Brooklyn, NY – Feds Looking to Interview NYPD crime Stat Whistleblower
Brooklyn, NY - The feds want to talk to the whistle-blowing Brooklyn cop who says NYPD brass tossed him into a psych ward after he accused supervisors of cooking the books on crime stats.
The civil...
France – French Teacher ‘suspended For Too Much Holocaust’
France - A Jewish French history teacher said Tuesday that she had been suspended for spending too much time teaching her pupils about the Holocaust and for organising trips to former Nazi death camps...
Ramallah, West Bank – Palestinian Forces Arrest Dozens of Hamas Activists
Ramallah, West Bank - Palestinian security forces arrested more than 150 Hamas members in an overnight sweep throughout the West Bank after the Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for shooti...
Manchester, UK – 1 Guest Dead, 8 Others Ill from Food Poisoning at Wedding
Manchester, UK - Health officials have launched an inquiry after a wedding guest died following salmonella poisoning and eight others were infected.
Rene Kwartz, 82, was one of four guests who need...
Jerusalem – Thousands Attend Funeral of Four Israeli Civilians Killed In Shooting Attack [video]
Jerusalem - Thousands of people attended the funeral Wednesday of Yitzhak and Tali Ames, Kochava Even Haim and Avishai Schindler, who were killed Tuesday evening in a terror attack near Hebron.
Th...
Manhattan, NY – Man Plunges 40 Stories, Lands Inside Car, Survives
Manhattan, NY - A New York City man who plunged 40 stories from the rooftop of an apartment building has survived after crashing onto a parked car.
Witnesses and police say 22-year-old Thomas Magil...
Washington – FBI Finds No Terror Threat from Two in Amsterdam
Washington - The FBI thinks two men arrested in Amsterdam after suspicious items were found in the luggage of one of the men were probably not on a test run for a future terror attack, a U.S. official...
Jerusalem – Eli Yishai: Israel Lost Lebanon War Because Jews Distanced Themselves From ‘Hashem’ And The Torah
Jerusalem - Interior Minister Eli Yishai announced Tuesday that Israel had lost the Second Lebanon War because its people had distanced themselves from God.
"In the Six Day War we fought all of t...
Washington – White House is Courting Bloomberg’s Support or His Money, Perhaps Both
Washington - Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he doesn't have an eye on the White House but it sure seems to have one on him. The mayor's summer datebook has included golf with the president, breakfast wi...
Lakewood, NJ – Board of Education Drops Outside Preschool Contracts
Lakewood, NJ - The township Board of Education has brought all preschool services in-house, suddenly severing longstanding and, at times, controversial ties with private special education providers ju...
Ramapo, NY – State’s Highest Court to Decide if Town Can Tax Religious Day Camp
Ramapo, NY - New York's highest court agreed today to hear Ramapo's argument that a religious congregation can be taxed on its operation of a summer day camp.
The Court of Appeals will consider an ...
Carlton, NY – Teenagers Charged in Harassment at Mosque
Carlton, NY - A group of teenagers in western New York has been accused of harassing members of a mosque by yelling obscenities and insults during evening prayers for Ramadan, sideswiping a worshiper ...
New York, NY – Governor Paterson Signs Domestic Worker Rights Bill
New York, NY - Gov. David Paterson on Tuesday signed into law the first extensive domestic workers' rights measure in the nation, which he said will correct historic injustices.
"I am grateful to t...
New York – They Crawl, They Bite, They Baffle Scientists
New York - Don’t be too quick to dismiss the common bedbug as merely a pestiferous six-legged blood-sucker.
Think of it, rather, as Cimex lectularius, international arthropod of mystery.
In comp...
Roosevelt, NJ – Court Finds Yeshiva Provided Illegal Dorm for Students
Roosevelt, NJ - The Superior Court of New Jersey has determined that Yeshiva Me’on Hatorah in Roosevelt housed students in a single-family home that it converted into an illegal dormitory.
Judge L...
Baltimore, MD – Hatzalah Medical Volunteers Get 3 New Ambulances
Baltimore, MD - There are three more ambulances responding to emergencies in Northwest Baltimore.
As Suzanne Collins reports, they were purchased with private funds, and the paramedics are voluntee...
Jerusalem – Names of Shooting Attack’s Victims Released
Jerusalem - "Talya and Yitzhak raised their children with joy and modesty," residents of Beit Hagai said on Tuesday. Four of the settlement's residents were killed in a shooting attack near Hebron, i...
Jerusalem – Zaka Volunteer Discovers Wife’s Body at Scene of Terror Attack
Jerusalem - ZAKA volunteer Momy Ben-Haim was dispatched to the scene of the terrorist attack with his colleagues, where to his horror he discovered his wife's body among the dead.
"We saw a crying ...
Jerusalem – Ten Years Later: Tuvia Grossman Meets The Israeli Soldier Who Saved His Life [video]
Jerusalem - On September 30, 2000, The New York Times, Associated Press and other major media outlets published a photo of a young man -- bloodied and battered -- crouching beneath a club-wielding Isr...
New York, NY – NYPD Holds Annual High Holiday Security Briefing
New York, NY - Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly presided over the NYPD’s annual High Holiday security briefing at One Police Plaza Tuesday.
As it has every year since 9/11, the NYPD will increase ...