Clarence D. “Rapp” Rappleyea, a Republican leader of the New York State Assembly for 12 years during the 1980s and 90s, has passed away. He was 82 years old. The Norwich native died at Albany Medical Center on Sunday, September 4th. Rappleyea became minority leader in 1983, three years after I was starting out as Continue Reading »
Orthodox Rabbis Urge Leniency In Child Porn Case The Albany Orthodox Jewish community was rocked by the sentencing of Michael Isaacson, convicted in federal court on three counts of child pornography charges. “On March 1, Isaacson admitted that he distributed child pornography files over the Internet,” according to Richard Hartunian, the United States Attorney for Continue Reading »
Cheese Dreams Turn Sour For Albany Businessman By: Marc Gronich State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D – Manhattan) has issued a multi-count indictment against Lawrence Rosenbaum, 64, of Albany, accusing him with fraudulently soliciting more than $1 million from a number of investors to advance the production of kosher and halal cheese in upstate New Continue Reading »
InDepth » Interviews and Profiles » Rabbi Roy Feldman: From Manhattan’s KJ To Albany’s CBAJ By: Marc Gronich Roy Feldman, the assistant rabbi at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, is leaving a synagogue with a membership of 1,100 congregants to be the spiritual leader of a 100-member synagogue in Continue Reading »
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