New York

Former congressman Anthony Weiner formally ended his highly theatrical bid for a political comeback Tuesday night, saying he was proud of his campaign for the Democratic mayoral nomination and would work to end the “24-year slump” that has kept his party out of City Hall’s executive office. “We didn’t win this time, but I could […]

Steve “Shlomo” Zakheim, a businessman and Orthodox community activist who was a longtime member of the Flatbush Hatzolah emergency medical service, died of cancer Sept. 5 in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. A resident of Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood, he was 60. The first paramedic to serve with Hatzolah, according to the theyeshivaworld.com website, Mr. Zakheim was […]