Did You Know? Tax-Credit Funding for School Choice Existed in N.Y.

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Bishop Emeritus Nicholas DiMarzio recalled how, in 2006, as a winter storm heaped drifts of wet snow on Brooklyn, a national teachers union leader came to visit. Randi Weingarten, then the president of the United Federation of Teachers, urged him to drop his support of a bill in the Legislature to allow […]

NYPD Nabs Rick Pitino Burglary Suspect

By The Tablet Staff Police from the 107th Precinct have arrested a Long Island City man in connection with the robbery of St. John’s University basketball coach Rick Pitino’s office. Emanuel Yakubov was nabbed at 9 p.m. Friday, according to a NYPD arrest record. Yakubov, 25, was charged with third-degree burglary, petit larceny, third-degree criminal […]

Researchers’ Study Contends Shroud of Turin Actually Dates to the Time of Jesus

Bill Lauto, a Long Island-based environmental scientist, wants the world to rethink enduring beliefs that the Shroud of Turin is a fraud concocted by medieval hoaxers. And now, a team of Italian researchers who conducted dating work on a sample of the Shroud of Turin, the linen cloth believed by some to have been Jesus Christ’s burial shroud, have confirmed the relic can be traced back almost 2,000 years.