San Pablo, CA – 16 Million Baby Salmon Released Into Waterways
San Pablo, CA - Millions of baby salmon have been released into Northern California waterways to help the struggling fish recover from population declines.
The state Department of Fish and Game say...
France – Only Known Photographs of French Resistance Fighters Facing Nazi Firing Squad Are Shown For First Time
France - The only known photographs of French Resistance fighters facing a Nazi firing squad at an execution site on the outskirts of Paris have gone on display for the first time.
The three pictur...
New York – Agudath Israel Leader Asks Israeli Ambassador To Intervene On Emmanuel Situation
New York - Agudath Israel executive vice president Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel has asked Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael B. Oren for a face-to-face meeting to discuss the situation in Em...
Brussels – Anti-Semitism Drives Jews from European Diamond Center
Brussels - The De Standaard newspaper in Belgium has reported that Jews are deserting Antwerp, the country's diamond centre.
The Belgian newspaper has predicted that in fifty years there will be n...
Manhattan, NY – Times Square Bomber Pleads Guilty
Manhattan, NY - A Pakistan-born U.S. citizen has pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge accusing him of plotting the failed Times Square car bombing.
Faisal Shahzad entered the plea to the fir...
Manhattan, NY – Buildings Along Second Ave. Subway Crumbling
Manhattan, NY - Scores of buildings along Second Avenue are crumbling into disrepair as construction begins on a new subway line.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is working to shore up tw...
Pakistan – Facebook Founder Sought by Muslims
Pakistan - A Pakistani citizen filed a lawsuit against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, claiming he insulted Muhammad when he refused to remove a Facebook group that the Pakistani said harms the imag...
Iowa – Rubashkin’s Wife To Leave Postville
Postville, IA - The wife of Sholom Rubashkin says she will leave Postville to be closer her husband, after he is formally sentenced tomorrow.
Leah Rubashkin said she and other family members will r...
New York – Mayor Bloomberg Writes Gov. Paterson In Opposition To Loft Law
New York - Mayor Bloomberg is pressing Gov. Paterson to block renewal of The Loft Law, which was sponsored in the Assembly by Housing Chairman Vito Lopez, and both houses of the state Legislature have...
Ohio – Popular Model Honda Odyssey Sleeker for 2011
Ohio - Honda revealed its fourth-generation Odyssey minivan last week Thursday in an online news conference from its research and development center in Ohio.
The location for the conference was imp...
Jerusalem – 2 Yeshiva Students Arrested for Threatening Arab Knesset Member
Jerusalem - Two students from the Maor Yehuda yeshiva were arrested today on suspicion of threatening to hurt Knesset Member Ahmad Tibi (United Arab List-Ta'al).
The two, aged 18, admitted that the...
Postville, IA – Rubashkin To be Sentenced to 27 Years
Postville, IA - A former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse will be sentenced to 27 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $31 million restitution when he's sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District...
New York, NY – City to Combine Information from Numerous Agencies to Fight Fraud
New York, NY - City officials plan to combine information from numerous agencies into a database to better fight financial fraud and tax evasion.
Led by a former Manhattan district attorney, Michae...
Chicago, IL – Small Victory in the Fight Against Global Cybercrime
Chicago, IL - At the Kiev offices of Innovative Marketing Ukraine, hundreds of programmers, translators and database engineers created a software product that made the company a world leader — an exce...
Washington – U.S. Supreme Court: Supporting Terror Not Free Speech
Washington - The Supreme Court has upheld a federal law that bars "material support" to foreign terrorist organizations, rejecting a free speech challenge from humanitarian aid groups.
The court ru...
New York – Hallucinations in Hospital Pose Risk to the Elderly
New York - No one who knows Justin Kaplan would ever have expected this. A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian with a razor intellect, Mr. Kaplan, 84, became profoundly delirious while hospitalized for p...
Town of Orleans, NY – Canadian Jewish Family Injured in I-81 Rollover
Town of Orleans, NY – A minivan carrying a Canadian Jewish family rolled over on Interstate 81 Sunday night, injuring one of the nine occupants seriously enough for authorities to airlift him to a Syr...
Modiin Illit, Israel – 37-Year-Old Tefillin Maker Dies of Toxic Fumes
Modiin Illit, Israel - Reuven Nadel was killed today following a toxic fumes blast as he prepared tefillin (phylacteries). The incident took place in the hareidi-religious city of Modiin Illit.
Nad...
Albany, NY – Furor At Budget’s $18M for Rabbinical Students
Albany, NY - An $18 million tuition subsidy devised by Gov. Paterson as a political gift to the city's Orthodox Jewish community has emerged as an 11th-hour sticking point in budget talks, The Post ha...
S. Blooming Grove, NY – Chasidim File Land Use Lawsuit Against Village
S. Blooming Grove, NY - A Hasidic group with plans to restore an old clubhouse at Lake Anne is suing the village, saying it plotted to prevent Hasidic Jews from developing in the municipality.
Sher...