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Viewpoint: Legislature must repeal jobless tax, and quickly April 27, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The following editorial appeared in the New York Daily News: Making the rich pay more in taxes is a lot different than making the jobless pay taxes, but New York wrongly made no distinction as it simultaneously hiked taxes on the wealthy by $4.3 billion and slapped folks out of work with $1.4 billion in taxes on their unemployment benefits. That unfair jobless tax must be repealed. Almost four millio...

PUBLISHED 9:26 PM ET Apr. 16, 2021 PUBLISHED 9:26 PM EDT Apr. 16, 2021 SHARE Taxes are due in a month, but what does this mean for New Yorkers who were unemployed last year due to the pandemic? When the federal government passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 in March, Congress included an exemption so at least a portion of unemployment benefits from 2020 will not be federally taxed. People whose adjusted gross income was less than $...

Turbulence Ahead: Are the skies less friendly to Observant Jews? Illustrations by Esti Friedman The thin piece of colored cloth that accompanies virtually every COVID regulation on the ground has created some atmospheric pressure in the formerly friendly skies as well. Flight attendant crews, once limited to reminding passengers to fasten seatbelts and pouring out frothy cups of warm Diet Coke, have now been handed their roughest job yet — ensuring that every passenger, every second of the ti...

jwhittaker@post-journal.com A recent proposal in the state Senate would help drivers’ wallets — and likely cost the state millions of dollars a year. State Sen. Pam Helming, R-Geneva, has introduced S.5993, eliminate the requirement that motor vehicle and trailer registrations be renewed every two years. Helming proposes instead registering a vehicle when it is purchased and keeping that registration in effect until the vehicle’s title is transferred to a new owner, at which point the new...

Assemblywoman seeks to wipe out unemployment debt for those paid in error FacebookTwitterEmail Visitors to the Department of Labor are turned away at the door by personnel due to closures over coronavirus concerns in New York in March 2020. The surge in weekly applications for benefits in the opening weeks of the pandemic far exceeded the previous record set in 1982. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)(AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) ALBANY — Thousands of New Yorkers who have been told to repay unemploy...

Will Corey break the speaker curse? One might say that Corey Johnson already fell victim to the City Council speaker curse. After all, his run for mayor ended before it began, when he closed his fledgling campaign in September and became the latest speaker to unsuccessfully seek higher office after leading the city’s legislative body. Three of the four speakers before him ran for mayor and lost in the Democratic primary. The other, Melissa Mark-Viverito, ran for both public advocate, then Con...

PICTURED: Founder of Hasidic neighborhood watch group in Brooklyn is released on $4.5m bail after being indicted for raping a 15-year-old girl in two states in 2017 Jacob Yanky Daskal, 62, was arrested and indicted by federal authorities this week for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl in two states in 2017  Authorities unsealed the three-count indictment Thursday morning against Daskal, who founded the Shomrim’s Brooklyn South Safety Patrol He ran the Hasidic neighborhood watch group at th...

Felder’s burnt shul, a place I called home The flames that ripped through the landmark Congregation Beth Aaron last Thursday, totally destroying the Boro Park minyan factory and its upstairs apartments, elicited a melancholy wave of nostalgia for those who have known the shul as “Felder’s” since its founding seven decades ago. “When your father was niftar,” one man told State Senator Simcha Felder, the son of shul founder Rav Tzvi Mordechai Felder ztz”l, “I felt that he was stil...

BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A fire tore through a synagogue that operates out of a home in Brooklyn Wednesday morning, and the 101-year-old mother of a local politician and two children were among those rescued from the burning structure. The flames broke out just before 8 a.m. at the Congregation Bais Aharon on 18th Avenue in Borough Park, at the synagogue founded by State Senator Simcha Felders late father in the 1950s. "We had a fire in the first floor of a two-story house of worship," ...

323 shares Emergency responders work at a kosher supermarket, the site of a shooting in Jersey City, New Jersey, December 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) NEW YORK (JTA) — When 25,000 Jews marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on January 5, 2020, Evan Bernstein felt something he hadn’t experienced in weeks: optimism. Not even a month earlier, he had prayed with the small Orthodox community in Jersey City, New Jersey, next to the spot where shooters had just killed three people at a kosher...