New York – Prank NY Times: ‘All The News We Hope to Print’
New York - New Yorkers received a shock this morning when a 'special edition' of their newspaper of record, the New York Times, displayed the screaming headline 'IRAQ WAR ENDS.'
Oh, and America's ...
Prague, Czech Republic – Neo-Nazis Arrested for Attacking Jew
Prague, Czech Republic - Police have detained three neo-Nazis who allegedly attacked a Jewish man in Prague.
Police spokeswoman Eva Brozova says the three allegedly kicked the 52-year-old man and h...
Enfield, CT – EU Court Says LEGO Can’t Trademark Its Bricks
Enfield, CT - Danish toy maker Lego lost a trademark court battle today to protect its iconic plastic bricks in the European market.
The ruling by the European Union's Court of First Instance will ...
New York, NY – City Council to Fight Bloomberg over Tax Rebate
New York, NY - A showdown between Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council is brewing, with the mayor planning to rescind the $400 homeowner property tax rebate without the council's approval - setting th...
Cedarhurst, NY – Obscene Billboard on Rockaway Turnpike Being Fought
Cedarhurst, NY - A loose coalition of community activists, lawmakers and government officials are working together to get an explicit billboard on Rockaway Turnpike taken down. The billboard belongs t...
Washington – U.S. Financial System In Critical Condition As American Express Seeks $3.5bn
Washington - American Express, the country's fourth largest credit card company, is understood to have approached the US Government to seek $3.5 billion in funding.
According to the Wall Street Jou...
Brooklyn, NY – Slain Meals-on-Wheels Man Fled Dangerous Tajikistan to U.S.
Brooklyn, NY - The Meals-on-Wheels driver senselessly gunned down during a Brooklyn delivery had immigrated to the United States from his native Tajikistan two decades ago to escape the dangerous, gun...
Jaffa, Israel – Holocaust Survivors Born Jewish Survived by Posing as Catholics
Jaffa, Israel - The embossed nameplate on the door of an apartment here a few blocks from the Mediterranean lists two occupants. The English letters identify Grzegorz Pawlowski; the Hebrew, Zvi Griner...
Jerusalem – The Day the ‘Gerrers’ Chose Secular
Jerusalem - Outside a polling place in Jerusalem's Geula neighborhood yesterday, young Hasidic followers of mayoral candidate Meir Porush gathered. On the other side of the street, youngsters in the d...
Jerusalem – Holocaust Survivors Claim Israeli Banks Holding Hidden Assets
Jerusalem - The global quest to ferret out money and property left behind by Jews killed in the Holocaust is now targeting Israel, and investigators say it's proving at least as difficult in the Jewis...
Lakewood, NJ – Beth Medrash Govoha’s $6.5 Million Deal Should Help Close Budget Gap
Lakewood, NJ - More than seven months after accepting Beth Medrash Govoha's $6.5 million offer to buy the Princeton Avenue administration building, the school district and the yeshiva have completed t...
Williamsburg, NY – Popular Park Victim of Governor’s Budget Cuts
Williamsburg, NY - A popular new waterfront park that Williamsburg residents fought hard to get built will be shut for the winter as part of Gov. Paterson's sweeping budget cuts.
East River State P...
Munich – 70 Years After Kristallnacht, New York Jews Make Germany Home
Munich, Germany - No one needs to explain the horrors of Kristallnacht to Lauren Rid.
A Woodmere native, Rid lives near the Munich meeting hall where a speech by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels spa...
Israel – Haredi Voting Signals Weakening of Sector’s Political Establishment
Israel - The 2008 municipal elections will go down in history as a watershed event for haredi politics that will likely have far-reaching implications on the national level.
For the first time in Isr...
New York City – Artist Creates ‘Public Prayer Booths’ in NYC
New York City - You could mistake it for a typical New York City phone booth. But instead of an image of a phone, the side panels depict folded hands - and the word "prayer" instead of "telephone." Oh...
Washington – Google Search Engine To Flag Flu Activity in U.S.
Washington - Search engine giant Google launched a new tool on Tuesday that will help U.S. federal health experts track the annual flu epidemic.
Google Flu Trends uses search terms that people put ...
Secaucus NJ – Many New Buyers at Kosherfest ’08 as Show Celebrates 20th Year [exclusive photos]
Secaucus, NJ - The 20th edition of Kosherfest opens today amidst growing reports of shortages of glatt kosher meat.
Nearly 7,000 trade buyers and exhibitors from 28 nations are gathering here for w...
West Hempstead, NY – National Wholesale Liquidators Files for Bankruptcy
West Hempstead, NY - National Wholesale Liquidators Inc., a family-owned discount retailer, sought bankruptcy protection from creditors without giving a reason.
The company, based in West Hempstead...
Jerusalem – Barkat Wins Mayoral Election Against Rabbi Porush
Jerusalem - Enough of the votes have been counted to declare opposition leader Nir Barkat having won the race for the Jerusalem mayorship, Israel Radio reported early Wednesday morning.
With 264 of...
Brooklyn, NY – Dov Hikind: Beware of Offenders Abusing Tzedakah-Collecting Students
Brooklyn, NY - After Assemblyman Dov Hikind's bringing of the molestation issue to the forefront several months ago, several young boys have come forward to report they had been inappropriately touche...