Publisher / Editor Brian Harrod provides hyper local news for Yonkers, NY, that is also continually updated from thousands of sources on the Roundup Newswires Network
... - wasn't included in weeks of closed-door talks that led to last Sunday's passage of the budget. Stewart-Cousins, of Yonkers, leads the Senate's mainstream Democrats. She wasn't included in the so-called "four men in a room" negotiations in which ...
The rabbi of a Modern Orthodox synagogue in the New York suburb of Yonkers is filing an anti-discrimination complaint against his own synagogue board, alleging that they punished him for welcoming non-white families to the shul. Rabbi Rigoberto Emmanuel Vinas filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Lincoln Park Jewish Center, the synagogue he joined in 2003.
A Westchester rabbi who sought to diversify his synagogue was panned by its "racist" board members for turning the congregation "Spanish and Black," according to a federal discrimination complaint. Rabbi Rigoberto Emmanuel ViA as, a Sephardic Jew who trained as an Orthodox rabbi, claims the board at Lincoln Park Jewish Center in Yonkers has a "long history" of discriminatory practices against "non-Whites."
... operated the commercial center of the estate in what is now the village of Sleepy Hollow. Philipse Manor Hall in Yonkers, listed in the National Register of Historic places, served as the Lower Mill complex for Philipsburg Manor in the 17th century ...
The Yonkers Branch of the NAACP is now responding following a veteran Yonkers firefighter being suspended over a post on Facebook officials have called "racist." Firefighter Richard LaPeruta is accused of posting a picture on Facebook of an African-American man next to a gorilla.
When he was 13, Dennis Richmond Jr. watched Alex Haley's Roots on television and became obsessed with his family's history. On Wednesday, the 21-year-old Yonkers man found a major root of that family tree, on a day and in a place that could not have been more significant.
