Crown Heights, NY – New Schools Chancellor Should Learn From Chasidic Jewish Principal in PS 770
Crown Heights, NY - If Cathie Black wants to learn how to run the city's public schools, she should hop in her limo and check out a new one in Brooklyn that's throwing education "rules" out the window...
Israel – PM Asked US for Pollard’s Release as Part of Freeze Deal
Israel - Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has asked the US to release Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard as part of a series of gestures made to Israel in an effort to restart peace talks with the Palest...
Albany, NY – Analysis: GOP Tests Stronger Voice in Assembly Against Speaker Silver
Albany, NY - While New York's political world frets over vote recounts that will decide which party rules the state Senate, the long-overlooked Republican minority in the Assembly is quietly pondering...
Egypt – President of Jewish Community to Go On Retrial
Cairo, Egypt - An Egyptian appeal court decided Saturday to go on with a retrial of the head of Egypt's small Jewish community rejecting her appeal to stop the process, judicial sources said.
Carme...
Jerusalem – Israel Says US Has Provided Written Guarantee
Jerusalem - The U.S. has given Israel a written guarantee that it won't pressure the Jewish state for additional settlement freezes if it accepts a limited 90 day construction moratorium to revive Mid...
Jerusalem – Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Slams Maverick Shas MK Amsalem
Jerusalem - Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef slammed MK Rabbi Haim Amsalem (Shas) in his weekly Saturday night sermon in a first public reference to the maverick lawmaker, who on Wednesday ann...
Moscow – Israeli Who Trained Colombian Militias Goes Home
Moscow - An Israeli wanted in Colombia for training militias that killed hundreds returned home Saturday after he was released from a Moscow jail, disappointing activists and victims who have tried fo...
Lakewood, NJ – Man Extricated after Traffic Crash
Lakewood, NJ - A driver had to be cut out of a car and taken to a hospital after a two-car collision here Friday, police said.
Shmuel Feitman, 31, of Downing Street, here, was trapped in the car fo...
New York, NY – Judge at Sentencing: Bribe Defendant Secretly Helped Thousands of Jews
New York, NY - A businessman once accused of bribing officials in Kazakhstan with tens of millions of dollars was praised as a Cold War hero Friday by a judge who said he helped thousands of Soviet Je...
New York, NY – Mayor Bloomberg Wants Your Waste To Power Your Car
New York, NY - We flush it and it's out of our lives. But does anyone give a you-know-what about our waste going to waste?
"We do," says Commissioner Cas Holloway of the City's Department of Envir...
Washington – $60B Arms Deal With Saudi Arabia Goes Through
Washington - A $60 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia that had raised eyebrows among pro-Israeli lawmakers was expected to be a done deal Friday at midnight.
The Defense Department notified Congre...
Trenton, NJ – Ex-NJ Lawmaker Sentenced in Dwek Corruption Case
Trenton, NJ - A former New Jersey lawmaker snared in the state's largest corruption sting is going to prison for 41 months.
A federal judge in Trenton sentenced Daniel Van Pelt on Friday for briber...
Washington – Researchers: 20% of U.S. Adults Had Mental Illness In 2009
Washington - More than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness last year, and 11 million had a serious illness, U.S. government researchers reported on Thur...
New York – Rep. Jerry Nadler Rules Local Politics
New York - It was, as Eric Schneiderman said in his victory speech at the Sheraton on election night, an improbable journey. A year ago, after all, he had wavered about and then aborted a long-expecte...
New York – NY Times Profiles Adin Steinsalz: The Rabbi Who Made The Talmud Accessible to All Jews
New York - In the 1960s, when a young Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz embarked on the mammoth task of translating the ancient Jewish texts of the Talmud into modern Hebrew and, even more daringly, providing his...
Lakewood, NJ – Protestors Mistakenly Blame Us For Contractor Stiffing Them Says Oorah
Lakewood, NJ - Yesterday, several dozen protestors appeared unexpectedly at Oorah’s headquarters in Lakewood, NJ. From all appearances, they were protesting that Oorah had done something to them… but...
Berlin – Report: Hitler Planned Super Weapon To Bomb New York, London
Berlin - As Hitler's armies began to crumble on fronts as far apart as Stalingrad and North Africa, he turned in increasing desperation to his scientists to create a war-winning super-weapon.
Some,...
San Mateo County, CA – California Prosecutors To TSA: Touch Passengers The Wrong Way, We’ll Throw You In Jail
San Mateo County, CA - The San Mateo district attorney's office has a warning for all TSA personnel at SFO -- anyone inappropriately touching a passenger during a security pat down will be prosecuted....
Rabat – Noted Jewish Moroccan Democracy Activist Abraham Serfaty Dies
Rabat - Abraham Serfaty, a Moroccan dissident who was imprisoned and exiled by French colonial rulers and again by Morocco's independent government for plotting against the state, died on Thursday age...
Queens, NY – Residents Complain the Trees On Their Street Stink.
Queens, NY - Residents of a Queens neighborhood say the trees on their street stink.
New York City's Parks Department acknowledges that the gingko biloba trees it planted years ago present a proble...