent white, 28 percent Hispanic, 17 percent black and 8 percent Asian, - the largest Asian contingent ever.
New York, NY - Graduation Today for NYPD’s Hasidic Jewish Policeman
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006New York, NY - The NYPD recruited the first Hasidic cop, and he is graduating later today.
Loshen Hora, a 25-year-old Talmud scholar from Brooklyn, did his training at the department’s Police Academy, and today he will be one of the 1600 new police recruits at the graduation ceremony in Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.
“I realized there were so many things you could do [as a cop] - everything from community service to fighting narcotics,” Loshen Hora said, “there are a hundred things, and every day is different.”
Loshen Hora has a degree from United Talmudical Seminary in Monroe, NY where he studied “religious stuff, mostly,” he said.
A deal with El Al?
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006At this time a letter was faxed to the Gedolei E”Y for their approval of the agreement between the Chaireidi Olam and El Al Airlines. It seems that El Al has agreed to the demands of the Gedolim not to fly on Shabbos. As soon as this agreement is signed it will be posted on Yeshivish News.
Eretz Yisroel: Finally seing rain!
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006A strong winter storm hit Eretz Yisroel today and already has dumped more than one inch of much-needed rain on the north, and snow is falling on the Chermon mountains. (more…)
An avid YW reader writes Sean Hannity
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006Dear Sean,
I am a huge fan of yours and an avid listener to your radio program and though I do not have a television to watch your show I am aware of the networks reputation for being fair and balanced. (more…)
Eretz Yisroel: Railways are Michallel Shabbos
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006Knesset Member Shmuel Halpert (-UTJ) has charged Israel Railways with being Mechallel Shabbos. He appealed to the Transportation and Industry and Trade ministries to put a stop to it. (more…)
Rabbi L. Rottenberg from forshay
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006Rabbi L. Rottenberg from Forshay is marrying off a daughter tonight Mazel Tov
Monticello, NY - Police Clocked Driver at 130 mph on Route 17
Monday, December 25th, 2006Monticello, NY - The ticket that Trooper Ehrets wrote on Route 17 may be for the fastest speeding individual ticket on Route 17. (more…)
Remembering Eliyahu ben Naftali Z”L
Monday, December 25th, 2006It was at this time of year, on the 4th of Teves, (Dec. 25, 1987) when Hatzolah got a call at 12:10am for someone that was stabbed on the street. Hatzolah got to the scene and worked very hard trying to save the life of Eli Wald zt”l, but H’Shem Lukach, he passed away from being stabbed 19 times. (more…)
El Al in the heat for stopping Cairo flights
Monday, December 25th, 2006El Al’s decision to halt its flights to Egypt last month is not just an economic problem; it has also become a diplomatic crisis.
El Al has been operating flights to Cairo for the past 26 years and its operations are based on the peace agreements and normalization ties between the two countries. (more…)
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