New York’s state Senate is in disarray, due in part to two Jewish politicians who have broken away from the Democratic Party to which the state’s Jews have been historically bound. Democrats thought they would win control of the New York Senate this year, allowing the party to completely dominate the state’s legislative and executive…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo slammed a rabbi who called superstorm Sandy “divine justice” for gay-friendly policies. Rabbi Nosom Leiter, head of Torah Jews for Decency, praised the destructive storm for making a point, especially in lower Manhattan, which he branded “one of the national centers for homosexuality,” the Daily News reported. Cuomo dismissed the…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill that would have made it easier for religious students with special needs to receive tuition reimbursements for attending private schools. Special needs students may currently receive a tuition reimbursement if their local public schools do not provide the services they need, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal. Parents…
A push by Orthodox Jews to ease access to access to public funds for private religious special education programs appears ready to be killed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Governor Andrew Cuomo would veto a bill that would have allowed some Orthodox children to receive state funding…
Old Borscht Belt hotels never die…they just get boarded up until a new buyer comes along to save them. At least that’s the story when it comes to the Nevele, which closed its doors in the Catskills back in 2009. The Nevele may indeed have a new lease on life if a sale to the…
MIDTOWN MANHATTAN — On an evening of much Democratic sorrow, there’s one room full of Democrats erupting in cheer: the glitzy ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel in midtown Manhattan, where the state party is indeed partying in front of a gigantic American flag. Screens show broadcasts from local NY1 News, but not national election results…
Only one ultra-Orthodox fixer appears to have accompanied New York gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo on all four of his early October visits to Brooklyn’s Hasidic rebbes. A YouTube video (see below) shows the man, wearing the fedora typical of the non-Hasidic ultra-Orthodox, sitting diagonal to Cuomo in a meeting with Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, one…
A Story You Can Bank On: Illinois senatorial candidate Alexi Giannoulias, a former official at his family’s Chicago area bank, is “consistently vague” about just what he did there, the Chicago Tribune finds. In the words of his opponent Mark Kirk, “First he said he was the senior loan officer and ran much of the…
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