New York – A boom on Wall Street and a thriving technology sector have pushed the unemployment rate in Manhattan to record lows and propelled office leasing activity to its best first six months of a year in a quarter century, brokerage data shows. The new leasing of office space rose to 18.3 million square [...]

Washington – The Fourth of July meant hot dogs, fireworks and President Donald Trump for many Fox News viewers. Fox News reached an average of 4.09 million viewers between 6 and 8 p.m. EDT last Thursday for its coverage of Trump’s much-discussed holiday parade in Washington, D.C., the Nielsen company said. The audience was over [...]

Los Angeles – A bill to ensure the right of Californians to hang mezuzahs on their door frames is moving through the state legislature, and looks primed to pass in the coming months. SB 652 bars landlords and condo associations from prohibiting “the display of religious items” of a certain size on doors and door [...]

And then there were five …
That’s the number of Jews known to currently live in Cairo following the death of the mother of the president of the Jewish community there.
The death of Marcelle Haroun at the age of 93, announced on Saturday, leaves her daughter, Magda, and four granddaughters as the only Jewish residents of the Egyptian capital, reported Watani International.
As of 2017, there are an additional 12 Jews residing in Alexandria, according to AFP.
Haroun was married to anti-Zionist lawyer and politician Shehata Haroun, who was part of Egypt’s Communist Party. He died in 2001 at the age of 82.

Dallas County Judge Lela Mays on Wednesday approved an Oct. 10 death date for Randy Halprin, a Jewish prisoner sent to death row for his role in a 2000 prison escape and crime spree that left dead Irving police Officer Aubrey Hawkins.
Now 41, Halprin and six other men took hostages in December of 2000 and broke out of the Connally Unit south of San Antonio, fleeing  to Houston in a getaway van where they pulled off two robberies to stock up on supplies, guns and money.
On Christmas Eve, the escapees held up an Oshman’s sporting goods store in Irving – and Hawkins, who was the first officer who responded to the call was shot 11 times and dragged 10 feet by an SUV as the panicked prisoners fled with $70,000 and 44 guns.

The number two man on the Blue and White party list, MK Yair Lapid, who chairs the Yesh Atid party, fears the entry of Ehud Barak and his Democratic Israel party into the election race may blow the race for the left/centrist parties.
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In the Kiryat Herzog neighborhood of Bnei Brak, five residents have R”L been Niftar within a two-week period, two who lived on the same street and two others, from the same building.
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Two weeks following the release from prison of Dir Qadis resident Mahmud Qadusa, the main suspect in the assault case against a 7-year-old chareidi girl from the Shomron, there are some 100 police officers, detectives, and cybercrime technicians working on the case, but it appears, police have not made significant progress towards apprehending her attacker.

Alexa will see you now.
Britain’s health care service is teaming up with Amazon’s digital voice assistant to help answer medical queries with advice from the service’s official website.
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