New York – Census Village of Kiryas Joel One of the State’s Fastest Growing Places
New York - Census estimates show upstate New York's largest cities continue to have flat or declining populations, The highest growth rate, 78 percent, was in Kiryas Joel.
Buffalo had an estimated ...
Iowa – At Official Sentencing Sholom Rubashkin Says Court Verdict Shows Wickedness Of These People
Iowa - Former Agriprocessors vice president Sholom Rubashkin remained calm during his sentencing today in U.S. District Court but before the judge came in he said this hearing will “show the wickednes...
Manhattan, NY – Thief Snatches Laptops, Cellphone from Office Next to NYPD’s Commissioner
Manhattan, NY - A sneaky smooth talking ex-con swiped laptops from an area under construction on the 14th floor of One Police Plaza, where Commissioner Ray Kelly’s office is located, an NYPD spokesman...
France – Thousands Rally in Paris: Free Gilad Shalit
France - About 10,000 people attended a rally in Paris Tuesday to mark the fourth anniversary of Gilad Shalit's abduction.
The protest, organized by the umbrella organization of French Jews, CRIF, ...
Washington – CNN: General McChrystal Offers To Resign after ‘Rolling Stone’ Interview
Washington - Stanley McChrystal, the top US general in Afghanistan, has offerd to resign after he and his aides were quoted in a magazine article mocking President Barack Obama and his top advisors, C...
New York, NY – Councilmembers Deliver 12,000 Letters to the Mayor Imploring Him to Save Priority 7 Daycare Vouchers
New York, NY - Today at City Hall over fifty yeshiva administrators and advocates joined Councilmembers David Greenfield (D-Boro Park), Lew Fidler (D-Marine Park), Letitia James (D-Crown Heights), Bra...
Jerusalem – Netanyahu: Pollard Did Act as Israel Agent
Jerusalem - Jonathan Pollard acted as an agent of the State of Israel, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, in reaction to a comment from Israeli ambassador to Washington Michael Oren that ...
New York, NY – Madoff Accomplice Freed on Bail In Exchange to Locate Missing Funds
New York, NY - A convicted accomplice to Bernard Madoff's $65 billion dollar fraud has been freed on bail in exchange for his continued cooperation with the FBI and prosecutors who are trying to track...
Anaheim CA – Bill would Expose high-speed Train Contractors With Holocaust Ties
Anaheim CA - Train companies and foreign governments that helped support the Holocaust could be barred from working on the California high-speed railroad under a new bill in the Legislature.
The le...
Washington – Judge Blocks Gulf Offshore Drilling Moratorium
Washington - A federal judge in New Orleans has blocked a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects that was imposed in response to the massive Gulf oil spill.
Several companies that ...
Jerusalem – Israeli Researcher Develops Software To Detect Depression In Bloggers’ Texts
Jerusalem - Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) developed a software program that can detect depression in blogs and online texts. The software is capable of identifying language t...
Baltimore, MD – Report: Jack Abramoff To Work At Tov Pizza in Baltimore
Baltimore, MD - Jack Abramoff was serving time in Western Maryland.
Now, he’ll be serving pizza in Baltimore.
Well, sort of.
Abramoff, 51, is a Capitol Hill lobbyist and businessman who pled ...
London – Historic Torah To Be Auctioned Off By Sotheby’s In London
London - A Sefer Torah, estimated to be approximately 800 years old and written by world famous sofer Reb Yitzchak ben Reb Yisroel of Toledo, Spain, shortly after the death of the Rambam, is scheduled...
New York, NY – Times Square Bomber Vows More Attacks On The Way
New York, NY - Faisal Shahzad called himself a Muslim soldier and threatened more attacks to come after the botched May 1 Times Square terror bomb attempt.
Shahzad did not appear the least bit remo...
Madrid – Newly Revealed Document: Spanish Government Handed Nazis List of Jews
Madrid - Francisco Franco, the former fascist dictator of Spain, gave the Nazis a list of every Jew in his country in order to facilitate efforts to locate, deport and destroy them, according to a doc...
Israel – Uproar Over Secret Mystery Prisoner
Israel - Outcry over the identity of a mysterious prisoner being held for unspecified crimes in the maximum security Ayalon jail. Dubbed ''Mister X'' by the Hebrew language news website Y-net, which f...
Berlin – Der Spiegel Describes Mossad agent’s Operations in Germany
Berlin - The day the Mossad operation on German soil began was a clear, sunny Sunday in late March 2009. Alexander Verin, who holds an Israeli passport, had an appointment with an attorney in Cologne ...
Albany, NY – State Law Would Be 1st To Take DNA From All Criminals
Albany, NY - Gov. David Paterson has proposed roughly doubling New York's DNA database to include samples from even low-level offenders, making it the first in the nation to so broadly collect and use...
Brooklyn, NY – Thousands Attend Borough Park Rubashkin Gathering [video]
Brooklyn, NY - A massive gathering was held in Borough Park last night to show support for Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin who is scheduled to be sentenced today. So many people came to show their support...
Israel – 13 of 22 Emmanuel Moms Exempted from Prison
Israel - The High Court of Justice exempted on Tuesday afternoon 13 of the Emmanuel mothers from the two-week prison term it had ruled upon them, but at the same time upheld its decision regarding nin...