Centrist Party To Use Charity For Campaign
by Lawrence Cohler-Esses Staff Writer In the clearest account to date of how Israeli political candidates exploit U.S. charities for their campaign needs, an activist for Israel’s new centrist party,...
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by Lawrence Cohler-Esses Staff Writer With testimony from Dov Hikind’s own former chief of staff, prosecutors this week sought to fortify their claim that the assemblyman used government funds from...
View ArticleA Dogged Weiner Claims Close Victory
by Lawrence Cohler-Esses Staff Writer By midnight, the precinct-by-precinct numbers stretched across the length of the wall at Melinda Katz’s campaign headquarters. But one of her most seasoned...
View ArticleSyrit Head Pleads Guilty
by Lawrence Cohler-Esses Staff Writer In a coda to the investigation of Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind and various associates, Rabbi Elliot Amsel, a key Hikind fund-raiser, pleaded guilty Wednesday...
View ArticleBegging For Forgiveness
Steve Lipman Staff Writer A man who likes extinct languages, Mel Gibson had a chance to practice his Latin this summer — he made several mea culpas.Following his drunken, sexist, profane, anti-Semitic...
View ArticlePressure Rising On Russia To Pay Pensions
Walter Ruby For the first time, a high-level United States government delegation will travel to Moscow to press Russian officials to pay pensions to refugees and immigrants from Russia, and its...
View ArticleVallone Braves Hebron
by Michele Chabin Israel Correspondent Jerusalem — While British Prime Minister Tony Blair practically did cartwheels to avoid courting controversy during his visit to Israel this week, New York City...
View ArticleDespite Signs Of A Recovery, Job Fair Draws 700
Doug Chandler Special To The Jewish Week Organizers at UJA-Federation’s Connect to Care program had expected only 400.Like many commuters, David Arnou traveled to Manhattan on March 2 wearing a suit...
View ArticleSearching For A Gillibrand Rival
Adam Dickter Assistant Managing Editor GOP gains may give state party a shot at its first Senate victory since 1992, if the right candidate emerges. Un-elected Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand may not face a...
View ArticleGenerational Shift Seen In Greenfield’s City Council Win
Adam Dickter Assistant Managing Editor Defeats Joseph Lazar by more than 2,000 votesDavid Greenfield’s victory Tuesday by a wide margin in a special election for a heavily Jewish Brooklyn City Council...
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