Jerusalem – Eichmann Nazi Trial Veterans Reunite in Jerusalem
Jerusalem - Fifty years after Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann was brought to justice, the men who captured, investigated and prosecuted the Holocaust mastermind held a rare reunion Thursday in the Jerusa...
Washington – Rabbi Yehuda Levin Speaks At ‘March for Life’ Rally in DC
Washington - Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C. for the annual March for Life on Jan. 24. People of all ages filled the streets, including a large number of young adults who ...
Erfurt, Germany – Auschwitz Oven Factory Reopens as a Memorial
Erfurt, Germany - For years, the site was little more than a typical industrial ruin -- the kind of modernist decay that became synonymous with Eastern Europe after the collapse of communism. The crum...
New York – GE, NRG, Conoco To Invest In New Energy Technology In Israel
New York - General Electric Co., NRG Energy Inc. and ConocoPhillips are forming a new joint venture and have committed $300 million to develop new energy technologies.
The companies said Thursday t...
Cairo, Egypt – Report: Former Head Of UN Nuclear Watchdog ElBaradei Ready For Interim Power
Cairo, Egypt - Prominent Egyptian reform campaigner and former head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency Mohamed ElBaradei said he was ready to assume power in Egypt if the people called for him to do so...
Sanaa, Yemen – Tens of Thousands Rally Against Government in Yemen
Sanaa, Yemen - Tens of thousands of people called for the Yemeni president's ouster in protests across the country on Thursday inspired by the popular revolt in Tunisia.
The demonstrations led by o...
Cairo – Mubarak Ruling Party Says It’s Ready For Dialogue
Cairo - President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party says it is ready to open a dialogue with the youths who have staged three days of anti-government protests.
Safwat El-Sherif, the secretary general of...
Oswiecim, Poland – Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemorated Around the World [video]
Oswiecim, Poland - Rabbis chanted mournful prayers for the dead that reverberated over the crematoria, barracks and watchtowers of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Thursday, the 66th anniversary of the death cam...
New York, NY – Businesses Fed Up with Parking Tix Blitz
New York, NY - A Bronx-based trucking company shelled out about $450,000 in parking tickets and legal fees last year - part of what some say is the rising cost of doing business in the city.
"Parki...
Washington – Social Security Fund Now Seen to be Empty by 2037
Washington - Sick and getting sicker, Social Security will run at a deficit this year and keep on running in the red until its trust funds are drained by about 2037, congressional budget experts said ...
West Bank – Leaked Documents Reveal Mideast Talks’ Human Side
West Bank - Leaked documents from years of Mideast peace talks reveal a rarely seen human side of high-level diplomacy, showing Israeli and Palestinian negotiators joking, teasing, losing their temper...
New York, NY – City Clerk Jailed for Tix-Fix Tricks
New York, NY - A crooked city data entry clerk -- who took thousands of dollars cash to "fix" overdue parking tickets, then just pocketed the money without paying anything off -- is going to jail for ...
Cairo – Potential for Conflict: Egypt Eyeing Stake in Israel’s Gas Fields
Cairo - Egypt's Petroleum Ministry is reported to be considering claiming a stake in the big natural gas fields discovered in the eastern Mediterranean while Greece, a potential customer, has begun ex...
New York – Jewish Groups Buy $100K Ad Targeting Fox News’ Glenn Beck, Roger Ailes
New York - A coalition of rabbis wants Fox News chief Roger Ailes and conservative host Glenn Beck to cut out all their talk about Nazis and the Holocaust, and it's making its views known in an unusua...
New York – Not Again! Another Snowstorm Hits East Coast
New York - Schools closed, governments sent workers home early and planes were grounded Wednesday in an all-too-familiar routine along the East Coast as another snowstorm swept over a region already b...
New York – Bloomberg: ‘All of Washington Seems Cowed by One Group’
New York - Mayor Bloomberg – who already called Obama’s omission of gun control in his speech last night “disappointing” – has more to say.
Bloomberg told reporters today that stopping illegal guns...
Atlanta, GA – Judge Upholds Ban on Guns in Places of Worship
Atlanta, GA - A federal judge has upheld the Georgia law banning weapons in churches, mosques and synagogues, saying gun rights advocates had not shown that carrying a firearm is necessary to practici...
Chicago, IL – Religion at Center of Custody Dispute
Chicago, IL - When Nelson Derbigny said he met Elina Margolina in 1995. The two got married had a child — but divorced in 2007.
On Wednesday — after both since remarried and Margolina became a devo...
Queens, NY – He survives Nazi Death Camp, Turns 100
Queens, NY - AN AUSTRIAN immigrant who survived a Nazi concentration camp and built a better life in Queens has reached a milestone that most will never see.
Max Goldenberg marked his 100th birthda...
Ridgewood, NJ – UPDATE: Neo-Nazi Arrested in ADL Email Threats Spewed Jewish Hatred Online
Ridgwood, NJ - "I simply do NOT believe that Israel has a right to exist," wrote Jacques Pluss, a former neo-Nazi leader from Ridgewood charged with threatening the director of the New York regional o...