Israel – Study: 30% of Charedi Teens – ‘Hidden Dropouts’
Israel - More than 30 percent of junior high and high school-aged haredi youths are "hidden dropouts" who are technically registered in an educational framework but are dysfunctional students, accordi...
New York – Should All Mothers Be Screened for Postpartum Depression?
New York - A month after Melanie Blocker-Stokes gave birth, she stopped eating and sleeping. She had convinced herself that she was a terrible mother, and she was paranoid that the neighbors thought s...
New York – Telephone Scam Targets Small Business
New York - One local man fielded two calls asking to update his business's online yellow pages listing, but it sounded suspicious.
Now the Better Business Bureau, Frontier, and the attorney general's...
Jerusalem – Rav Amram Blau’s Interview Before His Death
Jerusalem - Fifteen tapes were recently discovered containing thirty hours of interviews by Rav Amram Blau, the founder and head of the Neturei Karta, to an American journalist several months before h...
Spring Valley, NY – Couple Files Lawsuit Against County for Prosecutorial Misconduct
Spring Valley, NY - A couple is suing the county alleging prosecutorial misconduct over their arrest and indictment on charges of attempting to steal a house from a retired school bus driver.
Count...
Brooklyn, NY – Jewish Congressman Engaged to Muslim Woman
Brooklyn, NY - After years as one of Washington's most eligible bachelors, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn, Queens) is engaged to Huma Abedin, a glamorous top aide to Secretary of State Clinton.
A ...
Brooklyn, NY – How a Limo Driver Became a Hedge Fund Manager and Fleeced Investors of Millions
Brooklyn, NY - The Oceana condominium complex in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach is an idyllic place. Inside the gated beachfront community, where apartments go for as much as $2 million, retirees take in t...
Manhattan, NY – Donations to University Withheld for Granting Tenure to Anti-Israeli Professor
Manhattan, NY - Furious faculty at Columbia University claim administrators skirted rules by granting tenure to a controversial Arab-studies professor -- and angry alumni are threatening to withhold d...
France – Calls for Large Protest Against Verdicts in Anti-Semitic Murder of Jewish Man
France - Jewish organizations in France called on Sunday for a mass gathering outside the Justice Ministry to protest against what they called too-lenient court sentencing for a gang of youths for the...
New York – Madoff’s Lawyer Surprised by Anger Directed at Him
New York - Ira Sorkin's family left Russia early in the 20th century and none of the attorney's Jewish grandparents suffered or died under the Nazi killing machine.
But that good fortune was just t...
Israel – Army Uses ‘Skunk Bomb’ in Bil’in Demo
srael - The IDF stepped up efforts to quell violent anti-security barrier demonstrations in the West Bank over the weekend, using, for the first time in six months, the "skunk bomb."
"The smell is ...
Cochin, India – 400-Year-old Synagogue To Be Restored
Cochin, India - Local authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala have decided to renovate one of the oldest synagogues in the region as part of a larger heritage conservation and tourism devel...
England – Internet Extremists Who Fled to US Jailed over Auschwitz Jibes
West Yorkshire, England - Two men who called Auschwitz a holiday camp for Jews have become the first in the UK to be convicted of inciting racial hatred online.
The pair fled Britain for the US after...
Spring Glen , NY – DEC: Heating-Oil Spill Under Control at Hotel
Spring Glen, NY - State environmental and health officials say they are satisfied Thursday's oil spill at the former Homowack Lodge resort, now known as Machne Bnos Square, has been contained.
Joe ...
New York, NY – Bloomberg Quietly Authorizes $69 Million in Bonuses
New York, NY - After crying poverty for months, Mayor Bloomberg authorized fat raises for 6,692 of his managers and nonunion employees, worth $69 million over two years.
The raises, which will cover ...
New York, NY – Tolls to Rise at 3 A.M. on Many City Bridges, Tunnels
New York, NY - Drivers are about to pay more to use many New York City bridges and tunnels.
Tolls are set to rise by 10% at 3 a.m. Sunday on the nine crossings controlled by the Metropolitan Transp...
Jerusalem – Protest over Shabbat Opening of Parking Lot Continue, But Intensity Diminishes
Jerusalem - Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews again clashed with police in Jerusalem on Saturday afternoon during the latest Haredi demonstration against the Shabbat opening of the Carta parking garage ...
Jerusalem – Chardim Stabbed in Clash with Seculars
Jerusalem - Three ultra-Orthodox Jews were wounded, two of whom suffered stab wounds to the head and another beaten, after an altercation with secular Jewish residents of Jerusalem, erupted before daw...
Instanbul, Turky – Dispute Between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews Over Burial Sites
Instanbul, Turky - There is an ongoing dispute amid the Turkish Jewish community between Sephardi Jews from Spain and Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe concerning burial sites in cemeteries.
The o...
Paris – Life In Prison For Suspect in Brutal Anti-Semitic Killing of French Jew
Paris, France - A court has convicted a gang leader of the brutal 2006 killing of a young man prosecutors say was targeted because he was Jewish.
Youssouf Fofana, 28, who was sentenced to life in p...