The Korean government announced plans Thursday to attract new businesses and boost international sales by educating producers about kosher and halal foods. Following a meeting with President Park Guen-hye, officials announced plans to provide “administrative and technical support” to help kosher and halal food and cosmetics makers set up shop in Korea and qualify for kosher and halal supervision, the Korea Times reported.

(JTA) — Israeli researchers say they have developed a promising stem-cell therapy to treat age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, potentially saving the sight of millions of people. Jerusalem-based Cell Cure Neurosciences reports that its OpRegen thera

It looks like presenters will be announcing some Jewish names at the the 2016 Emmy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, September 18.

Chabad is opening its first outreach center in East Africa. The Chabad-Lubavitch of Kenya will open in Nairobi as of the High Holidays this year, the Hasidic outreach movement announced this week. It will be staffed by the husband-and-wife team of Rabbi Avromy and Sternie Super. The couple were dispatched to the Kenyan capital during Passover to assist the 112-year-old Nairobi Hebrew Congregation, which needed a rabbi.

Last month, it was reported that the FDNY was poised to launch a drone program that would aid in emergencies. Now the word from the FDNY is that it might take a little longer to get the plan off the ground. “We are still very much in the testing and train

Students of all races prefer minority teachers over white teachers. So says a New York University study published this month, drawing on theresponses of 157,000 students in middle schools and high schools in urban areas nationwide. “On almost every single

Right now, 90,000 New York Cityeighth gradersaresorting through a phone-book sized list of400 public high schools to find thebest fit for the next four (arguably most critical) years of their lives. They submit their high school applications onDec. 1, ran

Imagine the challenge of running the New York Marathon this Sunday. Now imagine doing it without feet, or without eyesight, or without being able to stand up at all. Pierry Ramirez was 18 when as a soldier in Colombia his vehicle hit an IED. The car explo

1. Debbie Wasserman Schultz The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee was one of the first to succumb. Leaked emails showed her championing Hillary Clinton’s interests to the apparent detriment of Bernie Sanders. With her ouster came an outpouri

If one man is to speak for Americans suffering post-election pain, that man might be Louis Tafuto from Warwick, New York, who filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Donald Trumpfor pain and suffering and civil rights violations. “Trump has strategically and c

For two years, teen brothers Rusty and River Fields have operated a Saturday tutoring program for kids 5 through 13 from their home in Bedford-Stuyvesant. “Because kids were starting to sound apathetic, like things are the way they are and never going to

When it comes to politics, Staten Island is the Yin to the Yang of the rest of New York City. And thiselection Staten Island went even redder than it has before. In 2012, Barack Obama won against Romney in Staten Island by a very slim, 49.9 to 49.1 percen

A cache of data on undocumented immigrants accumulated by New York City will not be penetrated without a “real fight,” Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged. In January 2015, the city launched IDNYC, the country’s “most ambitious municipal identification program,”

Big Apple Mayor Bill de Blasio went face-to-face with President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday at Trump Tower to discuss critical city issues and the fear many New Yorkers feel about his proposals. The 62-minute meeting was a “respectful” and “candid” di

The epic new Rolling Stones exhibit in the West Village isn’t bringing everyone satisfaction. Some residents near Industria Superstudio gallery at 775 Washington St., where theimmersive Rolling Stones exhibit Exhibitionism will run from Nov. 12 to March 1

Like pastel petals vining up a garden wall, little pieces of paper with messages of hope, tolerance —and distress, too —are spreading through the transit system, and around the country, as a form of therapeutic expression in the aftermath of the president