Ramapo, NY – Lawsuit: Town Official OK’d Unsafe Yeshiva Housing
Ramapo, NY - A top town administrator overstepped his authority by signing documents allowing families to live in 16 yeshiva-owned homes on Grandview Avenue, despite dozens of fire and safety violatio...
New York – Eric Schneiderman Appeals For Jewish Vote With Op-Ed
New York - When Kalman Katz was told by Sears that they wouldn't hire him as a repair technician because he wouldn't work on Shabbos, he turned to the New York Attorney General's office for help. And...
Helsinki, Finland – Minister of Health Decided Not to Regulate ‘Brit Milah’
Helsinki, Finland - Finland has decided not to regulate male circumcision. A bill legalising the practice has been in the works for seven years, but Minister of Health and Social Services Paula Risikk...
Jerusalem – Hundreds Mark 20th Anniversary of Kahane’s Assassination
Jerusalem - Hundreds of far-right Jewish nationalists gathered on Tuesday to mark the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane, the founder of a movement of anti-Arab Jewish militant...
Washington – Opinion: Rep. Eric Cantor’s Aid Proposal To Israel Is Bad For The Jewish State
Washington - Aid to Israel has long been the locomotive that pulls foreign aid through the Congress, and for just as long as some lawmakers have been saying they’d vote for aid to Israel only if it we...
New York – New York City’s Board of Elections Chief Is Fired
New York - With Election Day just a week away, the head of the city’s embattled Board of Elections was fired on Tuesday following a series of missteps with new voting machines and other procedures.
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Seattle, WA – AG Calls On FDA To Ban “alcoholic energy drink”
Seattle, WA - Sugary, high-alcohol energy drinks that are popular with college students who want to get drunk quickly and cheaply came under renewed scrutiny Monday as investigators announced that ni...
Maryland – Jewish Man Jailed in Cuba Calls Home To Wife More Often
Maryland - The wife of a Maryland man jailed in Cuba as an accused spy said Tuesday that she and her husband have been able to talk on the telephone more regularly after she wrote an August letter to...
Lakewood, NJ – Developer Charged in $200M Ponzi Scheme Seeks New Attorney
Lakewood, NJ - Accused Ponzi schemer Eliyahu Weinstein is shopping for a new criminal attorney.
Ephraim Savitt, the New York City-based lawyer who represented Weinstein in his preliminary hearings,...
Warsaw – “Polish Concentration Camp” Sparks Outrage
Warsaw, Poland - The media's use of phrases which imply – intentionally or otherwise – that Poland was partly responsible for the Holocaust has recently stirred a hornets' nest.
In a recent obituar...
Melbourne – Jewish Australian Lawmaker Tells Of Aunt Who Escaped Holocaust
Melbourne, Australia - The new member for a federal Liberal Party seat in Victoria has told of how a relative escaped death in a Nazi concentration camp.
Josh Frydenberg paid homage in his maiden s...
Atlit, Israel – Israeli PM Praises Troops Who Raided Gaza Flotilla
Atlit, Israel - Israel's leader praised on Tuesday the naval commandos who participated in a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla last May that drew international condemnation.
Prime Minister Benja...
Jerusalem – Israeli Official Cancels Spain Trip, Fears Arrest
Jerusalem - An aide to Israel's former internal security chief says his boss has canceled a trip to Spain for fear he could be arrested for alleged war crimes.
Avi Dichter, now a parliament member...
Tehran – Iran Injects Fuel Into First Nuclear Reactor
Tehran, Iran - Iran began loading fuel into the core of its first atomic power plant on Tuesday, moving closer to the start up of a facility that leaders have touted as defying of international effort...
Brooklyn, NY – Yassky Takes Fall for Van Plan Debacle
Brooklyn, NY - The city’s plan to add “dollar vans” to bus routes abandoned by the MTA is all but dead — and the head of the city agency that spawned the ill-fated initiative admitted that it was part...
New York, NY – City Suffers Frightening 15% Jump in Homicides
New York, NY - The city's murder rate has shot up nearly 15% this year, and residents in the worst-hit precincts are worried New York is headed back to darker days.
The NYPD recorded 437 murders as...
New York – Mishpacha Magazine: “At-Risk” Youth — Children Who Are Fleeing The Fold
New York - For years we have heard the term “kids at risk” to label children who are seemingly heading off the derech, turning their backs on their families, their institutions of higher learning and ...
Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia Tsunami Kills 100’s
Jakarta, Indonesia - A tsunami that pounded several islands in western Indonesia killed at least 113 people and scores more are missing.
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake triggered the 10-foot (three-mete...
New York – NPR Chief Sorry Over Handling of Williams’ Firing
New York - NPR's chief executive says she's sorry for how analyst Juan Williams' dismissal was handled — but not for firing him.
Vivian Schiller sent an apology to National Public Radio staff membe...
New York – Fiddler on the Roof’ Writer Stein, 98, Dies in NY
New York - Playwright Joseph Stein, who turned a Yiddish short story into the classic Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof" and later wrote the screenplay for its successful movie adaptation, has die...