Yearly Archives: 2009
Postville, IA – Report: Rubashkin May Face Term Up To 27 Years
Postville, IA - Former eastern Iowa meat plant executive Sholom Rubashkin could face 21 to 27 years in prison for his role in a massive financial fraud scheme, a federal prosecutor...
Washington – ‘Cash for clunkers’ Comes To The Laundry Room
Washington - Next year may be to appliance buyers what 2009 was to car buyers: time for government rebates.
Modeled after the popular Cash for Clunkers program, which was intend...
New York, NY – Mama Bloomberg to Stay in Mass. Home for Son’s 3rd Inauguration
New York, NY - Mayor Bloomberg's inauguration will be missing a beloved face - his mother, Charlotte.
The Bloomberg matriarch, who turns 101 Saturday, isn't expected to attend b...
New South Wales – Australian Popular Student Web Site: Kill all Jews
New South Wales - A Jewish group has criticised posters on an Australian student website who say provocative anti-Semitic material was published on the site as a joke.
The NSW J...
Jerusalem – Rabbi Meir Kahane’s Relative Suspected of Torching Yasuf Mosque Released
Jerusalem - A relative of Kach founder Rabbi Meir Kahane was arrested Thursday in connection with the arson attack on a mosque in the village of Yasuf earlier this month.
The su...
Washington – TSA Subpoenas Bloggers, Demands Names of Sources
Washington - As the government reviews how an alleged terrorist was able to bring a bomb onto a U.S.-bound plane and try to blow it up on Christmas Day, the Transportation Security...
New York – Today’s DAF (Bava Basra 132a): Contesting a Will: Halacha Versus Secular Law
New York - There are many grounds to contest a will in the secular legal system. One of those grounds is when there is a mistake.
A mistake can be found when it is proven that ...
Beit El, Israel – Religious Girls Humiliated, Shamed after Strip-Searched by Police
Beit El, Israel - Five young religious women have filed a lawsuit against the Israel Police for allegedly conducting demeaning strip searches on them during their arrest at illegal...
Hawaii – Limbaugh Recovering In Honolulu Hospital
Hawaii - Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, sources told KITV.
Paramedics responded to the cal...
Edison, NJ – After Pattern of Bias Crimes Rabbi Wants Parents to be Responsible
Edison, NJ - Months after a series of anti-Semitic attacks and acts of vandalism rocked the Jewish community in Middlesex County, a new rash of incidents has Rabbi Bernhard Rosenbe...
Washington – Mailman to Deliver Aid in Case of Anthrax Attack
Washington - If the nation ever faces a large-scale attack by a biological weapon like anthrax, the U.S. Postal Service will be in charge of delivering whatever drugs and other med...
New York City – TSA Pulled Plug On JFK Full-Body Scanner
New York City - Privacy or protection.
The botched airline bombing on Christmas Day is sparking a great debate about full body scanners.
They're used in 19 airports across th...
Seldovia, Alaska – Life In The Yurt: Broadband, Yes. Toilet, No. [photos]
Seldovia, Alaska - On a trip to the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico during spring break, Bretwood Higman and Erin McKittrick found themselves on a beach, holding a battered tourist map...
New Jersey – Calls For Napolitano To Resign Growing
New Jersey - Saying she lacks sufficient counterterrorism and law enforcement experience, a leading New Jersey lawmaker is calling on U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolit...
Queens, NY – Protest Target Denies al-Qaeda Link
Queens, NY - The Jewish Defense Organization is targeting a controversial American-born Muslim convert who had been living in Woodside and who they accuse of being an al-Qaeda oper...
New York City – Disabled People Used Access-A-Ride To Get To Casinos
New York City - Next stop for the cash-strapped NYC Transit: the casino.
The agency's budget-busting Access-A-Ride van and car service doesn't just take disabled passengers to t...
Jerusalem – Israeli Dog Owners Data to Be Listed Online
Jerusalem - The Israeli Ministry of Agriculture will enable public access to the phone number of dog owners on its nationwide database starting in June, following a decision by the...
Mountain View, CA – Google Mobile Phone To Be Released
Mountain View, CA - Pricing and availability details on Google's expected smartphone have been leaked, according to a report.
The phone, which has been the subject of intense sp...
Brooklyn, NY – Transit Breaks Up The B61 To Ease Congestion
Brooklyn, NY - On Sunday, the western parts of Brooklyn will celebrate 2010 by getting a new bus route. Technically, it’s the break up of the old B61 into the B61 and B62, and whil...
New York – Holocaust Survivor Celebrates 100th Birthday in Brooklyn
New York - It probably never occurred to Jafa Wallach that she would live to be 100 years old.
In the summer of 1944, she didn’t know if she was going to live another minute.
...