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...
New York – Analyzing the Rubashkin Sentence
New York - It is clear to anyone who read Judge Reade’s fifty page sentencing memorandum that she is aware that she needs to explain herself. This is perhaps why she released the instant sentencing m...
Washington – Michael Oren: Rogue Agents And Not Israel Sent Pollard to Spy on U.S.
Washington - Israel's ambassador to the United States on Monday said that convicted spy Jonathan Pollard was not working for Israeli government spymasters but for a rogue intelligence agency - apparen...
Israel – Emmanuel Mother Scheduled for Court Hearing Miscarries
Israel - One of the women ordered to go to jail as part of the Beit Yaakov school discrimination affair collapsed in her house in Emmanuel on Monday and later underwent a miscarriage at the Mayanei Ha...
Afghanistan – Top US General Summoned to Washington after Insulting Obama Administration
Afghanistan - The top US commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington, US media report, in the wake of a magazine article that mocked senior Obama administration officials and diplomats.
...
Adelaide, Australia – Rabbi’s Fraud Charges Dropped
Adelaide, Australia - Fraud charges against an Adelaide rabbi and his wife have been dropped in Adelaide Magistrates Court.
Rabbi Yosef Engel and Chana Engel had been accused of falsifying accounts...
Chicago, IL – The Bloomberg-Blagojevich Connection
Chicago, IL - It turns out that Rod R. Blagojevich, the impeached former governor of Illinois, flamboyant reality television star and billboard for the helmet hairdo, had an unexpected admirer in New ...
New York, NY – Brawl Over New Domino Development Comes To City Hall
New York, NY - Supporters and opponents of a plan to develop Brooklyn's Domino sugar refinery into a high-rise housing development rallied Monday outside City Hall.
Competing protesters took to the...
New York – Smokers To Pay $11 A Pack
New York - New Yorkers who like to smoke will have to dig a little deeper to light up next month, after the Legislature passed a bill on Monday that will give the state the highest cigarette taxes in ...
Israel – Badatz: Charedi Who Petitioned Court over Immanuel School ‘Raised Hand Against Torah’
Israel - Yoav Laloum, who petitioned the High Court of Justice against segregation at an ultra-Orthodox girls school in the West Bank town of Immanuel, is guilty of "raising his hand against the Torah...