Six months after NY Rising closed to new applicants, Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg, citing “a variety of compelling circumstances,” is asking Gov. Cuomo to extend the deadline. more

It’s hard not to take notice of Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz’s good mood. The 50-day Gaza war, which the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff says Israel “absolutely” won… more

For several decades, Israel’s enemies have actively and willfully defamed the Jewish state by comparing its actions to the atrocities committed by the worst villains in recent history. more

2002 — We’re not in Kansas anymore. more

The organized opposition to the Metropolitan Opera’s staging of the terrorism-glorifying “The Death of Klinghoffer” plan to demonstrate with 100 wheelchairs outside Lincoln Center … more

A hospital guard with a criminal record and a gun the Secret Service didn’t know about riding on an elevator with the president in Atlanta. more

A Jewish fraternity house at Emory University in Atlanta was targeted with anti-Semitic graffiti on the day after Yom Kippur, as swastikas were found spray-painted on Alpha Epsilon Pi’s walls … more

The sukkah, even in the Torah, seems to straddle two different ecosystems: the desert and the settled agricultural land. more

Democat Kathleen Rice said this week that she and her Republic rival Bruce Blakeman were on the same page regarding Israel — they are both strong supporters. more

The lives of people in the Five Towns, Far Rockaway and adjacent South Shore communities are on the line because of the state’s continued delay in rebuilding State Route 878. more