Will the last wealthy person leaving New York State please turn off the lights? While leftists across the country are tied up in their underwear trying to find ways to punish success with over-taxation, New York has lost taxpayers at an alarming rate. Not all taxpayers actually, just the ones who pay the highest taxes. more

Shortly before Thanksgiving, a video entitled “Yeshiva Guy Says Over a Vort” was posted on YouTube and made its rounds through many of our emails. In it, two animated bears discuss a Torah thought related to the traditional interpretation that the forefathers kept the commandments of the Torah before Sinaitic revelation. The darker bear begins the conversation saying, “Can I say over a vort that I heard by my rebbe’s house last shabbos?” more

DRS senior Avi Moisa’s project, “Can Your Eyes Define You? A Correlation of Dissociative Capacity to Personality Traits and Learning Styles,” has been accepted for presentation at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association this august in Washington, D.C. more

Merchants rushed around frantically trying to pull in customers. Shoppers dashed through dense crowds to grab their purchases and get home while tourists observed the Friday afternoon frenzy in the Jewish shuk at Machane Yehuda. Enveloped in this unmitigated commotion of sight and sound, one man stood out in my mind. He held a long stick reaching to the ground in front of him, feeling around cautiously. He was blind. more

The largest bakery in Jerusalem suffered a tragedy as a Romanian foreign worker named Yulia is killed in a suicide bus bombing, but without a family to claim her body, it is up to the bakery’s human resources manager to track down the relatives and improve the image of a business accused of indifference towards its workers. more

The NCSY and JSU Project Frumway’s fourth annual fashion show fundraiser welcomed Jewish teenagers from across Long Island, Brooklyn and Westchester on March 1st at Congregation Beth Sholom in Lawrence. more

Arnold Breitbart has a training routine and neighbors have spotted him in shorts running in the rain, snow, and heat. On March 25, the plastic surgeon from Great Neck and his wife Viviane will be making history, running in the first-ever Jerusalem Marathon. more

“Hello; Israel Tour and Travel Agency, may I help you?” The female voice over the phone asks. “Yes, I would like to go to Jerusalem,” the deeper voice on the other end of the phone responds. “Have you traveled with us before?” she questions. “No, this will be my first time going to Israel,” he answers. “Then I just need to take a few moments to fill out some information; what is your name?” She asks. “I am Moshiah,” he declares. more

Washington was preparing for vacation by trying to debunk Obamacare despite the inevitable futility. Wisconsin teachers took vacation a week early with protests to their Governor’s budget plans. A Scottish Deer Hound named Hickory walked away with Westminster’s Best in Show. And quietly two ships passed in the night and will change the world. more

Dear Aviva, I was disappointed with your response to “Strangled in Marriage” (1/27/2011). I think you missed the point and your advice was narrow-minded. When I read the husband’s letter, I heard a young wife who wants love and attention from her husband. It’s obviously hard for her to express her needs directly, but love and attention are the strongest needs of every woman. If her husband is out for FOUR HOURS it’s no wonder she makes up a reason to call him. more