New York, NY – Transit Plan Calls for East River Tolls, Payroll Tax
New York, NY - Drivers would pay to cross the East River like the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges and New York City-area companies would be taxed on their payrolls under a new plan to staunch financ...
New York – Shame On The NY Times, If This Isn’t Terrorism, What Is?
New York - Last week in Mumbai we witnessed as clear a case of carefully planned mass terrorism as we are ever likely to see.
The seven-venue atrocity was coordinated in a highly sophisticated way....
Lysander, NY – Turkey Farm to Become a Kosher Operation
Lysander, NY - Plainville Turkey Farm is converting into a kosher poultry operation and moving its turkey business to a plant in Pennsylvania.
The Lysander farm will shut down in January for two mont...
Kiryas Joel, NY – State Police Responded to Bitter Tensions in KJ Cemetery
Kiryas Joel, NY - In the ongoing dispute of the ownership of the Kiryas Joel cemetery between the flock of the two brothers representing the Satmar community, a battle broke out early this morning whe...
Israel – Hebron on Collision Course over the House of Peace, Eviction Underway
Hebron - Dozens of Jewish settlers went on the rampage against Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron after about 600 soldiers and police moved in for the evacuation of Bet HaSholam and began ...
Jerusalem – 2 Jewish Teens Arrested for Stabbing Arab
Jerusalem - Police arrested two Jewish youths, both aged 17, on suspicion of being involved in the stabbing of an Arab man in the capital's Meah Shearim neighborhood early Wednesday morning.
The ma...
Postville, IA – Agriprocessors Plant Reopens for Limited Production
Postville, IA - After more than two weeks of sitting still, limited production picked back up inside the Agriprocessors meat packing plant in Postville.
But workers still without a job there say this...
Atlanta, GA – Jimmy Carter Writes New Book On Middle East
Atlanta, GA - Former President Jimmy Carter has written a new book on the Middle East with a title he hopes will not be as controversial as the last one, which was called, "Palestine: Peace Not Aparth...
India – Jews of Mumbai, a Tiny and Eclectic Group, Suddenly Reconsider Their Serene Existence
Mumbai, India - The peeling turquoise facade of the colonial-era Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue in the heart of the city’s financial district has long been a tourist attraction, a reminder of the centuri...
Jerusalem – Yocheved Orpaz Hy’d
Jerusalem - When terrorists stormed Mumbai, India’s central Chabad-Lubavitch center, Yocheved Orpaz, a 62-year-old grandmother and mother of four from Israel had just moments before, stopped by to tha...
Miami, FL – Signs of Hope in The Case of Little Aliza Schwab
Miami, FL - The parents of a little girl are seeing what they call "signs of hope," more than a year after their daughter was involved in a tragic accident.
For more than a year Esther Schwab has b...
Jerusalem – Yediot Ahronot: Israel Should Have Left Teitelbaum Casket In Mumbai For Refusing To Drape Israeli Flag
Jerusalem - Many years ago, a dear Jew called Yakir Har-Zahav served as the logistics manager at Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv. Among other things, he was in charge of organizing funerals for Herut M...
Chicago, IL – Court Upholds $156M Palestinian Terror Verdict, Makes U.S. Charities Liable
Chicago, IL - A federal appeals court upheld a $156 million judgment today against three U.S.-based Islamic groups accused of bankrolling terrorism in a landmark civil case.
The U.S. charities must...
Jerusalem – Her Name Was Norma Rabbinowitz
Jerusaelm - Her name was Norma Rabbinowitz. She was a Jewish woman who lived in Mexico and all her life wanted to live in the Holy Land of Israel.. She visited there. She imbued her children with a...
Jerusaelm – Hakudash Reb Leibish Hy’d Went To Mumbai To Mekayim Mitzvahs ‘Kibud Av’
Jerusalem - When terrorists stormed the Chabad-Lubavitch center in Mumbai, India, and stole the life of Rabbi Aryeh Leibish Teitelbaum, 37, they also took a father from his eight young children.
Or...
Ottawa, Canada – Suspected Paris Synagogue Bomber Denied Bail
Ottawa, Canada - A Canadian university professor facing murder charges from a 1980 bombing in Paris must remain in jail pending hearings on his extradition to France, a judge ruled today.
Hassan Di...
Brooklyn, NY – Store Pulls Sunflowers After Media Pressure From Hikind, Thompson
Brooklyn, NY - Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) and New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson today denounced the Shnayder family, owners of the value import store, Net Cost Market, for stocki...
Moscow, Russia – Well Known Jewish Musician Beaten in Moscow Metro [video music]
Moscow, Russia - Three teenagers skinheads attacked a well known, award-winning Jewish musician in the Moscow subway.
The neo-Nazis assailants approached Mikhail Altshuller, asked him a random ques...
Washington – U.S. Warns Pakistan To Act Over Mumbai Attack, Or Face Strike
Washington - The United States has set the stage for punitive internationally-backed strikes by India against terrorist camps in Pakistan, if Islamabad does not act first to dismantle them, by rejecti...
New York – New Bill Will Force School Districts With Fewer Than 1,000 Children to Merge
New York - State school districts with fewer than 1,000 students would be forced to merge under a proposal before Gov. David Paterson - although some superintendents said there were still many barrier...